Recoil (by Zipper Interactive) - Force higher resolutions in Direct3D mode?

Posted on 2020-09-03, 22:42

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So I managed to get this game to work on my new PC that uses a Intel Iris Pro 580 for graphics, but the resolutions in the launcher are greyed out except for "640x480" 800x600 and 1024x768 are visible in the selection list though. But it seems to only want to do that if I'm using a glide wrapper of …

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Re: QEMU MESA GL pass-through for OpenGL games

Posted on 2020-09-03, 01:29

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Everything works as in pristine condition, no ACT, no DxWnd and no patch. Just rip the retailed CD, install and play. I remember trying to play this game on modern (at the time) Windows XP and, it would just suddenly crash for seemingly no reason after several minutes of gameplay despite everything …

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Re: Unreal 1's elusive OpenGlDrv. What even is able to use it?

Posted on 2020-09-02, 09:08

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not Unreal, but the OpenGL driver in the original Deus Ex was super buggy on my Geforce2. Like, it would reveal the ugly truth that EVERYBODY HAS GOGGLES I'm guessing it's the "masked texture" bug where Poly's flagged as STY_Masked aren't obeyed? (ditto for textures being applied to meshes that …

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Re: Unreal 1's elusive OpenGlDrv. What even is able to use it?

Posted on 2020-09-01, 22:56

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Any reason you want to use the original opengl and not the newer versions either from Dohnal or oldunreal? Does the S3 not work with those? 225f has no public headers so you can't simply compile UTGLR against version 225f of Unreal. There's headers for 224v but 224v lacks several critical internals …

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Re: Unreal 1's elusive OpenGlDrv. What even is able to use it?

Posted on 2020-09-01, 19:49

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I can't find anything in the D3DDrv.dll that would suggest DXT1 / S3TC support in it, it seems to be hinted in OpenGlDrv but the only video I've found on S3TC was using MetalDrv. Unreal defaults to D3DDrv, and flags OpenGlDrv as "experimental".

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Unreal 1's elusive OpenGlDrv. What even is able to use it?

Posted on 2020-09-01, 19:29

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I'm going to hope this is the board to post this in, because I mean... this is about versions 224 and 225 of Unreal. I don't know which version originally introduced OpenGlDrv.dll but it's obvious that it's a experimental render device. If you look in Unreal.ini this is typically what you see for it …

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Is there a relativly safe way to convert a VirtualBox harddrive image to a format QEMU expects by default?

Posted on 2020-08-31, 17:07

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I'd really rather not have to completely re-do a entire harddrive image and MS-DOS 6 installation just to migrate from VirtualBox to QEMU, so I was wondering if there was a way to safely convert VDI files to qcow2 or something more raw perhaps? The VDI was created without "dynamic allocation", it's …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-08-13, 03:28

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(which is cringe-inducingly turned to 11 in Forever) Yeah, some of Duke's quips in DNF are so massively out of place it feels almost psychotic. But that's not even the tip of the iceberg with the problems DNF has as a game, and of it's content. I was never really hot-bothered by Duke3D's swearing, …

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Re: FastDoom 0.4. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-08-10, 23:51

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You're right, it is an AWE64 Value. GUS support is problematic and I'm trying to fix it. Man I'm dumb, yeah. It's hard to tell the difference between the AWE's ROM and the default GUS patch set. I hope GUS support doesn't prove too impossible to fix, it never really worked properly in Doom at all …

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Re: Retro flight sim playthroughs

Posted on 2020-08-07, 13:24

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damson wrote on 2020-03-29, 19:11: Started new series Jane's Longbow Gold Was there ever a native Win32 version of this, or is it still a MS-DOS only game despite the Gold edition release?

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Re: FastDoom 0.4. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-08-06, 23:54

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Potato mode might as well be SNES Doom mode, that's the huge vibe I get from the graphics looking that way. Were you using a GUS for music in that video?

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Re: FastDoom 0.4. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-08-06, 21:21

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New development video (FastDoom 0.5) https://youtu.be/khVLctBY1GA Curious, why the "age restriction"? There's plenty of videos of Doom that don't have that stretching as far back as 2007... That option makes it impossible to watch the video anonymously without a user account involved which is what …

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Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2020-08-06, 20:38

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What a great mod! I had not enough because mod is too short Yeah it is a pretty short campaign, but "Quality over Quantity" rules the day here. Considering how the mod itself ends, it does leave room for a sequel but I'm not the devs (or a HL1 modder for that matter) so I'm not quite sure how …

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Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2020-08-06, 19:42

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I'm messing around with the training level now, actually impressed with how well it seems to run. I also hope you can read the subtitles good enough, the entire mod is Russian with English strings and on most videos the subtitles and text uses a very small font that looks as if it was made for …

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Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2020-08-06, 19:14

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I ran across Paranoia when I was looking for Half-life mods a while ago, but somehow missed that it had a Dreamcast port - looks pretty cool. I haven't played it at all yet. A word of caution, it's a very difficult mod that doesn't play completely identical to Half-Life's gameplay. There's a …

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Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2020-08-05, 16:53

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digging into a long-lost collection of Dreamcast homebrew, ON REAL HARDWARE I was too depressed and tired to have noticed the stream, I don't suppose you ever tried running Paranoia on your Dreamcast have you? It's not as advanced as running on PC due to the PC using a custom OpenGL32.dll file to …

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Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2020-08-04, 11:14

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So you want a Gravis Ultrasound? https://youtu.be/c4S71ONxpOk I'm curious, could you test this clone card with some of Unreal's soundtrack running inside of the last official release of Impulse Tracker? You might need a lot of RAM available on the card though. There's also "Tyra" from Operation: Na …

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Re: Technological critique

Posted on 2020-08-01, 12:07

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Nah, .NET 1.1 and 2.0 had ANSI (that means Windows 98SE and later compatible) runtimes variants available. It's not distributed by Microsoft anymore, but DOTNETFX20 can still be found. I'll keep this in mind, I rather not make a full Windows XP VM and make a Windows 98 one instead, since that way I …

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Re: Technological critique

Posted on 2020-08-01, 08:18

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Seems to use C++/CLI along with .NET 1.1. Damn, that's the oldest possible version indeed. No LINQ, no generics. Only the "good", old, rusty Micorosft Java C# 1.0. Another pain point is the MS's managed extensions to C++ which is C++/CLI. It was ported to .NET Core, but it's still Windows-only. …

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Re: Technological critique

Posted on 2020-07-31, 19:57

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Can you share this tool ? Is it open-source ? .NET core runs under Linux and the 90% of the Framework API was ported to it, so ditching the Windows dependency is a real possibility. The website for it long since died, you'll have to search for "Nem's Terrain Builder" yourself unfortunately. It's …

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