Re: Windows games that work upto Win7/Win8 but not on Win10/11

Posted on 2024-04-24, 13:10

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by Azarien

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in Windows

First, DWM issues of Windows 7, which was mostly fixed by closing the explorer.exe. Then the frame rate and DirectDraw issues of Windows 8 Ironically, Windows 8 fixes the color palette problem of Vista and Win7 caused by explorer.exe.

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Re: Running 3dMark 2000 on modern hardware

Posted on 2024-04-18, 08:23

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by Azarien

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in Windows

where upon attempting to launch 3DMark2000, either vanilla or with any of the patches applied ( systeminfofc.dll, mmx fix, Ryzen fix..), it fails to start with no error provided, and the CPU activity is stuck at 50%. Have you tried 3DMK2000patch4.zip in this thread? This is the best version which …

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Remap USB game controller in Windows 98?

Posted on 2024-04-06, 12:18

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by Azarien

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in Windows

I'm trying to play Colin McRae Rally 1 with a PS3-like USB gamepad. The problem is, the game doesn't seem to allow customizing the controller axes, it just assumes axis 1 is left/right and axis 2 is accelerate/break. This is not to my liking. Is there any software or driver for Windows 98 that would …

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Re: ideal sound card for early win xp system for 2000-2002 games?

Posted on 2024-03-27, 11:54

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by Azarien

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Kouwes wrote on 2024-03-27, 10:06: Edit: oops, not enough RAM and also with that GPU Doom3 won‘t run on your system I'm quite sure it works on MX440 so it should work on MX460 too?

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Re: Things I learned about fans

Posted on 2024-03-26, 09:41

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by Azarien

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I know "completely silent" would mean using passive cooling and solid state components, either not viable or not worth it in most cases. Unless I'm working or gaming (retro or otherwise), most of the time (including now) I browse the web and watch youtube and such on a silent (and quite cheap) PC …

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Re: Why did the Windows display acceleration slider disappear in WDDM drivers?

Posted on 2024-03-18, 11:49

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by Azarien

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in Marvin \ Video

Most Windows issues are caused by buggy drivers and programs that the ignorant blame on windows and having to constantly change a slider is ridiculous instead of per app setting aka application compatibility toolkit. I have one use case for the slider on Windows 98 - by moving it 2 positions to the …

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Re: Stunts\4D sports driving no sound effects when audio is MT-32

Posted on 2024-03-06, 07:40

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by Azarien

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in DOS

At least for the sound effects, Stunts does define custom sounds on the MT32 during start-up usinig SysEx messages, so any solutiion trying to map MT32 patch numbers to GM/GS patch number and then playing back those GM/GS patches will not work with Stunts. If I remember correctly, music plays fine …

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Re: What to do with a Core 2 system (...now that there's better stuff around)

Posted on 2024-03-03, 14:45

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by Azarien

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

H3nrik V! wrote on 2024-03-03, 14:30: A friend of mine actually ran Win10 on an overclocked C2Q9550 as his daily driver until 3 years ago ... So did I until late 2022. And I didn't overclock it. And that was a 2019 upgrade from Q6600 that I'd had for a looong time.

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Re: Dgvodoo2 not affecting tomb raider 2

Posted on 2024-02-28, 13:49

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by Azarien

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

I think you need d3dimm.dll and ddraw.dll for a D3D 5 game.

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Re: Dual boot with Win 95 Dos and Win 3.11

Posted on 2024-02-23, 14:24

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by Azarien

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in Windows

RagingSquirrel wrote on 2024-02-22, 15:10: I read a few forums where they explain why. So what is the main reason? Looks like the second method is to use Win95A's boot sector while keeping all boot files from OSR 2. Something wrong with OSR2 boot sector? (I'm just wondering why it doesn't work)

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Re: AWE64 Value, wrong connector type, for CD-Rom analogue connection?

Posted on 2024-02-21, 18:15

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by Azarien

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Note that even if the connector fits, the pins may be arranged differently. Typical symptom is that only one channel can be heard. This is easily fixable with these types of connectors though.

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Re: Windows vista 32bit vs XP 32bit

Posted on 2024-02-17, 13:47

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by Azarien

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in Windows

So i wonder someone here running vista 32bit ? I was running 32-bit versions of Windows on my main PC up to and including Windows 10. I was using PAE hack for more than 3.5 GB RAM support.

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Re: NE2000 patch referenced "missing" file?

Posted on 2024-01-23, 07:52

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by Azarien

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

It’s part of the DirectX SDK, which I’d expect to be included in every release of Visual Studio since at least 1998. I remember that some versions of Visual Studio and Windows SDK were missing ddraw.lib and dxguid.lib (despite other parts of DirectX SDK being included into Windows SDK since VS2008 …

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Re: Best VGA/SVGA shader for 86box on a 4k freesync display

Posted on 2024-01-21, 11:36

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by Azarien

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

I avoided shaders for a long time while questing for CRTs. This video from Phil's Computer Lab is what is driving me to find a solution (before giving up and just use Dosbox Staging, hehehe...) Most CRT-imitation shaders that I've seen greatly overdo their effects. I wish they had a sort of slider …

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Re: 30 year full circle - NCR 3386 retro build

Posted on 2024-01-08, 00:57

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by Azarien

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Jed118 wrote on 2024-01-08, 00:50: Cinquecento sticker But why 😉

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Re: autoexec.bat in MS-DOS 6.22 - how to start at C:\ after auto-executing?

Posted on 2024-01-05, 09:48

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by Azarien

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

ldeveraux wrote on 2024-01-04, 17:44: You're arguing best practice on a 30 year old dead OS? I guess? The same is still true in Windows 10 and 11 though.

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Re: Why doesn't modern Windows advertise DirectDraw in any way?

Posted on 2023-12-29, 22:50

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by Azarien

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

DirectDraw is still working, for the most part. You can find the API documentation here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win … pi/_directdraw/

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Re: Custom resolution

Posted on 2023-12-28, 13:49

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by Azarien

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

That's exactly what 'Stretched, *' and 'Centered, keep aspect ratio' scaling modes do. You can even define the phyisical resolution, but it's called 'desktop resolution' in the config. And even the resampling filter, integer pixel multiplication, and so on. Okay, I'm gonna experiment with these …

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Re: Custom resolution

Posted on 2023-12-21, 17:19

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by Azarien

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

For example, for nvidia, the scaling option is "Aspect ratio". Aspect ratio setting in video drivers is sometimes not reliable - it may be not available (and it's hard to tell what set of conditions causes it to appear) or it simply doesn't work (as is the case with DX12 games on AMD, which are …

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Re: Create a USB 2.0 update for windows 95

Posted on 2023-12-10, 10:08

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by Azarien

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in Windows

Jo22 wrote on 2023-12-10, 09:31: Btw, USB 2.0 is obsolete by now. We're at USB 4 by now, I believe. I wouldn't say "obsolete". A mouse or a keyboard doesn't need anything faster (or high power charging capabilities). And it's still much faster than USB 1.1, so for data transfer it's always better …

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