Re: UT2004 stutter

Posted on 2014-04-04, 17:27

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by F2bnp

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It sucks when you catch onto these kinds of things that others fail to notice. My brother has motion sickness from early FPS shooters for example, so he can't stand playing or even watching somebody playing Doom or Quake 1 for more than half an hour or so. I, on the other hand, can't stand noise or …

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Re: UT2004 stutter

Posted on 2014-04-04, 14:23

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Okay, I gave this a try on two servers. I first tried Instant Action on a small, 1v1 map, to get accustomed to the "offline" speed and overall performance. Then, the first server was also using a small map, about 6 people were online, including me. What I did notice was a slower pace to everything. …

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Re: UT2004 stutter

Posted on 2014-04-04, 10:02

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by F2bnp

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Alright, will do.

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Re: UT2004 stutter

Posted on 2014-04-04, 00:32

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by F2bnp

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Yes, I do. I've been a UT fan since the first one 😊 . Want me to give it a try? Problem is, my main monitor only supports 60Hz. I've got another PC with a 75Hz monitor and a 8800GTS 512 that I could try though.

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Re: UT2004 stutter

Posted on 2014-04-03, 23:31

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by F2bnp

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How about V-Sync + Triple Buffering? Maybe this is a GPU driver issue? On what system are you playing exactly?

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Re: Arx Fatalis and Libertatis

Posted on 2014-04-03, 18:26

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by F2bnp

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I've been meaning to play this game forever! Perhaps it's time to do so. You reckon Arx Libertatis is the way to go? It usually runs much better than the original game engine. You do lose out on the curious "bump mapping" though because the Libertatis crew removed that, but it doesn't really look …

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Re: What happened to Firewire tech?

Posted on 2014-04-03, 17:15

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Like others said, Firewire was mostly prominent in video cameras and such. I think it is worthwhile to note that e-SATA also managed to "steal" some potentials users away. Not that e-SATA was really successful. This is all starting to become a moot point as USB 3.0 is becoming all the more …

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Re: Yamaha Rendering Polygon Accelerator (YGV611 & YGV612)

Posted on 2014-04-03, 14:24

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by F2bnp

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Cool stuff! Were these released in 1995? Surprising that they did Texture Mapping!

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Re: VBEHz

Posted on 2014-04-03, 14:19

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by F2bnp

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Alright man, cool!

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Re: VBEHz

Posted on 2014-04-03, 13:27

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by F2bnp

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Ok, running under Windows doesn't work, but can you perhaps load it during boot? Or would that require you to load EMM386, which you do not desire?

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Re: Best LCD for DOS games running on old hardware

Posted on 2014-04-03, 13:23

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by F2bnp

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I will definitely look into buying one of those, thanks Mau1! Heck, it's only 80 Euros for the Phillips one here in Greece and it's always great to have a spare monitor.

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Re: Arx Fatalis and Libertatis

Posted on 2014-04-03, 07:56

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I've been meaning to play this game forever! Perhaps it's time to do so. You reckon Arx Libertatis is the way to go?

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Re: Voodoo5 issue, hi-res+Glide/UE1 only

Posted on 2014-04-02, 13:47

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Wish I still had a Voodoo5 🙁

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

Posted on 2014-04-02, 10:41

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The engine will instantly crash for me with a gray/white screen on a Pentium 3 with an Obsidian2 200sbi and win98se. I have already tried placing official 3dfx icds on rhe game's directory without results. Can this be because of using non-reference, custom drivers for the sli card? Try switching …

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

Posted on 2014-04-02, 00:58

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Pleased to announce that this does indeed work on my Voodoo 3 3000 with 3Dfx's OpenGL ICD. It also does indeed give a slight performance boost 😀. Cool stuff leilei, keep it coming!

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Re: Best LCD for DOS games running on old hardware

Posted on 2014-04-01, 21:14

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by F2bnp

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So, what's the problem with 1280x1024 exactly? Does it stretch the image?

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Re: ISOLATION

Posted on 2014-04-01, 21:07

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Damn, this does look breathtaking. I absolutely adore Alien. I admit though, I haven't watched the sequel, but somehow the concept isn't all that appealing. The first one is an amazing movie!

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Re: measuring the passage of time

Posted on 2014-04-01, 01:27

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by F2bnp

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Sure, I do that a lot. It's pretty normal, people associate different locations and moments with certain faces, patterns or objects.

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Re: RAMBUS

Posted on 2014-03-30, 22:35

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Back in the late 90's - early 2000's a friend and I made a constant slew of jokes about the legal firm of RAMBUS, RAMBUS, & RAMBUS. The fun just never stopped with them. We actually worked with a guy who was called in for a deposition on the matter of their onslaught of lawsuits. He was a PC BIOS …

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Re: Games / period when gamers switched from Voodoo to ATI/Nvidia

Posted on 2014-03-30, 11:37

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by F2bnp

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Another game that comes to mind is Max Payne. While somewhat playable on a Voodoo 3, the comic book style cutscenes look horrible due to the low res texture support on these cards. It looks as it is supposed to on V4/V5 and it runs quite a bit better.

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