Re: Supercar Street Challenge (Exakt/Activision) not working on Win8.1

Posted on 2015-01-06, 13:51

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by ZellSF

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I do have an Nvidia agenda from days gone by, see https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/543104/geforce-drivers/my-research-into-when-nvidia-broke-backwards-compatibility-with-directx6-and-earlier-games/ Heh... but I love Nvidia for GSYNC and performance, so it's more a love-hate thing. Can you …

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Re: Is there a way to fix CDDA volume issues under Vista/7?

Posted on 2015-01-06, 13:11

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by ZellSF

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The GoG releases I've seen use ogg-winmm, perhaps with GoG's own modifications. My experience with it is that it has less compatibility than _inmm. It's open source and more portable (doesn't need an install) though.

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Re: Supercar Street Challenge (Exakt/Activision) not working on Win8.1

Posted on 2015-01-05, 18:46

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by ZellSF

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Works on Win8.1/Nvidia here.

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Re: Supercar Street Challenge (Exakt/Activision) not working on Win8.1

Posted on 2015-01-05, 13:16

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by ZellSF

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Could just as easily be a Windows 8 compatibility issue. Why so eager to blame Nvidia for everything? You sound as if you have an agenda. Jumping to conclusions also usually won't help you find answers.

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Re: Grand Theft Auto London 1969: GTA "The Classic Collection" version on Windows 8.1.

Posted on 2015-01-05, 11:36

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by ZellSF

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Not sure if you understood my idea or not, so to ask again: You said you had a cracked exe that worked. If you try to play with that cracked exe, does the game try to play CDDA from the first DVD drive (just insert a random audio CD to test)?

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Re: Grand Theft Auto London 1969: GTA "The Classic Collection" version on Windows 8.1.

Posted on 2015-01-05, 00:43

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by ZellSF

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Seems to be a fairly obscure re-release, I can't even find any information about it. I would just buy another release without those "fixes" tbh. Anyway, after a nocd crack will it play CDDA music from the first CD drive letter then? The nocd crack probably is an original exe that's not "fixed" and …

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Re: Grand Theft Auto London 1969: GTA "The Classic Collection" version on Windows 8.1.

Posted on 2015-01-04, 21:33

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by ZellSF

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Does it or does it not use CDDA? If it does, make sure you're using the FIRST CD/DVD drive letter in the system.

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Re: Night Watch

Posted on 2015-01-04, 16:38

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by ZellSF

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It's the copy protection. It uses Starforce v3. There's no legal way to get it to run on Windows 7 or 8. Illegally, you can run it with ViTALITY's cracked exe. I can't link to that for obvious reasons. You also need d3d9.dll from S2SteamPatch.zip here: https://bintray.com/novik65/generic/ …

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Re: Grand Theft Auto London 1969: GTA "The Classic Collection" version on Windows 8.1.

Posted on 2015-01-04, 13:30

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by ZellSF

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My copy of GTA London 1969 (not the Classic Collection one) works out of the box on Windows 8. It's CDDA and the game disc need to be present in the FIRST CD drive letter on your system. Is it? Don't use a cracked version.

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2015-01-01, 20:24

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by ZellSF

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Ok, thanks for that! Does dgVoodooSetup find your monitor or just the 'Default' is in the list (General tab\Full screen output)? I'll answer from my experience as exactly the same happens to me: The monitor option lists default or \\. \DISPLAY1, no resolution other than unforced is selectable. I'm …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-12-28, 12:56

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by ZellSF

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Ok, thanks for that! Does dgVoodooSetup find your monitor or just the 'Default' is in the list (General tab\Full screen output)? I'll answer from my experience as exactly the same happens to me: The monitor option lists default or \\. \DISPLAY1, no resolution other than unforced is selectable. I'm …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-12-27, 18:20

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by ZellSF

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Not going near that setup again until 1st (visiting someone for new years), but IIRC it shows both default and \\DISPLAY0 or whatever. I'll say for sure on the 1st.

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-12-27, 16:53

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by ZellSF

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Dege: See attachments. Windows reports all resolutions and refresh rates available*. Other software does (I play modern games, so I've probably even tried other DX11 software). dgVoodoo2 does not. * Obviously except those below 1024x768, like Win7 won't allow you to select resolutions below 800x600, …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-12-26, 15:12

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by ZellSF

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On-topic again: Please say you have any idea about my problem Dege :(. My last 60hz monitor is gone soon. dgVoodoo's DDraw always reports the refreshrate the desktop runs at, to the applications, so I guess all games should use that because it's common that refresh rate is set to 0 (default) or the …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-12-21, 09:44

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by ZellSF

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I was saying what you discovered is just one out of three problems with slowdowns in Windows 8. Try running 8-bit or 16-bit color software in a window. You won't get good results. Undying automatically falls back to 32-bit btw. Try running software that doesn't support window mode in window mode. …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-12-20, 22:25

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by ZellSF

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A bit off-topic, but you might be talking about different problems entirely: 1: Whatever lowenz is talking about, which I've never noticed since I don't play games at above my display's refresh rate (120hz). Can confirm that it actually happens though. I'm assuming it locks to refresh rate anyway; I …

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Re: Acer Aspire One 722 - Crackling Sounds on Windows XP

Posted on 2014-12-15, 07:42

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by ZellSF

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Suggestions: 1: Switch drivers, if you're using windows provided drivers see if there are any manufacturer provided ones. If you're using manufacturer provided ones, try using windows provided ones. 2: Reduce master volume. If there's less crackling with lower master volume then consider external …

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Re: Lotus Challenge (Kuju/Sold Out) + GT-R 400 (Kuji/Infusion Games/Midas) - interestingly buggy Win8.1 64bit

Posted on 2014-12-11, 09:18

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by ZellSF

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You should probably learn to use the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit. Do that, go through the fixes and find out which ones break or fix things.

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Re: Viper Racing vs modern graphics card!

Posted on 2014-12-10, 15:39

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by ZellSF

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I'm suspecting it's an nvidia driver problem (not surprising how their 'way it's meant to be played' is broken in most cases to the point where people blame Windows) as it works on RadeonHD6 here without any wrapper on Windows 7. v1.0. vid: 16 meg card (reported:2806.835938) vid: using AGP textures …

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Re: Breakneck AKA N.I.C.E.2 on modern PCs? And Superbike 2001 for that matter...

Posted on 2014-12-09, 17:21

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by ZellSF

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Breakneck works fine on a Nvidia 670 (which shouldn't be that different than 980 in terms of legacy support) here using DXWnd. Performance is barely keeping above 60 though. Superbike 2001's problems are probably rendering related: it works (poorly) with DXGL in software rendering mode.

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