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Re: Will there ever be a practical WindowsBox program?

Posted on 2013-11-01, 12:22

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The SVN build is the vanilla build. It's just the lastest version. Integrating Wine with DOSBox to support Windows games doesn't fit with DOS box goals. While we are on the crazy pills It would be nice to have internal DX11.2 and WIndows 8.1 support in DOSBox. It isn't going to happen any time soon …

Re: Nvidia "G-Sync" announced

Posted on 2013-10-31, 20:59

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Hmmm...so mabye in 2 years I can buy a decent 2560x1600 res monitor with G-Sync that a single GPU can power @ close to 60fps. Purchased a Geforce 780 yesterday so I should be good until then at the same ol' 1920x1200 I''ve been gaming at since 2007. But supposedly you can mod a current monitor with …

Re: Windows 98 vmware

Posted on 2013-10-20, 14:47

Swiftshader (D3D 8+) and Mes3D (OpenGL) are API wrappers. They do not use your GPU but your processor instead so they are alot slower. I want to say the latest version of swiftshader should still work on 9x. Mesa3D dropped 9x & NT4 support with Mesa3D v6.5.

Re: List the PC games that you have beaten

Posted on 2013-10-20, 10:56

in Milliways
Yeah I'm with you there. Looking at my hardware I remembered that this is actually a 6950 with the shaders unlocked and the clock speed increased (so pretty much a 6970). I'm sure I probably got it for about $300 so $100 per year isn't too bad. Whereas it looks like the 290x might be around $600 …

Re: List the PC games that you have beaten

Posted on 2013-10-19, 23:05

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Crysis 3 Took 9 hours to finish. Play on max settings @ 1920x1200 (except for one setting which was set to high due to an AMD bug). Game was very playable on my old AMD 6970 video card. I didn't use any AA so it was probably around the 30fps mark but I never noticed any slowdowns.....unlike Metro …

Re: PC Game Compatibility List

Posted on 2013-10-14, 11:17

Haven't worked on this since after returning from my deployment I've been redoing my home server and I have a new job! Upgraded storage on my FreeNAS server from 24TB (18TB usable) to 36 TB (28tb usable) Restored all data from Synology 1512+ NAS and 2 bay NAS Installed Plex on my FreeNAS server and …

Re: Software rendering of modern games

Posted on 2013-10-07, 20:57

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Last time I tested swiftshader extensively was a couple of years ago and I tested Windows 8 WARP10 much more recently. I also tested mostly in a VM....since I was testing D3D games on NT4. heh. WARP10 seemed alot faster to me but I don't have benchmarks handy. It's possible the swiftshader FAQ was …

Re: SimCity classic on windows 8 64 bit

Posted on 2013-10-06, 21:07

in Windows
The closest to an emulator for Windows 3.x is WINE....which currently only runs on linux/OSX. Even then it's a moving target so things always break and their focus is alway on what people are running on it and not very many are 3.x programs.

Re: Software rendering of modern games

Posted on 2013-10-06, 21:02

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Yeah keep forgetting about WARP. If you want to try that then on Windows 8 you'll need to disable your video card then any D3D game will be software rendered. It's very slow but faster than swiftshader. None of the newer games will be playable however. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20081126/ …

Re: Software rendering of modern games

Posted on 2013-10-06, 18:15

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Yeah I'm interested to see what the AMD performance will look like with the new APU next year if only for when I buy a new laptop. :D http://www.anandtech.com/show/7106/amds-a105750m-review-part-1-the-apu-and-radeon-hd-8650g-performance/3 I can't imagine the new chip being a drastically significant …

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