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Does Descent 1 3dfx work with GliDos?

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Reply 20 of 31, by Glidos

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Sounds like Glidos isn't doing a lot. What about if you don't have the Glidos server running, and you just double click the D1_3dfx file?

Reply 21 of 31, by Ghaleon4

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BUMP!!!!!

Hey, Glidos!
Have you gotten any further on how to run Descent the way it was "never meant to be played"???
hehe

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Reply 22 of 31, by Glidos

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I hadn't thought there was anything worth doing. It's a Windows executable so it isn't Glidos that you need. Its just the OpenGLide bit (GLide2x.dll). Craig made it work.

On the other hand D1X works really well, so that's probably the best way to play it.

Reply 23 of 31, by Ghaleon4

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...I'm sad.
I couldn't get d1x to work.
It drops out upon execution with an error that it can't create Video Device.

Any ideas?
I think I might be confused with which version of Descent, and/or D1X I need.

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Reply 24 of 31, by Glidos

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Do you know if you have working OpenGL on your system?

Reply 25 of 31, by Ghaleon4

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Oh, definitely...

Specs:
GeForce Ti4400 128Meg
512Megs of Ram
AMD Athlon XP +1700 (2.1Ghz)
Windows XP Pro SP1
Creative Labs SoundBlaster Audigy /w Audigy 2 drivers

Counter-strike, among other things runs just fine in OpenGL.

Any other ideas?

Perhaps if I could get "dummy" instructions on exactly which version of Descent to patch to...HOW exactly I should patch, and exactly which build of D1X I should get off the website?

Thanks

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Reply 26 of 31, by Glidos

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I downloaded d1x143sc.tar.bz2 and it just worked for me. Not sure where I got it from. Don't think I had to patch Descent, because D1X doesn't use the original executable.

Reply 27 of 31, by Snover

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I assume you're using nVidia's drivers and not the ones from Microsoft's Windows Update (which don't have OpenGL support)?

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Reply 28 of 31, by Ghaleon4

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Absolutely...
I'm using the most recent Detonator drivers.

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Reply 29 of 31, by DonaldW

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Folks,

I hope you can help. I have a commerical copy of Descent I. I played it many years ago and would love to play it again. It runs fine on my Windows 2000 and Windows Me machines but there is no sound. I have tried playing with VDMSound with no luck. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Donald

Reply 30 of 31, by Snover

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played around with VDMSound? What did you try? This also sound more like a VDMSound issue so if you don't mind, start a new thread there for it.

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Reply 31 of 31, by lemming

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It's my understanding that there is a build of D1X newer than the 1.43 that was released--supposedly the latest CVS solves a few bugs.

The sourcefiles are available here: http://www.icculus.org/d2x/ more specifically here: http://www.icculus.org/d2x/src/d1x-20030225.tar.gz

I really want to see what bugs this fixes, but I suck at the compiler setup. 🙁

edit: If anyone manages to successfully compile it, can you please send me a Win32/OpenGL binary?