Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-06-27, 00:21
Lode Runner 3D? 😜 no idea, but i do love its use of webpage backgrounds as textures 🤣
Re: 23 video cards VS Quake3 Arena, UT99, UT2k4, Painkiller, Doom3, 3DMark 2000/2001/2003, enjoy!
Posted on 2016-06-26, 21:52
Note: UT's Vertical sync option is actually reversed. You have to turn it on to turn it off :) and maybe OA 0.8.8 could be used as a benchmark. Not really plugging, i'm suggesting it as it's even more unoptimized and dirtier than Q3A itself with memory-hungry high-poly vertex morphed MD3s, textures …
Re: Nvidia enthusiast key (DRM for three/four way sli)
Posted on 2016-06-26, 21:44
They've been in this "Creative" position for over 15 years now, from dominating the ARB board to arrogant marketing deals to physx lockdowns to CUDA wrapper threats, etc. it's not a surprise this would be the next move and frankly I still find modern card SLI to be a waste of money and power/ …
Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)
Posted on 2016-06-26, 01:12
Exhaustive list of MANTLE games: Battlefield 4
Re: The WindowsME Thread
Posted on 2016-06-26, 00:31
Oldskoolmaniac wrote: it was basically a re-badged windows 98 if only.......
Re: 23 video cards VS Quake3 Arena, UT99, UT2k4, Painkiller, Doom3, 3DMark 2000/2001/2003, enjoy!
Posted on 2016-06-26, 00:12
Geforce2 MX*
Re: Dell Dimension 4100 problems
Posted on 2016-06-25, 02:57
Re: Incredible how even fairly modern processors don't cut it
Posted on 2016-06-25, 00:26
yes according to tertz, because it can't quake in dosbox better and is certainly not the fault of dosbox and its odd max cycles behavior on the faster core processors 🙄
Re: Steam games on Windows 9X
Posted on 2016-06-24, 22:17
Some 9x compatible games do ship on Steam without the wrapper DRM. As for a list of these which actually can run on Win9x (or at least 98se+KernelEx) that's up to trial and error 😀 you could try sharing your steamapps folder to a win9x vm and try to execute everything as a pre-test.
Re: Did games go backwards after 3dfx died?
Posted on 2016-06-24, 22:14
I don't know about that. UT shipped with a disc full of 512x512's and 1024x1024's for s3 cards. Large textures were already on the horizon. Even 3dfx had their own texture compression format (FXT1) and very very very few games used it.
Re: Memory running at half speed?
Posted on 2016-06-24, 00:49
I always said that DDR was a big marketing scam that only serves to confuse people. CPUs and memory should be advertised at their actual clock rates. HDDs should also be advertised with their actual formatted capacities. None of this 1,000,000 bytes = 1MB bullshit, or how 1GB is defined as 1,000, …
Re: Did games go backwards after 3dfx died?
Posted on 2016-06-23, 22:00
MDK2's also very vividly colorful and uses OpenGL :) most of the color is biased towards shades of blue though, but it's 500% more colorful than its predecessor (which was sensible for the indexed palette anyway,) Also Bioware was developing Neverwinter Nights around MDK2's dev time and had very …
Re: Did games go backwards after 3dfx died?
Posted on 2016-06-23, 21:08
you clearly are new to id software games. EVERY one of their games has been a groundbreaking tech demo. Even the original Keen trilogy. Carmack was about pushing the PC towards the future to be competitive with specialized gaming consoles (which were definitely superior hardware at one point as far …
Re: Sam n Max - original Windows icon?
Posted on 2016-06-23, 20:56
It's entirely possible. A later Dark Forces demo release came with a unique 32x32 icon for example Here's a similar looking, more colorful, even earlier (1996) icon found in some old games icons zip archive which is likely the icon you're looking for EDIT: oh my god the 16-color version of the icon …
Re: Quake GOG trials
Posted on 2016-06-23, 20:55
Re: Did games go backwards after 3dfx died?
Posted on 2016-06-23, 02:32
Max Payne's photosourced texturing was a novel idea at the time though, and seems to look better than the painted freddieprinzejr payne they had before
Re: Retro Gaming PC (1998)
Posted on 2016-06-22, 23:26
Nopileus wrote: they just used few animation frames since the game was originally software rendered. it's more due to the fact that interpolation isn't thought of yet in the rushed development
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-06-22, 22:46
Re: Lesser known games I want to run.
Posted on 2016-06-22, 04:09
I82 is only lesser known because the fans try to forget that it ever existed. 😀 (that's a Direct3D game btw, and IIRC Directsound plays a part in its instability instead)
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-06-21, 20:50
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