MagikGimp information 110 glöps
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- level: user
- personal:
- first name: John
- last name: Roblin
- 4k Windows Texas by keyboarders
- This is genius if you ask me. Remove the category restrictions! It's not cheating if it's dead clever smart like, innit!
I think some of you have figured things out as I (eventually) managed to but if not, save yourself some trouble and READ MY GENERAL GUIDE FOR RUNNING OLD 4K DEMOS IN WINDOWS 10. - rulezadded on the 2017-07-18 02:33:31
- 4k Windows Solitude by Unknown Artists [web]
- If at first you don't succeed...
1) A lot of 4k demos from this era (and possibly beyond) use Crinkler to remove unnecessary stuff from the executable to get them down to this size but Windows 10 looks for other things previous versions of Windows did not so we need to 'uncompress' these files so they run on modern hardware.Quote:(thanks ramon)Recompress the 4k with Crinkler 1.4 or better (http://www.crinkler.net/). Command line is: "crinkler.exe /recompress demo-name.exe".
Don’t run Crinkler in a system folder (Program Files etc.) or in the demo’s folder unless you don’t mind losing the original file you’re working on as it’s overwritten, unless you specify otherwise in the parameters (see manual).
2) To keep things small, 4k demos seem to look for whatever version of DirectX/3D was around at the time so demos either won’t run at all (in the case of solitude) or you’ll get a basic error message mentioning the version the demo’s looking for e.g. “d3dx10_33”. Your modern OS has the undreamt-of at the time DirectX 12 already installed which is little problem for most old games but no good for demos. To solve this, download and install the DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer here. This basically gives you every old version of DirectX’s system files for compatibility. It’s an old trick. Whatever you do, don’t go downloading random .dlls from random websites. You just can’t trust ‘em.
3) The last thing to do is to run the Compatibility Troubleshooter on your new exe. Right click and it’s under Run as Administrator. Once it’s done its thing, clicking Test will run the demo. It’ll decrunch things for a while but should work so don’t be put off by the wait; there’s a lot of work for your computer to do now you’ve done some. You can then save those settings for next time (and tell Microsoft about it while you're at it).
And if all that doesn't work, perhaps it just won’t run on your AMD hardware? I dunno. I don’t have anything AMD that works beyond DirectX 9, sorry! - rulezadded on the 2017-07-18 02:12:11
- 4k Windows Solitude by Unknown Artists [web]
- Any solutions for getting this to run on Windows 10 / modern hardware? I've been told not to make threads on the BBS about troubleshooting. :x
- isokadded on the 2017-07-12 15:56:53
- demo Windows djmix
- This is the demoscene equivalent to what most shit video game journalists refer to as "meta".
- rulezadded on the 2014-09-30 16:19:06
- 4k Atari STe STePS by Excellence In Art [web]
- Graphics run in STEem SSE, not sure about all the sound though. Might need some fiddling to get to work correctly.
- rulezadded on the 2014-09-25 15:39:06
- 64k Windows the Flow by SandS [web]
- Wow! Some really impressive prods from this party! Amazing stuff.
- rulezadded on the 2014-09-18 15:07:07
- demo Linux Windows 6bit Genesis by NightRadio [web]
- Now that was something special. Runs on older hardware too which is a bonus.
- rulezadded on the 2014-09-18 14:39:28
- 4k Windows Glitterati by Fairlight [web]
- I found this impressive but artistically disturbing. I don't understand the relevance of the letters used and they seemed, as 3D objects generated from 2D sprites, to highlight how code was squashed to create an effect; as in another 3D generated model would have seemed more impressive even if the coding was the same. If the letters had spelt something other than "the number of 'cox'" this would have also made it appeal to me more.
The NVIDIA link mentioned earlier has been moved to here. It involves teapots, as a lot of NVIDIA's dev stuff has done for a while now it seems. - rulezadded on the 2014-08-04 00:11:39
- demo Windows Future Confused by Procreation
- Gotta love a prod that tells you to eff off before you've even run it.
A great reason to keep that old CRT monitor; the rewind is fantastic. Loved all of it especially the jets scene. - rulezadded on the 2014-06-21 00:39:07
- 64k MS-Dos/gus Doppler by White Rainbow
- wájt rambbó az ISTEN!!! which Google can't translate at all. Something about cleaning God's iced tea??
Music is pretty good. Everything else is shit. Even that message at the end is probably a typo. - sucksadded on the 2012-10-04 01:02:21
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