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

Posted on 2024-04-30, 04:10

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It runs in dual core +hyperthreading mode on my Ryzen with stutters. Once the thunderstorm stops I'll test quad core. Ironically we have storms and thunderstorms here too for about half a month now. I wanted to ask if there's a minimum Intel HD Graphics limitation for RReady. I have a Win7 Ivy …

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Re: Trying to find a counter strike map

Posted on 2024-04-30, 04:09

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Fujoshi-hime wrote on 2024-04-29, 20:46: as_tundra? No it was not tundra. But the environmental colours were very similar. The map was very symmetrical

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

Posted on 2024-04-29, 20:00

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Ok now for another round of testing. It runs in dual core +hyperthreading mode on my Ryzen with stutters. Once the thunderstorm stops I'll test quad core. Ironically we have storms and thunderstorms here too for about half a month now. I wanted to ask if there's a minimum Intel HD Graphics …

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Re: Hardware overlay support

Posted on 2024-04-28, 13:57

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Not related to dgVoodoo2rectly, but it seems like modern AMD cards have overlay support? GetCaps returns- OVERLAYARITHSTRETCHY+OVERLAYSHRINKX+OVERLAYSHRINKY+OVERLAYSTRETCHX+OVERLAYSTRETCHY+OVERLAYDEINTERLACE+OVERLAYFILTER+OVERLAYARITHSTRETCHY which isn't present on my Nvidia GF10 card

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Trying to find a counter strike map

Posted on 2024-04-27, 20:48

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It was where I learnt firing headshots... When I was 8. What I remember is it had no hostage missions...it was either a full squash match (fy?) or most probably a bomb match (de). I remember it stood in the maps list after cs_747 but before maps like de_aztec. The theme was blue (similar world …

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Re: Does Counter-Strike 1.6 on Steam run stable enough on modern systems?

Posted on 2024-04-27, 17:25

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For one last chance I went to the nosTEAM repack. Turns out the game fails because it was allergic to 4GB of VRAM 🫡. Considering it's a 2018 build, it was weird The other game has some other issues that I didn't find yet.

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Using dgVoodoo2 to debug native DirectX?

Posted on 2024-04-27, 03:30

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I want to use dgVoodoo2 to figure out where the native DirectX goes wrong, is there a way to do it? Or if its already there, where do I get it?

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Re: Does Counter-Strike 1.6 on Steam run stable enough on modern systems?

Posted on 2024-04-26, 13:51

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of course it's stable. It had a major update late last year. For modern systems, flogging old warez repacks is irrelevant - unless you really want to play against cheaters and get hacked. Okay thats what I needed to know DiGiTALZONE took me waaaaaaaay back. I think that's how I first played (a …

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Does Counter-Strike 1.6 on Steam run stable enough on modern systems?

Posted on 2024-04-26, 05:09

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Around 15 years ago, Internet facilities and Steam facilities was limited for the people because of high fees and lack of international transaction features respectively. People had to download game from Google searches. When I got my first computer, CS1.6 was such a game that was pre-installed on …

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Re: Windows games that work upto Win7/Win8 but not on Win10/11

Posted on 2024-04-24, 14:38

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First, DWM issues of Windows 7, which was mostly fixed by closing the explorer.exe. Then the frame rate and DirectDraw issues of Windows 8 Ironically, Windows 8 fixes the color palette problem of Vista and Win7 caused by explorer.exe. Yes, plus the DWM compositor isn't turned off since Windows 8 …

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Windows games that work upto Win7/Win8 but not on Win10/11

Posted on 2024-04-24, 09:41

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On various contexts over years, the compatibility of Windows 7+ OS was questioned. First, DWM issues of Windows 7, which was mostly fixed by closing the explorer.exe. Then the frame rate and DirectDraw issues of Windows 8. Then the problem translated to Windows 10 and the older forums have a lot of …

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Re: List of video card tech demos

Posted on 2024-04-24, 09:14

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Can you guide on how to perform the waves stuff in Linux? I can't find anything for windows For windows: Decompress two .xz-archive files (don't know if 7zip or other archive software for m$-win supports .xz format - find which software will do the job for you), then open console (cmd.exe) in same …

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Re: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2003) - the game doesn't allow to select DirectX or OpenGL

Posted on 2024-04-23, 13:03

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Apparently the Direct3D and OpenGL modes are properly detected on Intel integrated cards...

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Re: Hard Truck/Hard Truck 2 crashes under incliment weather

Posted on 2024-04-22, 08:02

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If you have issue with dgVoodoo you shoukd ask here: dgVoodoo General

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Re: Descent 3 Is Open Source with GPLv3 License

Posted on 2024-04-20, 18:17

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Descent 3 source released under the GPL

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Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 20:00

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Most of the regular users here, when you talk to, you'll get the knowledge that they have been in the IT industry for quite some time. Or at least, in some other form of the tech industry. Are there regular users here who hail from a different profession: like a medical officer, a non-technical …

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

Posted on 2024-04-18, 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 …

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Re: Superbike 2001 by EA fails to launch.

Posted on 2024-04-18, 09:17

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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 …

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Did GUI operating systems have a preferred video mode?

Posted on 2024-04-18, 09:15

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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 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- …

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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-17, 16:10

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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, …

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