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Re: Current games and instruction set requirements

Posted on 2020-10-05, 21:40

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Too lazy/ignorant to change the default compiler settings to prevent them from using those instruction sets. Do these compilers even actually understand these instruction sets? I've always been under the impression the software developer has to write very specific inline code to take advantage of …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-09-30, 17:56

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It probably have to do with both the modern o.s. and the game engine not well optimized as other games heavier than this. It's because it's running on a lazily ported Xbox codebase, on a extremely bad fork of the Unreal Engine. (known as Unreal Warfare) There's really nothing that can be done to …

Re: DOS RPG Hidden Gems?

Posted on 2020-09-30, 01:00

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clueless1 wrote on 2020-09-29, 23:51: Amulets and Armor does look interesting too! It's even more interesting in co-op. Especially if the other players are all playing opposite ends of the class system.

Re: 42

Posted on 2020-09-29, 20:46

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wow I get to make the party hat zoop up and down again!

Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2020-09-24, 21:09

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D3D is seemingly hardcoded to 640x480, all the other resolutions in the launcher are greyed out. I don't know how to work around it. Atleast, not on Wine I don't.

Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2020-09-24, 20:41

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Whiskey wrote on 2020-09-24, 17:13: RECOIL 1999 (Glide) Huh, I played through that entirely in Wine but in D3D mode not Glide.

Recoil (by Zipper Interactive) - Force higher resolutions in Direct3D mode?

Posted on 2020-09-03, 22:42

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So I managed to get this game to work on my new PC that uses a Intel Iris Pro 580 for graphics, but the resolutions in the launcher are greyed out except for "640x480" 800x600 and 1024x768 are visible in the selection list though. But it seems to only want to do that if I'm using a glide wrapper of …

Re: QEMU MESA GL pass-through for OpenGL games

Posted on 2020-09-03, 01:29

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Everything works as in pristine condition, no ACT, no DxWnd and no patch. Just rip the retailed CD, install and play. I remember trying to play this game on modern (at the time) Windows XP and, it would just suddenly crash for seemingly no reason after several minutes of gameplay despite everything …

Re: Unreal 1's elusive OpenGlDrv. What even is able to use it?

Posted on 2020-09-02, 09:08

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not Unreal, but the OpenGL driver in the original Deus Ex was super buggy on my Geforce2. Like, it would reveal the ugly truth that EVERYBODY HAS GOGGLES I'm guessing it's the "masked texture" bug where Poly's flagged as STY_Masked aren't obeyed? (ditto for textures being applied to meshes that …

Re: Unreal 1's elusive OpenGlDrv. What even is able to use it?

Posted on 2020-09-01, 22:56

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Any reason you want to use the original opengl and not the newer versions either from Dohnal or oldunreal? Does the S3 not work with those? 225f has no public headers so you can't simply compile UTGLR against version 225f of Unreal. There's headers for 224v but 224v lacks several critical internals …

Re: Unreal 1's elusive OpenGlDrv. What even is able to use it?

Posted on 2020-09-01, 19:49

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I can't find anything in the D3DDrv.dll that would suggest DXT1 / S3TC support in it, it seems to be hinted in OpenGlDrv but the only video I've found on S3TC was using MetalDrv. Unreal defaults to D3DDrv, and flags OpenGlDrv as "experimental".

Unreal 1's elusive OpenGlDrv. What even is able to use it?

Posted on 2020-09-01, 19:29

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I'm going to hope this is the board to post this in, because I mean... this is about versions 224 and 225 of Unreal. I don't know which version originally introduced OpenGlDrv.dll but it's obvious that it's a experimental render device. If you look in Unreal.ini this is typically what you see for it …

Is there a relativly safe way to convert a VirtualBox harddrive image to a format QEMU expects by default?

Posted on 2020-08-31, 17:07

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I'd really rather not have to completely re-do a entire harddrive image and MS-DOS 6 installation just to migrate from VirtualBox to QEMU, so I was wondering if there was a way to safely convert VDI files to qcow2 or something more raw perhaps? The VDI was created without "dynamic allocation", it's …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-08-13, 03:28

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(which is cringe-inducingly turned to 11 in Forever) Yeah, some of Duke's quips in DNF are so massively out of place it feels almost psychotic. But that's not even the tip of the iceberg with the problems DNF has as a game, and of it's content. I was never really hot-bothered by Duke3D's swearing, …

Re: FastDoom 0.4. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-08-10, 23:51

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You're right, it is an AWE64 Value. GUS support is problematic and I'm trying to fix it. Man I'm dumb, yeah. It's hard to tell the difference between the AWE's ROM and the default GUS patch set. I hope GUS support doesn't prove too impossible to fix, it never really worked properly in Doom at all …

Re: Retro flight sim playthroughs

Posted on 2020-08-07, 13:24

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damson wrote on 2020-03-29, 19:11: Started new series Jane's Longbow Gold Was there ever a native Win32 version of this, or is it still a MS-DOS only game despite the Gold edition release?

Re: FastDoom 0.4. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-08-06, 23:54

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Potato mode might as well be SNES Doom mode, that's the huge vibe I get from the graphics looking that way. Were you using a GUS for music in that video?

Re: FastDoom 0.4. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-08-06, 21:21

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New development video (FastDoom 0.5) https://youtu.be/khVLctBY1GA Curious, why the "age restriction"? There's plenty of videos of Doom that don't have that stretching as far back as 2007... That option makes it impossible to watch the video anonymously without a user account involved which is what …

Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2020-08-06, 20:38

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What a great mod! I had not enough because mod is too short Yeah it is a pretty short campaign, but "Quality over Quantity" rules the day here. Considering how the mod itself ends, it does leave room for a sequel but I'm not the devs (or a HL1 modder for that matter) so I'm not quite sure how …

Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2020-08-06, 19:42

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I'm messing around with the training level now, actually impressed with how well it seems to run. I also hope you can read the subtitles good enough, the entire mod is Russian with English strings and on most videos the subtitles and text uses a very small font that looks as if it was made for …

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