What game are you currently playing?

[Tchernobog]

[Tchernobog]

Hotei's Jewels: Relax





I reached the final island, but I did not quite manage making it my final completed game of 2024.

[N0t_mINe]

[Tchernobog]

When you win the first stage on the twelfth and final island the game will just quit every time you try to progress.

It does however add you to the high score table.

Does that mean I won?

[N0t_mINe]

Yes

[Tchernobog]

I did later confirm that you are supposed to get 45 magic coins which is indeed what I got.

Hotei is just a trickster god it seems.

[Tchernobog]

So while looking through my father's old home office trying to find his desoldering pump, my brother stumbled across a stack of old Nvidia cards, among them a Riva TNT2 M64 as well as a GeForce 2 MX 400 which should effectively max out the 3D hardware in my retro computer given that it is already being bottlenecked by the 500 Mhz Penitum III Katmai CPU inside it.





Unfortunately Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor actually runs worse on the GeForce than it did with my ATI Rage 128 Pro Ultra, as the map scrolling stutters more now than it did before the upgrade. I have next to no experience with Nvidia cards modern or old, so I just went ahead and followed what seems to be the conventional wisdom floating around on VOGONS and installed the Detonator 7.76 drivers that they have hosted there for Windows 98. Tracking down the Linux drivers was actually simpler.

Biggest winners I have observed so far are Tribes 2 and American McGee's Alice.

[N0t_mINe]

Had some of the smoothest gaming experiences on an old Nvidia card 20 years ago .