Descent 3

I wish I could give this game a positive rating, but with the moving to Windows 10, I cannot play this game without massive lag or missing 70% of the rendering. I even tried NGlide 3DFX emulation, very laggy. Tried all the compatibility settings with multiple setups, same issue. I even tried to install the DX9 packages for windows 10, but no go. When I feel like it, I will try this on my Windows 11 installation. To be honest, I am absolutely baffled how people were alright with this game when it released in 1999 as it is simply an outright mess and the story line was mostly irrelevant to Descent I and II's story. So this proves to me that humanity started to have an intelligence decay even back then. Should have left it with Parallax Software, Interplay. Oh well, at least I can play this game now as I have a windows 98 Se box, but even then, why should I if I have Descent I and II on there also, which are way better games in my opinion.

Well... my old PC stopped functioning and with the new one Descent 3 functions. I'm going to give a good test... see how badly I play. Thanks Steam, I'm really happy about this.

Takes a bit of fiddling to make it work but when it does its the classic super fun 6 degress of freedom shooter.

I'm very pleased with this version of D3. I still have my old discs but they're getting almost to the point of useless (had to use that disk Dr. thing). There is one thing I can't seem to figure out though. I can't seem to use the black pyro in multiplayer games, but it does show up in the Merc singleplayer. It doesn't even show up in the ship customization area. It's just not there, even though Merc is bundled with it. I installed Win 10 and the next day bought the 10$ steam descent 3. It installed easily and I must say the game actually feels smoother than it ever has. There was a problem with it finding my twist axis, but it was just the sensitivity was defaulted to zero, easy fix. I use a sidewinder prepro. After only a slight bit of tweaking (command lines, weapon priorities, and the usual ship customization) I was playing online with friends. I'm not really sure what the other posters are talking about how dificult is is to get working. Use open GL even tho it warns you not to, and use the native resolution command lines in the "misc" in setup. Then use plus or minus to zoom to your screen. I've played this game since it released in 99, and this is my favorite version. It is so streamlined. I do wan't to try the black pyro though. Any help on this would be appreciated.

hard to compare any game to...Awesome...wish for more

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Until this reboot supports online multiplayer servers and lobbies with custom levels, it's unfinished.