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Need For Speed: The Run not compatible with XP
Fursphere:
But this isn't emulation. This is running a windows game on a windows system.
Warborg:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 31, 2013, 06:49:35 pm ---You would be surprised what even newer games run on. You'll be hard pressed to find more than a couple that aren't optimized for Dx9. Why? Because game manufactures want to sell the game to as many people as possible, so in other words games are optimized for xp, not 7.
Like I said, it's a resource hog.... why run it if you don't need to?
Fursphere: I get the feeling you haven't really done a lot of emulation specific stuff from your reply. Unsigned drivers aren't for old hardware, it's for hacked hardware. Want to run wiimotes as a joystick? You need ppjoy, which is an unsigned driver. Want to use hacked xbox classic stuff? Again unsigned drivers. That kind of stuff is just the tip of the iceburg. What you'll find is that there are these minor annoyances that pop up when using 7 because many emulators, hardware interfaces, ect got their start in the 9x days. We don't run new software on our cabs... we run old stuff.
If a pc has 7 on it, I don't downgrade or anything like that, but if it's a mame cab I more often than not build the pc from scratch, at which point I don't bother with 7... the vast majority of people are like that.
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Aaaaand there are many games that run much better using the DX10/11 path than DX9, which means... you guessed it... Win7 (or Vista or Win8 if you want to get technical). I can think of a few at home that I've run into that ran better with DX10/11, and when I worked at Intel in their CV lab, that's all we did was test compatibility and such, and ran into plenty there as well.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: Fursphere on June 01, 2013, 12:40:09 am ---But this isn't emulation. This is running a windows game on a windows system.
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Yes, most likely on his MAME cab..... you aren't following are you? Emulators are tricky, so you set things up based around them and THEN add in the pc games.
Warborg:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on June 01, 2013, 02:28:50 am ---
--- Quote from: Fursphere on June 01, 2013, 12:40:09 am ---But this isn't emulation. This is running a windows game on a windows system.
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Yes, most likely on his MAME cab..... you aren't following are you? Emulators are tricky, so you set things up based around them and THEN add in the pc games.
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Again, if you want to get technical, he never did say it was on a MAME cab, he just said NFS The Run wouldn't work on his WinXP rig, there was no mention of a cabinet. As there has been a lot of discussion regarding PC racing games it could have simply been a heads up to others as far as that goes. So you really can't tell FurSphere he isn't following when you are making assumptions...
BadMouth:
I'm not upset that the game doesn't work on XP and I don't expect game companies to go to the trouble of making their new games compatible with it. I was a little annoyed with myself for going to the trouble of downloading it on that computer before realizing it wouldn't work.
The reason for my original post is that I've been posting a lot of deals on driving games lately and felt a responsibility to point out that some of these games might not work on XP, which a lot of people use on their cabs.
I'm used to buying 5-15 year old games out of the bargain bin and never really pay attention to the system requirements.
Basically, the case has always been that if it's old enough to be in a bargain bin, my specs are going to exceed the requirements.
We've now got to the point where that's no longer the case and even a $5 game might require Directx11.
($5 is what I paid for NFS:The Run)
I planned to build a new screamer of a Win7 PC for my driving cab this summer so I could get into these newer driving games.
However, my budget hasn't been cooperating, so for the time being I thought I'd see if they could be played on the current setup.
I'm hoping that when the new Intel processors and Nvidia 700's come out there will be deals to be had on the stuff that's top shelf right now.
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