Re: Fullscreen mode in Direct3D8 games on Windows 10

Posted on 2019-04-11, 12:28

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by Almoststew1990

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Has anyone got any of the newer Celeron / Atom chips (N3xxx and N4xxx series) and can report whether or not the problem is still around? I ask as the people (me included) who have had lots of full screen issues are on older Baytrail chips. I'm thinking of "upgrading" my netbook to something newer …

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-04-07, 17:53

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by Almoststew1990

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Game 15 Complete... for now! Quake 3 https://i.imgur.com/gqCF49jh.jpg This is one of those games I've never actually owned but I've played and watched the Demo and benchmark hundreds of times! Is it actually any fun? Getting it running Like a lot of these games, I had no issues installing and …

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-04-07, 17:12

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by Almoststew1990

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"Game" 14 Complete! Sin - Demo only The Verdict I'm not sure there is a huge amount to say about this on the basis it was a 30 minute demo! Some content has been cut from the demo too, in particular music I assume due to the lack of the CD and a few cutscenes too, judging you youtube lets play …

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-04-06, 13:14

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by Almoststew1990

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Game 13 Complete! Half-Life https://i.imgur.com/UwHLeTj.png "They've been expecting you, Gordon. In the test chamberrrrrrrrrr." Getting it running This game was an ISO from a disk I owned many, many years ago. Installs fine, doesn't need the disk to play. Gameplay The first game I've played with a …

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Re: Cobbled Together System

Posted on 2019-03-26, 22:46

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by Almoststew1990

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Come on, I'm sure all of us are drowning in XP product keys from all our local finds :P "I'll just add that XP COA to the list before I chuck the dead PC... now where did I put it" https://i.imgur.com/rYvqkJh.jpg :D If you put a SB Live in that PC, it will make a very versatile Windows 98/DOS PC. …

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-03-21, 16:09

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by Almoststew1990

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2003 wasn't a huge year for FPS, but you have CoD, Max Payne 2, and a little known game that was quite good as I recall, XIII (first cell-shaded FPS). I have XIII somewhere as a loose disk (or 4!). I got quite far into it a few years back. If it fits in between cod 1 and 2 I might add it to the …

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Re: Athlon 64 questions

Posted on 2019-03-18, 16:28

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by Almoststew1990

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I won the x1950 Pro for £8.50 (PCI-E 😉) so that's a bit more era appropriate and more interesting than the 8600!

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-03-18, 12:22

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by Almoststew1990

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...There are of course plenty of great FPS titles out there, many with strong story aspects, but it seems as while that used to be the norm, today, mostly the multiplayer part is what gets focused on. That we can agree on! Are you going to play NOLF? One of the great FPSsss...with a story. Great …

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-03-17, 22:51

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by Almoststew1990

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I hope some people might shed some light on this, but I've been under the impression that the average fps player isn't really much into plot etc. It's more about full on fast paced action. Perhaps I am wrong, but that is how it has seemed to me at least. I definitely am interested in plot; from all …

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-03-17, 22:45

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by Almoststew1990

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Game 12 Complete! Unreal https://i.imgur.com/fglaFHYl.jpg?1 I've been quite excited to play this one, which has been described as very atmospheric shooter! Getting it running Slight problem, this game came on DVD and I had built this PC around a CD drive! My original plan was to not upgrade the PC …

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Re: Athlon 64 questions

Posted on 2019-03-16, 23:33

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by Almoststew1990

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So essentially it's a design flaw that effects a whole series of cards? I'll probably take my chances I think, it won't need to last long (a couple of months before I get bored of it probably) before I swap it for something else. However I've got my eye on a 1950 pro at the moment.

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Re: Athlon 64 questions

Posted on 2019-03-16, 14:03

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by Almoststew1990

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Why will a 7950 / 8600 die on this PC? Especially ones passive (by design such as this) There were loads of passive 8600s.

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Re: Athlon 64 questions

Posted on 2019-03-16, 11:11

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by Almoststew1990

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I've ordered a 3200+ Venice chip for £4. I'm thinking of pairing this with a 7950 or 8600 (passive) as my 6800 is dead!

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Re: Athlon 64 questions

Posted on 2019-03-16, 10:15

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by Almoststew1990

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It's getting 1.55v instead of 1.5v, so not a huge difference. I can't turn it down either which is annoying.

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Athlon 64 questions

Posted on 2019-03-16, 09:55

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by Almoststew1990

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I am putting together 2000 to 2005 XP PC. I am using AMD for a change, socket 939 as CPUs are more readily available compared to Socket 754 and I am hoping for a bit more speed and reliability than Socket A (e.g. power supplies!) My motherboard came with a normal (for the era) sized cooler and a …

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-03-05, 23:12

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by Almoststew1990

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Game 11 Complete! Quake 2 https://i.imgur.com/JPm7jl1h.jpg The sequel to one of the first fully 3D shooter, this had quite a lot to live up to. Yes, Jedi Knight 2 was on this list ahead of Quake 2 but I foolishly thought I'd be able to copy over the files from steam onto my W98 PC and play it that …

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Re: Gotek Problems

Posted on 2019-03-01, 22:36

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by Almoststew1990

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Eugh.... Run as Administrator!

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Gotek Problems

Posted on 2019-03-01, 21:33

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by Almoststew1990

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I'm trying to set up my Gotek emulator. I've formatted it with 100 partitions. I've written 3 images of MSDOS 6.2.2 for each disk fine. However, when I "Open" Disk 3 to copy files over (HWInfo) it just opens to my Documents folder in Windows. Windows shows the contents of Disk 0 in my usb stick …

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Re: Best way to take photos for posting ?

Posted on 2019-02-22, 20:08

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by Almoststew1990

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I have a Sony ZX3 phone. I usually just use that. I'm no expert but for images of hardware i.e. indoors close ups, I've found that lighting is more important than using a fancy camera*. Close ups means the amount of light that can get into the lense is limited. I especially struggle as I have a …

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-02-18, 22:09

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by Almoststew1990

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I'm currently playing Quake 2. The CD music only seems to play the first track over and over again (at least I assume it is the first track). Any ideas why this is? Blimey those Blood screenshots seemed to have aged a million years now that I'm playing Quake 2 at 1024 *768!

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