Re: I'm using onboard audio and the sky has not fallen

Posted on 2014-12-27, 01:13

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I never had any stuttering because of onboard audio and I never used dedicated sound cards. What CPU percentage does modern onboard sound eat up anyways? It depends on your CPU of course, but in general, something like 1-2% or less. Go back to the days of SB Live! and such though, and you could …

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Re: There is no such thing as "good enough"

Posted on 2014-12-26, 21:45

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Gentleman, behold: http://www.gamesradar.com/56-eye-melting-scre … o-game-history/ I feel it's hilarious that some people actually DEFEND this overblown kind of bloom effect.

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DPI settings in Windows 7

Posted on 2014-12-26, 21:16

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I have an old Windows program that runs in W7 with a patch OK, but will only fill the screen in 640x480 with a non-resizable window. Changing the DPI settings in Windows made the window a lot better size, but I have to log off every time I change the DPI settings. Is there a way to change the DPI …

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Re: I'm using onboard audio and the sky has not fallen

Posted on 2014-12-25, 11:13

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I never had any stuttering because of onboard audio and I never used dedicated sound cards. What CPU percentage does modern onboard sound eat up anyways?

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Re: There is no such thing as "good enough"

Posted on 2014-12-22, 12:01

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Rekrul I share your dissatisfaction. The most annoying thing for me it's the "MASH THE BUTTONS TO DO X". I like Far Cry 3, but this is one aspect of it I really hate. It's a kick in the face, especially when you have a disability like me and you die due to a random encounter with a fucking crocodile …

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Re: Building a ''wrong'' system

Posted on 2014-12-22, 11:23

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Guys, he's not looking for a headache, just to build an unconventional low-end vintage system that would run many games well anyways. Considering that many Voodoo 1 games run decently enough on a high clocked 486 system (better than modern games on PCs with Intel GMA graphics), I'd say this goal is …

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Re: VLB Graphics recommendation

Posted on 2014-12-20, 20:50

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I know some of them had an S3 chip, but not sure which number. Did Number Nine have any of their own video chips then or were they only sourcing chips from other companies? You misunderstood my post. I mentioned VGA compatibility. Number Nine had great accelerator chips of their own, but they were …

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Re: VLB Graphics recommendation

Posted on 2014-12-20, 12:01

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Don't the older N9 cards have 512 KB Cirrus Logic chips for VGA/SVGA compatibility? If so, pretty poor for VLB but okay for games that run on ISA cards.

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Re: Monitor specification list

Posted on 2014-12-13, 17:54

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Actually I'm asking because most manifacturers are obfuscating this in their specs., stating "16.7 million colors" even for low-end TN panels.

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Re: Monitor specification list

Posted on 2014-12-13, 15:01

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Any help? Please. On a an off topic note, what was the worst LCD response time in a consumer products. Were there any passive matrix displays slower than 300 ms? What about the Game Boy and Game Gear?

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Monitor specification list

Posted on 2014-12-11, 13:43

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Is there any website on the net that has accurate monitor specification? Especially a list of true 24-bit monitors would be welcome.

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Re: Stuff in CRT case

Posted on 2014-12-10, 15:47

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But it cannot damage the CRT itself, can it? It's been working OK fir a year, do CRT TV insides get hot enough to melt wax?

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Stuff in CRT case

Posted on 2014-12-10, 15:15

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Hello, accidentally, some crumpled wax from a candle has fallen into my CRT TV through the holes on the case. Can it somehow damage the TV, say, melt? It happened about a year ago and the TV runs OK but I'm still worried as I really like this particular TV and don't want it to fail because of my …

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Re: 10th Anniversary

Posted on 2014-12-09, 20:51

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cdoublejj wrote: That's pretty cool. 2002 wow. 12 years ago. And now 2006 stuff is just about retro. 2006 will never be "retro" for me and I was born in 1993. Retro is pixellated 16-color graphics and beeping beige computers to me 😀 . Not Core 2 Duos which are still used in my mom's office.

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Re: I'm using onboard audio and the sky has not fallen

Posted on 2014-12-09, 20:37

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Sound Blaster 16 has a 12-bit DAC actually by the way, at least it has the dynamic range of about 12-bits (72 dB), which is not as bad as it seems - similiar to good consumer analog audio devices (clean vinyl/good cassette tape with the best Dolby noise reduction), so pretty much every modern …

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Re: I'm using onboard audio and the sky has not fallen

Posted on 2014-12-09, 10:50

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Yeah, onboard sound is generally fine nowadays. I use an external M-Audio USB interface, but that's simply for convenience, since I can easily connect 1/4" TRS or XLR equipment to it. Does only 16bit though - I can live with that, even for recording. 16-bit dynamic range is 96 dB, which is enough …

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Re: I'm using onboard audio and the sky has not fallen

Posted on 2014-12-09, 09:23

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Do people not involved in music making seriously buy expensive sound cards today? Digital is digital folks, unless your integrated soundcard has an incredibly bad DAC or your soundcard has DSP "sound enhancer" functions (usually crap on both dedicated and integrated cards) any difference you hear is …

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Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-12-08, 16:46

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AMD was actually right, most users are NOT gamers so you cannot judge a CPU by Quake benchmarks. The first cacheless Celeron might have been O.K for gaming but was still absolutely awful for any productive use (talking about Covington here, not the great 300A). Besides, the only FPU heavy game that …

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Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-12-08, 09:28

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Those specs for Quake II are bogus. It runs perfectly fine on a K6, on a K6-ii 400 Mhz with 3DNow at 56.9 fps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_5Qk2VXVAQ, and that's in a demo, in normal gameplay probably even higher.

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Re: Eliandas ISA VGA card roundup

Posted on 2014-12-07, 02:45

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5u3 wrote: Nice! 😀 I'm kinda surprised by the good performance of the Trident 8900D. AFAIK the D revision added memory FIFOs, increasing the performance to a lot higher levels.

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