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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-08-01, 05:13

in Milliways

in Milliways

Finished Prey (2017) . Didn't impress me: I liked the graphics, apart from the human models, the level design and the atmosphere, but gameplay-wise I didn't enjoy it too much. I played on Hard, so it makes sense that it's difficult, but the enemies are too OP: they are bullet sponges, and that's a …

Re: NVIDIA 8-series and beyond + Windows XP + Unreal Engine 2 = judder?

Posted on 2023-07-30, 09:05

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Never tried the Creative EAX patch. I just downloaded it out of curiosity. First impressions are that it has slightly better positional audio, while also introducing some weird dynamic music thing. It seems like you get a musical cue whenever you frag someone. I remember reading about that dynamic …

Re: NVIDIA 8-series and beyond + Windows XP + Unreal Engine 2 = judder?

Posted on 2023-07-30, 08:22

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I just tried it on my i5 3570k + GTX 650Ti system, and I do seem to be experiencing some stuttering under WinXP while the game runs much smoother under Win7. Not sure if it's the same issue that you're describing, but I get some weird micro stutter under XP as if the game is constantly trying to …

Re: NVIDIA 8-series and beyond + Windows XP + Unreal Engine 2 = judder?

Posted on 2023-07-30, 04:59

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

you should check the polling rate in the mouse driver, if applicable. what mouse is this? maybe try a generic one on all machines/OS to eliminate driver differences as a possible factor, and use the same ut2004.ini and user.ini across all installations of course. i have to agree that the mentioned …

Re: NVIDIA 8-series and beyond + Windows XP + Unreal Engine 2 = judder?

Posted on 2023-07-29, 15:04

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

If there's no juddering without using a mouse, then the answer is obvious - you have polling rate mismatch . Increase polling rate on your mouse to 500-1000Hz. Considering the exact same mouse has no issue with the same system under Win7 or with a system that has 6800 GT, I find this unlikely? …

NVIDIA 8-series and beyond + Windows XP + Unreal Engine 2 = judder?

Posted on 2023-07-29, 08:30

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

As per usual during summer I lose interest on games I can't easily pick up, play for a moment and put aside again, so I got in my head to install a selection of "summer" games on my i5-3570 / GTX 960 WinXP/7 system which has very low heat output, which is nice when you live in an apartment that has …

Re: Building a Win 98/DOS Gaming Machine advice.

Posted on 2023-07-26, 16:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi folks I've recently had the urge to relive my childhood and build a Win98/DOS machine. I'm going for games like Raptor, lucas arts games, DOOM, Duke all the way up to Unreal and Half Life but before Deus Ex. I have a coppermine 866 cpu with a soltek sl-65kv2 motherboard . I've got Coppermine P3 …

Re: Remastering games, is it really worth it?

Posted on 2023-07-26, 09:00

in Milliways

in Milliways

I used to sing praises to remasters but then reality set in and I realised they are 99.99% of the time cash grabs with least amount of effort possible put into them. There are exceptions like Homeworld remasters but even those were supposed to be low effort "put something quickly together and throw …

Re: You might about to lose all your games bought from Ubisoft

Posted on 2023-07-25, 06:36

in Milliways

in Milliways

Sometimes, a music license may expire or some such, and they might be forced to alter an existing game to comply with that. Not sure if that ever happened on GOG, but I remember there being an uproar back when music was removed from some GTA games on Steam. Pretty sure GOG version of Mafia got hit …

Re: You might about to lose all your games bought from Ubisoft

Posted on 2023-07-25, 04:18

in Milliways

in Milliways

Hopefully GOG doesn't go over to the dark side, There I have a lot more to lose. Download the installers and keep them archived, preferably with backups. GOG is my favorite too and the only digital storefront I use but you have to be realistic. They've struggled to get any big sellers on their …

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2023-07-24, 07:27

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I suspect that this behaviour is a side-effect of the way that particular software processes the BLASTER environment variable, and the "solution" may be as simple as re-defining the environment variable to include a P component. I went ahead and did some more testing based on that and turns out the …

Re: Core 2 build

Posted on 2023-07-23, 15:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

NWN2 however, I'd be surprised if it's issues, if there are any, would be on the CPU. The engine isn't amazing and needs all the help it can get, both from GPU and CPU. Some of the settings are disproportionately heavy and require some serious grunt, but even with low resolution and lowest settings …

Re: Core 2 build

Posted on 2023-07-23, 14:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is it necessary though? A top Core2 at around 3.0-3.3GHz is plenty powerful for all of the XP era already. I wish I had tested Neverwinter Nights 2 with E8600 while I still had it installed, I honestly wouldn't be too surprised if it can't keep stable 60fps. That game seems to be the Crysis of …

Re: Ultimate Windows XP Build (Intel i7-3770k / GTX 980Ti / 24" Asus ProArt display / X-Fi Titanium)

Posted on 2023-07-22, 07:18

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I've tried a couple of different driver versions (including that one and some older ones) and wasn't able to get scaling working over HDMI under WinXP. The scaling subsection (pictured above) simply doesn't appear, and the driver sees the monitor as a HDTV. In contrast, with a DVI connection …

Re: Ultimate Windows XP Build (Intel i7-3770k / GTX 980Ti / 24" Asus ProArt display / X-Fi Titanium)

Posted on 2023-07-22, 06:21

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Alternatively, were you able to set the scaling to aspect ratio in the Nvidia drivers under WinXP? To clarify, I'm talking about this setting: I'm wondering about this because I don' like using VGA for 1920x1200 and 1600x1200 since it loses some sharpness. From what I've read you need to use NVIDIA …

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2023-07-21, 19:49

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

If you are using an Orpheus II, you need to be sure that no resources are assigned to the InterWave MPU-401 emulation. If you've installed it the way keropi suggests, this would be in IW.INI. I don't know if UNISOUND handles this aspect of the configuration; if that's what you're using to configure …

Re: Half Life 2 - Version differences?

Posted on 2023-07-21, 08:27

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

are HL2 differences so considerable that some versions are better (in gameplay terms) than others? Only difference I'm aware of is HDR lighting that got introduced to the engine at some point. The only problem with that is if you don't happen to like it and would like to play the game with it …

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2023-07-20, 17:41

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Would it be possible to disable the wavetable port through ORPHINIT? I recently got WP32 McCake for my Orpheus and happened to notice some games that used to work just fine had gone completely silent, but if I disable the wavetable port with P0 variable [...] yes it is possible to do this by …

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2023-07-20, 15:26

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Would it be possible to disable the wavetable port through ORPHINIT? I recently got WP32 McCake for my Orpheus and happened to notice some games that used to work just fine had gone completely silent, but if I disable the wavetable port with P0 variable with UNISOUND they start to work fine again. …

Re: Windows Xp / 7 CPU - Sanity Check

Posted on 2023-07-20, 06:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So from the above, that narrows it down to the i7-3970X. Which are only 60-100 bucks on ebay (a price I dont mind). Can someone tell me if the above reasoning is sound? If not, why and what your suggestion would be? Reasonability depends entirely on what games are you going to play and at what …

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