Retro PC Games Played on Real Hardware - Just GamePlay, No Commentary.
I have a big collection of retro PC games and I decided to play them one by one. I thought I'd play in alphabetical order but turned out that's a bit boring so I'm playing whatever I want. I also play all these games in real hardware, so there won't be any emulators or anything. Depends on the game I will change the hardware and will add that into the video description, so you know what is running.
At the moment my plan is:
1 - Run the games on real hardware with an average specs. 2 - Play the game at least for 1 hour (longer if I enjoy it) 3 - Rate the game. 4 - No commentary, Just gameplay and in-game sound/music.
Hey I was very surprised by that too! From years ago I remember the disk crunching in the PC case like someone was running a screwdriver over hard metal but for some reason this one turned out to be a cat purr. The disk is a 40GB Seagate, I think it's 7200 but I'm not 100% sure, I need to check by the model number. I think I'll need to make another defrag video later with a louder disk haha.
Hey, yeah good idea and I actually had the same thought. I tested the game with 16MB and 32MB and didn't notice any difference at all. I think it's the AMD K5 75Mhz holding it back. Later I'll try it with a 133 or 166Mhz with 8-16-32MB ram to see the difference. But I appreciate the suggestion, it's a good idea definitely.
@@RootiferasRetroGameplay yeh there was a few cheats. I remember you could buy a cheat book from shop. It was really cool because on the indoor game you could get ball speed cheat it was great.
I used IBM dos at work that software was from 1985 one floppy 💾 had 1 cad file for a pluming/irrigation project to manufacture a brass product Like a gas fitting or water tap on a cad/cam Miling machine or automatic lathe , at home I had win 3.11 right up to 95 came out on cd, fast forward to 2024 I'm on win 10 and I'm not downgrading to 11 because Linux is better. I'm 65 so your not old yet son
@@scottorgan2255 thanks! I'm typing this comment from a Win11 PC and it is terrible. I just had to restart because Windows Explorer was using 23GB of memory, I don't understand how. Was it a big business, where you used the milling machine? Was it a common thing to have a computer at work in 80s? I remember, where I grew up even the banks got computers around 93/94. They were all manual paperwork before that.
Apart from unit controls being a bit clunky, the game plays great. Cutscenes are amazing. Overall it's a really good game. No surprise it's that famous.
I'm trying to build an average or below average PC for playing the games, I find it more realistic. Probably most people had that as their PC at the time. You can see it is heavily skipping frames, later I will try it with different CPU's. :)
@@RootiferasRetroGameplay i perfect agree with you, i also love to test everything with the correct hardware of the time. It's too Easy to put a V2 on a PIII 1 GHz and Say "Oh wow!". We all at the time had a normal Build for that specific time.
Haha I had to look that up! Paul John Gascoigne, born 27 May 1967), nicknamed Gazza, is an English former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Hi there, could you please post the graphic options and setup? I used to play that game on my first self-bought PC with a Voodoo2 card, and it ran very well. Nowadays, I own an AMD 450 with a Voodoo2 card and it really sucks because of the low FPS rate. :("
Hey! I have the PC specs in the video description. Unfortunately I can't remember the graphic options, I change computer parts and settings a lot but other than changing the resolution I keep settings as default. With Voodoo2 and PIII 450 the game was playing pretty well. I haven't tried it with AMD but I have the hardware, I could give it a try sometime.
hah I'll play the older ones too, probably it will be 4-3-2-1. I haven't played Settlers 1, the flag thing was very confusing to me. I still don't think I fully understand how it works.
@@RootiferasRetroGameplay "2: veni vidi vici" was the best I think. each flag-separated road has its own peasant and donkey if you have donkeys. they are not micromanaged, which forces you to plan better etc.
Like! What resolution did you use here ? Although I cannot see the FPS in Glide in NFS Porsche, while playing with the Banshee I felt that the frame rate was lower than with the Voodoo 3, the game wasn’t as fluid as with the Voodoo 3 in 1024x768. But in 800x600 it run very well.
I kept the same settings as Voodoo 3! Resolution: 1024 x 768 x 16 Car Detail: High Car Lighting: High World Rendering quality: Very High View Distance: Very High It was noticeably but wasn't too bad either. I'm really surprised with the Voodoo Banshee's performance.
Very interesting comparison. The Savage4 does not display fog I guess and the Voodoo 3 has lower quality textures (256x256) compared to the other 2 cards which support 512x512 ones. Unfortunately it’s not possible to see the FPS in Glide with the Voodoo to compare the frame rate.
Yeah I was surprised to see Savage4 not displaying the fog, I only noticed it after I watched the video back. For the frame rate, I think Voodoo3 and TNT2 was very similar in performance but Savage4 was slightly slower. I think S4 colours are much better, other 2 seems a bit washed out but that's probably because there's no fog haha
Hi, thanks for asking. 1024 x 768 x 16 car detail: high car lighting: high world rendering quality: very high view distance: very high Please let me know if you have any questions.
Hey! I use 1.07.00-WHQL one, I think it's the latest official driver. Works quite well. I just recorded the second video, I'll upload tomorrow but this time I played with Voodoo Banshee.
@@RootiferasRetroGameplay I also use the version 1.07, the last one from 3dfx. I tested almost all versions I found and 1.07 is overall the best for the Voodoo 3. For the Banshee I used 1.04, also the last official one from 3dfx.
yeah exactly! At that time my computer wasn't up to the task. I had a PII 233, 32MB RAM and a Cirrus Logic CL-5446 with 4MB RAM. Later I upgraded to a Celeron 400 and TNT2 M64, it was a life changer. I've never had a 3DFX card back then, this is pretty much why I got all the games and the hardware now. I couldn't play any of these in the past with 3DFX, I'm experiencing them for the first time with the "dream build" :)
Delta Force 1 only runs software but I found some Glide wrapper but I don't think it worked, so the game is running on software. However, Delta Force 2 has D3D support but not required and it can run software. Here's the photo from the original DF2 box: i.gyazo.com/c9240654adf76f9ff0ab5576e5fb1e62.jpg
Yes! I think this was pretty much the best you could get around that time. I think if I dropped the resolution down to 800x600 the game would have ran perfectly.
I'm not sure if you can tell but Episode 2 has GALAHs Fifa99 3D Patch installed and resolution is set to 1024x768. Episode 1 was 640x480. To be honest I see absolutely no difference at all.
Yep! The sound is a bit low but it gets better in the other episodes. Still trying to figure out a way of recording the sound cleanly without all the buzzing.
