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Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance

Posted on 2015-05-31, 12:56

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Even with classic shell, the UI still LOOKS awful. The window title bars are horrid. Worse than XP or even 9X There's uxtheme patchers for Win8. It'll take you all of five minutes to replace those title bars with something else. I consider it a necessity in XP and 7 as the default themes there are …

Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance

Posted on 2015-05-30, 17:48

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I'm glad that MS is optimizing their operating systems nowadays. Upgrade frequency has certainly slowed since 2008 or so. Still, XP is not the rage-inducing experience that Win8/8.1 is. The code may be optimized, but its UI is certainly not. Vista and Win7 are pretty bad too, but can be made …

Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2015-05-30, 17:43

Pro Pinball games mostly work fine. They sometimes minimize and you have to manually restore them when loading the table though. Big Race USA has some performance issues if you max out both resolution and colors. Still runs at above 50 FPS, but sound runs into issues. Reducing the color setting or …

Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance

Posted on 2015-05-30, 11:37

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Windows 7 more difficult than 8? Pfft I have found the reverse to be true 10 times over. I think you failed a bit on reading comprehension there. Then what are you saying other than you would install Windows 8 instead of 7 because "I'm not really into making my main computer more difficult to use …

Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2015-05-30, 08:44

Twisted Metal works, FVMs don't (works with DXWnd, fails with DXGL). Some menu rendering glitches. Some menu glitches that are probably unrelated to dgVoodoo2 (times out and goes into attract mode too soon , better press start game within a second). CPU speed/timer related? If you try to use CPU …

Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance

Posted on 2015-05-28, 15:14

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One reason for opting for Win7 over Win8 is if you have a low end GPU. Win8 has some lost backwards compatibility that's mostly restored using DXGL (requires OpenGL 2.0) and dgVooodoo2 (requires DirectX 11). On anything modern I would install Win8 of course and if I had need of legacy software that …

Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2015-05-28, 15:10

Outlive actually has a demo. It's not important (mediocre game that works perfectly natively anyway), but it's probably only a simple check you're missing: http://www.fileplanet.com/56536/download/Outlive-Demo This games uses OLE32 to create a DDraw object (CoCreateInstance) so it's incompatible …

Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance

Posted on 2015-05-28, 07:37

in Milliways
One reason for opting for Win7 over Win8 is if you have a low end GPU. Win8 has some lost backwards compatibility that's mostly restored using DXGL (requires OpenGL 2.0) and dgVooodoo2 (requires DirectX 11). On anything modern I would install Win8 of course and if I had need of legacy software that …

Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2015-05-26, 19:21

BuckoA51 wrote: Tried Desperados with fast memory access option turned on, still has serious performance issues when you turn on the enemy vision indicators (the telescope like icon in the bottom right). Is v-sync off (both in drivers and dgVoodoo2)?

Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2015-05-24, 22:45

Two games I'm not sure if are DX7 or not (they ship with DX8): Breath of Fire IV has text issues, random squares behind the text and lines after it. Annoying, but playable. Does not work at all natively (DXGL, WineD3D, DXWnd and D3DWindower also all fail), so can't tell if font rendering issues are …

Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2015-05-24, 16:14

Mr. Driller was fixed in 2.41 apparently, I know it didn't used to work in fullscreen mode, but I tried playing it again today and it works now. Edit: Outlive (mediocre StarCraft clone) reports incorrect version of DirectX (tech notes for the game says it uses DX7). Works natively and with DXGL

Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2015-05-24, 00:28

If you can get your hands on it (but seeing as you got Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, I'm guessing you have no problems tracking down obscure games), Shadow Watch has some text rendering issues. Works natively. Bilinear blit stretch and antialiasing are both off.

Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance

Posted on 2015-05-23, 17:14

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ratfink wrote: if you need your computer regularly but not continually, and you want it ready asap, you appreciate short boot times. i do, in many scenarios at home and work. That's what sleep mode is for.

Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance

Posted on 2015-05-23, 13:33

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I run updates in background on new computers and schedule them to run when I'm not using the computer on older hardware. In terms of performance, install times, bootup times and update times doesn't really matter to me. How fast the computer does things I tell it to when I'm actually using it does. …

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