What do you think about Steam Deck handheld PC ?

Posted on 2021-07-20, 05:58

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Recently Valve officially announced Steam Deck; a handheld PC running SteamOS, similar to GPD Win 3, Aya Neo and One Xplayer that already had successful crowdfunding earlier this year and that run on Windows. https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

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Re: graphics that over promise and under deliver

Posted on 2021-07-03, 18:53

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I would say that modern games have too much "noise" in them. Before 2000 there were so many hardware limitations and levels consisted of only what was necessary. They built the gameplay and atmosphere with the bare minimum. Those games are actually much more comfortable to play, because when you …

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Re: 8k

Posted on 2021-06-28, 06:18

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I was thinking of buying a 1440p monitor, but since GPU prices are ridiculous now, I can't buy a GPU to run it.

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Re: dgVoodoo 2.7.x and related WIP versions

Posted on 2021-05-20, 22:32

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Sorry for being inactive here. Unfortunately, due to other IRL activities, I have minimal time I can spend on dgVoodoo and related things. :( Don't worry about it. You alone, in your free time, already did more for old PC games than what Microsoft did for Xbox backwards compatibility with all their …

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Re: Chia cryptocurrency - Mining on HDD and SSD

Posted on 2021-05-20, 22:19

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Meanwhile all main cryptos took serious nosedive after Elon Musk's comments and Bank of China statements. This includes Chia. You know what is good about Chinese communists ? They embraced capitalism, but the difference is, since they are communists, they study capitalism from the basis that it …

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Re: Chia cryptocurrency - Mining on HDD and SSD

Posted on 2021-04-28, 21:39

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How about we start using acorns as currency ? Instead of buying computer components and wasting electricity on virtual money, people plant trees which clean up the air and slow down climate change. As stupid as it sounds, it is not worse than what we have now.

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Re: Crimson Skies and dgVoodoo

Posted on 2021-04-28, 02:23

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Crimson Skies is an old DirectX game, so you need to follow instructions under "Installation - DirectX 2-8". All you have to do is copy the mentioned files into the game installation folder. Any other configuration is optional, unless there is a very specific issue with the game and a known fix. You …

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Re: Crimson Skies and dgVoodoo

Posted on 2021-04-26, 05:03

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Read here: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/DgVoodoo_2

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Re: Huge "zoom out" games list

Posted on 2021-04-10, 22:03

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Using JPEG for a game with such wonderful pixel art is a crime.

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Re: Heart Of Darkness PC vs PS

Posted on 2021-04-10, 21:57

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As the user above already mentioned the PS1 version look like it has compression artifacts. It is not a problem with the screenshot, I just checked. What a shame that this game runs on such small resolution on PC. Captain Claw released in 1997 and ran at 640x480. All those 3D models and scenes just …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-04-10, 01:43

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Playing Heart Of Darkness from 1998. What an incredible surprise. I wouldn't even know about it if I wasn't browsing through abandonware few years ago.

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Re: Heart Of Darkness - can't force integer scaling

Posted on 2021-04-07, 23:20

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Man, this game is gruesome. I wish I played it 20 years ago. When I played Limbo back in 2011 I was shocked by all the horrible deaths, but HOD did it more than a decade earlier. This is like Another World on steroids. Animated cutscenes are too childish and really stick out compared to the death …

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Re: Heart Of Darkness - can't force integer scaling

Posted on 2021-04-07, 18:24

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ZellSF wrote on 2021-04-07, 17:23: ...to get actual integer scaling you need to right click tabs > show all sections... > GeneralExt. I was using the resolution setting under DirectX. Now it works. Thanks.

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Heart Of Darkness - can't force integer scaling

Posted on 2021-04-07, 16:03

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I am trying to play this game with integer/nearest scaling set to 2x, but I get blurry scaling. Screen is set to centered, I also tried using Max ISF, I tried changing the texture filtering, but it didn't help.

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Re: How often do you buy a brand new computer ?

Posted on 2021-03-29, 04:06

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cyclone3d wrote on 2021-03-29, 00:42: What it i only generally buy used hardware when upgrading? Does that still count as a new computer if I upgrade my mb and CPU with used parts? I really messed up the title. As long as it is newer then you previous one, and you use it as your main computer, …

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Re: How often do you buy a brand new computer ?

Posted on 2021-03-28, 19:00

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You'd be surprised how little you have to spend on computers when you don't do any gaming. I'm still using a Core 2 Quad Q9550 with 8 GB RAM and a Sapphire HD 6850, bought it in 2008. I wouldn't be surprised at all. Single core is dead, but a good old dual core and even just 4 GB is still perfectly …

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Re: How often do you buy a brand new computer ?

Posted on 2021-03-28, 18:25

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rmay635703 wrote on 2021-03-28, 18:13: 1998 was my last truly “new” computer After that was a new motherboard + cpu combined with used parts or simply buying a used machine whole to start with. Well, I didn't mean "brand new" as "brand new from store". New motherboard and CPU is a new computer in …

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How often do you buy a brand new computer ?

Posted on 2021-03-28, 18:10

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I got my first computer in late 1999. It was a Pentium 2 with 32 MB RAM. It was outdated before it left the store. I had zero experience with computers back then and never even opened it, not to mention upgrade it. It was such a major disappointment, that I even stopped playing video games. I got my …

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What old software do you still use daily ?

Posted on 2021-01-08, 18:02

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I am using Windows 7 and listening music in Winamp 5.66 from 2013.

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Re: I overclocked my monitor from 60 Hz to 80 Hz, but can't tell the difference in games

Posted on 2021-01-06, 22:29

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In my experience, vsynctester.com makes it very easy to spot frames dropped by the monitor, versus those dropped by the computer itself . I have been able to validate frame dropping and lack of it on multiple monitor and computer combinations, using multiple refresh rates, with vsynctester.com . …

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