revisiting older games with better hardware

I recently got the "what am I gonna play now " feeling with some of the newer titles I have.

I looked up and thought, hmm....maybe I should install that again.

I did:  NOLF 2, MYST, RIVEN, Thief 3:DS,kotor, and ol' PK.

It's almost a whole new game all over (except for ,well, I played it before)

,but turning up the sound and the hardware changes since then make it alot of fun.

Busted out some civilization= blast!   

Give it a try if your wondering what to play next or waiting for it to come out.

(I lost/sold/gaveaway so many titles, but hey who knew they would want their first copy of  deus ex back?)

I revived elderscrolls: Morrowind on my new computer and  it runs like a charm, the game is 10X better now. I originaly played it with a old ass HP pavilion.

 :1.5GHZ willamete

:384mb pc 133 RAM

: Geforce  2 MX

I could barely walk in a straight line looking down the ground without stuttering.

Another game is operation flashpoint: Resistance, for some reason it cant be maxed but its much more better looking/fluid now then on my old computer. 

yea, exactly, they seem to play smoother now after a few upfrades.

plus, some older games told great stories.

I recently got the "what am I gonna play now " feeling with some of the newer titles I have.

I looked up and thought, hmm....maybe I should install that again.

I did:  NOLF 2, MYST, RIVEN, Thief 3:DS,kotor, and ol' PK.

It's almost a whole new game all over (except for ,well, I played it before)

,but turning up the sound and the hardware changes since then make it alot of fun.

Busted out some civilization= blast!   

Give it a try if your wondering what to play next or waiting for it to come out.

(I lost/sold/gaveaway so many titles, but hey who knew they would want their first copy of  deus ex back?)

 

  

 

 

blackcee

I'm about to start up the first KotOR and I thought that I would increase the graphical settings, to see if it made a difference. It didn't make any difference when I tried switching between 800*600 and 1024*768 resolutions, but it's still a great game, even if it doesn't look any better with increased settings. 

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I recently got the "what am I gonna play now " feeling with some of the newer titles I have.

I looked up and thought, hmm....maybe I should install that again.

I did:  NOLF 2, MYST, RIVEN, Thief 3:DS,kotor, and ol' PK.

It's almost a whole new game all over (except for ,well, I played it before)

,but turning up the sound and the hardware changes since then make it alot of fun.

Busted out some civilization= blast!   

Give it a try if your wondering what to play next or waiting for it to come out.

(I lost/sold/gaveaway so many titles, but hey who knew they would want their first copy of  deus ex back?)

 

  

 

 

Hurvl

I'm about to start up the first KotOR and I thought that I would increase the graphical settings, to see if it made a difference. It didn't make any difference when I tried switching between 800*600 and 1024*768 resolutions, but it's still a great game, even if it doesn't look any better with increased settings. 

Oh yeah, Its a really fun thing to do. I still remember the joy when i upgraded from my radeon 9550 to a GeForce 7600 and I installed far cry and played it on high settings. I almost burst into tears when seeing how much graphics and performance I have been missing.skyjuicerz

I've been playing a couple older titles that I used to love. I started playing Mafia and a little bit of Need for Speed 3. I remember buying Mafia when it came out and I couldnt even play it on my computer. My first build had a 900 Duron cpu and everything else was pretty low end. But I could manage to play it. Now I have a pretty nice computer and the game runs without a hitch. This will be my 3rd time playing it through. Great game! One of my favorites.Rayze78

Since when did KOTOR, Deus Ex, Far Cry, and even Icewind Dale become older games? Man you guys make me feel old :|mrbojangles25

Playing older games on new systems can be great fun but with some older games compatiblity issues creep in.zeus_gb

Hopefully I don't have that problem with Fallout and Grim Fandango, both of which I recently installed and am finally playing them for the first time ever.

Here's a tip to some of you guys playing older games. I recently started playing thief 2 again and the blasted game would keep on locking up my computer. It turns out that games made in the 90s do not take particularly well to dual core CPUs :lol:

To fix this i simply launched thief 2, minimized the screen, went to task manager, right clicked on the exe, selected set affinity, and unchecked cpu 1, and now the game works like a charm.

Not sure if this will be helpful to the rest of you, but then again who knows.

ps. thief 2 still rocks after all these games, now that i can play it with a 1024*768 resolution :P

mm, I like re-playing old games again, and it is nice when they run 10000X better than they used to.  I first played GTA3 on a laptop with 16mbs of Vram, and it was stuck at 640x480 on low everything. I recently put it onto my newer PC and its like a completely different game! It also funny laughing when you cant see the pictures on the loadscreen, when older games load ridiculously quickly :)