Re: Strange artifacts on NV1 card... that go away when I touch it?
Posted on 2022-05-04, 14:53
So is there anything I can check/look for with a multimeter? Just to diagnose what might need replacing?
Re: Strange artifacts on NV1 card... that go away when I touch it?
Posted on 2022-04-17, 20:40
So I got my hands on a Schneider Electric IMT23001 Analogue Multimeter. It does support Ohms, so what would I be looking for and what would show something's not right?
Re: VGA Capture Thread
Posted on 2022-04-08, 14:10
One important question: capturing from the Nvidia NV1; when you run a game fullscreen on that, it runs at 640x400 resolution (I believe). When I've viewed that on LCD screens via VGA, the image stretches off the top and bottom of the screen, and can't be shrunk vertically. Whichever capture route I …
Re: Strange artifacts on NV1 card... that go away when I touch it?
Posted on 2022-04-07, 15:51
I picked it up for half the price of other ones so I think I'll use it for captures then maybe look at fiddling with it, in case something goes wrong! Thanks for all the advice though 😀
Re: Strange artifacts on NV1 card... that go away when I touch it?
Posted on 2022-04-07, 07:47
Thanks for the pointer but they look a bit pricey and I've spent enough on cards :-/ I could borrow a multimeter though, but do I test when it's plugged in or on a bench? And even if I find the culprit, if it's something as small as those black boxes then I wouldn't know what to replace it with and …
Re: Strange artifacts on NV1 card... that go away when I touch it?
Posted on 2022-04-06, 23:27
I don't have any technology or skills to do a reading, or a recap 🙁
Re: Strange artifacts on NV1 card... that go away when I touch it?
Posted on 2022-04-06, 19:18
Okay I've got pics of the card (the one on eBay wasn't the one I received so I think was a placeholder). I've also taken pics of the 3 VGA boxes (as I've called them). They're a bit wonky lay out (as are a few other bits on the card), see pics here: https://imgur.com/a/elrwhtN (right-click each and …
Re: Strange artifacts on NV1 card... that go away when I touch it?
Posted on 2022-04-06, 14:43
Do you mean the 3 small black boxes right next to the back of the blue VGA port?
Re: Strange artifacts on NV1 card... that go away when I touch it?
Posted on 2022-04-06, 08:55
I've just got a 3240 and it works fine but has a non-stop interference pattern across the screen. The angle of the interference lines varies depending on resolution. I tried 2 different LCD monitors, put PCI card into a different slot, wiggled cable about, etc, but still get these: https://imgur.com …
Re: NV1 questions
Posted on 2022-04-04, 16:07
I'll be trying my 3240 card tonight. I think I'll uninstall the ATI Rage Pro 128 and Matrox M3D first. But I have no idea if it'll work nicely on my Pentium 4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition; I've seen people running the card on 600MHz Pentium 3 but not sure about something a step above that! Cross fingers …
Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread
Posted on 2022-03-30, 09:59
Might as well pop my channel in here (as it features a lot of older games); currently it focuses on Every PC F1 Game and Every PC Rally Game (including unreleased ones!): https://www.youtube.com/user/VirtuaIceMan I have bigger plans though, as I've recently got a Matrox M3D and NV1 I'll be looking …
Re: VGA Capture Thread
Posted on 2022-03-30, 08:15
Yeah I did a test and it wasn't pretty :-D even capturing a D3D game in WinXP on that machine wasn't very pleasant. I'm guessing that to get a decent recording I might need to spend a bit more than I'd like; are there any budget VGA options that will allow a decent capture from games that are no …
Re: VGA Capture Thread
Posted on 2022-03-29, 15:50
I'll be looking to capture footage from PowerVR M3D and Nvidia NV1 games at some point in the future. Would a solution like this have merit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtvFtoIXaDc I should add that I'm running the games on Pentium4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition via Windows 98SE, I'm not sure if the …
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2022-03-25, 16:35
Haha it'd be typical that when I finally got a Matrox M3D Tuxality finds what he needs to finish the emulation 😁
Re: NV1 questions
Posted on 2022-03-22, 18:56
Yeah I spoke to him, hopefully he can help but I know he's pretty busy at the moment.
Re: NV1 questions
Posted on 2022-03-22, 13:03
In the meantime, if any NV1 owners are reading this, I'm only getting a card with no software. Whilst I have a retail copy of Virtua Cop, I'd love to get copies of (in particular) Virtua Fighter Remix and Daytona USA, Panzer Dragoon would be nice but not essential as I already have the software …
Re: NV1 questions
Posted on 2022-03-21, 18:09
I got my hands on a 3240! Found one on eBay France that wasn't as much crazy money 😁 Will shuffle out the Rage Pro 128 and Matrox M3D and see how it goes, when it arrives in a couple of weeks.
NV1 questions
Posted on 2022-03-21, 11:26
Having recently got a Matrox M3D I started thinking about the other card with Sega exclusive software, the Nvidia NV1. I know from videos that the quality isn't even up to the software versions of many games, but the added gourad shading in Virtua Fighter looks impressive. I'm also planning to do …
Re: Games with unreleased support on 3D Blaster/NV1/PowerVR/Rendition
Posted on 2022-03-19, 00:30
Interestingly there's an expensive Japanese Diamond Edge 3D 2200XL NV1 on eBay at the moment, and the photo of the CDs shows one with Daytona USA written on it in Japanese, so it may have been released with more NV1 cards in Japan.
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2022-03-12, 00:01
Righto, I tried the Win98(SE) 4.13.7192 drivers from https://soggi.org/drivers/ati.htm but as before they say "Severe" then say my card isn't compatible. So I switched to the Beta drivers from that page 4.13.01.8006. They stated they need DirectX8 but I haven't installed that yet. They do install …
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