Tex Murphy revival at GOG.com

Post by **nanette** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:43 pm

Great news for those who are uncomfortable with DOSBox and/or tinkering: the rerelease of all TM games as xp/vista compatible downloads

I might even be tempted to buy Overseer, if only to check out the videoquality (DVD??). I'll eagerly await some reviews on it

Post by **hfric** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:05 pm

you know they versions are nothing more then dosbox mixed with a full rip , there are tutorials how to make dosbox one pack exe on they site

and Overseer DVD works OK you only have to install MPEG2 codecs

Post by **nanette** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:09 pm

I know and I absolutely love DOSBox, but I know a lot of people (outside of LW of course) don't. There must be a whole new generation who can/will now play these great games they would not otherwise.
That was my point actually

EDIT: I could never get Overseer DVD to run OK - tried it on different PC's and with all possible option's I could think of or find on the net, but always ended up with errors, freezes, crashes, bugs etc.
My CD-version runs fine, so it's no very big deal, but an out-of-the-box DVD quality game would be 10 bucks very well spent imo
Reading the GOG forum I doubt it will happen though...

Post by **hfric** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:01 pm

http://www.fourthlaw.com/2007/03/26/tex ... all-guide/
full DVD install guide with pictures

ps. those MPEG drivers will also help and make it possible to run/play The Zork: Grand Inquisitor DVD without having a MPEG card

still looking for DOS MPEG drivers for Flash Traffic: City of Angels DVD

Post by **nanette** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:20 pm

Thanks Hfric, but I tried that already and also the one on Metzomagic and all kind of other tips on the net.
Out of pure obstinacy I had another go at it last night with my new laptop (yes, I set core affinity to 1) and again it ends in freezes, mousetrails and errors.

This is a game I have spent more time on getting it to run than playing it... but I was having fun either way!

Post by **hfric** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:02 pm

strange because i finished the DVD version on Vista

tested it even on Winxp with sp2 with th same results, it works

Amd 6000+ x2 here with Gf 9600 GT 512ram, and no didn't set affinity to 1 , it worked fine with 2

post more info about your problems, maybe they are driver specific ?

if you want i can dump my dvd + add the patch and the MPeg drivers and upload it

ok last edit... this game ,if i remember correctly has problems with ATI cards, do you have ATI?

Post by **nanette** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:54 pm

That's real nice Hfric, but I wouldn't want to ask you to do that big an upload only for good graphics; I already played the CD-version without any probs. It was only finding the DVD here at AL that made me want to try it.
But maybe you can think of something, so here goes:

5 year old laptop XP Home SP3 512 MB RAM with 64 MB Ati Radeon 9700 Mobillity
6 month old laptop XP Pro SP3 (came with Vista originally) 3 GB RAM and 128 MB nVidia GeForce 9300M G

The only ATI-connected glitch I could find was a garbled menu screen which was corrected by editing the Tex.ini file, but I needed to do that on the nVidia pc too.....
Maybe changing the nVidia driver to an older version will work, but I don't really want to mess up my nice new laptop (yet)
BTW I chose the software rendering on both pc's, as hardware rendering made things even worse

Post by **hfric** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:28 pm

ouch laptops graphic cards ... ok will try to find one that has 9300m and test this game , and trust me Ati's doesn't like this game and its not the menu, there are some hit detection problems on Ati's ... you know walking/running around and then you sink and fall forever

Post by **nanette** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:08 pm

YIPPIE, success at last - let's hope it lasts...

You were inspirational with the graphic card remark: I fiddled around with DXDiag and disabled Direct3D acceleration (left the other two switched on) and so far it works like a dream!

Thanks for that!!

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