What single player FPS campaign are you playing?

[Exhuminator]

Weird glitch there Xeogred.

I'd try disabling some of the advanced video settings and see if any of those have any effect.

If your PC includes a built in GPU in its mobo, you could try switching to it as the renderer for this game, and see if that changes anything. Sometimes stuff like Intel HD 4000 or whatever is actually more compatible with older games than bang up modern graphics cards.

[isiolia]

If your PC includes a built in GPU in its mobo, you could try switching to it as the renderer for this game, and see if that changes anything. Sometimes stuff like Intel HD 4000 or whatever is actually more compatible with older games than bang up modern graphics cards.

I've found that to vary. Objectively, newer Intel graphics are a lot more capable than early-2000s cards and the like...but newer drivers (or something) don't necessarily support older DirectX versions very well (Quake 4 is probably new enough that it'd be fine though, my experience is more with FFXI, which runs horribly on HD 4000 for some reason).


I'd second checking advanced graphics settings though. Particularly, what I would look at with that is whether you're using some form of post-processing anti-aliasing. I remember Guild Wars 2 having a black screen with that enabled, at least early on, and I think some other titles as well. I want to say it messed with mist in one of the Bethesda games as well? I dunno. I remember oddities with it back when it was new.

[Gunstar Green]

it was all careful level design and good use of scripting.

I remember being in Wal-Mart in '98, browsing the shelves of big box PC games (I miss this so, so much) and listening to two dudes gushing over Half-Life, saying things like, "On the highest difficulty the soldiers are indistinguishable from real humans!"

As cute as that is thinking back on it I was almost sold on that. It was the first time I remember enemies flanking me in a first-person shooter which was an absolute shock at the time.

[ElkinFencer10]

Homefront: The Revolution patch 1.04 went up today, so hopefully that will make the game playable again (since I literally couldn't progress with the map-breaking bug). Frame rate hasn't been addressed yet, but I could still play the game with that, even if it is less than ideal. So I'll be balancing Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem on my SNES with Mirror's Edge: Catalyst and Homefront on my PS4.

[Xeogred]

You guys above had the same guess as mine, I'll look into the aliasing and some lightning options. Maybe one of those is messing with it.

That said... the game still doesn't seem that good anymore haha. I'm wondering why I should bother when I should just play those Quake and Quake 2 expansions! Already craving more of those. Should I go with the GOG versions or Steam? Not sure if the packages are different at all or not. With GOG I can get both games with all expansions for $10 each, but I really only need the expansion files. GOG seems more ideal. Hopefully I don't have to tweak my two ports for them. And I guess the Steam versions for some (?) of them don't come with the new music or something.

It looks like there might be some complications with the music for the expansions. Gonna guess they can probably just be easily downloaded though. lol

[marurun]

Try it without any mods or add-ons, anyway. You never can tell. One of them might attempt to update a shader or something, and that can send anything to hell.

[Exhuminator]

Should I go with the GOG versions or Steam?

[Stark]

Oh Lordy

[Xeogred]

Got the Quake 1 mission packs working flawlessly. Hopefully they're playing the correct music, I downloaded some additional pak files that I think are the original scores. Sounds like GOG had some licensing issues recently and took them out, but may have replaced them with something. I'll have to compare the music I hear in game to tracks on youtube tonight or something.

Used this guide for reference on a lot of stuff:
http://www.dosgamers.com/dos/dos-games/quake

Quake 2 has a lot more folders and I was using KMQuake2, so hopefully it's not too tricky to figure out with those as well.

[isiolia]

Sounds like GOG had some licensing issues recently and took them out, but may have replaced them with something. I'll have to compare the music I hear in game to tracks on youtube tonight or something.

Far as I know, the basic "issue" with Quake's music is that it was purely redbook audio. Even back when it came out, if you had no CD in the drive, you had no music, even if the rest of the game was installed to the HDD (as the guide you linked mentions). I don't think the original engine supports anything else. Digital versions have been sans soundtrack as a result, unless you go get a newer engine that supports using a ripped version (again, per the guide).