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Geek Culture / Windows 7 lower compatibilty help!

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Gibba gobba
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Posted: 8th Jan 2011 05:03 Edited at: 30th Aug 2017 10:39
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Slayer
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Posted: 8th Jan 2011 05:48
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I was reading some stuff about how opengl would be less and less
supported by windows... I'm thinking that just might be your problum
look into updating all your opengl drivers for everything or
finding were windows has support for your opengl.

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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 8th Jan 2011 06:26 Edited at: 8th Jan 2011 06:31
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Dunno about dark forces, but quake 1 is software rendering. Haven't seen the original for years, but it may well be built for DOS, rather than Windows. If it is, you could try running it via DosBox perhaps.

There are a number of GL ports/upgrades of it, since the source code was released. So those might well be a better solution for running it today.


Hmm, I wonder what's coming in 2011?
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Fatal Berserker
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Posted: 8th Jan 2011 07:13
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did you try running in compatibility mode? (Right click - properties)

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Ocho Geek
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you could always play quake live if quake 1 won't run

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PAGAN_old
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ive been trying to get final fantasy 7 to work on win 7. its too buggy on 7. Its generally a pain in the ass to get any old game to work on 7. I would play my PS1 ff7 disks on an emulator (much better graphics than the PC version) but PC version Midis are much better than the playstation version. BTW jedi knight dark forces is an awesome game

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Gibba gobba
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IanM
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I have Windows 7 64-bit - GLQuake crashes out for me, and WinQuake runs like a 3 legged dog, so recently I tried DirectQ which is a DirectX version of Quake - it runs perfectly and with no lag (timedemo of demo1 in 1.3 seconds). I stopped looking when I found one that worked, but I'm sure that there are other clients available.

On a slightly different subject, I'm a fan of speedruns (not doing them, coz I'm crap at them, but watching them) and recently watched a complete Q1 run end-to-end with 100% kills and all secret areas discovered in 33 minutes 33 seconds. Made me feel quite inadequate

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Fatal Berserker
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Talking about speed runs (and old games):

Super Mario Bros in 5min...

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Gibba gobba
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Pagan, there's work arounds for the old FF games and patches (new graphics cards make the games look buggy), I managed to get FF8 working on 7 and vista by relocating the exe file into a separate folder. There's still minor glitches with the nvidia patch, but it all still looks good.

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