Re: How to install and run vanilla Half-Life 2 without Steam

Posted on 2023-09-12, 20:59

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by eddman

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dr.zeissler wrote on 2023-09-11, 21:56: I am still searching for the collectors edition that does not require steam and is an old build that can run from DX6 cards up to DX9 cards. I don't know what you mean by requiring, but collector's edition also comes with steam files on the disk.

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Re: Tony & Friends in Kellogg's Land

Posted on 2023-09-12, 17:55

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by eddman

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There's a readme file in there with a lot of information.

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Re: Dark Forces Remastered

Posted on 2023-09-11, 16:52

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by eddman

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Build engine games - Duke3D, Blood, Red Neck Rampage, etc, all really need proper mouselook to enjoy nowadays. Dark Forces had some amount of Mouse customization available, but I can't remember. Don't know about Red Neck Rampage, but Duke and Blood have a toggle for permanent mouse look. Dark …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-09-08, 09:11

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by eddman

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Unfortunately, everything is not so smooth for me: I managed to hardly get Sims 2 to work without failures in 64-bit Windows 10, but SimCity Societies and the Russian “Petka 007” crash after a certain period of time. You were talking about "ruining" windows 10, not how the games run. I specifically …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-09-07, 13:28

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What is the "compatibility enhancements" option for?

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Re: Why does Warcraft 3 list the Nvidia TNT, Ati Rage 128, Voodoo3, Intel i810 as minimum spec cards but requires D3D8?

Posted on 2023-09-06, 12:06

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by eddman

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" Compliance versus Compatibility DirectX 8 is a major advance in 3D technology for the consumer market. Because it’s such a radical departure from historical methods, the issue of DirectX 8 compatibility versus DirectX 8 compliance becomes key. Almost any current generation 3D graphics hardware can …

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Re: Why does Warcraft 3 list the Nvidia TNT, Ati Rage 128, Voodoo3, Intel i810 as minimum spec cards but requires D3D8?

Posted on 2023-09-06, 10:05

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by eddman

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The DX8.0->8.1 was a part of a last minute version bump that happened during the early beta. The game's 3d engine was spec'd out for those cards. So this was probably to shore up something about their dev environment, but not really change the specs since the game was feature complete, IMO. The …

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Re: Good places to find game patches since patches-scrolls.de is down?

Posted on 2023-09-05, 12:07

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by eddman

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I hope patches-scrolls.de can get back online. It's one of the few places where thousands of old game patches were still available. Some of those were from the DOS and Win9x era. It would be pretty bad to lose all that. The de site seems to be back, but yea, it's rather disconcerting how many …

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Re: Old Windows games appearing like grayscale (colorless) on Win7 Geforce 960

Posted on 2023-09-04, 20:54

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by eddman

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Yea, if you want to stick to 7, you'd have to use an older driver. I'm using driver 511.23 with a GTX 1060, and software mode looks fine on windows 10, so I suppose it got fixed with a later driver (haven't tried a newer one though).

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-09-04, 17:55

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It's just that I'm afraid to accidentally install old libraries (suddenly the installer won't allow it) designed for old Windows, and thereby ruin my Windows 10. I haven't encountered an XP era game that ruins Windows 10, except for those that have Starforce protection, which is a relatively short …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-09-04, 12:20

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in the game Mickey Saves the Day on VMWare Player 16.2.5 there are no characters at all, and in The Simpsons Hit and Run Homer's car dyed black instead of pink)... ...Using a real computer is not an option. Why is that? Mickey seems to be running just fine on Windows 10, and if some issues do pop …

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Re: Why does Warcraft 3 list the Nvidia TNT, Ati Rage 128, Voodoo3, Intel i810 as minimum spec cards but requires D3D8?

Posted on 2023-09-02, 06:22

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Just because a game asks for a certain DX version, doesn't mean it's using the same D3D version, for example, Spider-man 2001. (EDIT: To make it less confusing, DirectX itself is not an API; it's a suite/package that contains APIs, like Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectInput, etc. Most people, even …

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Re: windows 98 SE - how big drive disks?

Posted on 2023-09-01, 09:52

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cambalinho wrote on 2023-08-31, 20:29: finally i did it with another patch. Which patch was it?

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Re: DOS Games on Voodoo 3

Posted on 2023-08-31, 06:44

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by eddman

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See if adding NOVCPI after NOEMS helps.

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Re: Struggling with EMM and Ram (Win 98SE)

Posted on 2023-08-31, 05:35

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I'm trying to just launch DOS games under Windows. I checked the executable and the memory tab where EMS is its enabled and says "AUTO", in fact that whole tab says AUTO, Conventional memory, EMS, XMS,DPMI memory all enabled and put to "AUTO" XMS also has the check box checked for "uses HMA". AFAIK …

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Re: DOS Games on Voodoo 3

Posted on 2023-08-27, 20:13

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by eddman

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Post the content of autoexec.bat and config.sys.

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Re: i cant find the zip 100 IDE drivers for dos end win 3.1

Posted on 2023-08-26, 23:52

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by eddman

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That S3 driver you asked for was a little bit obscure, but this one is not. You'd be better off improving your search skills than asking here for every single driver. Just look for "iomega zip dos driver" on google and you'd see a few in the top 5-10 results. There are a few hits for archive.org. …

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Re: i cant install the phoenix s3 trio 32 driver on windows 3.11

Posted on 2023-08-25, 19:54

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by eddman

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If you open the file named "VERSION" with notepad, you'd see it's a win 95 driver. Try this: Filename w3117004.zip File size 2.44 MiB Downloads 14 downloads

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Re: PCem emulation speed is terrible

Posted on 2023-08-24, 13:27

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by eddman

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Alright, I tested Windows Me's pinball. The problem is number 5, "performance compatibility issue". I tested it under Windows 98 SE and it performs fine. I suspect it should work fine under 95 too. To play pinball on 95 you must install it through "Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95". On Windows 98, you …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-08-24, 12:52

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That's why I wanted to ask JH64 to port this driver to windows XP. "post XP" means "after XP". Why are you asking for Vista up to 11(?!) when there's no need for them. As DosFreak pointed out, and I mentioned in your other thread, 3D acceleration for XP works with VMWare. It has some issues with …

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