Re: Predecessors and successors for DirectSound and DirectSound3D on Windows

Posted on 2024-09-02, 13:49

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by mirh

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Games in early 2000s had started setting requirement for DirectX (should be specifically DirectSound?) for the games. What did DirectSound do for the games, what were the other sound components needed other than DSound? = DSound rendered the game's sound. Other components could include Kernel …

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Re: Any possible UEFI "shim" to allow running e.g. Windows 7 32bit on newer hardware?

Posted on 2024-07-07, 22:25

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by mirh

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I also second *TVDM and dosemu2 solutions (even if there are problems, surely their devs would help you) rather than bending over backwards with godawful hacks. And if that still doesn't fly, XP Mode or virtualizing whatever even older windows version certainly cannot leech away that many system …

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Re: EAX Support Seemingly Non-Functional under Windows XP x64?

Posted on 2024-06-24, 15:21

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by mirh

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Ok, actually according to tidbits from 17 years ago .. This isn't even necessarily about the operating system per se, but just the drivers? Because of course creative had to botch them. As for dsoal, of course it was failing just like it wouldn't run on the 32-bit version either. You want dsoal-xp …

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Re: Running 3dMark 2000 on modern hardware

Posted on 2023-12-11, 01:55

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by mirh

in Windows

in Windows

Super mysterious pseudo-vsync fps locks, are either windows randomly deciding to do some half-assed swap effect upgrade, or somebody having forgot what windowed g-sync entails.

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Re: NATIVE DOS on Haswell computer: keyboard and graphics problems. So near, yet so far!!

Posted on 2023-08-26, 17:26

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by mirh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd wonder how FreeDOS is doing with it if any? Or any of the USB drivers perhaps? Then putting aside the many possible UEFI voodoo "hopeful workarounds", did you try to tinker with XHCI pre-boot mode, XHCI Hand-off or Port 60/64 Emulation options in its settings? (I mean, idk about your potato pc, …

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Re: Enabling D3D9On12 for DirectX 1-9

Posted on 2023-08-02, 14:13

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by mirh

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in Windows

The opposite if any would have be a driver thing though, as opposed to a Windows knob. Anyway AFAIU all Intel gpus should be now "native".

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Re: Obscure T&L Benchmarks

Posted on 2023-06-18, 23:16

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by mirh

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

https://web.archive.org/web/20030811060752/ht … t/BenMark5.html https://web.archive.org/web/20030804082133/ht … ct/vardemo.html

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Re: Enabling D3D9On12 for DirectX 1-9

Posted on 2023-02-07, 16:31

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by mirh

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in Windows

Cool, though for the time being you'd have to compile it yourself to try. Microsoft really takes it easy to ship updates, and even with the latest patched W10 22H2 (not sure if insider on W11 couldn't be luckier?) I'm still stuck to several-months-old 10.0.19041.2193 d3d9on12.dll.

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Re: OpenGLOn12

Posted on 2023-02-07, 14:32

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by mirh

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in Milliways

WGL and GDI are pretty closely connected (if it isn't even that the former depends altogether on the later) . Of course anything opengl related would load it (well for the moment at least, I could lowbrow see nvidia's recent DXGI presentation further evolving to spare us it). As for EmulateOpenGL it …

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Re: Old GOG games are slowly getting killed

Posted on 2023-01-24, 00:20

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by mirh

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in Windows

I wouldn't expect Microsoft to care about the problem based on reports from gamers. They care if some enterprise software breaks, which might be the case if a compatibility mode is broken. Honestly enough, I don't think they are much all that useful to businesses either (unless you are literally …

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Re: Fullscreen input lag

Posted on 2023-01-10, 20:04

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by mirh

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

To know which "actual final rendering" the DgVoodoo window has, you can use PresentMon you know.

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Re: Regressive bugs - report them here

Posted on 2022-11-25, 00:00

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by mirh

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

A nice new trick with bilinear filtering that I have seen btw.

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Re: Release Announcements Consolidation

Posted on 2022-10-20, 20:59

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by mirh

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in Release Announcements

Unsure why the time-limited offer for dead space is still promoted in a 2020 post. Anyhow, I scavenged the entire forums and I couldn't really find a better thread to report this https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/lost-something-search-through-91-7-million-files-from-the-80s-90s-and-2000s/ …

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Re: Using Windows Update on 2000, XP, Vista in 2022

Posted on 2022-10-20, 20:05

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by mirh

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

You don't need a server for Vista. SHA-2 updates can be made to work. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/f … a3-92f6ecd69c32

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Re: Emulating EAX on any onboard sound hardware?

Posted on 2022-09-17, 01:41

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by mirh

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To normal users: dsoal and openal-soft are ripe nowadays. Please go out and test them. Be the change you want to see in the world. To devs and reverse engineers: do you happen to know if the Creative drivers ever implemented some kind of game-specific hacks (e.g. like those GPUs regularly ship)? …

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Re: Is it possible to create a universal fix for mouse issues with older Windows games running on new windows?

Posted on 2022-08-31, 17:12

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by mirh

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in Windows

https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/issu … mment-410491122 https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file … tinput-fps-fix/ EDIT: maybe too? Alternatively, even in the worst case scenario I believe you should still be able to downclock your usb controller.

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Re: Enabling D3D9On12 for DirectX 1-9

Posted on 2022-08-31, 13:15

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by mirh

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OP is in no way responsible for the graphical capabilities of D3D9On12 . His library is just a hundred lines of code to force that. I guess an advantage is that it's all open source? Somewhat like dxup , except this is actually still getting developed. I cannot vouch for features then, but at least …

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Re: Regressive bugs - report them here

Posted on 2022-07-23, 10:51

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by mirh

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

Pointing out again that something happened between WIP83_1 and WIP84 that broke SpecialK ability to uplift games to HDR. https://github.com/SpecialKO/SpecialK/issues/5

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Re: StarForce Infected Games (Windows XP and Later; Major Warning Ahead)

Posted on 2022-05-17, 12:48

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by mirh

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AFAIK all starforce flavours run in ring 0. If any there are different versions that are more or less finicky, and more or less aware of the internals of newer windows. Then, I haven't tested it myself, but from chaos theory to trackmania nations people looked good to me (even though I wasn't …

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Re: StarForce Infected Games (Windows XP and Later; Major Warning Ahead)

Posted on 2022-05-09, 10:29

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by mirh

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in Windows

SF poses a special challenge to Wine too, because there just isn't any way to imitate a ring0 driver in Wine. Iow, these titles won't work at all. So I guess Safedisc is a problem too? Both of those drivers work in wine, which is supposed to handle "ring 0" too. People mix up the actual limitation …

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