Re: Why do certain framerate limiters malfunction after 3 days 1 hour system uptime?

Posted on 2020-06-11, 20:46

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by UCyborg

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You forgot something: Copy code to clipboard 1 DWORD WINAPI timeGetTime_Replacement() 2 { 3 if (!timeInitialized) 4 { 5 timeZero = timeGetTime_OLD(); 6 timeInitialized = true; 7 } 8 return timeGetTime_OLD() - timeZero; 9 }

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Re: Transferring data from Android to Windows XP

Posted on 2020-06-08, 19:32

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by UCyborg

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Install Windows Media Player 11 first, which has the required prerequisites for MTP support. If the phone still isn't auto-detected as media device, employing the trick outlined here may help.

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Re: Transferring data from Android to Windows XP

Posted on 2020-06-07, 19:26

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by UCyborg

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Newer Android versions don't expose the USB Mass Storage mode. If the phone is rooted and its kernel supports USB Gadget, USB MASS STORAGE Enabler may be used. It's not possible to access internal storage this way, only external SD card. MTP mode is commonly available on today's Android phones. You …

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Re: Why do certain framerate limiters malfunction after 3 days 1 hour system uptime?

Posted on 2020-06-07, 09:14

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by UCyborg

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DracoNihil wrote on 2020-06-02, 16:58: Wine doesn't seem to want to make use of "stub DLL's" either.) You have to set DLL load order for DLL in question to native,builtin. Also, settings on the Libraries tab apply to whatever is selected on the Applications tab.

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Re: Vmware DX11 support

Posted on 2020-05-24, 08:07

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by UCyborg

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in PC Emulation

if anyone is bored: vista 32bit + dgvoodoo2 :) On VMware? Any surprises when you try that? It's been a while, but at some point, VMware Tools update broke OpenGL on VMware on Windows Vista because the DLL implementing OpenGL started depending on a function that only exists in Windows 7+. Unless …

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Re: Favourite 1996 games?

Posted on 2020-05-23, 09:16

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by UCyborg

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in Windows

Yup, one can always find things that could be done better, sometimes significantly better. I still find it crazy how software in general manages to work as well it does, so much stuff to write before anything interesting happens and things to look out for. I've spent some time patching some of my …

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Re: Favourite 1996 games?

Posted on 2020-05-22, 21:50

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by UCyborg

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in Windows

I downloaded Mafia II Definitive Edition and holy crap, it's several times the size of the original, 64-bit, uses (slower) D3D11 renderer instead of D3D9 one, loading times are longer, physics effects are a bit glitchy, stutters a bit, even on consoles, positional audio seems inaccurate in places, …

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Re: Doom95 under Windows 10

Posted on 2020-05-17, 18:02

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by UCyborg

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in Windows

I just tried Doom95 (the version with "Sky never changes in Doom II" bug) on Windows 10 1909. I used DxWnd , mouse patch and demo recording patch . It worked OK. It's interesting that game's own windowed mode didn't work. I could also connect two machines on LAN for multiplayer for which I used …

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Re: The Need for Speed Special Edition for Windows doesn't work

Posted on 2020-05-16, 20:49

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by UCyborg

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There are plenty of games out there with unofficial patches that were developed without access to the source code.

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Re: The Need for Speed Special Edition for Windows doesn't work

Posted on 2020-05-16, 11:06

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by UCyborg

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in Windows

DirectPlay is not an issue. If on Windows 8 or later, install DirectPlay first from Control Panel->Programs and Features->Turn Windows features on and off. Duplicate dplayx.dll in Windows\SysWOW64 (or System32 if it's 32-bit OS) and name it dplay.dll, alternatively, you can make a hard link to the …

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Re: The Need for Speed Special Edition for Windows doesn't work

Posted on 2020-05-15, 18:57

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by UCyborg

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in Windows

Yeah, there's no guarantee that this procedure will work.

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Re: D3D12 backend for dgVoodoo (report specific problems here)

Posted on 2020-05-13, 17:20

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by UCyborg

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Generally speaking, can you still run via D3D12 without utilizing all new features? Asking because D3D12 doesn't show for me (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti), but supposed minimum requirement for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019 D3D12 exclusive game) is a GTX 670 (a GPU from 2012).

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Re: The Need for Speed Special Edition for Windows doesn't work

Posted on 2020-05-12, 18:04

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by UCyborg

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Someone was apparently lucky getting it running on his Windows 7 x64 machine (source: DxWnd's NFS:SE profile notes).

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Re: The Need for Speed Special Edition for Windows doesn't work

Posted on 2020-05-10, 18:30

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by UCyborg

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in Windows

It crashes because devs tried to be smart with multi-threading, but failed to synchronize them properly. That's the first issue I see, there ought to be many more considering it's an old EA game and slightly newer NFS games are also bugged to oblivion without unofficial patches.

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Re: Problematic Windows games list

Posted on 2020-05-10, 05:36

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by UCyborg

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in Windows

HunterZ wrote on 2020-05-09, 19:03: Moved Interstate '76 discussion to UCyborg's thread to keep it all in one place. Thanks everyone. You moved some unrelated discussion there for the game Incoming.

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Re: Problematic Windows games list

Posted on 2020-05-09, 16:31

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by UCyborg

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I managed to fix/workaround a bunch of bugs in Interstate '76 and published a patch for it. Made a topic here.

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Re: A3d Alchemy Not Working in Windows 10

Posted on 2020-05-09, 12:29

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by UCyborg

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There's an alternative a3d.dll floating around the net you can use instead of the one that comes with A3D-Live, A3Dx5, supposedly developed by Creative. The latest version I found (80.0.0.5) is included with older unofficial patches for Interstate '76 Nitro Pack because it solves a critical sound …

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Re: NFS High Stakes D3D6 mode

Posted on 2020-04-29, 19:57

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by UCyborg

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From the modern patch's readme, changes to DX6 renderer are minimal. When it comes to visuals, it says fog support is restored and dithering is disabled by default for 16-bit modes, which would get you faithful 16-bit look without tricks to try improve the quality given the limitation of available …

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Re: What sound card do you use on your modern PC ?

Posted on 2020-04-29, 19:07

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by UCyborg

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The thought about getting a dedicated sound card did cross my mind at times, but one thing that's not clear is if I would gain anything with it when it comes to how it would sound compared to onboard VIA VT1708B I currently use. Would it make any difference when paired with headphones like …

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Re: Loading older games takes forever

Posted on 2020-04-24, 13:01

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by UCyborg

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in Windows

I made a registry import file once that disables all GameUX entries. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1G45mk_NUtUK … REqGx9jhbUlN1RU

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