Author Topic: Got Win XP now... (Read 28294 times)

Darkness · « **Reply #50 on:** 2001-11-29 03:15:00 »

how about dual booting? windows xp and linux? would it work?

StrayWings · « **Reply #51 on:** 2001-11-29 04:00:00 »

::Whoa::
You are REALLY working on that Post Count there Darkness... So, how's everybody doing?

"How much does XP differs from ME actually?"

"A WHOLE LOT~~"

Jedimark · « **Reply #52 on:** 2001-11-29 11:25:00 »

Duel Booting is okay in Windows XP... i have Windows 98 on a separate partition so I can play games 'cause my graphics card is not supported by XP.

Sephiroth 3D · « **Reply #53 on:** 2001-11-29 20:08:00 »

heh... I did that back when I used my Voodoo2. It wasn't supported by W2k, so I used Win98 as my main OS, and kept W2k on so I could try and learn Maya. (Still need to do that...) But when I got my current Video card, I pretty much dumped Win98 and went with 2000 all the way. Now I'm almost regretting it, because I can't play my old DOS games anymore, such as Wing Commander Privateer, Warcraft 2, and my Fav game, FF7.

Half-Life/Counter-Strike has just been F*cked up too much for me to even TRY playing it anymore. I'm just gonna remove it from my system soon.

Sephiroth 3D

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Jedimark · « **Reply #54 on:** 2001-11-29 21:28:00 »

Why can't you play Final Fantasy 7 Sephiropth 3D?

Darkness · « **Reply #55 on:** 2001-11-29 22:52:00 »

seph3d: and HOW did you get maya?

straywings: i haven't really been working on it. my posting average has been staying at about 5 posts a day, i may have been posting more recently, but thats because theres more active topics then there have been in quite a while.
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ficedula · « **Reply #56 on:** 2001-11-29 23:09:00 »

*Only* five posts a day??!

That's well above my average, and I'm the top poster on the board...all meaningfull, life-inspiring posts of course :laugh:

Aaron · « **Reply #57 on:** 2001-11-30 01:30:00 »

Hmm... I probably make at least 5 posts a day.

I was away from the board for a while though (several months) but I came back when I got the e-mails (17 of the same one!!!) about it moving. Dunno why I left... I love this board.

EDIT: Jedimark... FF7 doesn't work in Windows 2000. Which reminds me... has anyone tried FF7 in Windows XP with the simulation mode set to Windows 9x? Can someone say that they did and couldn't get it to work?
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Darkness · « **Reply #58 on:** 2001-11-30 01:43:00 »

hehe make that 6. its been increasing over the last few days. maybe i should slow down....

ive been coming to the board more often (2-3 times a day)

fice, if you registered when i did, your post/day would probably be about the same

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Jedimark · « **Reply #59 on:** 2001-11-30 07:47:00 »

Aaron, I can play FF7 on Windows XP without Compatabilty Mode turned on, although I prefer to run it in Windows 98 where I have my grapics card supported.

I just got FF7 for the PC actually and I have a few questions:

1. Is it just my computer / my graphics card but a lot of the textures are bright green spoiling the game. (I can get a screen shot if ya want)

2. Bloody hell... how fast does the bike chase go compared to the PSX version!! Is there a way of slowing this down?

3. Are there any patches for FF7?

M0T · « **Reply #60 on:** 2001-11-30 12:17:00 »

There is a patch to run it on Nvidia cards, you should get that since most don't support 8bit palletted textures even though its now enabled in the drivers.
I think the problem with the bike chase is that your pc is too fast for the game. When I had a k6-3 400 with voodoo 2's it ran and the proper speed but now it is way to fast.

Alhexx · « **Reply #61 on:** 2001-11-30 13:22:00 »

Oh my god, what have I done?
This is turnin' into a 3-pages-topic ...

- Alhexx

Jedimark · « **Reply #62 on:** 2001-11-30 14:37:00 »

I don't have an NVIDIA card though.... can I still use the patch then? And will that get rid of the awfull Bright Green blobs everywhere?

Darkness · « **Reply #63 on:** 2001-11-30 21:07:00 »

im running on a celeron 400, and its normal. you need a turbo button

M0T · « **Reply #64 on:** 2001-12-01 19:06:00 »

well you shouldn't if it isnt an NVIDIA card. as for the bike chase there was a program that slowed your processor down so the games slowed down to the right speed but I cannot remember what it was called.

ficedula · « **Reply #65 on:** 2001-12-01 19:38:00 »

You most definitely can apply the "NVidia" patches whatever card you have.

It should really be called a "remove paletted textures" patch because that's what it does - removes the need for paletted textures. The patch lets me use my Radeon with FF7 fine (since it doesn't support paletted textures either).

If you have the 1.02 patch to FF7 it also lets you apply my patches like 32-bit colour etc, though that's not as big an issue

The 1.01 and 1.02 updates do run fine on ANY card though, not just NVidia cards.

Darkness · « **Reply #66 on:** 2001-12-01 19:58:00 »

thanks fice, ive been wondering about that for quite some time.

Jedimark · « **Reply #67 on:** 2001-12-01 21:38:00 »

Do you have a link fice? There are so many wierd and wonderfull patches out there for FF7 im not sure which one you are talking about!

ficedula · « **Reply #68 on:** 2001-12-01 21:49:00 »

Afraid not ... they're hard to find now, IIRC Eidos doesn't have them on it's FTP anymore.

v1.01 is the Riva TNT patch.
v1.02 is the patch that support both the TNT and another NVidia card (can't remember which ... GF1? not sure)

Sephiroth 3D · « **Reply #69 on:** 2001-12-01 22:07:00 »

Hah! I have both the Riva128 and the TNT version of the patch! But I've noticed that there isn't really a difference using an NVida card. I suppose I could email them to Fice so he could put them on his sever...

Oh, and I get funny purple and green lines in FF7 when I use them, but if you turn off Antialiasing, they go away.

Sephiroth 3D

"I don't understand..." "You don't have to understand." - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

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Darkness · « **Reply #70 on:** 2001-12-01 22:30:00 »

hehe i cant even figure out how to turn ON anti aliasing on my voodoo3

Jedimark · « **Reply #71 on:** 2001-12-02 07:41:00 »

Okay.... and erm.... how do I turn of "Antialiasing" then?

Jedimark · « **Reply #72 on:** 2001-12-02 09:21:00 »

Here's a screenshot by the way:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rylander/ugly_ff7.jpg

Anonymous · « **Reply #73 on:** 2001-12-02 09:28:00 »

God ! That sucks, I wouldnt be able to play at all like that.

Jedimark · « **Reply #74 on:** 2001-12-02 10:46:00 »

That patch didn't sort it out

Author Topic: Got Win XP now... (Read 28294 times)

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