PC Games Lost in Time

[Anonymous No.1798660]

ITT: Games from the DOS/Windows 9x era that are damn near impossible to play on most modern machines.

Pic-related.

>Latest AMD drivers render the game unplayable
>source code is long lost, making a source port impossible
>Star Wars now owned by Disney and EA
>Low chance of 9xbox ever coming to fruition

You're best chance is to play it on a shitty virtual machine program. RIP

[Anonymous No.1798670]

>>1798660
Not a huge loss as it's easy to emulate the PSX version, but it did have the fully uncensored color intro and original music.

[Anonymous No.1798681]

Jedi Knight was never my favorite game, but is a perfect example of early 3d games where devs actually took the "3d" part seriously. The levels are huge, usually involving enormous vertical distances. It felt huge, WAS huge, and you could pretty much explore the entire thing.

Also the Z-grade cutscenes are hillarious.

[Anonymous No.1798683]

>>1798660
>Latest AMD drivers render the game unplayable
This shit is just ridiculous.
Earlier this year Nvidia removed the optimization for Sin from their latest drivers. 16 years after its original release.
How do I know it was a game-specific optimization?
The game still actually works but only if you rename the executable to quake2.exe.

[Anonymous No.1798706]

>>1798660
My build's only a couple years old for most parts but I'm still running Vista 32 and stuff like this is why I'm afraid to upgrade. I actually played Jedi Knight just fine (though I might have been using my 8800 GTS at the time), seems like I have a sweet spot middle-machine that can play both old and new.

[Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo No.1798713]

Getting Jedi Knight to run is going to be a task. I really want to play it, but yeah, it's a chief example of older, underrated classics (Star Trek: Elite Force, for example) that are going to have difficulty preserving.

[Anonymous No.1798716]

Might as well just keep an old computer around just in case you wanna play Jedi Knight.

[Anonymous No.1798810]

>mfw its sold on steam but doesn't even fucking work

GoG fucking when

[Anonymous No.1798815]

>>1798660
>>source code is long lost, making a source port impossible
Really? ;_;

[Anonymous No.1798819]

>>1798681
>Also the Z-grade cutscenes are hillarious.
I'D BE A CONTENT OLD MAN

JK taught me to program. COG was so easy to get into with just a copy of Game File Explorer and Notepad.

[Anonymous No.1798841]

>>1798815
Yep, so there's pretty much fuck-all chance of a good port happening. Just like with Panzer Dragoon Saga (also damning is the pitiful selection of Saturn Emulators). The best chance we have is if they remade the game from the ground-up which again, likely won't happen thanks to EA and Disney.

>>1798810
I doubt the big companies holding Star Wars hostage would be content on selling the game without DRM. It's likely the same reason there aren't any other Star Wars games on GoG.

[Anonymous No.1799008]

>You're best chance is to play it on a shitty virtual machine program. RIP

I've actually got Win98SE (and by extension MS-DOS 7) running natively on a socket 755 setup for the purposes of recovering/archiving retrotech media (it has 5 1/4" floppy, Superdisk, Zip and Clik drives). It dual boots that and XP.

As a side bonus I can still play all these games on the Win98 side of the machine. The fastest video card Win98 supports is a 7950 GX2 using a modified Forceware driver from 2006.

[Anonymous No.1799028]

>>1798819
>COG was so easy to get into with just a copy of Game File Explorer and Notepad.

>tfw you replace your lightsaber texture with something that isnt a lightsaber, it looks totally badass AND other people in multiplayer can see it

[Anonymous No.1799102]

>>1799028
Do I want to know what you replaced the texture with? Just tell me it wasn't flesh colored.

[Anonymous No.1799148]

>>1798660
I don't know what's wrong with you, but I'm able to play my copy just fine on Win7 with an Intel Core i3 without having to emulate or anything. It runs natively and smoothly, but there can be some graphical glitches with the HUD and menus screens. If you can find a copy of the disc like I somehow did, check out this page for instructions: http://jedi.majerco.net/en/jedi-knight/windows-7/

Google is your friend. Never forget that.

Tie Fighter is a hard game to get running in Win7. I know it can be done with a lot of tweaking and patching, but it's hard to find the necessary files to do so these days.

[Anonymous No.1799157]

>>1799102
Don't talk shit about the Dongsaber

[Anonymous No.1799173]

>>1798660
>>1798660
>>1798660

The fuck are you even talking about.

Game works on steam and their is even a fan patch for a few other fixes.

>AMD
>Good drivers

Pick one.

[Anonymous No.1799175]

>>1798810

Just played it last night on steam nigger

What are you doing wrong.

[Anonymous No.1799179]

>>1798660
>>1798660
>>1798660

More like-

With larger LCD/ LED display resolutions- we are essentially wiping out compatibility for older games.

Dungeon Keeper for instance runs at 640x480 (but even Dungeon Keeper has a fan compatibility project "Keeper FX")

>My face when you have all sealed your own doom with 1920x1080 standard

[Anonymous No.1799183]

Good luck getting this game to run...

Ever.

[Anonymous No.1799186]

>>1799179
And why can't you just upscale the old games, like everyone else?

Or, you know, get a proper CRT and play everything at native resolution.

[Anonymous No.1799189]

>>1798660

>No one here considers that in the next 5 years we will have perfect emulation of older operating systems and won't have to worry about software compatibility anymore

>....

I can dream, can't I?

[Anonymous No.1799190]

>>1799183
>old games that require 3D acceleration
god help us

I wanted to play MechWarrior 2 the other day but damn if I'll use their software renderer. I bought a RAGE II Pro for that shit.

[Anonymous No.1799191]

>>1799186

>Implying I don't have a CRT with a native resolution of 640x480 up to 85Hz refresh rate

>Implying I don't have a massive archive of old games on a backup hard drive in storage in my closet

>Implying I care about "HD" resolutions when I play OpenXcom

>Implying widescreen hacks, fixes, exploits and other forms of up scaling are an acceptable solution to the problem.

[Anonymous No.1799198]

>>1799191
>>Implying widescreen hacks, fixes, exploits and other forms of up scaling
No, not hacks or patches. Just pixel-double the 640x480 image into 1280x960 and center that on your 1920x1080 panel. Problem solved. Nonsquare pixels require a little more care, but with 4K monitors becoming affordable soon, we'll have so much pixel density that minute scaling artifacts won't matter. This is coming from someone using an FW900 right now, by the way.

[Anonymous No.1799201]

>>1799190

To the many geniuses that came up with wrappers for glide API and whatnot- I salute thee. So many old games would be absolutely impossible to play outside of basic software rendering.

[Anonymous No.1799203]

>>1799190
>old games that require 3D acceleration
If it supports 3DFX Glide there's plenty of wrappers for that.
If it doesn't you could try something like 3D-Analyze. Dunno how well that works with modern Windows though.

[Anonymous No.1799204]

>>1799198

>Implying AA or AF works on the games as old as I'm talking about

>Implying I know what you're talking about or have extensive knowledge in "pixel density."

[Anonymous No.1799205]

>>1799204
>Implying AA or AF works on the games as old as I'm talking about
This has nothing to do with either of those.

>Implying I know what you're talking about or have extensive knowledge in "pixel density."
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.1799207]

>>1799205

>This has nothing to do with either of those.

That's the joke.

>>>/g/

I thought we were just talking about old games dawg why you be hating.

[Anonymous No.1799208]

>>1799205

[Anonymous No.1799239]

>>1799189
Emulating the OS isn't the issue. We already have virtual machines capable of running all sorts of versions of Windows.
Specific hardware like 3D cards are the main problem.

[Anonymous No.1799314]

>>1798660

you can install Win95 in Dosbox.

[Anonymous No.1799694]

>>1798670
>>1799183
Most PC ports of PSX, Saturn, and N64 games are pretty tough to get workibg properly these days.

[Anonymous No.1801259]

>>1799239
Shit, I've got an old computer from that time period to get around the issue, and even 3D cards from the time had all kinds of issues. The early days of 3D acceleration were a dark time.

[Anonymous No.1801267]

>>1799183
>tfw i got this running in Win7 64bit and Win8 64bit

[Anonymous No.1801273]

Star Wars Racer. I could barely get this running on XP let alone anything else.

Also Sim Theme Park, it needed fixes just to get working properly on XP too, but it might be working under modern systems with a No-CD patch.

[Anonymous No.1801419]

>>1799314
That may be, but you aren't going to be able to install seperate programs on it from there.