Re: [Discussion][List] Games that can't be played on modern windows

Posted on Today, 07:04

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Im not aware of pcem being a perfect or performant emu for that tricky period of dx8 games between 2000-2003. It's not, but also nobody said it was. I thought for pretty much any game from early 2ks you will never have a perfect experience, even with patching/emuing. Try and make a list of games …

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Re: A currently availble G-SYNC monitor (IPS) where G-SYNC works with Windows 7 - do those exist ?

Posted on Today, 06:03

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Yeah it's really the situations where your framerate dips below 60fps (however briefly) that VRR really shines. There are patches for it now, but for a long time bethesda games were capped at 60fps because of physics. Even when framerate is unlocked, it's a bethesda game and optimization is …

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Re: [Discussion][List] Games that can't be played on modern windows

Posted on Today, 05:21

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I thought for pretty much any game from early 2ks you will never have a perfect experience, even with patching/emuing. Try and make a list of games from 1998-2003~ that don't have any issues at all. It will be short. Which games are you thinking of? Feel free to nominate a title! Everything pre …

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Re: [Discussion][List] Games that can't be played on modern windows

Posted on Today, 02:50

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Found another lost game "Sokoban's Revenge": https://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=4096&letter=S https://cn-dos-games.fandom.com/zh/wiki/%E4%BB%93%E5%BA%93%E7%95%AA-%E7%8E%A9%E5%AE%B6%E5%A4%8D%E4%BB%87%E7%89%88_(1995)?variant=zh Dosbox compatibility claims it is broken. Information about this …

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Re: [Discussion][List] Games that can't be played on modern windows

Posted on Today, 02:48

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I have been digging into the dosbox compatability list https://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?letter=a Since its all user submitted and without approval most of the "running" and "broken" games are actually working just fine, but I did find a couple of interesting things. I found this Korean freeware …

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Re: [Discussion][List] Games that can't be played on modern windows

Posted on Yesterday, 23:19

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Caribbean Disaster is playable in PCem, though only in Windows mode. Pure DOS mode makes insane memory demands that I couldn't satisfy. Dosbox: complains about MSCDEX. Dosbox-X: a different error, but it runs with a fix that I found, but the graphics bug out ingame and it crashes. So, difficult to …

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Re: A currently availble G-SYNC monitor (IPS) where G-SYNC works with Windows 7 - do those exist ?

Posted on Yesterday, 22:22

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VRR makes a pretty significant difference IMO. Probably my favorite application for it is with emulation. No screen tearing and no judder is something you can't find anywhere else.

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Re: [Discussion][List] Games that can't be played on modern windows

Posted on Yesterday, 20:24

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in some ways it is surprising how few games cannot be run on a modern system - in some form or other the question in part seems also to be about willingness to compromise - whether by accepting glitches, low fps or the need to do various patchy things before running It's gotten a lot better in …

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Re: I'm really struggling with windows 98

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Fast processors aren't necessary a problem, it's really about how well the chipset and graphics behave in windows 9x. One of the most stable platforms I have ever used is for windows 9x is socket 478... but that is because it used an intel chipset that was only a few years removed from the period. …

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Re: How much should I actually be paying for a first generation Sound Blaster?

Posted on Yesterday, 18:28

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Some years ago I was looking at the same model with support for CMS. I think the going rate was about 200$ USD at that time. The only guarantees in collecting - the price will hurt and over time it will go up 😁

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Re: I'm really struggling with windows 98

Posted on Yesterday, 08:44

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The thing that jumps out to me is the neforce 2 chipset on computer 1 and the 6800LE on computer 2. windows 98 is a finicky b*****. Try putting the 9800pro on VIA board and giving windows a fresh install. One other thing... the audigy 2 should be installed with the VXD driver. The WMD driver can …

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Re: [Discussion][List] Games that can't be played on modern windows

Posted on Yesterday, 06:13

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I want to nominate another game: Caribbean Disaster https://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=764&letter=C It would appear it had a much wider distribution on Amiga but it also saw a DOS release. I suspect it might have only been sold in Europe (all the copies I have seen appear to be German). …

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Re: [Discussion][List] Games that can't be played on modern windows

Posted on Yesterday, 01:50

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As it turns out, none of the NV1 games are actually exclusive to NV1. The graphics comparison thread has videos for some of the supported games, I tried out a couple more in PCem and I was able to get all of them installed and running on a voodoo 3/ slot 1 configuration. (When I say not exclusive, I …

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Re: [Discussion][List] Games that can't be played on modern windows

Posted on Yesterday, 00:39

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I found one. Icehawk released with the Matrox Impression. Youtube video of gameplay : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUvohZp6wT0&t=3s You can find a copy of the game include in the MGA 3D SuperPack : http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1158&menustate=0 When I attempt to run the game in …

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Re: [Discussion][List] Games that can't be played on modern windows

Posted on 2023-06-05, 22:32

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Pretty much any 3D accelerated Classic Mac OS game. As far as I'm aware there are no emulators for Classic Mac OS that provide emulation of the hardware accelerated APIs used by Macs of the era. Also the many games that had ports to thus unemulated hardware accelerated renderers like vQuake for …

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-06-05, 16:42

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Just found the thread randomly because a GF4 or GF FX are beyond the focus I want to for my first system but as the future owner hp system with p3 800mhz cpu the statement that p3 800mhz is too slow for windows 98 is a bit discouraging. I though that for game from 1997 to 1999 800mhz would more …

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Re: [Discussion][List] Games that can't be played on modern windows

Posted on 2023-06-04, 20:49

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reserved

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[Discussion][List] Games that can't be played on modern windows

Posted on 2023-06-04, 20:49

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I wanted to probe a topic that is interesting to me - games that are currently in danger of being lost to time. We have many ways of playing old games still: Windows compatibility layer dosbox PCEM (86box others) Wrappers (dgvoodo2, nglide, wine D3D, ect) Virtualization Are there any games (however …

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-05-30, 01:05

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This thread made me wonder. Is there a good reason why people prefer using detonator 45.23? If I remember correctly nvidia increased the shader performance of FX cards in later driver versions. In reviews detonator 52.16 showed clear shader performance improvement over 4X.XX drivers in FX series …

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 19:35

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This thread made me wonder. Is there a good reason why people prefer using detonator 45.23? If I remember correctly nvidia increased the shader performance of FX cards in later driver versions. In reviews detonator 52.16 showed clear shader performance improvement over 4X.XX drivers in FX series …

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