Re: Garbled graphics in GTA 1
Posted on 2009-03-21, 05:09
An issue under XP but not Vista? Wow, thats a complete backwards-smack to the head!
Re: VESA Games Performance - Guide?
Posted on 2009-03-21, 05:05
Ah cool, thanks guys =) Yeah, Sydnicate Wars is pretty heavy too from what I remember. And it makes sense Redneck Rampage being a hog, it was released after Blood and by a different development studio than 3D Realms, so they prolly updated it themselves a bit. Blood runs great too, BTW. I suppose …
Re: Garbled graphics in GTA 1
Posted on 2009-03-20, 05:12
You can get the original GTA 1 for free on rockstar's site. A friend of mine's got a 8800GT and he reported that this issue didn't occur on Vista. Are you talking to me? I need London. Not GTA1. I thought I had a copy but I can't find it, and it's NOT freeware. And the issue is that London doesnt …
Re: VESA Games Performance - Guide?
Posted on 2009-03-20, 05:09
I'll take that as a no. Or, my computer is a shitty AMD and I don't realise how slow it is... K.
Re: Garbled graphics in GTA 1
Posted on 2009-03-19, 00:00
Ah yeah fair enough. That site says there's a known problem with 8800GT and newer cards, as an example. Well im sorry to say I can't find my London disc anyway, I also have a 9600GT so I would probably have the same issue too, but I don't even have the game apparently. Bummer. Sorry for wasting your …
Re: VDMSound - Portable?
Posted on 2009-03-18, 08:31
Oh I just realized that me creating this thread was a complete waste of time. Running 16-bit EXE's on x64 versions of Windows is impossible. Silly me. VDMSound is literally useless. Bugger.
Re: VDMSound - Portable?
Posted on 2009-03-18, 00:49
Ah that makes sense! yeah, the DOSSOUND.EXE or whatever the bugger it is, is called from Launchpad shell extension via environment variable from what I remember. I thought there might of been another DLL or driver, but it makes ense that there isn't because it installed 100% fine on my x64 machine. …
Re: VDMSound - Portable?
Posted on 2009-03-17, 23:54
Well I use ThinApp to capture the troublesome/complicated software to bundle it into a portable software, but I prefer to use a manual launcher via scripting if I can. Never heard of Altiris SVS, but it sounds like a similar thing to InstallRite or Process Monitor (the former checks system state …
Re: Either long loading times or gameplay too quick
Posted on 2009-03-17, 22:58
Ah yea true, setting it to "normal" might help hey? Or even Auto is worth a shot.
Re: How to run BUILD engine games with VDMSound - Solution!!!!
Posted on 2009-03-17, 22:54
There are still some BUILD games, such as Blood and Redneck Rampage that do NOT have the source released, thus no sourceport. BLOOD IS NOT OPEN SOURCE, Monolith apparently LOST the sourcecode LOL. So they say. Only Duke3D and Shadow Warrior are open source to my knowledge. That page helped me a lot …
VDMSound - Portable?
Posted on 2009-03-17, 22:49
Apart from the general installation of files, what changes to the system are made when installing VDMSound? Is it just a bunch of regsvr32'd DLL's or is there something more involved...? I can't seem to find a setup log is all. I want to make a version of VDMSound specific to one game that only " …
VESA Games Performance - Guide?
Posted on 2009-03-17, 22:23
Hiya guys =) Well i've done my fair share of searching and research, and was just wondering if there are any proven methods for DOSBox to run VESA graphics games with a decent performance. Motherboard: Can't remember, it has the AMD 780G Chipset though. Processor type and speed: AMD X2 5000+ @ 3GHz …
Re: Either long loading times or gameplay too quick
Posted on 2009-03-17, 22:16
Well it might just be something you have to live with. That's the thing with emulation, it's never perfect. Many OLD-older games are actually clock dependant, I remember installing the original Ken's Labrynth on my X2 5000+ in pure DOS (my onboard soundcard has BIOS level SB16 emulation), and it was …
Re: Pinball Mania, resolution/aspect ratio problem
Posted on 2009-03-17, 21:58
output=surface aspect=true ...results in horrible framerate on my 9600GT, latest 181.xx Forceware for Vista x64. Be sure to set output=overlay or, even better, opengl (or openglnb for no hardware filtering with upscaling). output=opengl had a lot of problems with my older ATI HD3200 though, for some …
Re: Best VM tool for running a Win98 gaming VM?
Posted on 2009-03-17, 21:50
Re: Garbled graphics in GTA 1
Posted on 2009-03-17, 21:33
The windows version still works on my Geforce 7900GT (using older drivers, though), so DirectX 9 isn't to blame. I mean the actual stack/API of of DirectX, as in the ddraw.dll file in system32 folder. It apparently had a major change in DirectX9, as opposed to DirectX 8.1. Well i'm going to …
Re: Garbled graphics in GTA 1
Posted on 2009-03-17, 06:57
Oh crap sorry, I thought you were trying to play the DOS version! Hmm..... DirectX 6.1 I believe. DirectX9 made some changes to the DirectDraw and Direct3D API of older games from what I remember. Hence the official statement on the Rockstar Classics webpage - "...modified from its original version …
Re: Garbled graphics in GTA 1
Posted on 2009-03-17, 00:17
I assume it uses VESA for the graphics mode yea...? Have you checked out that stuff and/or alternate TSR's for VESA enablers?
Re: id software's Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny downloads
Posted on 2009-03-14, 16:19
Interesting. Neither can I. Well, if you can wait 24 hours or so, i'm currently converting the entire Wolfendoom Series to the Doomsday engine, which is the most up-to-date sourceport for doom (Windows required, Linux and Mac OSX are OK but some manual editing will be required). All you'll need is …
Re: id software's Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny downloads
Posted on 2009-03-14, 00:06
When trying to download anything from the wolfendoom site it goes to Atomic Gamer. Most say "Parent Directory: Half-Life". This doesn't seem right. I noticed this. I've been trying to find a mirror, I havn't downloaded them for ages and don't have my originals anymore :( I'll edit this post when I …
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