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  1. JackOfOwls

    Major microstuttering on GTX 1070 with the DirectX8 Sea Dog games

    Just thought I'd poke my head in here after 4-5 years to say that the DGVoodoo wrapper was definitely a cure-all for the stuttering in CoAS and many many other old DirectX games (ie Indiana Jones 3rd-person adventures) that don't play well on modern hardware. Just be sure to use updated...
  2. JackOfOwls

    Caribbean Legend general discussion

    Well, that's informative, that this is a remaster of an old Storm-engine game, but with many bug-fixes and updated to run smoothly on modern windows. I thought it might be all new. What was the general consensus on To Each His Own? Worth-playing if you liked, say, CoAS? I wish they had added...
  3. JackOfOwls

    Best Settings on Modern Windows?

    Yes, just wanted to agree that the DGVoodoo wrapper (most recent version 2.8+ should be used due to buggy auto-switching to windows during cutscenes on older builds) makes many old games like CoAS smooth and playable whereas before under Windows 10 with modern DirectX extensions these games were...
  4. JackOfOwls

    Any way to set camera back further in 3rd-person view in widescreen?

    Been playing CoAS at 4K (3840 x 2160) and it looks great and runs smooth (with a little help from DGVoodoo wrapper). However, the default behind the character camera in 3rd person is too close, giving me motion sickness. Is there any way to have the default distance of that camera back further...
  5. JackOfOwls

    Major microstuttering on GTX 1070 with the DirectX8 Sea Dog games

    Okay, I'll try it. Thanks, mate :)
  6. JackOfOwls

    Major microstuttering on GTX 1070 with the DirectX8 Sea Dog games

    I'm using the 1.7 bugfix-only combined patch for CoAS and though I have a fairly good rig (i5 3.9 GHZ/GTX 1070) I get annoying microstutter every few seconds with these games. I have to use RivaTuner to lock framerates at 60 FPS to get smooth framerates but even when it's smooth, every few...
  7. JackOfOwls

    Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag - Summer Sale on Steam

    The most fun I ever had with a pirate-themed game. Sure, it's very arcadish but hey, it's also a great Assassin's creed game in its own right.
  8. JackOfOwls

    USS Enterprise (Refit) Unity 5 Test Scene

    Nice modeling, captain. I thought Cumberbatch rocked as Kahn. The only thing I really liked about the movie. It's a good thing I didn't see it in theaters, though. Not because I would have felt ripped-off, but because everyone there would have stared at and wondered about that guy in back...
  9. JackOfOwls

    How do I get my fleet to follow me?

    Actually, I did go to Speightstown after it was invaded by the french. I put up a french flag and just waltzed right in there like I owed the place. No one one bothered me and if they did I woulda just shouted, "En garde, you french dogs!" ;) Of course, trying to leave with my ship might have...
  10. JackOfOwls

    How do I get my fleet to follow me?

    Actually, I'm all talk where my bark is bigger than my blunderbuss. I'm a pirate with a heart. I always give them the option of joining me in a captain's position (it could be worse, I could have them in a cabinboy's position... ouch! xD) or walking the plank. But you know how proud and...
  11. JackOfOwls

    How do I get my fleet to follow me?

    Thanks for your help, Pieter. The cheat worked though I would have preferred just taking the quest again so I could kill him but at least I now have it cleared from my quest log, can get the reward and get other quests. Here's my latest save:
  12. JackOfOwls

    How do I get my fleet to follow me?

    Just as I thought: the quest got broken (I think). I accepted her offer in town, she told me to meet her in the port, and though she follows me around in her ship now, whenever I ask her directly in her ship's cabin about what she was offering, she says something like "Have you thought about my...
  13. JackOfOwls

    How do I get my fleet to follow me?

    Thanks. The mod is all starting to fall into place now after an initial tough learning curve but I am encountering a few quest breakers, I think. For example, one of the first quests I took was from a governor to destroy a french Bermuda sloop off the coast of St. Martin. I gave chase and...
  14. JackOfOwls

    How do I get my fleet to follow me?

    I'm finally having some progress & success with New Horizons, with 500,000 gold and a small fleet of three ships, but how do I get them to follow me? They tend to dawdle behind and end up getting decimated in random battles.
  15. JackOfOwls

    Favorite pirate movies/TV shows?

    Watched it last night. Quite good. Decent-acting, believably scripted, some genuine surprises (Frenchie), well-mounted action sequences, and some interesting psychological grotesquerie with the character of Teach, ie the weird games he liked to play with his crew, the mock executions of his...
  16. JackOfOwls

    Favorite pirate movies/TV shows?

    There's an amusing moment (perhaps the only amusing moment) in the pilot episode of Crossbones where Blackbeard is threatening the doctor-guy if he doesn't do his bidding, telling him all the terrible things he's going to do to him...in one hilariously long, seemingly endless sentence! xD It...
  17. JackOfOwls

    Pirate Mod for Skyrim!

    Wow, that looks impressive. I didn't finish unmodded Skyrim because I got board but this looks incredibly detailed (loved the homunculi in the jars in the ship's cabin).
  18. JackOfOwls

    Some questions about manual aiming, logs and other observations

    Oh, okay. Thanks for the valuable tips, boys. This forum is incredibly helpful. I didn't even know about the hotfix for 3.4 and just installed it now. Nor did I know about the auto-aiming feature. It was something I liked about Starpoint Gemini 2 a lot, the option to have your crew auto-aim...
  19. JackOfOwls

    Some questions about manual aiming, logs and other observations

    Though I'm a total newbie at it, never having even played the vanilla game, I've been playing POTC:NH obsessively over the last few days and finding it frustratingly difficult (as it should be, considering the 101-level shite that passes for PC gaming these days) and my pride will not allow me...
  20. JackOfOwls

    Framerates locked a 64 FPS and no DirectX 9?

    That's a shame about AMD no longer supporting older hardware & DirectX features in their newer drivers because they've always been solid & fully competitive with Nividia on the hardware side. I must admit, I almost bought an R9-290X recently when i saw it on sale for a ridiculously low $119.00...
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