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Re: XP/Vista dual-boot gaming rig

Posted on 2024-08-20, 17:51

It is incredible how long lasting Core2 is; I can work in office for hours and it feels just like my modern PC at work. Yeah, I did notice. You could get away with a Core 2 Duo all the way through Windows 7/8. Once Windows 10 released, I didn't really trust it with anything less than 4-cores for …

Re: XP/Vista dual-boot gaming rig

Posted on 2024-08-19, 00:44

Evening post. I ended up giving up and downloading a working Half-Life 2 from a torrent. Dangerous, I know, but I risked it. It actually worked when I copied it over. So Half-Life Source, Half-Life 2, etc. are working. Still looking for a good no-DVD crack for Morrowind. So far, the project is going …

Re: XP/Vista dual-boot gaming rig

Posted on 2024-08-18, 16:15

Yeah, I also have the Expansion, I just haven't installed it yet. And I played a good little bit of Doom 3 last night with headphones on and I can hear people coming in the next room and which direction, which is cool. I did miss out on playing Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3, though. I didn't notice …

Re: XP/Vista dual-boot gaming rig

Posted on 2024-08-18, 14:21

So today I found RIGHT HERE on the Vogons.org site the way to get the OG version of Half-Life 2 games installed using some kind of Steam launcher emulator. Gonna try that. Installing from my original "Game of the Year" and "The Orange Box" right now to attempt that. How to install and run vanilla …

Re: XP/Vista dual-boot gaming rig

Posted on 2024-08-17, 23:51

I found xp_activator_x32 dot exe on the internet and it let me activate it without even having to have a product key. So that's taken care of. Now I gotta muddle through seeing if it's even possible to get Steam apps updated and working on an old Steam on XP. That way I can just have it all in …

Re: XP/Vista dual-boot gaming rig

Posted on 2024-08-17, 22:44

Yeah, I figured that out when I went into F.E.A.R. Also, been doing a bunch of net searches and came across the same thing you said about DOOM 3. I'm also gonna be looking into ways to get a lot of XP-era games to run on here out of Steam. I have a number of them installed on my Windows 7 system, …

Re: XP/Vista dual-boot gaming rig

Posted on 2024-08-17, 22:27

DOOM 3, F.E.A.R., and Dragon Age: Origins installed, since those are CD/DVD installed games independent of Steam. I guess I have some updates to install, since I didn't do a full install of the sound card from the included disc. I just got the driver off of Creative's website. Sound works, of course …

Re: XP/Vista dual-boot gaming rig

Posted on 2024-08-17, 18:05

Ok, so current status: I've pulled off the heatsink and fan/duct assembly, took everything apart, wiped everything down meticulously (paper towels, q-tips, rubbing alcohol and Windex) and got it ready for applying thermal paste. Applied Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut because I have a couple of big tubes …

XP/Vista dual-boot gaming rig

Posted on 2024-08-17, 03:08

I just got authorization to take an old office PC off the books at my job, so it came home today. Dell Optiplex 780 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 3.0GHz 8GB RAM (4x2GB) 2x 500GB 7,200 RPM HDD DVD-ROM DVD-RW And I have a Creative Labs Titanium X-Fi PCI-e sound card and I got a used NVidia GTX 750ti to go …

Re: Favorite 4:3 games from the XP-era?

Posted on 2022-04-25, 18:55

Hah! No one's yet mentioned F.E.A.R., one of my favorite FPS from the Windows XP era, also limited to 4:3 resolutions without INI hacks or other patches. Other games I enjoyed from this era include Doom 3, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, Half-Life 2, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare... not all of …

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