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Re: Software rendering of modern games

Posted on 2013-10-06, 15:36

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You can use Swiftshader or Mesa3D to run the latest games in software on your CPU if you want to test. The latest GPUs are so much more powerful than modern CPUs for these operations that the latest games are unplayable on even an i7 in software. So yeah we'll definetly need a hell of a lot more …

Re: Mantle API

Posted on 2013-10-06, 14:50

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http://www.dsogaming.com/news/amd-aims-to-giv … the-bottleneck/ Guess we'll be seeing a newer version of DX sooner than we thought..... DirectX 12 and Windows 9 anyone?

Re: Archive.org for Software?

Posted on 2013-10-01, 22:54

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mr_bigmouth_502 wrote: I was introduced to emulation some time around 2002, while at my babysitter's house (what? I was like 8 or 9 at the time 🤣). I thought the idea of being able to play SNES games on a PC was rather neat. 😁 It was even more amazing in 1996/7 on a 486. ZSNES ftw.

Re: Interesting links

Posted on 2013-09-29, 10:44

NonMess http://nonmess.retrogames.com/ It's quite simple, really. This site endeavors to capture the best emulator for any given system including MESS itself. Lots of research with developers, discussions with the user community, and countless hours of testing have gone into making this site what it …

Re: Mantle API

Posted on 2013-09-26, 21:24

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Let's just hope the games that use this API are mandated to have OGL/D3D as a fallback and that the fallback has enough performance to play the game properly. I'd hate to buy a game that was Mantle only and then when Mantle is enevitably left by the wayside we have a game that is even more broken …

Re: Interesting links

Posted on 2013-09-21, 22:09

http://rayer.g6.cz/programm/programe.htm SERREN.EXE ver. 1.0 [56 kB] (CWSDPMI not needed - includes CWSDSTUB) - a small utility for enabling the PCI SERR# to CPU NMI routing via proper setting of intel ICHx chipset. On some motherboards / BIOSses this routing is disabled. This cause malfunction of …

Re: Making backups of SafeDisc protected CD's

Posted on 2013-09-19, 21:19

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I used to backup CD images to preserve copy protection on my games but it got really really old keeping up with all the different methods....and when a new OS comes out and the copy protection breaks because the copy protection drivers never got updated (or took forever to get updated) I just said …

Re: how enable ems in dos\win 98 + sb issues

Posted on 2013-09-13, 00:19

in DOS
DOSBox can run on all Windows versions starting with Windows 95 and can be alot better than running the games on a DOS machine. As far as running games in NTVDM on WIndows 7 32bit and why you received the fullscreen error it's because WDDM video drivers do not support this capability anymore. To use …

Re: CD or DVD for backup (or botth)

Posted on 2013-09-02, 10:39

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If you insist on using CD/DVD for backup make sure you are using PAR2 (or similar) http://digitalcave.ca/resources/computer/dvd-backup.jsp. Currently I use the ZFS filesystem on a RAIDZ2 volume so files are as protected as possible while online on my home server. Backups are less protected and not …

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