Vintage PC Build for P99

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Originally Posted by Harabec [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I wonder if anyone who worked on the p99 client can chime in about the additional system demands. I wonder if it is better to go slightly better on the cpu or the gpu. I might go socket A AMD 1-1.2ghz on this build in that case..

I would very much love this too, or rather just system requirements! They are no longer one and the same as Titanium requirements.

I've attemped this numerous times, most recently in 2019 just before the launch of Green server, and I have not yet got P99 to run on anything older than a P4. Anything PIII or earlier, it would crash when attempting to join the P99 server. (and actually it got even worse beginning with patch v49c, now immediately crashing the game upon launch)

Titanium it's self works perfectly fine, even on Windows 98 with all original hardware. It's only once the latest P99 dsetup.dll is copied into the folder that things get screwy. It's evident the P99 dsetup.dll is perhaps using a more modern DirectX version that's incompatible with hardware beyond a certain threshold.

For anybody else interested in exploring this, I've attached here my data sheet with tests I conducted in 2019. Red rows were failures (crash when you connect to the P99 server), green rows were successes (playable P99). I gave up and settled for P4 after spending like $300 on eBay hardware hunting for the right combo lol.

This hasn't ALWAYS been the case apparently, as I have a P99 dsetup.dll patch file dated 10/8/2013 that works fine. It results in the "spell file out of date" error of course, but at least the game doesn't crash. So something changed in that file between then and now to cause the classic hardware incompatibility. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]