Testing a list of games to see which is true 4:3 native. Most new games dislike 4:3, but the witcher 3 is pure native 4:3 baby! Cool looking game for sure! Time to play it once im done testing the list.
One of the rare modern games that works for 4:3! That saying, this game does run a heavy layer of rsr without the user knowing, its very obvious at low resolutions. Had to crank the res up to trick it's internal scaler. But this game runs so light that I don't mind, runs so easy on my old girl.
Had gta v since launch on my 360. I don't see the need to upgrade since my 360 runs fine. Will there be a gta 6 360 version or do I have to wait?
Orange box on xbox360. 768p on a pristine 1998 Sony 500ps crt monitor. Looks better than 1080p irl. Half life was meant to be played on a crt. Looks like a totally different game.
1998 technology still takes the crown when it comes to pc gaming monitors. Oled is coming close to crt, but flat screens are not there yet. Calibration tunning to prep for gta6 launch 🙏
The Concept: I am currently putting the final polish on a fully portable, standalone 3.3.5a WoW client. Soon, I will be making the Angry Tina files publicly available.
These files will feature both an offline and an online mode. The online mode will be completely configuration-free—just one click, and you are instantly connected to my personal server. I already know there is high interest in the standalone files, but before I dedicate my hardware to hosting the online server permanently, I want to ask a genuine question to gauge the community's interest in the backend architecture I am engineering to support it.
The Hardware & The "Angry Tina" Anti-Cheat I own a custom, hard-modded, liquid-cooled AMD Instinct MI100 Data Center Compute Unit paired with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K. This rig already runs 24/7 for other enterprise environments, but I am dedicating the MI100 specifically to run World of Warcraft.
If there is enough interest, we are coding a brand-new, custom anti-cheat engine from the ground up specifically for this hardware, titled Angry Tina anti cheat. Let me be clear: this is aggressively past any private server anti-cheat ever developed.
Advanced AI World & Future Vanilla Expansion Because the server is powered by a compute GPU, we aren't just running security. The server will feature highly advanced AI playerbots dynamically running around the world. These are driven by the MI100's inference engine, making the world feel incredibly alive and interactive.
There is also a very good chance that down the road, I will release a Vanilla version of this server. The MI100 has massive compute headroom, so there is more than enough room on this unit to house a second custom Angry Tina anti-cheat to monitor a Vanilla version simultaneously. Once this architecture is locked in, it can easily expand.
Dedicated ZFS ARC Array & The "Decades" Guarantee I did not build this server to shut it down in a year. This hardware is locked in and built to run non-stop for a few decades straight.
Your character data is treated with absolute enterprise-grade security. The WoW server's database runs on a completely dedicated, custom ZFS and ARC hybrid array utilizing four HC520 enterprise drives. By leveraging the ARC system to aggressively cache data into super-fast system RAM alongside these massive data-center drives, the server's database IO is incredibly fast.
More importantly: no matter what happens, your data will be safe. Through the redundancy of this custom ZFS array, even if a physical drive fails, your characters and progress are mathematically protected.
However, I know the biggest fear with private servers is losing your character when the server eventually dies. Here is my promise: When this server finally initializes its shutdown phase decades from now, every player will have the option to opt-in and have their specific saved game data files sent directly to them. When the server goes down, your character doesn't. You will be able to take your data, load it onto your own future AI hardware, and continue playing offline or with the friends you made.
My Genuine Question to You: This is a serious question, and I have no issue going down this path if the community actually wants it.
Would you play on a server with this level of hardware, AI security, and guaranteed data preservation? Let me know. I will not be accepting donations, this is a free service because I coded everything on my end and hosting the hardware. If I paid a server to do this identical lvl of hardware hosting, yes then I would have to pay them 2,000-4,000$ a month. So figured why not offer you guys this unique opportunity since my specialization is ai development and extreme hardware development. Don't be fooled, multiple 5090's and 14900k system wouldn't come close to the mi100 for this anti cheat/server performance. Just let me know quick before any other of my projects need this mi100 instead. Once were locked in, were in.
21 inch Sony Trinitron multiscan 500ps, got it from original owner that never past 37% brightness and contrast her entire life. He purchased it new after saving an entire month's pay check. Time to code and play WoW on this beast! Massive upgrade from my 768p 85hz 19inch monitor i had before. Shipped the monitor using craters and freighters. Playing this new game called world of warcraft, pretty cool game.
21 inch Sony Trinitron multiscan 500ps, got it from original owner that never past 37% brightness and contrast its entire life. He purchased it new after saving an entire month's pay check. Time to code and play WoW on these beast! Massive upgrade from my 768p 85hz 19inch monitor i had before.
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Update on dvd WoW: currently working on LTS port and windows port now so any computer from 2003+ can play single player wolk on the dvd. Making a website specifically for this projects download so keep an eye out on this page/community! Dropping LTS linux port next week along with the website. Windows port will be very soon after!
This is a follow-up to my proof-of-concept thread from yesterday
The amount of hostility, "fake" accusations, and straight-up blind rage over the use of AI to help engineer this architecture was wild. That’s fine. I’m not here to argue with the comments; I’m just here to drop the tape.
For everyone claiming there is a hidden SSD installation or background trickery—watch the video.
You can hear the Buffalo drive spooling. You can see the RAM buffer mounting in real-time. And for the ultimate proof: at the end of the video, I physically rip the Blu-ray disc out of the drive while my character is standing in Shadowglen. The second I hit 'B' to open my bags to hearth, the engine tries to stream the textures from the optical laser. Because the laser is gone, the client violently collapses and throws ERROR #134.
You cannot fake a fatal optical read-path crash on a physical cartridge tilt.
If you are actually interested in this setup, I will be making a universal file for people that you can burn on your own 25gb single layer disk's.
The code works. If you hate on it because my AI helped build the code, well AI slop just demolished what people attempted to do all these years. Enjoy the video.
I wanted to see if it was possible to create a true "plug-and-play arcade cartridge" for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (3.3.5a)—meaning a completely self-hosted, offline private server and client running entirely read-only from a physical Blu-ray optical disc, streaming live to RAM with zero local installation or internet requirements.
I couldn't find a single documented case of anyone successfully pulling this off online, so I’m logging the technical architecture and hardware here for the internet archives to prove it works.
The disc forces the game client to use standard OpenGL to guarantee immediate plug-and-play portability across both Windows and Linux machines without needing host-side Vulkan setups. This bypasses fragile translation configurations completely—allowing the disc to drop back to native DirectX on Windows or built-in kernel graphics on Linux so it boots flawlessly on any hardware out of the box.
Running an entire MMORPG ecosystem—database, authentication server, world server, and heavy client assets—off a slow, high-latency optical read-only medium required some aggressive custom structuring to prevent the game from choking out.
authserver and worldserver) can't write runtime character telemetry or world states back to the media. The startup routine initializes an ephemeral, volatile storage block directly in system memory (RAM). When the master script executes, it mounts the core databases to this active memory buffer, allowing sub-millisecond read/write operations while preserving the integrity of the read-only disc.Cache and Interface are symlinked directly into the system's /tmp memory directory to keep the physical laser head from getting stuck in an infinite read/write seek loop.This was strictly an engineering experiment to see if a physical optical media "Time Capsule" could handle a live-streaming, full-scale database and MMORPG client concurrently with zero host footprint. The proof of concept is a 100% success—the entire Lich King expansion runs flawlessly through this architecture.
That said, I’m wrapping up my time with this specific build and won't be continuing or maintaining this version of the project, as I'm pivoting over to another development project next. I wanted to leave this breakdown here so that anyone attempting a fully optical or read-only retro gaming preservation build in the future has a verified blueprint showing it can be done.
Ps2 project i been working on. Not done yet. Hard modded ps2 hooked up to raspberry pie/icc2 to play ever quest online to raid with the gang 😎
During my burn tests for my llm's, managed to snag 4ghz boost and 3.72ghz sustained (obviously not stable, very far from it) but heard from a birdy that last week's drivers for these cards fully unlock new vulkan paths and allowed unlocked clocks. This is a god bin yes but more users are reporting large boost in clocks aswell. Daily clocks now are 3.3-3.58ghz at 225 watts limit. Undervolting unlocks this. Try it, have fun. Performance is scaling so no, this is not clock stretching. 3.720ghz did not not much more performance, as it was highly unstable but wanted to see what the card can do. 4ghz micro burst on ambient blower cooler is now doable on the 9700's.
Been having fun with my experimental 9700, thought you all would enjoy the clocks. Posting benchmarks soon, prepping the card for subzero in a bit. Current clocks is on a blower in 26c room.
Was scratching my head when I kept seeing 3,300mhz on this card, decided to let her eat geekbench before I give her the psychoOC treatment cooling. Knew it was a god bin but wasn't expecting her to match/beat the 7900xtx while the card is still on the blower. Ended up getting the world record entirely for navi 48 on a blower card across benchmarks. This 9700 pro is paired with a custom binned mi100 to run 72b q5 models. I'll post numbers of AI benchmarks after everything is done. Just thought yall would enjoy these numbers.