Re: Texture filtering - yay or nay?

Posted on 2024-04-02, 19:41

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That's a funny story, kinda reminds me of the Amiga port of Street Fighter 2. On a somewhat related note, I've seen some dude on youtube playing devil's advocate and claiming TR is actually playable with the s3 Virge patch provided that you turn the resolution down to 512x384 or sth.

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Re: Texture filtering - yay or nay?

Posted on 2024-04-02, 09:00

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Putas wrote on 2024-03-30, 06:39: Oh yes, I agree. Also because people weren't used to patching. This! I would've played the first TR with the s3 Virge patch had I known that one existed!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-27, 08:50

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This arrived yesterday. It's a GF FX 5700LE, but this is the 128bit/256 MB variant, so it can be overclocked to match the regular FX5700 more closely. The previous owner attached a waaaay OP CPU fan there, which I swapped for a more appropriate GPU cooler from some dead Radeon I had. My hitherto GPU …

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Re: List of Windows games which look best when using 3DFX Glide

Posted on 2024-03-24, 06:18

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Interesting, I wasn't even aware that Fifa games used fog. I assume it shows up as a weather effect that can occur during a match? Since those games were made by EA, just like the NFS series, it's possible they used the same approach for fog. I'll take a look at that when time permits. That's right …

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Re: List of Windows games which look best when using 3DFX Glide

Posted on 2024-03-23, 20:30

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Got no screenshots to back this up, but Fifa 98/Fifa World Cup 98 and, if I remember correctly, Fifa 99 suffer from the same fog/atmospheric effects issue as NFS3. And also, from the top of my head, Populous 3 has some texture/sprite/text transparency issues when played on my FX5500 vs. voodoo2.

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Radeon 9600 Pro + voodoo2 issue

Posted on 2024-03-20, 06:36

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I've been playing Max Payne on my Win98 rig lately and decided to swap the GF FX5500 for a Radeon 9600 Pro for some extra fps. Now, while Max Payne runs fine both using the 9600 Pro and my voodoo2, other games don't. For example, when I try to run NFS3 or Fifa 98 with the voodoo2 selected in EA's …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-03-18, 15:26

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So, an enhanced, fan-made port of Final Fight came out a few weeks ago and for the last couple of days I've been pondering a possible upgrade for the cheap Genesis/MegaDrive gamepad I use with my Amiga. I had bought it a while back to play those extremely rare games that utilize 2-button setups, but …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-17, 19:25

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Even if you like the AI styled videos, they have the problem of often looking the same. I follow some channels with new heavy metal releases and now a lot of bands are using AI to make music videos. They all end up looking the same. I understand that they don't have the budgets for fancy music …

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Re: Texture filtering - yay or nay?

Posted on 2024-03-15, 11:55

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On a side note - I'd love to see some texture filtering mod for Minecraft! My son keeps bugging me to play it with him and I find the ginormous bare pixels a pain to look at :P It'd prolly end up looking like Mario 64, which isn't that bad IMHO :lol: I dislike when people post this stuff like it’s a …

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Re: Texture filtering - yay or nay?

Posted on 2024-03-14, 14:35

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Takedasun wrote on 2024-03-14, 13:23: Unreal 320x240x32 Software rendering You did specify it's software rendering, but at that resolution I honestly couldn't tell if there was any filtering or not 😉

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-14, 14:27

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Speaking of AI and youtube videos, have you seen Saxon's latest joint? 🤣 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfca2Kz4064

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Texture filtering - yay or nay?

Posted on 2024-03-14, 11:13

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I've watched MXDash2's new video rant (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj-CnVJPiwA) about the recent trend of gamers preferring to use unfiltered textures in retro games or remasters of retro games (like the seemingly endless onpour of boomer shooters from Nightdive et al. that we've seen …

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Re: Fast / quiet / cool AGP graphics card

Posted on 2024-03-12, 12:09

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Or how 'bout you ditch AGP for PCI-E? Lots of powerful, passively cooled cards to choose from in that variant.

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-09, 09:37

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I actually find most of BuB's videos to be pretty insightful, but someone who isn't familiar with that channel might get the wrong idea when seeing a low effort thumbnail pop up on their feed for the first time. Aye, true that! Cheers! On a somewhat related note, a friend just told me that he …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-03-09, 08:32

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I think you might end up with slightly diminished visuals on that card. From what I remember, even the first Max Payne has enough texture detail to benefit from 32-bit color depth and higher resolutions. Oh definitely, I'm not taking any chances, I'm playing it with 32 bit textures on my FX5500. I …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-09, 08:29

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BuB's videos may lack some of the modern "production value" that youtube audiences seem to crave these days, but calling their content lazy/half-assed/whatever is simply not fair. Don't judge the video by its thumbnail! ;) Having said that, I do share your sentiment regarding AI-generated art …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-03-09, 08:21

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Yesterday I installed Max Payne. I'm playing it for the first time in my life, having beaten Control and Alan Wake recently (well, uh, last year, not that recently then ;) ). I have a couple of observations so far: 1. The hype regarding the EAX 3d audio is very much real! It sounds great on my 5.1 …

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Re: Why build the "fastest" Windows 98 system?

Posted on 2024-03-07, 13:09

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Well, while my Win98 build may not be the fastest, it certainly is quite fast, and my reasoning behind it was to simply be able to conveniently play games from the late 90s with decent framerates.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-03-06, 11:43

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A little update on my struggle agains NFSIII: I switched to the Tournament mode, changed my car from the C-tier Mercedes SL600 to the B-tier Ferrari 355 F1 Spider and somehow managed to beat the game, although I only finished 1st in like maybe half of the races, even though the difficulty was set to …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-02-27, 13:55

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dr_st wrote on 2024-02-27, 13:45: But by then I lost interest in the game, so I never tried that 'what if'. Haha, I only beat NFS last year, took me exactly 25 years 🤣

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