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Article #350764Re: GOG.com Weekend Sale (thru Sunday, July 7) --- 60% off classic Adventure games, DRM free
From: Xocyll
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 17:44
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 17:44
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Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: >On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 08:53:47 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net> >wrote: > >>I still play this game occasionally and have never had a problem with it >>- I do NOT have this "updated" GOG.com version, but the original >>re-release from EA Classics from Summer 2000. >> >>Despite being designed for a 200MHz Pentium it runs just fine on a >>3.2GHz Quad core Phenom 2. >> >>Of course I don't have ATi Video hardware and I could see that maybe >>making a difference since they apparently drop support for old games >>from their drivers all the time. >> >>Xocyll > >You can run it with all video working? I can't. Yep it runs just like it did under Win9x - no issues at all. What video card type do you have nVidia or ATi? >You can run it without having to disable all but one of your CPU >cores? I can't. I've never disabled cores for any game. >I'm guessing the GOG version works without these issues. Xocyll
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