I posted on the Steam forums earlier about the Bubsy 4D demo not running well for me | Fabraz | Page 1

dim solar Oct 10, 2025, 10:11 PM

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For whatever reason this keeps auto-deleting my messages even though I'm not saying anything inappropriate, so I'm just gonna self-censor words I guess:
I use a Micros0ft B@sic Displ@y @d@pter and a Par$ec Virtu@l Displ@y @d@pter as my gr@phics c@rds

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@icy jetty

icy jetty Oct 10, 2025, 10:14 PM

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Huh, what's Parsec Virtual Display Adapter? Never heard of that before.

dim solar Oct 10, 2025, 10:17 PM

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Dunno, my Dad had this computer custom-built for me and that's one of the cards that was installed I guess. But I'm usually able to run pretty much any other game on this PC just fine.

onyx palm Oct 10, 2025, 10:50 PM

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Parsec is a remote game streaming app, it's not a graphics card. (so the Virtual Display Adapter is just a software device that facilitates the program)

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And per Microsoft's website:

The Microsoft Basic Display Adapter is used when a driver made specifically for the display adapter by the manufacturer isn't available or installed.

hollow sundial Oct 10, 2025, 11:24 PM

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yea it is not built for running games

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I'm surprised it runs at all

hollow sundial Oct 10, 2025, 11:25 PM

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onyx palm Parsec is a remote game streaming app, it's not a graphics card. (so the Virtual...

to add to this

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the virtual display adapter allows you to use it when your monitor is off

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its literally a virtual display

dim solar Oct 11, 2025, 1:01 AM

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Okay, I figured out that the Graphics Card I was actually using for gaming before was an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and now it just won't show up, so it's not this game in particular 😑

icy jetty Oct 11, 2025, 1:02 AM

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Thanks for the update!

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Hope you can fix it.

dim solar Oct 11, 2025, 1:18 AM

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Just had to go and install the newest driver off of NVidia
Thankfully it wasn't anything more complicated than that

#I posted on the Steam forums earlier about the Bubsy 4D demo not running well for me