Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 08:57

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And don't get me started on the introduction of set items, where a set is nearly impossible to complete in a regular single-player game! This is something we can agree on as a single player myself, the integration of battle.net and the seemingly multiplayer-oriented design has always led me just …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 07:31

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Diablo II rant incoming. I'm a simple guy, I just want to wear the heaviest armor and beat things with a sword. This means I've always went with a melee fighter types in RPG/ARPG's, ranged/wizardy types just don't do it for me. And I find this a bit of a problem in Diablo II. "Ranged, sir? Come in, …

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Re: Is it really my nostalgia or are you playing it wrong…

Posted on 2024-04-19, 05:54

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Same goes for games which use some weird graphical effects that flicker all over the place, or have terrible chromatic aberration and motion blur implementations that can't be turned off. Yeah, now that you mentioned those I'll also add blurry AA to my crap list but this thankfully didn't become a …

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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-18, 19:21

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Get well soon! Maybe play the original Deus Ex, so you show a virus who's the boss (-: Thanks! Can't really play something like Deus Ex though, I've been saving it for the right time to revisit again and my current half comatose state isn't quite it. I've settled with drinking lots of coffee and …

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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-18, 19:03

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Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-04-18, 18:52: I should have been more clear. Well, I'm on day 9 of covid mk2 and the brain fog is getting very real, so maybe it's less you and more me 🥴

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Re: Is it my really my nostalgia or are you playing it wrong…

Posted on 2024-04-18, 18:51

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You'd likely have similar situations with anyone starting with earlier games in any genre. Imagine someone who grew up in the post-Doom or post-Quake era of first person shooters going back and playing Wolfenstein 3D for the first time. They probably wouldn't like it much either. This definitely …

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Re: Is it my really my nostalgia or are you playing it wrong…

Posted on 2024-04-18, 14:16

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This game was (and if played correctly perhaps still can be) an incredible adrenaline rush. So the question is – quite presumptuous - how do you play a game the right way? There is no objective right way, just your own subjective way colored by your own preferences. There's a long list of games I …

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Re: Is the core 2 extreme qx 6700 considered a collectable/rare cpu?

Posted on 2024-04-18, 12:07

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I wonder how far the Q9550 would have gotten me compared to the 2500K. :) I jumped from Q9550 to Haswell Xeon E3-1230 v3 in 2014 which I'm still using as my main rig. I feel like I could have stayed with Q9550 far longer and been mostly fine, only recently opening multiple tabs at the same time in …

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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-18, 08:04

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I love DOSBOX and I'm not suggesting that they rewrite anything that would otherwise work fine in DOSBOX. I just mean that those games wouldn't require much work from GOG, who I don't think spends much time on getting old games to work anymore. I think quality control is mainly up to the rights …

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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-18, 06:34

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Does GOG do much work on old games these days? I find myself using GOG less and less because they have moved away from the Good Old Games days. I might be mistaken, but it seems to me like most of the recently added old games just use DOSBOX, which wouldn't require any work on GOG's end. Years ago …

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Re: Descent 3 source released under MIT

Posted on 2024-04-17, 05:44

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Back in 2002 Volition released the source code for FreeSpace 2 engine after getting bought by THQ and the FreeSpace license was left with Interplay, the source code project that jumped on it initially left MVE support out and just offered re-encoded movie files in ogg format for download. No idea …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-14, 10:59

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After finding the last Star Map, I went back to Yavin to buy the unique lightsaber crystals from the merchant. They cost a pretty penny, but are well worth it. And with that, I'm all set for the final stretch. I remember that merchant giving a sizeble discount for everything if you beat him ten …

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Re: Outrageous Installers

Posted on 2024-04-13, 17:26

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C&C: Red Alert 2 is my favorite It sets up the story and shows some of the units of the game all the while playing good music. It behaves like you are accessing some top secred military information and gives you 30 seconds to input your CD-key, I don't actually know what happens if you take longer …

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Re: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi

Posted on 2024-04-06, 06:42

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Do you know if this includes multi-threaded CPUs (e.g. Pentium 4 w/ hyperthreading) or just multiple physical cores? No idea whatsoever, but my guess is games don't care are there two or more physical cores or one physical and one extra thread via hyperthreading. If the game doesn't like more than …

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Re: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi

Posted on 2024-04-06, 04:53

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That Vertex Buffer Objects issue is very wide spread, I think the GOG versions disable it from the box. Though this might be the first time I've heard it causing crashing, it's usually known from utterly tanking the framerate on the second planet you go. I ran into that like a decade ago myself, no …

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Re: AMD 64 3400+ vs P4 3.6/3.8

Posted on 2024-04-05, 13:37

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Just curious, are you guys targeting a particular service pack or are you patching up to SP3 once you complete your builds? Then I picked up this MSDN XP install disk w/ SP3 rolled into the installer around 2009. That distribution seems to make all of the Sata and partition offset issues go away & …

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Re: AMD 64 3400+ vs P4 3.6/3.8

Posted on 2024-04-05, 09:39

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However, I've got two questions: Would WinXP install without issues in that kind of "modern" system or would it require some special drivers? I've seen a couple of videos that show some issues with WinXP games and modern cards with more than 1GB of VRAM. Is that something to worry about? Two things …

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Re: AMD 64 3400+ vs P4 3.6/3.8

Posted on 2024-04-05, 07:43

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And what CPU would you recommend to pair it with? I'm thinking either an E8700 or a Q9650 (ideally a QX9770 but they're heck of expensive), though I'm open to suggestions. Apparently WinXP scales better with 2 faster cores than 4. However, having the Quad-core would allow me to have a dual boot …

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Re: AMD 64 3400+ vs P4 3.6/3.8

Posted on 2024-04-05, 05:15

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I also have a 9800GTX+ PCIe here. Would that make a difference? EDIT: I didn't mention this card because I was planning to maybe build some sort of Dual/Quad core build of 2008-2009 with it. Maybe that would be better instead of using the AMD64 or P4's I found, I honestly don't know. Using 9800 GTX …

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Re: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi

Posted on 2024-04-03, 20:10

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Creative ALchemy can restore EAX under Win7, making Splinter Cell 1 and 2 quite playable on this rig. ALchemy actually works well? Still haven't tried it and I've been sceptical just how comparative it is to the real thing. After unsuccessfully trying a bunch of driver tweaks, I came upon this post …

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