You’re mostly correct. People here don’t take Windows praise lightly.

NT is probably the best part about Windows. If you’re gonna complain about Windows, the kernel is the last thing to complain about.

As you’ve said, there are things that are still better about NT to this day;

• OOM conditions are way better - system continues to run mostly fine after emergency swapping memory pages into the page file. No crashes, just a freeze until the OS swaps stuff out. No data is usually lost due to this. Apps continue to run and you have the chance to save and reboot your machine.
• The driver architecture, as you’ve alluded to, is much more flexible. No need to rebuild a DKMS module every time the kernel updates. The drivers are self-contained and best of all - backwards compatible. You can still use XP 64-bit drivers on modern Windows (if you ever need to)
• Process scheduling is very good for anything equal to or lower than 64 CPU threads. Windows at its core can multitask pretty good on one thread and that scales up to a certain point.

Most of NT stigma comes from NTFS (which has its own share of problems) and the bugcheck screens that people kept seeing (which weren’t even mostly MS’ fault to begin with, that was on the driver vendors).

Mark Russinovich has some of his old talks up on his YT channel and one of them compares Linux (2.6 at the time) to NT and goes into great detail. Most of the points made there still applies to this day.

Not to mention - this isn’t necessarily the correct place for Windows anyway. That is exactly why they standardized stuff around Vista.

Plus - what about apps that store an ungodly amount data in there? Personally, I only keep the OS and basic app data (such as configs and cache) on the partition and nothing else.

Then something like Minecraft comes along and it’s like “humpty dumpty I’m crapping a lumpty” and stores all its data in “.minecraft” right there in your user directory.

Then you gotta symlink stuff around and it becomes a mess…

No, it cannot be!

Someone is using Unreal Engine 5 to play Unreal?

I really wish I could find time to work on the PSP port of RSDKv4 lol

It runs at like 2 FPS currently thanks to everything being run in software mode.

I was actually amazed at how otherwise simple it was to get running. Technically all it needed was SDL which was already on PSP.

In before someone tries to guilt trip you for that because “developers aren’t getting money from stolen keys” and the developer isn’t an indie developer but a studio owned by Microsoft or EA…

Yarr harr fiddle dee dee…

Oh this is the “next gen” update? That would explain things.

Oh well…

Technical question - does the script extender use signature/pattern scanning at all?

It sounds to me that it may have broken because it doesn’t use it.

You could say “oh they recompiled it so the registers changed” but I highly doubt they changed the code that much or touched optimization flags.

It’s not bad at all, actually. The interpreter is excellent and the Apple devices are fast.

The benchmark game would be Gran Turismo, where it can lag really badly in the menus. But other than that, a lot of the games run just fine.

Ridge Racer

Gran Turismo

GTA Liberty City Stories

GTA Vice City Stories

God of War Ghost of Sparta

Maybe Tekken 5 DR if you can stand playing it on a portable device.

Loco Roco

And if you’re into Yugioh - Tag Force are some of the best games in the series.

That’s my list OTOH.

It’s already been done. Black Box’s NFS Carbon until Undercover all have ad clients built in that did that exact thing (displaying real ads on billboards).

Luckily it doesn’t work but if someone were to buy the domain it could be dangerous.

A little thing called the “Massive Ad client” exists in NFS Carbon, Pro Street, Undercover and even World.

It was used to download ads off the internet and display them in the game’s own billboards.

It was also an entrypoint for a NFS World hack too lol so ripbozo EA

A little thing called the “Massive Ad client” exists in NFS Carbon, Pro Street, Undercover and even World.

It was used to download ads off the internet and display them in the game’s own billboards.

It was also an entrypoint for a NFS World hack too lol so ripbozo EA

TRUXTON

EDF EDF EDF

Ahh the memories

AFAIK LUnix exists as the “little Unix” project aiming to run on the Commodore 6502 computers.

There’s even a video where someone got it to run on a Famicom.

They kinda don’t have the sources there. That’s a decompilation by IDA in that image.

But nevertheless they could run it if they set up an arm64 machine, technically.

One thing, I don’t know why

I bought a PS5 with no games to buy

I got banned from “World News @ lemmy.ml”

Gee, what else is new?

I’ve worked with Dennis in the past on NFSMods.

Surprised it took this long for something like this to happen.