compatibility on winxp and older games
This is why some people say compatibility doesn’t work for the older games “if the game makes a direct call to the Hardware then the compatibility won't help since it's not going through the OS. The Windows bible says that you're not supposed to make direct calls to the hardware but that didn't stop a lot of game p ...
This is why some people say compatibility doesn’t work for the older games “if the game makes a direct call to the Hardware then the compatibility won't help since it's not going through the OS. The Windows bible says that you're not supposed to make direct calls to the hardware but that didn't stop a lot of game programmers doing it to get a little more efficiency out of the slower hardware of the time. These days with DirectX and power to spare it isn't an issue but those old games require those calls and sadly, XP makes it impossible. After all if you can directly call the PCs hardware, bypassing the OS entirely, then all the OS's security features go out of the window” IS THERE ANYWAY AROUND THIS!!!!
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in the rogue spear lobby for single and multi player my mouse cursor freezes for a couple seconds as i move it or whenever i have to click on something like to change a weapon or to go to the next page and when the game starts online everyone warpes only i get it. single player will also lag a bit.
unreal tournament was just super fast, i would stop and the screen would sort of "twitch" and then i would ressume running at lightning speeds.
i tried right clicking on desktop/properties/settings/advanced/troubleshoot and scrolled down the acceleration so that all DirectDraw and Direct 3D accelerations, as well as all cursor and advanced drawing accelerations were disabled. This has fixed my cursor from freezing in the debriefing lobby, but the cursor leaves a trail instead. lol the graphics look like crap and i run around faster than usual. and online game warps madly still.
i've pretty much tried all the compatibility options
unreal tournament was just super fast, i would stop and the screen would sort of "twitch" and then i would ressume running at lightning speeds.
i tried right clicking on desktop/properties/settings/advanced/troubleshoot and scrolled down the acceleration so that all DirectDraw and Direct 3D accelerations, as well as all cursor and advanced drawing accelerations were disabled. This has fixed my cursor from freezing in the debriefing lobby, but the cursor leaves a trail instead. lol the graphics look like crap and i run around faster than usual. and online game warps madly still.
i've pretty much tried all the compatibility options
upgrades from 9x to XP its always best to do a clean
install of XP Less problems in the future.
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install of XP Less problems in the future.
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