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Posted October 24, 2012
Nowadays I say 'Game x does not work for me.'
You say 'Rig is too old.'

But on this old rig, all those console ports you guys had problems with work beautiful because this old rig is newer than the rig you all were attempting to run those ports on. XD

My point is, all these old ports run pretty sweet on my PC so those who experienced bugs did so because of outdated equipment (unless developers went and patched the crap out of them long after everyone moved on.)
Posted October 24, 2012
Only port that doesn't run well after that one patch (that came after episodes) is GTA IV. I originally played it with 9800 GT now I have radeon 6850. Same processor I think. Saints row 3 is better though. So I'll get over it. Anyway, ports are usually not optimized and field of vision sucks.

And what ports did you meant? All of them?

Also, your post didn't really contain much. it was almost a troll. Like your face in that pic, well, technically it's orc. =)
Posted October 24, 2012
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Antimateria: Only port that doesn't run well after that one patch (that came after episodes) is GTA IV. I originally played it with 9800 GT now I have radeon 6850. Same processor I think. Saints row 3 is better though. So I'll get over it. Anyway, ports are usually not optimized and field of vision sucks.

And what ports did you meant? All of them?

Also, your post didn't really contain much. it was almost a troll. Like your face in that pic, well, technically it's orc. =)
Lol...I been here awhile - I'm not an intentional troll. XD

I was talking about a lot of the older stuff like Psi-Ops, Billy Hatcher, Devil May Cry 3, Legacy of Kain seris, Ultimate Spider Man, Enclave, Stranger's Wrath, Damnation and such. Back when everyone was still on XP.

I'm on XP now but I think the equipment I'm using (although ten years old) may still be newer than the rigs people were using to try and run these games - like you mentioned, the thick/heavy polys and lack of customizing probably ran these like slide shows back in the day.
Posted October 24, 2012
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carnival73: I was talking about a lot of the older stuff like Psi-Ops, Billy Hatcher, Devil May Cry 3, Legacy of Kain seris, Ultimate Spider Man, Enclave, Stranger's Wrath, Damnation and such. Back when everyone was still on XP.

I'm on XP now but I think the equipment I'm using (although ten years old) may still be newer than the rigs people were using to try and run these games - like you mentioned, the thick/heavy polys and lack of customizing probably ran these like slide shows back in the day.
Those are kinda old ports. If you (I mean not you put people) have decent machine should work fine. My computer also isn't state of the art but mostly most new games work fine. Ultimate spider-man was pretty neat game. =)
Seems that XP is still the fastest OS for playing games or could be that when I used it I had less crap in my machine than now.

Some older ports should have better gamepad support, that's their most annoying problem.
Posted October 24, 2012
Haha, I remember Psi-Ops. It's awesome, I can't not enjoy a game with psychic powers.

It had the best bug. You couldn't climb a ladder in case you disabled VSync which I did because I wanted to play at 60FPS, they game forced it at 30FPS with VSync on. I found the solution my second or third try to play through it. I wonder if it works better on Windows 7, I haven't tried yet.

DMC 3 ran like butter with no bugs for me with a small 8800GT and other than camera issues in Legacy of Kain (all of them except Blood Omen) they run almost flawlessly. Same camera issues goes for Ultimate Spider Man and Enclave was technically not bad but I didn't like the entire game so I just rushed it.

I skipped Damnation, my friend and brother played those. Was it any good?
Posted October 24, 2012
I have no idea what this thread is about.

Maybe I'm tired.
Posted October 24, 2012
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StingingVelvet: I have no idea what this thread is about.
My best attempt at reconstructing its meaning is this:

"My old computer doesn't run new games, because it's old. But it runs old games very nicely, even though back in the day, new computers struggled with them."

Or,

"Yay! My old computer runs very old games!"
Posted October 24, 2012
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bazilisek: "My old computer doesn't run new games, because it's old. But it runs old games very nicely, even though back in the day, new computers struggled with them."
Solid theory.

So uh, yeah, that tends to happen. Woot, hooray and all that.
Posted October 24, 2012
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carnival73: I was talking about a lot of the older stuff like Psi-Ops, Billy Hatcher, Devil May Cry 3, Legacy of Kain seris, Ultimate Spider Man, Enclave, Stranger's Wrath, Damnation and such. Back when everyone was still on XP.

I'm on XP now but I think the equipment I'm using (although ten years old) may still be newer than the rigs people were using to try and run these games - like you mentioned, the thick/heavy polys and lack of customizing probably ran these like slide shows back in the day.
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Antimateria: Those are kinda old ports. If you (I mean not you put people) have decent machine should work fine. My computer also isn't state of the art but mostly most new games work fine. Ultimate spider-man was pretty neat game. =)
Seems that XP is still the fastest OS for playing games or could be that when I used it I had less crap in my machine than now.

Some older ports should have better gamepad support, that's their most annoying problem.
This solved most of my game pad problems

http://www.logitech.com/en-nz/gaming/controllers/gamepad-f310

That's NZ pricing BTW

You can map mouse and keyboard to it, even the third mouse button (but not the wheel function). Plus you can program a button to be a toggle switch so that all of the buttons have a second function when the toggle is held down.

You can also map complex commands (like a Street Fighter move for instance) and there's a switch on back that turns it into an X-Input game pad for PC games design for the 360 game pad.
Posted October 24, 2012
Yeah, kind of confusing. He seems to be 'laughing' at the people who told/tell him his rig was too old, because people have problems with new ports on their new rigs, games that *he* can't even play, problems or not, because his rigs too old.

But because he can play ports from 'way before time' well now on his still old rig, he seems to somehow twist that around as an 'In your face!'


I'm confused.
Posted October 24, 2012
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StingingVelvet: I have no idea what this thread is about.
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bazilisek: My best attempt at reconstructing its meaning is this:

"My old computer doesn't run new games, because it's old. But it runs old games very nicely, even though back in the day, new computers struggled with them."

Or,

"Yay! My old computer runs very old games!"
I think that some people have complained that some ports work like crap and his machine is better than those other peoples computers.. So he was saying that OR that some game doesn't work in his machine and some say that his computer is too old but he replies to them: "why your newer machine can't run even those ports and mine can then?"

That was my take. =)

..something.
Posted October 24, 2012
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Nirth: Haha, I remember Psi-Ops. It's awesome, I can't not enjoy a game with psychic powers.

It had the best bug. You couldn't climb a ladder in case you disabled VSync which I did because I wanted to play at 60FPS, they game forced it at 30FPS with VSync on. I found the solution my second or third try to play through it. I wonder if it works better on Windows 7, I haven't tried yet.

DMC 3 ran like butter with no bugs for me with a small 8800GT and other than camera issues in Legacy of Kain (all of them except Blood Omen) they run almost flawlessly. Same camera issues goes for Ultimate Spider Man and Enclave was technically not bad but I didn't like the entire game so I just rushed it.

I skipped Damnation, my friend and brother played those. Was it any good?
Damnation is awesome - What upset people is that it had an old school difficulty to it. There's a lot of Tomb Raider style running, jumping and clinging situations.

Also, your NPCs scripting took them on short cuts during some situations where they may have got stuck or slowed the game down - People felt those parts didn't look realistic but from the developers' view point I can understand the concept of practicality over presentation.

ie; You ride a rope from one cliff to a lower one across a gap and your NPCs just sort of blink over there once you arrive.

Also the 2nd or third level introduces a large motorcycle for two other passengers. There's a portion of the level that you need to drive it through and there's tons of slapstick comical failure taking place. The segment, on a good run, only lasts about six minutes but it took me a good forty five to get through it. XD

It's one of the better games that I bought this year however.
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Pheace: Yeah, kind of confusing. He seems to be 'laughing' at the people who told/tell him his rig was too old, because people have problems with new ports on their new rigs, games that *he* can't even play, problems or not, because his rigs too old.

But because he can play ports from 'way before time' well now on his still old rig, he seems to somehow twist that around as an 'In your face!'


I'm confused.
More or less - I'm finding that I can run ports that X were claiming to be 'broken' back in the day.

I'm discovering they were not broken, those attempting them didn't have updated PCs at the time.

I felt this was ironic given my usual complaints about games 'not working' and X correcting me telling me they do work but my system is too old.

The thread would have been more concise to just say that I'm having an easy time running all of these ports that people, in the past, complained were broken.
Post edited October 24, 2012 by carnival73
Posted October 24, 2012
A list of games that were console exclusive and also on pc would be nice (think Gears of war, Halo etc)
Posted October 24, 2012
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gameon: A list of games that were console exclusive and also on pc would be nice (think Gears of war, Halo etc)
You mean the ones I've tried or you mean in general? Cuz if there's a complete list somewhere or console to PC titles I wouldn't mind taking a peek at it to see if there are any I'm missing that I can go searching for.

As for myself, I pointed out "Psi-Ops, Billy Hatcher, Devil May Cry 3, Legacy of Kain seris, Ultimate Spider Man, Enclave, Stranger's Wrath, Damnation and such." but I'm sure there are more but it's difficult to remember all of them. ....like Rogue Trooper, Thief and Prince of Persia just came to mind.
Posted October 24, 2012
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carnival73: More or less - I'm finding that I can run ports that X were claiming to be 'broken' back in the day.

I'm discovering they were not broken, those attempting them didn't have updated PCs at the time.
There are very few broken PC ports in my experience. Most games that people say don't work actually work fine on my PC and probably most PCs. You have to remember forums are horrible places to go when you want to judge how a game works, only the small percentage with problems are posting.

Actual broken ports would be Splinter Cell Doubt Agent, Saint's Row 2 and Resident Evil 4. And two of those were fixed with mods.
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