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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread

Posted on Yesterday, 09:20

I got really good at playing system resource roulette when trying to combine three sound cards (ISA, two PCI), and two video cards (PCI, PCIe) in a modern socket 775 with too many of its own onboard devices fighting me for precious legacy resources. I would love to use this system with my Orpheus II …

Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-06-04, 23:40

I played Crysis to completion at 10 fps, but the motion blur helped a lot to compensate. This game was definitely the exception for me, as there wasn't anything contemporary at the time that could run it well anyways.

Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-06-04, 17:21

Who needs a Pentium 2? Windows 98 runs great on anything with MMX too. I suspect that anything "Pentium" will probably have good operating system performance. The scale begins at what kind of kind of games you want to play.

Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-06-04, 16:53

Out of curiosity, does the FX 5200 suffer from text corruption in certain games, like the higher tier 5700 and 5900 cards? I'm pretty sure that this bug is endemic to all GeForce cards (anything released after the TNT2). See here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=90473 FX5200 are cheap …

Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread

Posted on 2023-06-04, 08:21

You can actually reserve IRQ and DMA channels from within Windows. There is an option for this somewhere in Device Manager; at least on 98se and ME. This can be useful when a resource you want is being gobbled up by a device that won't allow you to reassign it.

Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-06-04, 06:11

Geforce FX are too powerful and does not make sense to run on underpowered CPUs. I have to agree with this. It really depends on your CPU as to whether there is any benefit to which GPU to use. I know that this quote suggests the entire series, but I would argue that the GeForce FX 5200 (128-bit) …

Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread

Posted on 2023-06-03, 03:45

I actually did the same thing to my favorite microATX case for an original GUS classic. It was still a bit too short so I trimmed a few extra centimeters off of the PCB with some garden shears. So if you ever see a sad, butchered GUS in the wild, I'm sorry. That was me.

Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-05-31, 01:25

Just out of curiosity, unlock he overclocking menu and turn the memory speed way down. Then see if it still crashes. It could be bad caps that are causing problems with the memory. Here is evidence: Repair shops hate me. I fixed defective memory on my video card with this one neat trick.

Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-05-30, 13:58

maxtherabbit wrote on 2023-05-30, 03:45: With a FX5200 in windows XP, 45.23 crashes in 3dmark2001 on game 4, but 66.93 completes them all without issue. Haven't yet tried the same versions on 9x to see if the results are the same You cannot compare any if the NVIDIA Windows 9x drivers to Windows …

Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-05-30, 02:57

mothergoose729 wrote on 2023-05-30, 01:05: I have heard this line repeated a bunch of times, but never with any details. Which cards and which games? I've asked the same question but never found any convincing evidence of this, with the exception of Thief, which seems to have a workaround.

Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 21:20

This thread made me wonder. Is there a good reason why people prefer using detonator 45.23? If I remember correctly nvidia increased the shader performance of FX cards in later driver versions. In reviews detonator 52.16 showed clear shader performance improvement over 4X.XX drivers in FX series …

Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 18:28

Anything GeForce 2 and up will have excellent performance in Windows 98. I use the lowest tier GeForce 2 MX as my go-to choice for a lot of builds because it's fast, fanless, and relatively cheap. One thing that a lot of people forget is that their Windows 98 machine may have a much older CPU …

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