Anyone still playing old Star Wars games?

[NoxiousOdor]

5 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Same here. I'll try and make sure my profile is set up so you can. Won't be able to play too much till I get my gaming PC hooked up to the 'Net. I can run it in Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro though. What time zone are you in?

I am in the Pacific Time zone. The same one Seattle is in

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, fpo said:

aye!

 

I mean yes... I just wanted to be a pirate for a second. desktop I played on is an R9 390. I don't think I played on my laptop; My laptop's gpu is an R9 m275-also an AMD GPU.

Yeah, I was looking around and found that AMD cards make it all blotchy and yellow/blue/red. There's a fix somewhere, let me find it. 

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, WhisperingKnickers said:

I am in the Pacific Time zone. The same one Seattle is in

K. I'm in Central Time, I think. I live about 45min from Franklin/Nashville TN. 

[Zando_]

@fpo Here: http://www.moddb.com/mods/amd-crimson-driver-solution/downloads/battlefront-ii-amd-fix-beta-03. It's outdated though, and says driver 17.2.1 fixes the issue. Can't hurt to try it though. 

 

Also here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/6060/discussions/0/133256959374449178/

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

@fpo Here: http://www.moddb.com/mods/amd-crimson-driver-solution/downloads/battlefront-ii-amd-fix-beta-03. It's outdated though, and says driver 17.2.1 fixes the issue. Can't hurt to try it though. 

 

Also here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/6060/discussions/0/133256959374449178/

Thanks! I'd try it now, however I'm currently sporting Linux on desktop, and laptop. I'm considering getting a budget GPU for my 32 bit win 7 pc however. Likely an Nvidia for shadowplay, but if I ever run windows and an AMD GPU I'll definitely come back!!

[Zando_]

Just made a discord chat server thingie. Let's hope I can figure out how to use it. And my name is (you'll never guess):

Spoiler

ZandoBob

 

 

EDIT: And I can PM you the server/chat thing link if you want it. Though it'll be only text, I don't have a mic. 

[Zando_]

Just now, fpo said:

Thanks! I'd try it now, however I'm currently sporting Linux on desktop, and laptop. I'm considering getting a budget GPU for my 32 bit win 7 pc however. Likely an Nvidia for shadowplay, but if I ever run windows and an AMD GPU I'll definitely come back!!

Awesome. What GPU does your Win7 build have (or can it not boot, since it has no GPU?)? Battlefront II can run fine on any remotely new iGPU, especially if your turn down settings. I run a few mods on my MacBook Pro (only an i5 iGPU), and it's fine. Does get a bit toasty though...

[NoxiousOdor]

6 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

K. I'm in Central Time, I think. I live about 45min from Franklin/Nashville TN. 

In that case you are 2 hours ahead of me. I am usually home after work at about 8pm your time and I can stay up however late. Today and tomorrow I will be a bit later but generally I would be available at that time

[Zando_]

Just now, WhisperingKnickers said:

In that case you are 2 hours ahead of me. I am usually home after work at about 8pm your time and I can stay up however late. Today and tomorrow I will be a bit later but generally I would be available at that time

Yeah, and we should be able to play together on weekends (though this weekend I'm going hiking all day, and my mum hates video games, so we'll see how that goes). 

[PCGuy_5960]

Which games would you guys recommend?

[ArtoriaPendragon]

On 7/18/2017 at 11:09 PM, LooneyJuice said:

Nah, SWG is dead and burried. It was a very interesting MMO in its hayday. It was something like a mix between KOTOR and Freelancer. But it you find a good offer on IC, it might be worth your time. It's a pretty typical shooter, but they do a pretty good job with the story and the squad interaction as well. 

I heard that they have a SWG emulator out there with quite a few people still playing. 

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Which games would you guys recommend?

Battlefront II (2005) - I'll try and get together a list of good mods - KOTOR (never played it, but it looks and sounds awesome, you need mods to fix the bugs though), and Republic Commando. Which I've also never played, but I've watched gameplay, and it's super cool (you can command AI squamates, you have to cover for them, and you're always deep behind enemy lines doing cool secret missions). 

[Zando_]

3 minutes ago, ArtoriaPendragon said:

I heard that they have a SWG emulator out there with quite a few people still playing. 

Hmmmmmmmm.....  Any links?

[ArtoriaPendragon]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

Hmmmmmmmm.....  Any links?

http://www.swgemu.com/forums/index.php

 

I'd love to try it out but I'm overseas on a limited connection right now

[NoxiousOdor]

16 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Which games would you guys recommend?

 

13 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Battlefront II (2005) - I'll try and get together a list of good mods - KOTOR (never played it, but it looks and sounds awesome, you need mods to fix the bugs though), and Republic Commando. Which I've also never played, but I've watched gameplay, and it's super cool (you can command AI squamates, you have to cover for them, and you're always deep behind enemy lines doing cool secret missions). 

I agree with all of these and I have also played all of these. Very solid games. BF2 is one of my favorites and is actually the first PC game I ever bought back in 2009 though I've never tried modding it but I have heard there is a loot to see there. Knights of the Old Republic is a great RPG and has a ton of replay value. I haven't been able to get the first one to work on my computer but I really enjoy the second one. Republic Commando is one of my favorite games of all time and while the multiplayer is lacking, the story is excellent and I would highly recommend. It has a feel that no other games that I know of has.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, WhisperingKnickers said:

 

I agree with all of these and I have also played all of these. Very solid games. BF2 is one of my favorites and is actually the first PC game I ever bought back in 2009 though I've never tried modding it but I have heard there is a loot to see there. Knights of the Old Republic is a great RPG and has a ton of replay value. I haven't been able to get the first one to work on my computer but I really enjoy the second one. Republic Commando is one of my favorite games of all time and while the multiplayer is lacking, the story is excellent and I would highly recommend. It has a feel that no other games that I know of have.

Oh! and looking at the poll list, the Jedi Knight series looks awesome as well. 

[ArtoriaPendragon]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

Oh! and looking at the poll list, the Jedi Knight series looks awesome as well. 

I forgot which one it was but one of the Jedi Knight games lets you get the Movie Battles II mod which is the best you'll find for lightsaber duels.

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Awesome. What GPU does your Win7 build have (or can it not boot, since it has no GPU?)? Battlefront II can run fine on any remotely new iGPU, especially if your turn down settings. I run a few mods on my MacBook Pro (only an i5 iGPU), and it's fine. Does get a bit toasty though...

currently it's running the CPU: AMD athlon ii x2 270.

 

It must have integrated or motherboard graphics as the computer works fine. I had at a point in time had my AMD R9 390 in the computer, but I really want Nvidia Shadowplay.

It's not a super processor as it's from 2009, and not super tier, however it's good enough. I was able to play GTA 5, and Fallout 4 on it.

[Zando_]

Just now, ArtoriaPendragon said:

I forgot which one it was but one of the Jedi Knight games lets you get the Movie Battles II mod which is the best you'll find for lightsaber duels.

IDK which one that would be. Though the games and story look awesome, except the graphics. They're terrible. Though they do have that "glory days" throwback feel. 

[Zando_]

Just now, fpo said:

currently it's running the CPU: AMD athlon ii x2 270.

 

It must have integrated or motherboard graphics as the computer works fine. I had at a point in time had my AMD R9 390 in the computer, but I really want Nvidia Shadowplay.

It's not a super processor as it's from 2009, and not super tier, however it's good enough. I was able to play GTA 5, and Fallout 4 on it.

A 1050 would run BF2 no sweat, even packed with mods. Sheesh, it ran well when I only had a dual core Pentium (Now I've got a nice i5 2400). 

[ArtoriaPendragon]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

IDK which one that would be. Though the games and story look awesome, except the graphics. They're terrible. Though they do have that "glory days" throwback feel. 

I played MBII with some friends a few months ago and I think it held up decently well. To be fair though, you play MBII for the lightsaber mechanics and to scream at your friends over TS/Discord/Skype because their Darth Maul just chopped you in half.

 

 

[LooneyJuice]

15 minutes ago, ArtoriaPendragon said:

I heard that they have a SWG emulator out there with quite a few people still playing. 

Yeah, you're right, there's still projects around. I just generally tend to gloss over them on account of the usual issues with legality (I have none, but the rights holders do), flaky service and bugginess on account of the reverse engineering. They do exist though, and there's still a few peeps playing, you're totally right.

 

31 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

@LooneyJuice, other awesome mods are the GCW-1035 mod (I think by Delta), and his TFA mod. They make the stormtrooper skins look amazing, and bring in the guns and such from the new Battlefront. Basically EA's Battlefront (especially once you have HarrisonFog's maps installed -the Death Star is especially good - and Evolved and the graphic mod running), without star cards and it's all offline if you want it to be. 

 

 

EDIT: Also, do you know any good free gameplay capture software? Nvidia has one, right? It'd be cool to upload some vids, just to show people how cool the mods are. 

Thanks again, man. Amassed quite a collection now . I'll go snooping around as well eventually, see what combos I like most. Now to sit down and start installing...

[NoxiousOdor]

6 minutes ago, fpo said:

currently it's running the CPU: AMD athlon ii x2 270.

 

It must have integrated or motherboard graphics as the computer works fine. I had at a point in time had my AMD R9 390 in the computer, but I really want Nvidia Shadowplay.

It's not a super processor as it's from 2009, and not super tier, however it's good enough. I was able to play GTA 5, and Fallout 4 on it.

 

4 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

A 1050 would run BF2 no sweat, even packed with mods. Sheesh, it ran well when I only had a dual core Pentium (Now I've got a nice i5 2400). 

Right now I am running it off of integrated graphics and it works great. Getting a gpu is in the works but no sweat if you have any kind of gpu at all it will be fine

[Zando_]

Just now, LooneyJuice said:

Yeah, you're right, there's still projects around. I just generally tend to gloss over them on account of the usual issues with legality (I have none, but the rights holders do), flaky service and bugginess on account of the reverse engineering. They do exist though, and there's still a few peeps playing, you're totally right.

 

Thanks again, man. Amassed quite a collection now . I'll go snooping around as well eventually, see what combos I like most. Now to sit down and start installing...

Yeah. I was installing a ton last night. Install the EASY mod loader as well (you drop the.exe in the GameData folder, next to BattlefrontII.exe). It lets you pick which mods to load, since Battlefront II can only handle 500 missions. 

[Zando_]

Just now, WhisperingKnickers said:

 

Right now I am running it off of integrated graphics and it works great. Getting a gpu is in the works but no sweat if you have any kind of gpu at all it will be fine

Well, not any GPU. It has to have 128MB of VRAM... 

 

 

.... so yeah, any GPU.