QEMU Dungeon Siege & Legends Of Aranna Expansion (2002, 2003) (EAX) -- From Install to Play
8"What a FOOL when Pentium III 733 MHz and Voodoo 3 ONLY play Dungeon Siege in 15 FPS" -- YES, this Game will make ones sell their Voodoos and whatever "junkyard"-grade retro hardware that they had ever thought of having for playing Good OLD Games.
The Game cover shows Pentium II 333 MHz with 8MB DirectX video card. Well, if anyone ever believed that, then too BAD they had been scammed. Fast forward into modern days, QEMU featuring qemu-3dfx delivers stunning audio/visuals and performance on modern PC/laptops running modern Linux for QEMU KVM with TRUE GPU acceleration. Dungeon Siege and Legends Of Aranna expansion (2002, 2003) is as simple as From Install to Play in 15 mins. The Game uses MILES Sound System for EAX support and seemed to work well with DSOAL/OpenAL-Soft.
Dungeon Siege: Legends Of Aranna US 3-CD set retail release includes the first game Kingdom Of Ehb ripped and packed into single DVD ISO. The game was fully patched out-of-box with simple DRM that only validates media typical for many collector's edition. Absolutely NO PATCH, NO No-CD crack or any unexplained cults or modern Windows compatibility quirks required. QEMU KVM delivers modern SMP-capable Windows XP VM matching or exceeding the CPU performance of any period-correct dual-core high-end gaming PCs, precisely caters for difficult and demanding DirectX 7.0 Direct3D TnL games in 2000~2003 era. It was a Dark Age that 3Dfx lost its steam, explosive GPU performance when every GPU was made outdated in 6 months resulted many games were released "unplayable".
The game remains vastly interesting and FUN till this day with every possible ways to replay it in different characters and team made-up of fighter, tank, mage and archer. A 3D fantasy world rendered in full 3D with action role-playing, sophisticated A.I. team mates up to 8 and not-too-complex for casual play-through. It is still a wonderful masterpiece to have for killing hours in lots of FUN. Both GOG and Steam offers ALL Dungeon Siege games in trilogy for a price less than a cup of STAR BUCK coffee. Those are likely the BEST ways to play on modern Windows PCs. While QEMU WHPX can run the game, it only plays at half the frame rate less than QEMU KVM which is unfortunate. Perhaps desktop-class CPUs would get better frame rate for Windows WHPX. Whatever "Trash"Boxes or "JUNK_PC"em continue to remain HOPELESS what so ever with their *STUPID and RETARDED* full of *Accuracy \*BS\** mentality in not embracing modern CPU Virtualization and/or GPU Acceleration for playing games.