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Re: Did GUI operating systems have a preferred video mode?

Posted on Yesterday, 14:10

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For example, my Windows 98 SE always booted into 256 colour, 640x480 mode. When I moved to XP, it used 16-bit colour, 640x480 Windows 98 usually bumped things up to 800x600x16 as soon as an appropriate video driver installs. XP advised 800x600x16 a minimum (and will warn about that) Was there …

Re: Superbike 2001 by EA fails to launch.

Posted on Yesterday, 09:17

by BEEN_Nath_58

in dgVoodoo General

Bringing this back up again to say in my W11 machine, this does not work, despite copying the exact same steps as for W10. Using the noCD replacement and DDraw.dll from ddrawcompat, with win 98/me and 16bit color compatibility, the best I get is a black screen that flickers back to desktop. No …

Did GUI operating systems have a preferred video mode?

Posted on Yesterday, 09:15

by BEEN_Nath_58

in Milliways

For example, my Windows 98 SE always booted into 256 colour, 640x480 mode. When I moved to XP, it used 16-bit colour, 640x480 and in Windows 7, it was 32-bit colour, 800x600. Win11 probably used 32-bit colour, and native monitor resolution. For Windows 8+, it is understandable as to only having 32- …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-17, 16:10

by BEEN_Nath_58

in Milliways

Funny enough this month's project is finding cracked versions of my games less then 10 years old. ironically in the same process today, some game's "setup-extracting-setup" file ran a VB script that made a mess on my registry (disabling defender, uac, windows updates, etc...). Got the UAC to work, …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-16, 10:15

by BEEN_Nath_58

in Milliways

At this point, the Xbox Game Pass and alternatives economically look like a better option

Re: DK - My Amazing Human Body 1999

Posted on 2024-04-15, 04:06

by BEEN_Nath_58

in Windows

I haven't tested the game but in any of my test cases, QuickTime was detected in some form or another when installed. I would install QT and then run the app with admin privileges at maximum so that it accesses the correct registries required to check and use QT

Re: VR Sports Powersports Racing - Game Crashes When Trying To Play Mines Track

Posted on 2024-04-15, 04:04

by BEEN_Nath_58

in Windows

Okay so I tried the compatibility mode and at first when I tried starting the game it just crashed and I would get the same message. But after a few attempts I got the game to startup and when I went to play the Mines level it no longer crashed when the races begins. I was able to finish the race …

Re: VR Sports Powersports Racing - Game Crashes When Trying To Play Mines Track

Posted on 2024-04-14, 16:02

by BEEN_Nath_58

in Windows

Try using Windows 95 or WIndows 98/ME compat mode Okay so I tried the compatibility mode and at first when I tried starting the game it just crashed and I would get the same message. But after a few attempts I got the game to startup and when I went to play the Mines level it no longer crashed when …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-13, 21:31

by BEEN_Nath_58

in Milliways

Was it the first game to be removed in this manner? The news is old, but this is the first game I see to be affected.

Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-13, 20:51

by BEEN_Nath_58

in Milliways

Looks like the movement has started https://www.engadget.com/ubisoft-is-deleting- … -165328083.html

Re: Outrageous Installers

Posted on 2024-04-13, 16:54

by BEEN_Nath_58

in Milliways

I think Fallout also had an outrageous installer

Re: VR Sports Powersports Racing - Game Crashes When Trying To Play Mines Track

Posted on 2024-04-13, 07:32

by BEEN_Nath_58

in Windows

Try using Windows 95 or WIndows 98/ME compat mode

Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2024-04-12, 16:44

by BEEN_Nath_58

in Marvin \ Video

It's not quite a bug, not even quite an unsupported thing. NVIDIA, Intel, AMD have it in driver hardware accelerated; AMD does it correctly; but NVIDIA and Intel have "mis-interpretation" in their drivers: On the topic of Nvidia, I now have a GTX 970 and can confirm that table fog does work in …

Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2024-04-12, 16:09

by BEEN_Nath_58

in Marvin \ Video

If someone can provide a screenshot of either Thief 2 or Shadows of the Empire running natively (no wrappers or third-party patches) on a modern(ish) AMD card, I will add it. There is only a written guarantee for now: Yes, with AMD, fog works even natively in the game. The key point is natively. If …

Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2024-04-12, 15:32

by BEEN_Nath_58

in Marvin \ Video

The Vogonswiki site doesn't talk about table fog support in Amd cards, but Narzoul says it's present in at least the modern AMD cards: https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat/issues … mment-323608448 https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat/commit … cd8537fa41e3564

Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2024-04-11, 20:22

by BEEN_Nath_58

in Milliways

kolderman wrote on 2024-04-11, 20:08: Not that it really matters but seems like Ghostrunner was dupe as well. Yes, a dupe

Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2024-04-11, 20:19

by BEEN_Nath_58

in Marvin \ Video

Glover by Hasbro uses Table fog, here's a comparison with or without it on Win7

Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2024-04-08, 19:30

by BEEN_Nath_58

in PC Emulation

RaVeN-05 wrote on 2024-04-08, 16:35: OK, when power get back. We have for 5 hours per day it, at night. I am used and patched beta5 Well what's up with only 5 hours?

Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2024-04-08, 09:56

by BEEN_Nath_58

in PC Emulation

Well the game runs a little slow than what I would expect, the video has microstutters too. There are graphical glitches with the mouse too, from the start of RReady development I didn't realise the game was slow. The corrupting menus were already there. The game runs a little faster in the menu …

Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Posted on 2024-04-08, 08:16

by BEEN_Nath_58

in PC Emulation

Exiting the missions prevents screen updates for some reason. They're drawn to the front buffer. Yeah th E credits section is what I'm talking about. On my system it freezes and macro-blocks appear. It used to work perfectly. Maybe my hard drive is in a bad way. I keep the corrected iso on a hard …

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Re: Did GUI operating systems have a preferred video mode?

Re: Superbike 2001 by EA fails to launch.

Did GUI operating systems have a preferred video mode?

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Re: DK - My Amazing Human Body 1999

Re: VR Sports Powersports Racing - Game Crashes When Trying To Play Mines Track

Re: VR Sports Powersports Racing - Game Crashes When Trying To Play Mines Track

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Online copies of games are not owned

Re: Outrageous Installers

Re: VR Sports Powersports Racing - Game Crashes When Trying To Play Mines Track

Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Re: List of Currently Free Games

Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)

Re: RReady (Rendition Verite wrapper) Test Build (Alpha 1)