First post, by sdculp
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I am a fan of the older games such as Obsidian, Castle Wolfenstein, Myst, Uru, etc. Games such as this just don’t seem to be available anymore. My recent discovery of From Dust was a big disappointment because the pc version lacked much of the xbox features and it apparently is very video card sensitive, with a very short list of acceptable video cards. Also, my attempts at repurchasing and attempting to load or play older games have been dismal failures.
This gets to the crux of my problem: My main computer is a 3.20 gigahertz AMD Phenom II X4 955 with 4 gig of RAM. The video card is a ATI Radeon HD 5800. The OS is Windows XP Home, Sp 3. Due to video card, OS or pc incompatibilities the older games just will not load or play. Legacy mode is of no help. I also have two other computers. One is a 2.2 ghz Athlon 64 with an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 video card running Windows XP Home and the other is a 2.0 ghz Intel core duo laptop running Windows XP Professional. Both of the other computers respond in the same way.
It has been suggested that I get (find) an older computer, load it with Windows 98 and an older video card (whatever “older” means) and that might solve my problem. I remember in the past, however, that I had to update video cards in order to play some games, so that might not be a solution. Possibly computers and OS’es can be either too old or too new and there is no universal solution.
I would appreciate any help you can give me regarding the hardware, and any suggestions as to games of this genre that might work.