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Re: Are pin headers necessary to make connection if jumper wire with male end is available?

Changed title a bit to be more descriptive. After trying another good power supply that has a LED that is normally lit when it's powered, it was blinking along with router's LEDs, I believe this means short circuit protection kicking in. I guess this means faulty capacitors in best case scenario and …

Re: Are pin headers necessary to make connection if jumper wire with male end is available?

It's all clearer now, I found fishing line (wire) method described here , the additional wire involved that ensures good contact has totally slipped by me. I also asked about it at work and the coworker in production agreed just putting the jumper wire in by itself is not the sure way. I didn't know …

Re: Are pin headers necessary to make connection if jumper wire with male end is available?

I was mostly curious about methods that don't involve soldering, particularly if it could be as simple as just sticking male end of jumper into a hole. Considering what was written about doing the same with the pin headers that are meant to be soldered, I suspected those wires by themselves might …

Re: Windows 11 Choppy framerate in DX8 and older games

in Windows
I only have older hardware so can only guess blindly, but, do you see anything interesting if you monitor CPU/GPU usage of the game with overlay on/off? Maybe check the GPU clocks as well with something like GPU-Z. There's also another program with an overlay; MSI Afterburner (depends on RivaTuner …

Re: Windows 11 Choppy framerate in DX8 and older games

in Windows
DXPrimaryEmulation is for DirectDraw and Direct3D 7 and lower. For Direct3D 8, check this thread . The d3d8.dll from Win10 Build 17134 is still compatible with Win11 23H2 with the December 2023 cumulative update. Don't forget to check in Compatibility Administrator in system database if Windows is …

New DirectMusic breakage in Windows 11

in Windows
So back when Windows Vista was released, we realized DirectMusic scripting functionality was completely broken, which the game Unreal II: Awakening heavily depends on. From my limited testing, it was enough to just put the old dmscript.dll from Windows XP in its place. Full set of DLLs was posted …

Re: Remastering games, is it really worth it?

in Milliways
Oh right, I wondered about that mission, like some sort of prank by the designers. I did beat it few times by being in that box and sniping them from it, not sure what's the catch, sometimes they do manage to hit you when you're standing there, but not most of the time. Maybe you have to be at some …

Re: Remastering games, is it really worth it?

in Milliways
Remasters of older pre-widescreen era games are definitely bit more interesting since there's a bigger technological step from the original. Remasters of newer games, first thing I notice is they're really good at reminding you how old your computer is if you're running a PC initially bought in eg. …

Re: Half-Life WON 1.0.1.6 Pause Menu Issue

in Windows
Seems like every version of this game has weird problems. Exactly. as good as coders as Valve are, honestly the goldsrc engine source code is a complete and utter mess... likely the reason why they still havent made the engine open source, they are probably too ashamed from people seeing how bad …

Re: Disabling the DWM8AND16BITMITIGATION layer

in Windows
No idea about DxWnd, might have its own tricks that may avoid Windows' mitigation, but without knowing further technical details, that shim's basic function seems to be simply making 16-bit and 8-bit color modes available and making them appear correctly in supposedly 32bpp only environment as …

Re: Disabling the DWM8AND16BITMITIGATION layer

in Windows
I've not seen this messing with the colors, but then I don't use the latest and greatest Windows version either (Win10 20H2) and my PC is 14 years old at this point (GPU is 9 years old though). For WON version of Half-Life, I used -32bpp command-line parameter along with my patch that also makes it …

Re: Missing 320x240 Software Render in Half Life: Uplink and 1.0

in Windows
hl.exe needs to be patched with OllyDbg or similar debugger. Both versions 1.1.1.0 and 1.0.1.6 at least have unique CMP EBP,190 command inside that may be found when using search (CTRL + F), the code must be modified in the way that this comparison instruction along with a jump instruction …

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