well that was an expierence lol.

You I did fancy myself some older racing games kinda. Not super old like Gran Turismo 4 but not as new as say a Forza Horizon 5/6

(though I am waiting on Sale for Horizon 6 tbh)

And since Gran Turismo is not really availiable on PC (though yeah you can play 1-6 with emulators) I decided to look at Forza Games again.

I heard people saying that the older Horizon Games were better than the new ones (well in some regards for sure.

The oldest Horizon you can get on PC without Emulation is Forza Horizon 3 from 2016

I also wanted something more Track-focused as well. So I looked at Forza Motorsport again. I liked Playing Motorsport 4 on that Xbox back in the day.

Xbox 360 Emulation is still kinda rough ngl. But looking up rn I might be able to play using xenia 👀

Anyway besides the point. The first Motorsport title to support PC is Motorsport 7 from 2017

So how did things go? Weird. Explainer?

My PC is a fairly typical build with one exception for such old games. The arc graphics card would proof difficult.

I have a Ryzen Processor, an Arc graphics Card and my Moza Wheel and an Xbox Controller.

I also had to use Windows as both are UWP Games and these do not run on Linux (yet, xodus might change that in the future)

So grabbed my wallet to throw money at microsoft and their store just to find they are not selling both games anymore. Can't get them elsewhere legally as well other than on Xbox with a used copy.

So Ahoy Matey we go.

Got the games installed and then noticed ah wait my Tiny11 does not have the Xbox-Stuff installed. Reinstalled Windows.

Motorsport 7 launches fine and you can play it after I reinstalled tiny11 with xbox services.

Horizon 3 was different. It would launch and then crash but before that it would send a textbox saying the GPU is not supported but I could ignore if I wanted.

What can I tell you Arc is indeed not supported. Like at all. Swapped in the RX480 I have still. Game starts just fine and is very playable indeed.

Looking up this stuff found a thread where someone made a post on intels forums about the game.

Intel just be like: "Uh yeah it seems like we cannot buy the game anymore. So sorry we cannot fix this."

I mean yeah the games are older than the graphics architecture but thats a bummer.

Also tried my wheel with the games.

On Motorsport 7 it atleast worked although with the same weird force feedback I know from Horizon 4/5.

Horizon 3 nope. Won't even recognize it. yay. "old" games are fun. and nobody can really fix them as well, thanks UWP.

I guess now I have to do some thinking. Games work fine with Controller under windows and the RX 480.

I would like my arc installed prefferably since it is nicer an all. but I guess the rx480 gets going for another spin

@Johann150 Das können wir ändern

@Johann150 I dare you! Do it!

@rick very early for poor rick

@Erpel that does not sound good..

koffie?

@Erpel Erpel feeling strong today. Go do something nice

@epsi Jup same same. Chilling maybe soon going to bed

@epsi Truely a one of a kind opportunity.

Everything well epsi?

@epsi epsi the sipping

@Johann150 @luap42 truely a shitpost

@epsi well its better than tiktok and insta I guess?

@epsi are people really saying that?

@weebdeluxe there is btw some more clarifications. The logos can stay:

https://hachyderm.io/users/haubles/statuses/117094520893724666

@foosel @timothy sehr süß

@bazkie How do you think we are writing atm?

spoiler I don't use mastodon but with the magic of activitypub the different softwares of the fediverse understand eachother.

As long as masto keeps activitypub all should be good.

but tbh I do not see mastodon going down that direction anyway. Eugen always was 100% of that and even though he is not totally in charge of mastodon GmbH I don't see this happening.

@bazkie disagreement is fine btw. No biggie. Since you are respectful all is fine right?

And even if mastodon were to do that a) forks are possible and b) other such software exist ;)

@bazkie they do not take away anything from you really. other than a logo and name in the worst case. The rest they can't.

But yeah have a good one still

@foosel @timothy der ist nur auf die kappe aufgesetzt oder=?

@sally

What a nice reply! so useful. But what else would I think. Welcome to my blocklist mate.

Atleast there is some clear notice on the logos in the software itself.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@haubles/117094520893724666