Playing older games on a new system can be... interesting.

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I've upgraded my PC somewhat recently and I've noticed some new issues with some older games, and I seem to have found a magic solution to them. All I needed was a frame limiter.

Oblivion - (the old release of course) Cutscenes doing glitchy things, dialog advancing too quickly, and I think a physics issue or two (beyond the usual Bethesda stuff) fixed with frame limiter. Did the world map always scroll so slowly though?

Saints Row 2 - lots of crashing, objects or people in moving cutscenes (in a car) not keeping up. (Also Tobias showed up with a pilot helmet that was floating off to the side instead of on his head) Had to limit it to 30fps on this one, because some of it was still happening at 60.

Jurassic Park Operation Genesis - I forget what the issue was on this one, but it was game breaking, and frame limiter got it working just like before.

I'm using RTSS. Do wish devs didn't take forever to stop relying on hardware speeds. This has been an issue all the way back to DOS games and it took them, what, 15, 20 years to start limiting frames in-game?

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LegendaryLycanthrope

1 month ago

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Yeah, that's Bethesda games - they made the absolutely moronic decision to tie their games' physics to the framerate...so if it gets too high, things start flipping out. I know both Skyrim and Fallout 4 have mods to fix that, but I don't know if the older ones do.

DanielBunny

1 month ago

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@ LegendaryLycanthrope

That's STILL happening? geez

Liquidhalo231

1 month ago

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With the Windows 10 end of life coming up now might be the time to hit ebay up looking for old Dell workstations. Companies are dumping them like they're infected because they don't do Windows 11. My company has wiped and disposed of over 3000 this year alone, it's such a waste but they can easily do old games.

DanielBunny

1 month ago

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@ Liquidhalo231

This end of life shit annoys the fuck out of me. Upgrade the OS instead of making a new one!

smaxattax

1 month ago

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30fps limit was a huge plague in 00s. Even games that had the option to disable it, like the GTA 3 trilogy originals, would have wonky and broken physics if you went over. Bully there's a patch to go from 30 to 60, but it breaks two missions in the game so you have to toggle. Just a mess. Cynicalbrit, RIP, used to run a curator that cataloged 30fps limited games https://store.steampowered.com/curator/9393382-The-Fram...

60 seems to be the new 30 in that regard.

DanielBunny

1 month ago

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@ smaxattax

Well the good news is 60 should be where it stays now, since the human eye can't register more than 60 frames a second anyway, right?