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we& #39;re in such a weird place as far as PC "retrogaming" goes. anything made before 1998 or so can be pretty easily played, occasionally straight up but usually with a variety of emulation options, but from like 99 to 2007? a tremendous number of games just won& #39;t run right
unlike the older games, which won& #39;t run at all on modern windows, the middle-era games often run but have weird problems
the most irritating ones for me are scaling and display modes. neverwinter nights 2 will run on windows 10 just fine (the gog edition anyway) but it& #39;s so hard to play it the way I play modern games.
i don& #39;t want to run anything in exclusive fullscreen anymore. it never should have existed (I still don& #39;t understand what it is) but it& #39;s even more frustrating now because i have three monitors, and windows is too dumb to handle this right
in the cases where it doesn& #39;t fullscreen on the wrong monitor, it still jostles and fucks up all my windows on all displays even if the resolution *isn& #39;t changing.* fullscreening at the native res of my monitor *still* makes everything hiccup. fuck!
i can& #39;t alt-tab out because every single time i do it it jostles and fucks everything up, and i& #39;ve even had system hangs before by switching display resolutions back and forth too quickly
i don& #39;t play games the way i did when i was 19. i don& #39;t open the game and just stay in it for six hours. i alt tab out constantly to do other things, so this behaviro isn& #39;t an option for me at all
a lot of stuff released in the early 2000s just freaks out at the display subsystem in windows 10, who knows why. complaining about bit depth issues that don& #39;t exist, running the intro movies but then the display just stops updating while the menu music plays
i have other computers, i could put windows 7 on something, but again - i do not want the game to be My Current And Only Task. i want it to be a program, running on my computer, like modern games are
stuff like dgvoodoo is a step in the right direction - what we essentially need for these games to remain playable is a high level emulation of windows XP. not *just* directx, something deeper and more thorough.
sign my change dot org petition for microsoft to release a new WIndows XP On Windows
I was drunk when I wrote this thread and forgot to finish talking about the technical issues so anyway
