There's something wrong with Sin: Wages of Sin's 3Dnow support when run on Athlon and it breaks the flashlight projection. Disabling 3Dnow is supposed to fix it but I haven't tested it.
vid_checkamd 0
Or just use an Intel CPU.
The add-on pack has a lot of darkness so a broken flashlight is a big problem.
gl_flashblend 0? r_dynamic 1?
I disassembled the Athlon setup once I figured out the CPU was the issue and I didn't find the possible 3dnow solution until this afternoon so I'm probably not going to test it. I just posted for posterity. Future web searches et al. 😀
Btw, if anyone cares, discounted on GOG right now at $3.99.
http://www.gog.com/game/sin_gold
Looking forward to playing that game one day 😀
Good game, I should play the expansion someday!
Anyone play the ill-fated Sin Episodes? It could have been pretty good.
wrote:Good game, I should play the expansion someday!
Anyone play the ill-fated Sin Episodes? It could have been pretty good.
Yup I have beaten Sin Episodes a few times. I liked it. Ritual made decent games with spirit. Elite Force 2 and FAKK are fun too.
Sin always makes me think Half Life combined with Duke...
Oh, I wanted to mention that and Sin and its expansion use A3D well. It doesn't work quite right with Creative 's crappy A3D emulation though. Sounds much better on a real Aureal card.
By the way, which version of 3dfx MiniGL you use with the game? Default 1.4? 1.47? 1.49?
Asus P4P800 SE/Pentium4 3.2E/2 Gb DDR400B,
Radeon HD3850 Agp (Sapphire), Catalyst 14.4 (XpProSp3).
Voodoo2 12 MB SLI, Win2k drivers 1.02.00 (XpProSp3).
wrote:By the way, which version of 3dfx MiniGL you use with the game? Default 1.4? 1.47? 1.49?
I'm using GeForce cards with it right now. I did run it on a Riva 128 ZX for a bit too....wow look at those bright white polygon seams! 😁
Sorry, my mistake. 3DNow!, 3dfx... 😀
Asus P4P800 SE/Pentium4 3.2E/2 Gb DDR400B,
Radeon HD3850 Agp (Sapphire), Catalyst 14.4 (XpProSp3).
Voodoo2 12 MB SLI, Win2k drivers 1.02.00 (XpProSp3).
I cant even figure out how to use the torch
edit: its only in wages of sin
works with amd gfx and with the included nglide (with the gog version)
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wrote:I cant even figure out how to use the torch
edit: its only in wages of sinworks with amd gfx and with the included nglide (with the gog version)
Orly! I haven't played the original game in awhile. Did beat it a year ago or so.
I did get around to testing the Athlon flashlight (AKA TORCH) fix with disabling 3dnow. Works.
