Re: Oldest nVidia PCI driver for Riva TNT2 M64

Posted on 2024-04-01, 22:19

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So, indeed, as I thought, there is a VERY noticeable improvement (30 - 40% in some cases) on the Pentium MMX 233 when going from driver version 7.76 (which is optimized for newer CPUs) to a very old driver (in this case 2.08). Correct, more modern drivers are even slower, bringing some otherwise …

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Re: Strange graphics glitches in multiple games on Windows XP

Posted on 2023-12-18, 09:07

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This has obviously nothing to do with ram. That would make the system instantly to crash long before you notice glitches in video games.

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Re: Searching for the Riva128 Windows 2000/XP driver beta version

Posted on 2023-11-15, 15:57

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Takedasun: thankyou. You are a hero. If you are searching something, let me know, might i can return the favor.

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Re: Software rendering <> DirectDraw

Posted on 2023-11-15, 12:30

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OP, You are lost in details. Software rendering: your software is computing the rendering calculations on a cpu with algorithms running on the cpu. Usually doing this with your own algorithm. Or, sometimes, using an existing implementation of someone else. Hardware accelerated rendering: the …

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Re: Searching for the Riva128 Windows 2000/XP driver beta version

Posted on 2023-11-15, 09:24

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https://forum.nvworld.ru/viewtopic.php?t=9367 "NVIDIA RIVA 128/128ZX Display Driver for Windows 2000 version x.xx, MM/DD/YYYY" Maybe they just simply extracted it from windows, and put the NT4 opengl driver into the package, and it worked for them.

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Re: Searching for the Riva128 Windows 2000/XP driver beta version

Posted on 2023-11-15, 09:11

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I found some other sources. The file was called "riva128(zx)Win2k.zip" *** Offiziell gibt es von nVidia keinen Windows 2000 Treiber für die Riva 128 (ZX), es gibt nur den von Microsoft bei Windows 2000 mitgelieferten Treiber. Dieser 3.37er Treiber ist also ein Hack und wir wissen derzeit auch nicht, …

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Re: Searching for the Riva128 Windows 2000/XP driver beta version

Posted on 2023-11-15, 09:04

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progman.exe wrote on 2023-11-14, 22:52: This page has a v3.37 for 9x, which may work on 2k. WDM, IIRC? Thats the last win98 vxd driver on the link.

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Re: TitaniumGL

Posted on 2023-11-14, 22:32

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Myloch wrote on 2023-11-14, 17:40: @Geri: PM if u want the game for private testing purpose. PM sent.

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Re: Searching for the Riva128 Windows 2000/XP driver beta version

Posted on 2023-11-14, 16:57

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Is someone have it? Thats the question.

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Searching for the Riva128 Windows 2000/XP driver beta version

Posted on 2023-11-13, 23:49

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Hi. I have read on wikipedia: there is a beta win2k driver for the Riva128 that supports opengl. Is this true? Anyone has that driver? I was not able to find it anywhere.

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Re: The difference between a computer user (even advanced user) and a guru. How to be one?

Posted on 2023-09-27, 19:50

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Out of curiosity: you say university. But, to do that kind of stuff, what kind? Like engineering? What kind of engineering? Computer science? something else? Depends on what you want. Computer science will barely focus on hardware (you can attend the first year only and then vanish, that contains …

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Re: The difference between a computer user (even advanced user) and a guru. How to be one?

Posted on 2023-09-27, 19:37

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aries-mu wrote on 2023-09-26, 10:58: How do I become like that? Where do I start? University. If you want to be a master of a field, you have to seriously study it.

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Re: Working K6-2+ doesn't work for me.

Posted on 2023-09-16, 18:32

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Please note, the K6/2+ is a laptop cpu, manufactured on different node than the normal k6/2. So its not just differs in cache, it differs in many ways. Might or might not works in a random desktop board. Its recommended to do a bios upgrade, which could fix your problems.

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Re: Why does Warcraft 3 list the Nvidia TNT, Ati Rage 128, Voodoo3, Intel i810 as minimum spec cards but requires D3D8?

Posted on 2023-09-06, 23:07

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How is this possible? Thats the case even nowadays, when a generic game requires the DX11 API but the minimum hardware is a 8800GT...

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Re: DOSBOX status for linux in 2023?

Posted on 2023-09-02, 14:25

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i know the main program hasn't been updated since 2010. i know about dosbox-staging and dosbox-x however they both have a dep that i don't want to install on my system. is there some "modern" program that like staging takes all of the good patches etc but doesn't require the use of weird deps?( …

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Re: How big is the custom video mode gap before VESA VBE 1.0?

Posted on 2023-08-31, 22:40

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But is initializing that video mode identical to having used VESA VBE 1.x services to initialize the video mode? No. Vesa vbe is not just about initialising the graphics mode. You also need to switch the video bank, get the size of the bank and so on. As at this time, it was not possible to map the …

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Re: Looking for old TitaniumGL files

Posted on 2023-08-24, 19:58

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It's not that I will use TitaniumGL on a daily basis. I just wanted to know what the change is... TitaniumGL focuses to run stuff fast, enjoyably and reliably on semi-old computers. Perfecting the pixel- or effect accuracy is not within the goals of the project. There are different projects made by …

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Re: Looking for old TitaniumGL files

Posted on 2023-08-24, 14:33

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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2023-08-24, 14:30: What about the SW rendering? I see texture artifacts and wobbliness. If you dont want to see wobbles, i recommend you to use mesa3d.

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Re: Looking for old TitaniumGL files

Posted on 2023-08-24, 14:24

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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2023-08-24, 14:17: The game doesn't look quite right, can you verify: This is how quake2 looks with titaniumgl. Proper looks can be achieved if legacy sgis multitexturing is enabled - but its blocked due to serious performance issues when using it.

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Re: Looking for old TitaniumGL files

Posted on 2023-08-24, 14:07

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Btw can you tell how you implemented to run Quake2 on this? I can't see the game using it at all and instead moving to the Microsoft Standard ICD and the file is not in use. Did you modify any file? Which one? The game should use it, if you put the proper opengl32.dll file (windows 32 bit version) …

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