After trying many different combinations of things, I finally figured out what the issue was. When installing Win98, I didn't tick the box with "Communications" components. Renegade crashes without them. 🤦‍♂️ The components can be easily installed via Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel.

I tried installing NUSB and Daemon Tools in a PCEm VM, where the game ran and either didn't affect it. Vortex and GeForce drivers refused to install without the hardware, so I couldn't test those. However, one possible culprit could be that the VM has Win98 with the default US codepage installed and …

No, it's plain Win98SE English. Besides the drivers and DirectX, the only extra system component I can think of is the USB drive support nusb36e and Daemon Tools 3.47.

Just tried the multiplayer demo and got the same error, unfortunately.

I can't get Command & Conquer: Renegade to run on my retro PC no matter what. Nearly 100 games I threw at this system all worked (eventually), except this one and I can't find any relevant info either on Vogons, PCGW or anywhere else. Here are my PC specs: PIII 1GHz (Coppermine 133MHz FSB), 256MB …

After obtaining and installing a 1GHz PIII (SL52R), I can happily report that the performance has noticeably improved! NOLF went from 23 to 33 FPS, 3Dmark2000 from 5106 to 7433 and 3Dmark CPU from 349 to 507. Not bad at all, a 45% speed increase. Still, NOLF seems to be extremely CPU hungry for a …

Alright then, I guess it's worth a shot. 😀 100MHz versions seem to be very rare, while I easily found a 1GHZ/133MHz Pentium 3 for 5 euros.

Thanks everyone for your ideas and for confirming it's the CPU. I thought 950MHz Celeron would be plenty enough, given the optimistic hardware requirements in the game's manual. I'll post how a proper PIII improves the performance, if I manage to get one with a 100MHz FSB. I'm a bit concerned that …

That looks OK. You can probably gain a few hundred points with some fine tuning/tigher memory timings, but the improvement will only be measurable in the benchmark itself, it certainly won't make a difference for NOLF. So, the most likely explanation is that the NOLF system requirements are just …

Here are the results from 3DMark2000 at default settings - 1024x768x16, hardware T&L: 5106 3D marks 349 CPU 3D marks

Just tried 30.82 from Phil's website, same results unfortunately. I also installed RivaTuner to verify what AGP transfer rate it's using and it says 2x. Fast writes were disabled and couldn't be enabled, though. It could very well be the Celeron, but I have no way of verifying that, without getting …

agent_x007 wrote on 2023-03-22, 08:58: I'm sorry, I meant if you tried any others than listed one. Yeah, but with no effect. Any recommended versions I should try?

agent_x007 wrote on 2023-03-22, 08:40: Driver version ? Which driver? There are versions of all the drivers I installed in the OP. Installing i440BX drivers had no effect, so I left that out.

Hi, long time lurker here. I've got this weird performance issue, that's been bugging me recently. I wanted to play some NOLF on my PIII PC and it was pretty slow on a Voodoo 3 3000, so I bought a GeForce4 Ti4200, but the framerates barely improved. 🤔 What could be the issue here? The full specs of …