Re: Lotus Challenge (Kuju/Sold Out) + GT-R 400 (Kuji/Infusion Games/Midas) - interestingly buggy Win8.1 64bit

Posted on 2014-12-11, 09:18

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You should probably learn to use the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit. Do that, go through the fixes and find out which ones break or fix things.

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Re: Viper Racing vs modern graphics card!

Posted on 2014-12-10, 15:39

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by ZellSF

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I'm suspecting it's an nvidia driver problem (not surprising how their 'way it's meant to be played' is broken in most cases to the point where people blame Windows) as it works on RadeonHD6 here without any wrapper on Windows 7. v1.0. vid: 16 meg card (reported:2806.835938) vid: using AGP textures …

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Re: Breakneck AKA N.I.C.E.2 on modern PCs? And Superbike 2001 for that matter...

Posted on 2014-12-09, 17:21

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by ZellSF

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Breakneck works fine on a Nvidia 670 (which shouldn't be that different than 980 in terms of legacy support) here using DXWnd. Performance is barely keeping above 60 though. Superbike 2001's problems are probably rendering related: it works (poorly) with DXGL in software rendering mode.

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-12-07, 19:21

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by ZellSF

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As for the bug I have on my Win8/Nvidia setup it does not appear on this Win7/Nvidia (same driver version) setup either. I have a theory all the refresh rates available on the 120hz monitor might be confusing something, but if that's not it I'll have to reinstall Win8 to eliminate a few potential …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-12-06, 21:14

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That's interesting. Probably some tweak GoG made to their version that creates a problem (not surprising). Really trying to think of some complex 3D DX5-7 games to test, but keep thinking of "simple" DirectDraw titles only 🙁

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-12-06, 12:35

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Commandos - Behind Enemy Lines: Works, severe performance problems, resolution switches between game and menus are terrible, FMVs don't work Now it works OK, altough I have some issue with the in-game mouse. Had no problems with resolution switching though. Outlaws demo has only a DirectDraw …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-12-05, 22:47

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Some GoG versions of games: Clive Barker's Undying: Works pretty flawlessly. 60 FPS with drops at 1920x1200 on a 580 card. Unreal Engine, so guessing other Unreal Engine games will work too. Commandos - Behind Enemy Lines: Works, severe performance problems, resolution switches between game and …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-12-05, 12:24

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On Win8/Intel, still no newer D3D games: Grand Theft Auto 2 11.44 fan patch: "No suitable graphic card". Works natively. Jazz Jackrabbit 2 demo: Works (fails on my other setup). Runs a lot better than natively on Win8. Magic & Mayhem demo: Button texts cuts of a character or two, flickering cursor, …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-12-04, 21:16

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Definitely need another test setup that's more compatible with dgVoodoo2. Lots of games are failing specifically at mode switches and lots of games won't list available resolutions at all (they will as said do that on a Win8/Intel setup, but not on my Win8/Nvidia setup). I found another game that …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-12-04, 17:46

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I know nothing, but random thought: Windows 8 only supports 32-bit color and tells older applications that it supports 16-bit and 8-bit color. Maybe dgVoodoo2 being modern reads "this system only supports 32-bit color" and tells that to legacy applications rather than pretend it supports 8-bit and …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-12-03, 16:09

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Wipeout XL actually DOES enumerate resolutions on my Win7/Intel setup, but not on my Win8/Nvidia setup. It crashes to desktop after that. Outlaws crashes to desktop if I bypass the config program. Dune 2000 also can't set display mode (should be 640x400x16 natively, possibly with 640x480x16 as …

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Re: VR Sports Powerboat Racing - anyone got Direct3D working on anything newer than Win98?

Posted on 2014-12-03, 15:57

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I added it as a custom resolution through the nVidia control panel and the game now works natively. It works nicely natively in Windows versions released before Windows 8. Windows 8 and later and the performance so bad it's unplayable. Windows 8 has dropped native support for 8 and 16 bit color and …

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Re: VR Sports Powerboat Racing - anyone got Direct3D working on anything newer than Win98?

Posted on 2014-12-03, 13:06

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by ZellSF

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I tried adding it as a custom resolution in Nvidia control panel, it wasn't very cooperative. Works perfectly on Intel integrated graphics though.

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-12-03, 11:07

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Is there a stretch to aspect ratio setting for fullscreen? I seem to recall there being one, but can't find it. Just center and stretch to full screen (and it sets resolution to 1920x1080 automatically so I can't just manually set fullscreen resolution to something else). I tested some games just …

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Re: VR Sports Powerboat Racing - anyone got Direct3D working on anything newer than Win98?

Posted on 2014-12-03, 10:06

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This is a game where the ability to force a higher rendering resolution would come in handy (I read you thought no games would have use of that).

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Re: VR Sports Powerboat Racing - anyone got Direct3D working on anything newer than Win98?

Posted on 2014-12-03, 02:22

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by ZellSF

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filipetolhuizen wrote: Maybe ACT 5.x or 6.0 has the options to fix it. I just don't have the game to test. http://www.fileplanet.com/10977/10000/fileinf … owerboat-Racing (That's the demo)

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Re: VR Sports Powerboat Racing - anyone got Direct3D working on anything newer than Win98?

Posted on 2014-12-03, 01:25

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by ZellSF

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8-bit and 16-bit color games often have terrible performance in Windows 8, there's no ACT fixes that help. There's two: one that will help performance a little (but definitely won't save a 5 FPS game) and one that basically hides 8-bit and 16-bit modes and hopes the application falls back to 32-bit …

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Re: VR Sports Powerboat Racing - anyone got Direct3D working on anything newer than Win98?

Posted on 2014-12-03, 00:18

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by ZellSF

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You just place the dll files in the MS folder in the game folder. It doesn't work if anyone's wondering. DXGL gets farther (renders some intro screens then crashes to desktop at what I think is the "detecting hardware" phase). Edit: Oh and Microsoft's builtin compatibility fixes is part of the …

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Re: Having some trouble with Windows 7 x64 and some Older Games

Posted on 2014-11-21, 18:35

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by ZellSF

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I read that it's a Nvidia issue somewhere. That's probably the place to look, if you want to, personally I don't care about a few minor graphic features.

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Re: Having some trouble with Windows 7 x64 and some Older Games

Posted on 2014-11-20, 14:04

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by ZellSF

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For Max Payne, try actually telling it to run in a window (add -window to commandline), it sounds a bit weird to make it run window just for the purpose of forcing full screen, but it's worth a try. Not a "clean" solution, but with old games you often won't find one.

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