![]() I did find that in the days of the cache memory being on the mobo, only the first 128MB is cached, so it doesn't help to load it full with all 768MB, lol. I had to go thru and replace all of the electrolytics on the board and the video card a TNT2. The biggest problem you run into with old mobos is the capacitors are all dead by now, or will die soon. It's a Socket 7 system with a K6-III/450 processor, which was pretty nice for playing Q2 back in the day. I don't use it for gaming, it's running a set of Tennelec PCA3 Multichannel Analyzer cards. ![]() HDD: RAID0 2 x Western Digital Raptor WD740GD HDD: RAID0 2 x Western Digital Raptor WD360GD Video 2D: Diamond Monster FireGL 1000 Pro AGP Video 3D: Diamond Monster 3D2 (Voodoo2 12MB SLI) The idea was to get the highest spec released hardware for each year between 19, this was the list I built up: I never got around to collect all the hardware in the end, nor assemble it. ![]() The -s command disables the intro movie.If you are looking at what hardware was available which year I did some research years ago when I was planning on building a "Time Machine" mod holding 10 systems where a KVM switch would let me switch between the years. Right click on the desktop shortcut of the game > Properties > Launch Options - Add -s at the end, should look like "C:/Games/Full Pipe/FullPipe.exe" -s. If the game doesn't start, put -s in the command line parameters (a.k.a the launch options).The game always MUST BE launched in compatibility mode with old Windows (98, 2000 or XP) and as administrator, especially if you're using Windows 7 or newer OS.To install Russian disc versions (disc images) you will need the utility for mounting disc image files, like WinCDEmu, UltraISO, Alcohol 52%/Alcohol 120%, Daemon Tools Lite or other Don't forget to close rundll32.exe process in Task Manager after finishing playing Now try to launch the game again, it must work. Close FullPipe.exe but don't touch rundll32.exe (it's a Windows app for running old apps from 32-bit operational systems, most old games running through rundll32.exe). If the game doesn't work - try to launch the game, then open Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del by default) and check for processes FullPipe.exe and rundll32.exe. Right click on FullPipe.exe - Properties - Compatibility - Set "Run this app in compatibility mode with Windows XP" and "Run as administrator" ![]() Open the directory with the game and find FullPipe.exe.Then install English translation patch (simply copy files from the archive and replace the original files inside the game folder).The installer is on German, installation guide in included The game has been tested on Windows 7 64-bit, works with no problem ![]()
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