havli wrote:I can't speak about the other games but Mafia is my favorite... so I can provide some performance figures. 😀
First thing - I never managed to get rid of the built-in 60 fps lock, so it is possible you won't get 75 fps...
Yeah, Mafia is a classic! 😀 You can actually unlock the ingame FPS limiter now using:
https://github.com/ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack
Having more FPS (and Hz) really helps with the clunky mouse movement, recoil control, and the poorly written engine that is unable to maintain steady FPS/frametimes and causes a microstutter of sorts (easily apparent in the menu when you "glide" between 2 items back and forth on the desk for example). RTSS app can be used to help with this issue as well. I think the ingame FPS limiter is set to around 63FPS by the way (the resulting framerate is jumpy though).
That FPS unlocker only works on Win7 and up though. The developers there have said that they have no intention of supporting WinXP or lower in this repo due to incompatibility of some APIs between XP<=>7 so it would be either too much work for them or not possible at all.
Regarding Red Faction, I think it does not work on newer GPUs from around Geforce 6-8 or so and requires community patch in order to launch.
As for GOG, their releases often remove EAX support, just something to keep in mind if you want to use EAX.
If you want to play games such as Q3 and HL online then I dont think the newer builds support A3D, only the oldest of builds of these games have the support for it.
And as it was noted above, some of these games would really benefit from faster CPU than PIII which I would see as viable only for games before the year 2000.