Re: HALF-LIFE

Posted on 2014-04-05, 22:13

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by leileilol

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What are "overbrights", please? Doubled lightmap sampling which causes light samples above full bright to appear much brighter. This can give out more volumnous appearances of light. This feature goes back to Quake v1.00 starting July 1996. It wasn't implemented in GLQuake (clamped) and Quake2's GL …

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Re: 1.4ghz p3 or 1.8ghz p4 for win 98

Posted on 2014-04-05, 00:20

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by leileilol

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But what about a single Voodoo2 in a P4? Will that risk a fry without additional cooling?

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Re: Are casual games dead?

Posted on 2014-04-05, 00:01

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by leileilol

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They're on steam too, unfortunately the followers of a certain cynical brit are calling for censorship of them to reduce available consumer choices because it's not a shooter.

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Re: Are casual games dead?

Posted on 2014-04-03, 05:01

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by leileilol

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Maybe on the desktop PC, but they're rife on the mobile devices by a freakingly embarrassingly large margin.

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Re: Arx Fatalis and Libertatis

Posted on 2014-04-03, 01:26

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by leileilol

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I wanted to do a media project once years ago, but there's no Free pipelines to the Arx engine.

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Re: Identify VGA card

Posted on 2014-04-03, 00:21

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by leileilol

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Yeah but I can't think of a 486 PCI board that has no onboard serial ports and has a PCI slot at the very bottom.

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Re: Q3V - a Q3A hack-up, just for Vogons!

Posted on 2014-04-02, 22:35

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by leileilol

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It's not Punkbuster protected. P.S. This renderer is slow ... P4 3.2 GHz + Voodoo2 12 MB. And what ICD are you using? I'd imagine those "fast" Mesa3D-based ones might not implement paletted textures... remember to enable paletted, r_textureBits 8 and r_ext_paletted_texture 1. If paletted texture …

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Re: HALF-LIFE

Posted on 2014-04-02, 11:23

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by leileilol

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: So if I have a high resolution monitor, the better option would be a Geforce at 1600 x 1200 with OpenGL? Direct3D for overbrights. HL's OpenGL support clamps that for legacy compatibility.

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Re: DX7/8 Setups

Posted on 2014-04-02, 11:20

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by leileilol

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What about Kyro II 64MB AGP? That's as good as a DX6 card and has excellent ordered dithering for the 16bpp-only games.

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Re: DX7/8 Setups

Posted on 2014-04-02, 04:55

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by leileilol

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For DX7 there's the Geforce4 MX 4000. Think of it as a Geforce2 Ultra Ultra.

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Re: measuring the passage of time

Posted on 2014-04-01, 01:36

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by leileilol

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Pop culture is common to measure by. When I had a 486 it was FRIGGIN DINOSAURS EVERYWEHRE YOU LOOK. Sometimes it's also the whirr of specific hard drives and cd-rom drives that can set the stage. My 486 had Mitsumi and Conner....

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Re: Dosbox, CRT 17", 320x200... please.

Posted on 2014-03-31, 23:29

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by leileilol

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Try scaler=normal2x. Because, with real VGA, all 320x200 games are technically 640x400 anyway (doublescan).

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Re: A ykhwong build's font question

Posted on 2014-03-31, 23:26

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by leileilol

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char9=true aspect=true

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Re: HALF-LIFE

Posted on 2014-03-31, 23:19

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by leileilol

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d1stortion wrote: Also MiniGL crashes when the resolution is set to >1024x768. Understandably, since that particularly MiniGL driver was specifically designed for Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo2. Later Banshee drivers don't have to use it 😀

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Re: FX5200 vs 9800

Posted on 2014-03-31, 23:11

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by leileilol

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Yeah - what was I specifically referencing was what the game calls "Trails" in its settings Trails did exist on the PC GTAIII however. I'd imagine DMA would take it out for GTAVC just because how crappy it looked. Rather noticably crappy if your game prefers a locked FPS... Also GTAVC did some …

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Re: Toggling multiple images on a laptop

Posted on 2014-03-31, 10:28

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by leileilol

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CTRL FN F4?

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Re: FX5200 vs 9800

Posted on 2014-03-31, 07:26

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by leileilol

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obobskivich wrote: How is it doing bloom and other effects then? (Or do those not exist on the PC version (*** I have never seen that game on PC ***)). A lot of the 'bloom' are just nicely placed flare sprites with some depth reading. Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed did similar things.

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Re: FX5200 vs 9800

Posted on 2014-03-31, 06:18

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by leileilol

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Vice City used no pixel shaders at all. It's purely DX7 features at best, though it technically looks more like a DX5 game (its data is mostly 8-bit paletted textures......that get converted to 24/32-bit DXTs on the first run). Also the fanciest thing UT2004 could do are specific multitexture …

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Re: ISOLATION

Posted on 2014-03-31, 00:51

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by leileilol

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I absolutely dig the DOF and chromatic shader effects they pulled.

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Re: All your Windows 7 are belong to us.

Posted on 2014-03-31, 00:33

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by leileilol

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Indeed. I haven't seen a spam post on my board since I cared to install a particularly powerful captcha a few years ago.

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