The unofficial "So what are you playing?" thread

I think I am just gonna buy Lossless Scaling for full price. Its worth $6.99

I remember Q3A being a great game for high framerates. That's one I would try for sure.

One of the last traditional RTS I got into was Emperor: Battle for Dune. I kinda forgot it existed. Someone made it work with modern computers. Its abandonware now. I guess you cannot get it digitally anywhere legal

wheybags.com/blog/emperor.html

I couldn't imagine playing Resident Evil 7 on an iPhone. Maybe the biggest iPad in the dark but an iPhone? Naw

gamerant.com/resident-evil-7-sales-flop-ios-iphone-15/

[post void] - Got this on Steam for around $2, very fun retro shooter where you have to kill enemies in order to stay alive until you get to the end of the level. In between levels, you can choose from different weapons or other perks like reloading faster, or getting a hud marker that points to the end of the level, among other things. Very simple graphics and the levels are very similar each time but with more difficulty and enemies. For $2 I think it's a great game, gets more fun each time. By far I think the knife might be the best weapon, but that might change.

Beat Post Void, was very fun. Once you figure out that the main thing is just to reach the end of the level, it becomes a breeze. Also the shotgun is probably the best weapon in the game, maybe the smg.

I decided to try an Xbox emulator. Never did that before, was just curious how it would run. Made my CPU hit 98c before the fans on my AIO spun up, the hottest I have ever seen it.

Tried Lossless Scaling with the emulator and it worked great. So weird to have this program come out of nowhere that lets you 2x/3x your FPS, it has some glitches of course but it works. Also tried Thief The Black Parade capped at 90 FPS. That worked fine giving 180

Found this video from one of the developers of Amnesia The Bunker and decided to watch it.....he mentioned that "with the Halloween patch if you break boxes there might be loot inside"

.....I finished the game twice and started a 3rd playthrough and I had no idea you could break boxes for supplies.

I've been wanting to play Voxel Doom for a while so I finally got around too it. Instead of doing it the old school way I did in the 1990s with a bunch of .bat files I actually downloaded a proper launcher, Doom Launcher

github.com/nstlaurent/DoomLauncher

If you want to use something like Voxel Doom with big custom campaigns or any other mod its very easy with Doom Launcher.

Basically it will ask where your iWad is (the files that come with Doom / Doom 2). If stuff comes in a .zip file you leave that all together. Then you click the 3 lines and Add Files... and add whatever files you are going to want to use.

From here its super easy to have a default profile with a ton of mods, and then you can easily change it for custom maps (pwads), it will show the readme and automatically add any other files that come with the custom maps.

Anyway, I wanted to try Voxel Doom and I read there is an extra gore mod like in Brutal Doom, but it added support for Voxel Doom so I downloaded that. Since I am on OLED the pitch black areas of the game are actually pitch black so I also added a flashlight mod.

The custom map set I wanted to try is one of the highest rated of all time, "Doom the Way ID did It" it is for Doom 1, so no Super Shotgun

Someone made a really cool mod that adds the Super Shotgun to Doom 1. Rather then just give it to you its more organic. Any shotgun that spawns in the world on the floor has a 10% chance to be a Super Shotgun, also 10% of the Shotgun Guys are Super Shotgun guys, they shoot at you with the SS and when you kill them they drop a SS.

When testing this mod the first Shotgun guy in the first room of level 1 was a SS guy lol. When I actually played the PWAD I wasn't as lucky.

I was going to download .mp3s of the Doom music in high quality, then I found someone did a remake of the music but played actual guitars and drums when they called for it:
forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=24423

Not the first person to remake the Doom/Doom 2 soundtrack but very high quality and in a format where you can just use it as a mod.

Anyway, this is how my Doom Launcher looks after doing a quick setup:

On a modern system with no hardware/software issues you won't hear any difference switching bit depths. I use a RME ADI-2 DAC FS which is a high end all in one DAC/AMP and it only supports 16-bit/24-bit and caps out at 48,000hz.

Now in the 1990s/early 2000s soundcards and the Windows sound stack was nowhere near as advanced as it is now, and it was completely possible that you would hear nasty artifacts listening to music that was badly converted from 44,000hz(CD audio standard) to 48,000hz(computer audio standard).

Long story short any $2 DAC chip in a modern soundcard should work fine unless there is some kind of bug in the hardware/software.

Now manufacturers marketing will try and sell you 32-bit/384,000hz sound hardware that is of no benefit at all.

Whelp. I downloaded and installed the new release of Doom + Doom 2. Picked a map. Go to set up my controls and it crashed.

So Legacy of Rust in the new released of Doom/Doom 2 is supposed to be amazing.

Tried it in the new release but I greatly prefer the graphics/mods I installed in GZDoom.

Happy to say it works fine, Legacy of Rust is stored as id1.wad as well as a weapon and res file. Copied them to the GZdoom folder and added them via Doom Launcher. Playing fine.

I managed to find the secret level in Legacy of Rust. I had a key in my inventory I never used. Big hint. Kept searching the map and finally found a secret which lead to another secret. Had no idea that is what I was stumbling into.