Re: NVME partioning advice

Posted on 2024-04-12, 17:22

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I wouldn't bother. The benefits of partitioning drives is in the past. You used to partition drives to get Windows closer to the start (or end? I forgot) of the drive platter for performance reasons. Obviously not a thing in the SSD world. You used to partition drives because reformatting before …

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Re: Hex editing a game exe - How do you figure out which parts represent what?

Posted on 2024-04-09, 13:45

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This guy has had some success digging around blindly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy8QRyzR5IU (Read the comments, first response to FinalLuigi).

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Re: Dominate Species, Tanktics, etc with Peixoto/dvVoodoo/etc up-rendering

Posted on 2024-03-16, 20:27

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For Dominant Species, open the exe in a hex editor, find ddraw.dll and change it to something else (for example vdraw.dll) and rename the dgVoodoo2 ddraw.dll to that. Tanktics, no way do anything about the resolution, it's probably not even using Direct3D.

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Re: eBay sellers can effortlessly delete their negative feedback

Posted on 2024-02-27, 13:11

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Something I don't understand about eBay feedback in the modern day is rating tabulation. When I check this sellers profile, it says 26K items sold, but the feedback number next to his username is only 4167. If I recall right, users who left feedback but have since unregistered with eBay, will have …

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Re: "Windows95man" - Finland Eurovision Song Contest entry 2024

Posted on 2024-02-11, 19:50

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That's a very Eurovision-y Eurovision song. Hoping for more of that when I watch the finals.

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Re: Is it true that Windows XP games work great on Windows 10?

Posted on 2024-02-10, 09:23

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Out of the box, I would say it's compatibility with Win9X/WinXP games is terrible, but I would probably say the same of Win9X/WinXP too. With some tweaking however I've gotten 99%+ of the games I've tried to work better than they did natively in Win9X/WinXP. And the 1%- is largely because I try a …

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Re: BPP oddity

Posted on 2024-01-19, 23:35

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The skybox is unlikely to use transparency, so whatever is causing the banding has nothing to do with 24-bit vs 32-bit. Again, those 8 bits are transparency bits. Probably unlikely to even be used. It's possible the game is running in 16-bit color however and that's causing banding. dgVoodoo renders …

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Re: BPP oddity

Posted on 2024-01-19, 22:34

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by ZellSF

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Screenshots should always be 24-bit. 24 bit = 8 bits each of Red, Green and Blue 32 bit = 8 more bits for alpha How are you expecting the alpha bits to be in a screenshot, and how are you expecting to see that on your likely 24-bit monitor?

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Re: BPP oddity

Posted on 2024-01-19, 22:26

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I tried Midtown Madness, I can't see any setting for color depth at all? Where are you seeing it?

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Re: BPP oddity

Posted on 2024-01-19, 22:12

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Do the games even support 32-bit natively? There's also likely zero difference between 24-bit and 32-bit.

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Re: Heretic II: Grey Screen, not responding in Glide Mode

Posted on 2024-01-14, 11:54

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Obvious question, why? It's a native OpenGL game, running it through a wrapper made in the 90s is a bit weird.

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Re: Feature request - Higher AA modes

Posted on 2024-01-03, 06:07

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Google tells me 32xS is 2xSSAA + 8xMSAA. If you set resolution to 2X the game resolution, that's effectively SSAA. Then just enable 8X MSAA. If aliasing still bothers you at that point, what you need is a higher resolution screen. dgVoodoo has a framerate limiter for games that need it. Though using …

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Re: Sanity: Aiken's Artifact - aspect ratio problem

Posted on 2023-11-29, 10:33

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dccs wrote on 2023-11-26, 13:07: This can be addressed with a simple FOV fix though, and you can play it in widescreen using such fix. If there is a FOV fix, link to it. If not, don't just make shit up.

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Re: Sanity: Aiken's Artifact - aspect ratio problem

Posted on 2023-11-20, 21:00

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Have you actually set the game to a 4:3 resolution from the launcher?

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Re: Spider-Man (Neversoft, 2001) FPS cap issue

Posted on 2023-11-15, 11:20

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You say the FPS cap exists, though you haven't said anywhere why you're so sure it exists. It seems more likely it just worked back in the day because of slower hardware (never actually exceeded 20 FPS, or V-Sync made game drop to 30 and more intensive cutscenes to 20). So why so sure it exists? …

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Re: PCIe cards with composite analog video input, were there any apart from AIWs?

Posted on 2023-11-14, 10:50

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It was probably always poorly documented because doing it was always a bad idea. Anyone who really wanted to do this back then got a decent TV card. Anyone who wants to do it today gets a decent capture card.

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Re: PCIe cards with composite analog video input, were there any apart from AIWs?

Posted on 2023-11-12, 21:41

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I'm not sure how you think that explains anything? What are you trying to do? Why?

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Re: PCIe cards with composite analog video input, were there any apart from AIWs?

Posted on 2023-11-12, 21:19

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Still doesn't explain why, which is important.

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Re: PCIe cards with composite analog video input, were there any apart from AIWs?

Posted on 2023-11-12, 21:14

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BitWrangler wrote on 2023-11-12, 20:54: Since none of the hauppauge etc ones do graphics Why is that relevant? http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#goal You have asked for help, but you're not describing what problem you're trying to solve.

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Re: PCIe cards with composite analog video input, were there any apart from AIWs?

Posted on 2023-11-12, 20:27

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Remember composite input on PCI-e cards? There are new PCI-e cards sold today with composite input. https://www.videohelp.com/capturecards?CaptureCard=&videoin=1&searchconnection=PCIE A direct connection to a capture card isn't necessarily the best solution, depending on your needs there might be …

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