Re: How to increase the view distance in The Elder Scrolls: Arena
Posted on Yesterday, 21:22
This is really interesting, thanks.
Re: Your oldest favorite computer game?
Posted on 2021-01-10, 14:16
My favourite oldest video game is the classic arcade game Md Do!, from 1980. Still my favourite arcade game. https://static.retrogames.cc/previews/mrdo.png For some reason, Mr Do! was one of the few arcade games that never received a decent port (official or ripoff) on the ZX Spectrum. But …
Re: Was Deus Ex rough on contemporary hardware?
Posted on 2021-01-10, 13:42
I can't remember my PCs specs when I first played Deus Ex, sorry, but I do remember being really pleased at the game. One of the very few times when a game not only delivered what had been promised in the magazine previews, but actually exceeded my hopes. We're talking Half-Life, Goldeneye, Perfect …
Re: Lost games
Posted on 2020-11-01, 17:44
The reviews were terrible. It's the only id game I've never played. According to Metacritic, the PC version averages 74 percent for critic reviews, and 7.3 out of 10 for player reviews, which hardly spells 'terrible' to me. Those might be worse reviews than the other popular Wolfenstein games, such …
Re: Lost games
Posted on 2020-11-01, 14:45
If you can get Wolfenstein 2009 from anywhere, then you should, as it's a great game, and my favourite of all the Wolfenstein games.
Re: Does a no-steam retail version 0f Half Life 2 even exist?
Posted on 2020-10-31, 17:56
The Xbox port of Doom 3 is also pretty impressive. Too bad some levels had to be cut down to fit in 64 MB of RAM, but the game still looks good and runs smooth. The engine has a render path tailored for the NV20 architecture; probably helps a lot. But yeah, Half-Life 2 on the Xbox is superb. The …
Re: Does a no-steam retail version 0f Half Life 2 even exist?
Posted on 2020-10-29, 17:46
I kid you not, when I first got Half-Life 2 in 2005 and saw that it wanted to install some other (then unknown) internet-connected software, it was such a turn-off that I canceled the installation, put the game on a shelf, and didn't touch it again for a year. Glad I did eventually play it, though. …
Re: Any Analogue.co console users?
Posted on 2020-10-29, 16:50
Of course, if N64 emulation becomes good enough, then I'd be happy emulating the console on my PC or laptop, but it still has problems at the moment. libretro's Mupen64next has a very fast good ParaLLEl Vulkan backend that takes in all of its dithered+smoothed+antialiased 240p glory. There were …
Re: Any Analogue.co console users?
Posted on 2020-10-17, 14:31
I just wish that someone would make an N64 clone with HDMI output. By far the best HDMI solution currently available for the N64 is the UltraHDMI, which stopped production a couple of years ago, and scalpers are now selling them for ridiculous prices (I saw one for almost $1,500). Lesser solutions …
Re: FICTIONAL STARSHIPS Size COMPARISON
Posted on 2020-10-17, 14:15
[Sorry, this post turned out to be much longer than I expected (I'm at work, and bored). It's a " My favourite space-ship is the [your answer], what is yours ? " type post, please feel free to skip my fan-warblings about why I choose the TARDIS, and go straight to posting your own favourite and the …
Re: So how far can I upgrade my processor before I screw up Daggerfall?
Posted on 2020-07-09, 14:22
mastergamma12 wrote on 2020-07-08, 21:45: Native under windows 98 and Me. Oh right. I wouldn't have thought 98 and ME would work properly on hardware that was so monumentally faster than the operating systems were written for.
Re: So how far can I upgrade my processor before I screw up Daggerfall?
Posted on 2020-07-08, 21:15
I've ran Daggerfall on a 2ghz Pentium 4 NW no issues. Also on my P3 1.4S Daggerfall is DOS only, isn't it? If so, then do you mean you ran it in DOSBox, or in native DOS on your PC? If the latter, then I'm surprised that DOS games can run on modern machines natively (though I've not tried to run …
Re: How can I force a program to start without administration rights
Posted on 2020-07-08, 16:25
Maxtherabbit , yes UAC was turned off. I tried it on all settings, but the installer still complained that it had administrator rights . Imi, I didn't have another account (I'm the only person who uses this machine), so I unlocked the guest account, but when I did as you said, the installer just …
How can I force a program to start without administration rights
Posted on 2020-07-07, 14:18
I'm going to install the latest version of The Dark Mod (a fan-made game inspired by the Thief games - https://www.thedarkmod.com/main/ ), but when I start the installer it says: " The updater was run 'as admin'. This is strongly discouraged. Please abort installation and restart updater without …
Re: Dosbox 0.75?
Posted on 2020-05-21, 16:19
Where can I download the faster version of DOSBox, please? There was a talk about significantly faster new SVN x64 builds. Maybe some place hosts x64 builds of recent SVN. Emucr does not, for example, despite 64-bit Windows is common today. Since the 64 bit versions are presumably not too common at …
Re: Pył, Pyl, Dust English language version
Posted on 2020-05-18, 20:40
robertmo wrote on 2020-05-18, 14:47: you must use intel desktop You mean it needs an Intel CPU and probably a desktop, not laptop, PC? Fair enough, and thanks for all the help. It's much appreciated.
Re: Pył, Pyl, Dust English language version
Posted on 2020-05-18, 14:15
That's probably it then. I'm trying to run it on my laptop (it's been too nice recently to not spend time in my garden, one of the few good things about the present state of the world), which is an old HP Pavilion g6-1331sa with a 1.6 GHZ AMD Quad-Core A8-3520M CPU (according to ( https://support.hp …
Re: Problematic Windows games list
Posted on 2020-05-18, 13:18
Games that use the first Unreal engine, such as Deus Ex , Unreal Tournament , and Unreal , have problems running on modern CPUs, due to those CPUs having features that the Unreal engine isn't prepared for, such as multiple cores, variable speeds on one CPU, a very high CPU speed, etc/ There's a good …
Re: Dosbox 0.75?
Posted on 2020-05-17, 20:15
Dominus wrote on 2020-05-17, 17:10: Pcpbench is a good benchmark. Or timedemo of Doom Great, thanks.
Re: Pył, Pyl, Dust English language version
Posted on 2020-05-17, 18:58
No, it's Windows 7.
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