Ookay - since there's been a lot about getting PX-Shader games to work on the V5500 lately, I decided to do a topic about what games you'd like to see "patched" to work on the V5500... ;)

1. Prince of Persia - Sands of Time
2. Prince of Persia - Warrior Within
3. Prince of Persia - The Two Thrones*

* - the third game only applies if Ubisoft (or third party) releases a "Starforce Pro removal patch" >:(

I HAAAAATE STARFORCE!!! >:( >:(

And now back on topic...LOL! ;D

hmm have you tested the newest Clone CD or is that a no go as well?

Back ontopic then :)

FarCry on a Voodoo5 would be fun since there should be a way of running it right?
Call of Duty2 :P Since Call of Duty1 was a great success Call of Duty2 should do nice as well since it does support DirectX 7 hardware modes :)

Quote:

have you tested the newest Clone CD

Hmm...the problem with Starforce isn't making a backup of my original POP3 CD (note, it's only CD3 that is protected) - Clone CD supports that... ::)

...but Starforce installs it's own "drivers" that interfere with Windows 'ring 0' I/O operations...

...this means that it can: -

1. Stop all writers from working until drivers are removed. :o
2. Kill random data on your HDD :o
3. Cause bluescreens...(a B.S.O.D. in other words) :o

...and several other nasty things too! >:(

Anyhow, I'll not elaborate on Starforce here - just Google it if you want to find out why everyone hates it so much. :P

Ok, no more talk about copy protections - back on topic now! ;)

(no piracy related talk in our forum thanks!) ::)

StarForce is liek Ghey and stuff, it just doesn't pwn ya know.
Don't tell me the odd's Paul, at the Computer club I go to we have encounters with it sometimes and yes it's a real pain in the backside to deal with ;D

Okay that's enought for the off topic stuff , haha so funny when we do that hay ;D

For your Pixel Shader based games list here are a few more:

Flight Simulator 2004
Flight Simulator X Deluxe Edition [It has more detail, missions and more aircraft than the original one]
Lock On Modern Air Combat
Dark Messiah of Might And Magic
Heroes of Might And Magic V
Prey
F.E.A.R.
Battlefield2
Battlefield2: Speacial Forces

Quote:

Prey F.E.A.R.

D@MN RIGHT! ;D 8)

(actually, I'm surprised I missed those!) ::)

BTW...hasn't anyone else got any games they'd like to see running on the V5500? ???

Even if they just "work" and aren't really playable - it's a start and can be worked on! ;)

Well, NFS Carbon of course! And NFS:MW, NFS:U2, NFS:U ;)

wrote on 10.11.06 at 22:14:16:

D@MN RIGHT! ;D 8) (actually, I'm surprised I missed those!) ::) BTW...hasn't anyone else got any games they'd like to see running on the V5500? ??? Even if they just "work" and aren't really playable - it's a start and can be worked on! ;)

hey Paul I just finnised play'n First Encounter Assult Recon aka F.E.A.R. oh man it was Hels ;D

LooooooL ;D ;D ;D

I must conclude that F.E.A.R. has extreme real physics, it's Mission Pack : Extraction Point:
http://www.quickload.hostingvision.com/images/1486Fear%20Extraction%20Point%20boxart.jpg

Which I will be getting this month, the advantage is that F.E.A.R. runs with the advanced Doom3 engine which also was used for Quake4 and Prey :) aka OpenGL2.0 so with Mesa FX it should be possible, maybe use'n the Doom3 MesaFX OpenGL32.dll file an idea ?

Quote:

3. Prince of Persia - The Two Thrones* * - the third game only applies if Ubisoft (or third party) releases a "Starforce Pro removal patch"   I HAAAAATE STARFORCE!!!

Just a little news - Starfore Pro has been cracked! 8)

Now I can play my POP3:T2T without Starforce! WOOT! ;D

Obviously no questions about... ::)

"Where do we get the crack for the game?" :P

No piracy talk please - I'm just bringing the good news that Starforce protection has been bypassed! ;)

YAY AGAIN! ;D

Oh, and @Obi_Wan - can you remove the "spoiler" for the end of F.E.A.R. (coincidentally, I don't have the game yet - so thanks for spoiling the ending for me) ::)

I'm not that bothered, but other people might be! (so remove the two paragraps in your last post after the quote from me) ;)

Thanks in advance mate! :)

Lol Just telling my experience, not a spoiler lol ::) Just play the game with some heavy Hard Core ;) Hardcore To The Bone is a very good album that really fits the game haha HELS!!!

and yeah I did remove the spoiler stuff for ya sorry mate, just got back from the Bar with some great locals and mates of me hehe ;)

wrote on 12.11.06 at 20:05:50:

Which I will be getting this month, the advantage is that F.E.A.R. runs with the advanced Doom3 engine which also was used for Quake4 and Prey :) aka OpenGL2.0 so with Mesa FX it should be possible, maybe use'n the Doom3 MesaFX OpenGL32.dll file an idea ?

F.E.A.R. doesn't use DooM ]|[ engine, but Monolith's own Lithtech engine. It's based on Direct3D9, not OpenGL.

wrote on 18.11.06 at 21:30:29:

No piracy talk please - I'm just bringing the good news that Starforce protection has been bypassed! ;)

There is no room for Starforce protection on MY harddrive- As far as I'm concerned it rates right up there with a virus.

Rediculous punishing the buying public for the acts of others. I will NOT buy a game that comes with Starforce protection and notify the publisher of the fact too.

wrote on 25.01.07 at 03:27:18:

F.E.A.R. doesn't use DooM ]|[ engine, but Monolith's own Lithtech engine. It's based on Direct3D9, not OpenGL.

heh looks alot like the Doom3 engine if'd you'd ask me, heh but yeaps I did find out that it was a D3D application afterall.

Just look on how the textures look like, allot like Doom3 heh.

At first I thought they used the Doom3 engine to program it in OpenGL first then convert it to Direct3D as what was done with Unreal Tournament 2003 Tournament, there was a way to use MESAFX in Unreal Tournament 2003 so it must of been ported from OpenGLto Direct3D unless the OpenGL function was disabled for some strange reason.

UT 2003 allows you to select either D3d or OGL - hence why you could use MESA.


Quote:

Rediculous punishing the buying public for the acts of others. I will NOT buy a game that comes with Starforce protection and notify the publisher of the fact too.

True, true! ;)

The only reason I bought one was that it was Prince of Persia The Two Thrones. :)

Although a crack is not really the 'right' way to go - I think we can all agree that a crack that allows the user to run the game without StarFARCE on their HDD is a good thing! 8)

Did anybody get FarCry & Call of Duty2 running on a Voodoo 4 or Voodoo 5 yet?
If So I'd like to know how ;D