Status timebias Jun 4, 2022
Just installed this. I played a few PSX Gex demos many years ago, but never a full game. I picked this up when I was acquiring lots of PSX games some time ago; without giving it must thought or research, I got PC versions of many multiplatform games of that age (unless the PSX version was cheaper or easier to …
Just installed this. I played a few PSX Gex demos many years ago, but never a full game. I picked this up when I was acquiring lots of PSX games some time ago; without giving it must thought or research, I got PC versions of many multiplatform games of that age (unless the PSX version was cheaper or easier to get). It slipped my mind how poor many ports were in those days, but hopefully this PC version is fine…
With help from the ever-indispensable PCGamingWiki, I installed an unofficial 3DFX to Direct 3D Patch for the PAL version (I bought the German CD-ROM edition) and added dgVoodoo2 to mess around with graphical settings. The game’s music plays directly from CD audio tracks; as I can’t be arsed to plug our USB optical disc drive into my laptop every time I load it up, I’ve created an image (BIN file) of the disc using IsoBuster for mounting with DAEMON Tools Lite.
I’ve briefly run the game to check how it’s performing on my system. Seems fine! I’m wondering if playing the PSX version would’ve been better, because PGXP might correct some of the graphical ‘wobbliness’—and apparently that version also contains more audio tracks—but the PC version with dgVoodoo magic looks decent enough so far.
