Re: NFS4 (High Stakes) playability on Voodoo 3 3000

Posted on 2014-10-02, 08:33

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To run this game (and almost all EA games with the glide support) with the glide API - set thrash driver="voodoo2", thrash resolution="640x480", group="3Dfx" (by the way, there is at least 1 game that is case sensitive to this value. So - use capital D) and hardware acceleration="1". The trouble is …

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2014-10-02, 08:15

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http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag385/magix_2001/IMG_2057_zps31bb6717.jpg http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag385/magix_2001/IMG_2058_zpsde32cf14.jpg Mb:Asus P5Q socket 775 intel P45 chipset Proc: Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 2,8ghz OC to 3,8ghz Cooler:Tuniq Tower 120 Mem:6gb ddram 2 Video:EVGA Gtx …

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2014-10-01, 21:50

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16 gig kingston hyperx memory is around 140€ here...

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Re: Windows 10 Technical Preview

Posted on 2014-10-01, 19:49

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if you disconnect your network, you can also proceed without creating a microsoft account.

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Re: NFS4 (High Stakes) playability on Voodoo 3 3000

Posted on 2014-10-01, 18:49

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Hi I have the exact same problem with my box: AMD K6-2 500 MHz Asus P5A 128 MB memory Voodoo 3 3000 AGP (STB) 16MB ST320423A and ST340014A Windows 98SE Amigamerlin 2.9 is installed, also I installed the nfs4xp2eng patch: -Windows XP support -Improved effects -best 3d Setup - no bugs -fixed 1mb free …

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2014-10-01, 13:50

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My PC is 2 months old: Core i7 4790 (4x 3.60 GHz) 16 GB Kingston Hyper-X memory (2x 8GB) Asus Z-97 Pro /w wifi ac Samsung 840 Pro 512GB Some 4GB GTX 770 (can't remember the brand) Enermax Platimax PSU 600W two old WD Black 500GB as RAID 0 taken from my old PC as trash storage Antec Three hundred two …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2014-10-01, 10:03

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Very nice collection. What kind of Sony CD-ROM do you have there on one of the towers? It looks like a 2X one a friend of mine had back in the day...he was the first one out of all my friends to get a CD-ROM and I thought that it would be forever before I could afford one, but of course three years …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2014-09-30, 15:16

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my grandpa bought it for me (used) when i was about 10-12 years old. i've learned to code qbasic on that thing and played many, many hours boulder dash on it, as well as reinstalled win 3.11 a dozen times just for fun :-D then it was forgotten in the basement for 10 years or so and half a year ago …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2014-09-30, 15:15

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Solarstorm wrote: Just for completness here are some Pics of my 2003ish PC i just dragged out of the closet. http://imgur.com/a/6gaY8 🤣 i've used to use those tagan PSUs too, unitl they shot one of my mainboards... hell, put that thing out of your PCs

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2014-09-30, 15:02

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386 SX 16MHz 8MB RAM Some Sound Blaster ISA Card That 386 is cool little thing. What's its story? my grandpa bought it for me (used) when i was about 10-12 years old. i've learned to code qbasic on that thing and played many, many hours boulder dash on it, as well as reinstalled win 3.11 a dozen …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2014-09-30, 13:02

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Hi from top to bottom/left to right: Intel Pentium P55C 233 MMX FIC PT-2007 Mainboard Voodoo 3 2000 PCI 16MB Some Sound Blaster PCI Card AMD K6-2 500 Asus P5A 128MB RAM Voodoo 3 3000 AGP 16MB Some Sound Blaster PCI Card 486 DX2/66 on unknown Mainboard unknown VGA card Some Sound Blaster ISA Card 386 …

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Re: Pentium 166MMX Box Performance problems

Posted on 2014-03-19, 17:24

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May I ask you to list some of your Basic updates and Performance tweaks, IE core stuff, and so on? I'll then document that and implement it on my future Win 98 installations I was referring to the Service Pack component options - I only select a few: Critical Updates IE6 Core [I find this is needed …

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Re: Pentium 166MMX Box Performance problems

Posted on 2014-03-19, 15:18

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ok will try that asap, thx!

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Re: Pentium 166MMX Box Performance problems

Posted on 2014-03-19, 10:59

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Hi tried now with reference Drivers and DirectX 7, although I already had 9.0c installed and simply overwrote it with 7.0 (what may cause issues :D) by changing the Version variable in the registry. Still the same, GTA 1 in Windows mode unplayable. -3Dmark 99 gives about 1000 3dmark Points and all …

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Re: Pentium 166MMX Box Performance problems

Posted on 2014-03-18, 17:56

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reinstalled on another 40GB Seagate IDE hard disk using Seagate Diskwizard booted from floppy disks. plain win98se from cd + Omega 3dfx Drivers + DirectX 9.0c + inf update Utility, enabled dma mode -> same Problems :( do you think it could be the unofficial Omega Driver? People were using that one …

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Re: Pentium 166MMX Box Performance problems

Posted on 2014-03-18, 13:36

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news: -installed Drivers referred by davros -installed one 32mb sd ram module -checked bios (again) for udma Settings, set pio mode to Auto on all drives bios shows during boot for my hard disk: PIO Mode 4, UDMA Mode 2 Aida 64 says: supported UDMA Mode: 5, current running UDMA Mode: 2 DMA Checkbox …

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Re: Pentium 166MMX Box Performance problems

Posted on 2014-03-18, 12:15

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i've spent the last few hours searching Intel storage Drivers which will probably enable dma, but i could only find Intel inf update Utility (which installed fine). also the "dma" Checkbox stays enabled in the properties of the hard disk after a reboot and it also makes a difference wether it is …

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Re: Pentium 166MMX Box Performance problems

Posted on 2014-03-18, 10:57

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CPU usage is not correct, process Explorer and also the Windows integrated System Monitor state about 20-30% constant load (from the Moment Aida64 is started, even without benchmarking). edit: Windows integrated System Monitor says also 100% coninuous cpu load. process Explorer says 20-30%. weird... …

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Re: Pentium 166MMX Box Performance problems

Posted on 2014-03-18, 10:25

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get hdtune http://www.hdtune.com/ run a benchmark and post a screenshot unfortunately hdtune doesn't work on Win98SE :( do you know any other tool? edit: i found aida64 to have some Benchmark Tools included. I'll post the results below. The 430TX chipset can't cache anything more than 64 MB RAM. In …

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Pentium 166MMX Box Performance problems

Posted on 2014-03-17, 21:51

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Hi all! I've recently started to build some old gaming rigs for various old, cool games and after successfully reviving a 386SX, 486DX2-66 and P2-266 I'm encountering Problems with my P1 166MMX box. Specs are: FIC PT-2007 Board most recent BIOS Intel P1 166MMX (the new, black one) Voodoo 3 2000 PCI …

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