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by Insectoid
Sat Aug 02, 2014 2:47 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: D3 movie issues
Replies: 13
Views: 1369

Re: D3 movie issues

Hmm well... I tried the nGlide wrapper with D3, and the movies work, but the game will not switch to 1920x1080 resolution (despite my command-line options, and even if I tell nGlide to use that resolution in the config program, which just makes the D3 menus look awful). It seems to be stuck in 640x4...
by Insectoid
Fri Aug 01, 2014 7:16 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: D3 movie issues
Replies: 13
Views: 1369

Re: D3 movie issues

I've never been keen on using the D3D renderer, as it's buggy and usually not as good as OpenGL (in spite of OpenGL's issues on NVIDIA cards). However, I'll look into the nGlide wrapper. This afternoon I tried D3 on my Toshiba laptop (which is a Core i5 M460 2.53GHz with 8GB RAM and Intel HD Graphic...
by Insectoid
Fri Aug 01, 2014 2:58 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: D3 movie issues
Replies: 13
Views: 1369

Re: D3 movie issues

Update: I tried level 1 and the end of level 15 on our XP box, and both movies work fine! I checked the movies installed on the XP box against the ones on my Win 7 box, and discovered only one oddity: the file timestamps on the XP match those on the CDs, but on the Win 7 nearly all of them (except f...
by Insectoid
Thu Jul 31, 2014 3:31 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: D3 movie issues
Replies: 13
Views: 1369

Re: D3 movie issues

By the way, I forgot to mention that I tried starting level 1 before I applied the 1.4 No-CD patch (and still no movie), so I don't think that's the problem. I should try on our XP box and see if I get a different result.
by Insectoid
Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:16 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: D3 movie issues
Replies: 13
Views: 1369

Re: D3 movie issues

I completely uninstalled D3, and deleted what was left of the Descent3 folder before reinstalling, while saving important files like my pilot file, saved games, etc. I will check the permissions.
by Insectoid
Wed Jul 30, 2014 7:48 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: D3 movie issues
Replies: 13
Views: 1369

Re: D3 movie issues

Correct. Manually copied them (the first time) to C:\Games\Descent3\movies. And as I mentioned, did a full re-installation, which likewise copies all 8 movies.
by Insectoid
Wed Jul 30, 2014 6:01 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: D3 movie issues
Replies: 13
Views: 1369

D3 movie issues

Been a long while since I posted here... :P I'm not sure if this belongs in this forum or the Single-Player forum, but it's a little technical, so I'll stick it here. Anyhow, just this week, for the first time in over a decade of playing, I beat D3: Retribution, destroying the Hellion boss with a ti...
by Insectoid
Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:59 pm
Forum: Descent Development
Topic: Descent 3 fonts
Replies: 5
Views: 2719

Descent 3 fonts

First time poster, long time Descenter. Has anyone ever converted the D3 fonts into a usable format like TTF? I'm well aware of (and have) the D2 font set, and was curious if there was something similar for the D3 fonts. (I'd make the fonts myself, but none of the programs I have recognize the forma...