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NHL 2004 Launcher 1.45 - 01/09/14; Adds new features incl. widescreen
Topic Started: Jun 16 2013, 07:54 AM (79,758 Views)
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@kariasi: Sorry for the delayed response, I somehow overlooked your message. Texture filtering is much less costly than antialasing, but since most views are top-down you will not see most of the artifacts that texture filtering fixes. If the ice is displayed at an oblique angle, it will appear blurry unless that value is increased. Increasing it shouldn't have much of a performance impact on modern hardware.

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kariasi,19 May 2014
5:50 PM
Thanks Vod! This is awesome. I had some lagging issues in gameplay until I made these settings;

Game resolution: 1366x768, 60 Hz
Multisample Antialiasing: 16x samples
Texture filtering: Bilinear
FOV Modifier: 0

VSync: ON and Triple Buffering: ON

Now the game plays very smooth without lag but sometimes players disappears (break in play animations). What is your opinion is these settings good or do i have to make some changes? I think VSync is the reason why i dont have any lagging anymore?

Thanks for the answer!

I don't know about your computer but I recommend having MSAA (Multisample anti-aliasing) at 8x. There is no need to have that bigger than that and in fact in most games that is the maximum you can select.

You could also increase your texture filtering from bilinear slightly, maybe to 4x anisotropic. Keep in mind that if you have very old Windows XP laptop, I wouldn't use the launcher at all. If you have a modern laptop or a desktop computer running Windows 7 with semi-decent hardware, going up to the maximum with texture filtering shouldn't be a problem.

Vertical Synchronization (V-Sync) has nothing to do with lag. What it does is that it reduces screen tearing and actually lowers the frames per second (FPS) you get. I recommend you to disable your triple buffering, you don't get that much advantage of that comparing to the cost of using it as I think you don't have much of a gaming computer.
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V-Sync won't improve FPS lag, but the game will look smoother. NHL 2004 seems to use low precision delta timing. When you combine that with high FPS fluctuation, V-Sync enabled can make a big difference.
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My game definitely runs smoother with VSync enabled.
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Sorry if this has been asked before in this thread, but how could I install multiple copies of the game to same computer? I have an external hard drive available for that. But I can't start the setup, it just says "Insert disc 2".
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Hande89,14 June 2014
7:22 AM
Sorry if this has been asked before in this thread, but how could I install multiple copies of the game to same computer? I have an external hard drive available for that. But I can't start the setup, it just says "Insert disc 2".

So you're having trouble installing the game for the first time?
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I already have NHL 2004 installed but would like to have another copy of it for mods.
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Hey im getting an odd error. When i launch the game it says "code injecting failed" it only happens with one copy. And on this copy AVG removed it because it thought it was a virus but i have re-added it and added it to the exceptions list.
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jacob_jub,25 June 2014
11:29 AM
Hey im getting an odd error. When i launch the game it says "code injecting failed" it only happens with one copy. And on this copy AVG removed it because it thought it was a virus but i have re-added it and added it to the exceptions list.

When you say "one copy" do you mean that you have the launcher.exe and launcher.dll in multiple folders but only one of them works?
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The opposite i have it in many folders but only one doesn't work.
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jacob_jub,25 June 2014
5:06 PM
The opposite i have it in many folders but only one doesn't work.

Sorry, I meant to type that. That is very strange.
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I got it fixed. AVG dealted nhl2004.exe without my consent. It is working now but thanks anyways.
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Hi, i am trying to start a dynasty and i like to set starting year on 2013. But when i type ´´DynastyStartYear = 2013´´ to launcher.ini file and start the game with your launcher, it doesnt change anything and it start dynasty in 2003 anyways. Any idea ?
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oldmemberof,1 July 2014
7:20 AM
Hi, i am trying to start a dynasty and i like to set starting year on 2013. But when i type ´´DynastyStartYear = 2013´´ to launcher.ini file and start the game with your launcher, it doesnt change anything and it start dynasty in 2003 anyways. Any idea ?

Are you using the NHL2004.exe that is included in the rebuilt interface?
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I was using Drunk noCD 1.04 version so i believed that should work but now i tried the version from interface rebuilt and it´s working now, thanks :)
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