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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on Yesterday, 10:38

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Summer has finally arrived to my neck of the woods, the time when I always drop off anything heavier and go for lighter easy to pick up stuff. And to my delight I've gotten in the mood for point and click adventure games, been a few years. Time to revisit some old favorites and hopefully some others …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2024-05-10, 14:48

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[Have my original disks, map, manual, but got rid of the original box] I never understood why people do this. I do it to store the discs on a CD/DVD wallet and the manuals elsewhere with games I like enough to keep but aren't amongst my favorites just to save some space. I've been wondering should …

Re: Sam & Max Hit the Road: Best Slowdown Utility/Settings?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 18:32

in DOS
I tried doing throttle 7 with Sam & Max and while the game actually seemed to run, the sound was choppy and the mouth movements weren't in-sync with the speech because they were animating too slow (speech would end before their mouths stopped moving by a lot). Running throttle 6 just gave me a …

Re: Sam & Max Hit the Road: Best Slowdown Utility/Settings?

Posted on 2024-05-08, 13:42

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ACPI throttling on Pentium III computers usually works with Throttle and CPUSPD . Note that this method isn't guaranteed to work flawlessly with every game. Yep, I got S&M working well on my Pentium 3 with Throttle, luckily it's one of those games that is ok with ACPI throttling. I had to bring it …

Re: Windows XP 4GB GPU Issue?

Posted on 2024-05-08, 03:48

I have tested those fan made patches same issues. I know that the game runs on gpu's with 2gb of vram, thats why i wanted to know if its possible to mod the vbios to limit the memory amount. This quadro card will only be uses in windows xp and honestly 4gb of vram is overkill anyway. I'm playing …

Re: Windows XP 4GB GPU Issue?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 14:15

I doubt VRAM is the issue here, CMR is an Direct3D 6 game from Win9x era so issues with later GPU's aren't just possible, they are to be expected. The game has some unofficial patches for Win2k/WinXP/Win7+ that you can find from PCGamingWiki , you could try them out and hope for the best. If they …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-05-05, 16:47

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After venting about Diablo II earlier I went right back to it. What, I don't have a problem, I can stop any time I want! I've been scratching my head with an issue that has plagued me the last 15 years or so; hirelings randomly freeze in place. They stop following and attacking enemies, they just go …

Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2024-05-02, 10:21

Not sure if you had one of those Realtek on-board chips back in the day, but I did. And I remember EAX sometimes sounding "scratchy" to my ears. It also didn't work with some games. As you say, things are much better with a Creative card, especially an X-Fi Titanium. It was NVIDIA SoundStorm on one …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-05-02, 06:54

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Anyway, I made it to the Library level, and I'm already dreading it because of what you guys mentioned before. Honestly if you haven't yet been bothered by the occasional repetition in the level design by now you could very well just recognize that yeah, the library is too long for what it is, …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-05-01, 19:04

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I always found the grunts to be really annoying and immersion breaking. I feel like they were trying to be funny in a Star Wars prequel sort of way, but it didn't work for me. And that would be my second biggest issue with the game. Not everything needs to win the edgelord award of the year, but …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-05-01, 13:55

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Wait until you get to The Library level. Maybe after you've finished it, google "halo the library worst level ever" and find some people commiserating. My first attempt to play the game ended there 😁 Encapsulates my biggest issue with the game, it's as if the level designers sometimes first made a …

Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2024-05-01, 11:59

Positional audio isn't optimal with 2.0 setup as you can imagine, but can still add depth to the sound and things like occlusion effects/reverb work just fine. As for how pleasing/weird it is is subjective and can be game dependant. I used to use 2.0 speakers back in the day with an integrated sound …

Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2024-04-29, 15:35

Using latest* (that specified supporting the SB0880) DanielK driver for the X-Fi - tried using the original creative drivers but it was having a mare with traces of the Audigy drivers still existing so would refuse to install, so DanielK was the only option unless I manually picked out all the old …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-29, 10:50

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Never played Duke Nukem Forever and probably never will, but I'll never forgive Beyond Good & Evil 2 for taking the crown of longest game in development from DNF. I mean the acronym for the name is DNF for crying out loud, can it even get better than that! That's "did not finish" for those less into …

Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-27, 16:43

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Almost every Google result was identical instructions for disabling driver updates through Group Policy Editor (copied and pasted to multiple unaffiliated websites), but I'm running Windows 10 Home. There seems to be a way to install group policy editor to home edition, so that's an option if all …

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