Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on Today, 09:24

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Another good place to check for paletted texture support is Quake2. The skyboxes will show the difference mainly, so if you have 8-bit textures ENABLED and the sky still looks smooth (and not banded in visibly low amounts of colors), then paletted textures aren't working. :) The only RGB textures …

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on Today, 08:07

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My Vogons wiki credentials have just been approved, so I've created this page for games which use table fog, based on the findings from this thread: https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/List_of_games_with_Table_Fog_support Note: a separate page for games which use paletted textures already exists …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on Yesterday, 18:19

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Finished Max Payne. Combat really did get tedious in the last third of the game. Some of the more difficult encounters required way too many reloads for my taste. Basically, if I timed everything perfectly, Max would survive the fight without a single scratch. But if I'd miss even once, Max would …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on Yesterday, 04:28

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The difficulty gets annoying at some point, enemies get super senses and incredible accuracy. It gets to a point where the enemies behind a corner, who haven't noticed you yet, fire their weapons at the exact moment you start a shoot dodge behind the corner where they still cannot see you and hit …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-05-16, 11:13

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Continuing my Max Payne playthrough. The music in this game is subtle, but very fitting. The main menu theme is especially memorable, and I do recall it from way back when I first played this. Interestingly, the game appears to use some form of positional audio and has full 5.1 speaker support. For …

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Re: i7-3770K / Asus P8Z77-V Pro / GTX 960 / X-Fi / WinXP

Posted on 2022-05-16, 05:27

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Is there a way to play these games at a cap of 60fps, but have the monitor refresh faster or is that just not a thing on Windows XP given exclusive fullscreen reigns supreme? You mean like a frame limiter? I don't know of any that work under WinXP, but maybe someone else does. Personally, I just …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-05-15, 16:59

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Currently replaying the original Max Payne. I think I've only played it once, back when it first came out, and my PC at the time wasn't the greatest. Now, I'm running it fully maxed out (except for AA and AF) on my Athlon64 rig. I don't remember much about the game, aside from the Matrix-like slow …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-05-15, 10:43

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And if you don't already have one and can get a Venice for cheap, I'd definitely do that. I got some 3200+ Venice CPUs for cheap back in the day just so I know I have a small stash available just in case I ever need them 🙂 In my neck of the woods, hi-end socket 754 Athlon64 CPUs are not super …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-05-15, 09:09

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This is a nice build 🙂 I like the s754 and s939 platforms though I used WinXP on them exclusively, but this platform lends itself to some effective and flexible Win9x builds as well :) Cheers! I've come to appreciate Socket 754 a lot more after building this system, despite some of its quirks. You …

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Re: Spur of the moment build.

Posted on 2022-05-15, 06:22

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paradigital wrote on 2022-05-15, 06:17: It does, but that includes addressing GPU memory as well. What's your source on that? For the record, I have used a Win98 system with 512 MB RAM together with a 128 MB GeForce4 for years without any issues.

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Re: Spur of the moment build.

Posted on 2022-05-15, 06:00

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Alistar1776 wrote on 2022-05-15, 01:15: Maybe it could run Win95 OSR2.5? if so, maybe id use it for Win95 gaming. There is no advantage to using Win95 instead of Win98 on a fast system like that. You only get downsides like worse driver support and the inability to install DirectX 9.

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Re: Spur of the moment build.

Posted on 2022-05-15, 05:57

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paradigital wrote on 2022-05-15, 05:47: Your 512MB of RAM will be problematic with 9x without patching anyway. Windows 98SE supports up to 512 MB RAM natively. It only needs third-party patches if you go over that amount.

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Re: i7-3770K / Asus P8Z77-V Pro / GTX 960 / X-Fi / WinXP

Posted on 2022-05-14, 01:23

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With that said, I think the list is reasonably small of games that can't be pushed past 60Hz. I wouldn't be so sure. If you go to the PC gaming wiki and check the Video section of any game, there is usually a 120+ FPS note at the very bottom. You'll notice that even mainstream titles like Splinter …

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Re: Geforce 4 MX display problem on some games

Posted on 2022-05-13, 11:37

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If you have an AGP 8x model of the GeForce4 MX440, then you can't go below 40.71 drivers. That's the earliest version which officially supports the AGP 8x varieties of those cards. You may be able to manually force-install an earlier driver, but that might not always work correctly.

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Re: i7-3770K / Asus P8Z77-V Pro / GTX 960 / X-Fi / WinXP

Posted on 2022-05-13, 09:47

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CRT monitors are awesome, but there is one potential issue when running some WinXP games on them: high refresh rates. Usually, I like to set my 17" Samsung CRT monitor to either 800x600 @ 120 Hz or 1024x768 @ 100 Hz. This generally works fine for Win9x games, but it can be problematic for certain …

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Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s

Posted on 2022-05-12, 17:46

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I miss the simplicity of gaming in the mid to late 90s. You would go to a physical store, buy a game CD, put it on your PC (or PlayStation) and it would just work. No mandatory firmware updates, no enormous day 1 patches to download, no hiding half of the game's content behind season passes and no " …

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Re: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 VirgeDX / OPTi 82C930 / AWE64

Posted on 2022-05-11, 16:55

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This one works perfectly, allowing 800x600 with 24-bit colors. Not sure if there are any Win 3.11 programs that can actually use that color depth Paintbrush :) Heh, I hadn't thought of that! On the other hand, I do have some vague memories of using either an early version of ACDSee or some other …

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Re: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / OPTi 82C930 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155

Posted on 2022-05-11, 13:42

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I just moved my AWE64 Gold, my SC-155 and my CH Flightstick to this build after retiring the Celeron system where they previously resided. Those components are better suited to the DOS and early Win9x era of gaming, so they are definitively a better fit in this build. I've also made some adjustments …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-05-11, 08:36

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Looks good, but would've been nice, if you'd left the original image so we could spot the difference ;) It was... not pretty. :D Basically, I had all the unused PSU cables bunched together and zip tied to the top of the case. Now, they are (more or less) neatly tucked away and firmly secured to …

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Re: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / OPTi 82C930 / AWE64

Posted on 2022-05-11, 05:40

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This is a really cool build. It makes me want to swap the Voodoo3 out of my DOS build for my S3 Virge DX and Voodoo1 instead. Well, the Voodoo1 is definitively better for DOS Glide games, as well as some early Win9x titles like Pandemonium which don't work correctly on later 3DFX cards. You can see …

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