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Re: Best VLB video card for a 486DX2-66 in DOS

Posted on 2014-04-22, 10:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was wondering what is the best VLB video card for a 486DX2-66 in DOS? The performance of the one I have in SVGA in DOS is terrible. I want to play Wing Commander 3 and 4 in SVGA. The graphics card isn't the issue, but the processor. Your machine is too slow for Wing Commander 3 and 4 in SVGA. …

Best VLB video card for a 486DX2-66 in DOS

Posted on 2014-04-22, 09:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was wondering what is the best VLB video card for a 486DX2-66 in DOS? The performance of the one I have in SVGA in DOS is terrible. I want to play Wing Commander 3 and 4 in SVGA.

Re: HUGE problem

Posted on 2014-04-20, 01:09

in DOS

in DOS

Its fixed. It was my vlb controller card.

Re: HUGE problem

Posted on 2014-04-18, 08:36

in DOS

in DOS

Yes, I have tried every different setting for memory in the bios and it doesn't work. I think I found the real problem.

Re: HUGE problem

Posted on 2014-04-16, 20:54

in DOS

in DOS

I have tried everything. I'm going to get another motherboard. Perhaps that's the problem.

Re: CD-ROM drive problem

Posted on 2014-04-14, 18:48

in DOS

in DOS

It does the same thing from the hard drive. If I select no sound and play a video it works, I tried it with two games so far. If I enable sound it crashes when the video plays weather its playing from the hard drive or cd-rom drive.

Re: Fastest PCI 3D card ever made

Posted on 2014-04-13, 23:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What PCI card would you guys recommend for a Pentium 4 2.66?

Re: CD-ROM drive problem

Posted on 2014-04-13, 23:39

in DOS

in DOS

Perhaps it is some sort of IRQ problem. Can you post your autoexec.bat and config.sys ? Also, are your hard drive and CD-ROM both plugged into the VLB controller card? Yes, the hard drive and cd-rom drive are plugged into the VLB controller. Hard drive is master and cd-rom is slave. Here are my …

Re: CD-ROM drive problem

Posted on 2014-04-13, 20:41

in DOS

in DOS

I tried the vide-cdd.sys driver and it still doesn't work. My system is 486DX2-66 Magitronic GA-486-VC socket 3 motherboard 16mb 30 pin 70ns simm memory Real Power 230 Watt AT power supply Diamond Viper Weitek power 9000 vesa local bus video card Vesa local bus IDE controller card 853mb Western …

HUGE problem

Posted on 2014-04-13, 00:33

in DOS

in DOS

Whenever I play a game with video it crashes, always, every game. I tried different sound cards, video cards and even a different cd-rom drive with no luck. It even crashes when playing video off the hard drive. I tried different autoexec.bat and config.sys configurations but nothing works. If I …

Re: Fastest PCI 3D card ever made

Posted on 2014-04-12, 17:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I agree with you Racoonrider that going for a better platform would be the right choice, unless the OP doesn't want to spend on a new platform as he got the P4 for next to nothing. Another important factor would be which era/games he would like to play. Also GT 430 PCI will be hard to get and even …

Re: Fastest PCI 3D card ever made

Posted on 2014-04-11, 19:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, native. By Googling and AFAIK, Nvidia: GeForce 6200/FX 5600 ATI/AMD: Radeon 9100 i.e. unless you want to go down the costly professional graphics route(Quadro/FireGL/Pro etc) where you may get more modern GPU's with PCI interface but without any onboard PCI bridge adapters. BTW, what is your …

Re: Fastest PCI 3D card ever made

Posted on 2014-04-11, 19:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm thinking about getting a ZOTAC ZT-40605-10L.

Re: Fastest PCI 3D card ever made

Posted on 2014-04-11, 17:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, native.

Re: Fastest PCI 3D card ever made

Posted on 2014-04-11, 17:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry, i'm new to the forums.

Fastest PCI 3D card ever made

Posted on 2014-04-11, 17:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just acquired a Pentium 4 rig for next to nothing. It only has pci slots. I'm using the onboard video which is very slow. I was wondering what is the fastest pci 3D card ever made?

Re: Roland MT-32 checksum error

Posted on 2014-04-08, 16:13

in DOS

in DOS

Thanks , it worked. I haven't worked on a DOS PC in 20 years, I forgot a lot. I just recently got in vintage pc's and i'm having a great time.

Re: Roland MT-32 checksum error

Posted on 2014-04-07, 23:18

in DOS

in DOS

Hey Mau1wurf1977, you are always there for me. I set the sound blaster 32 setting for the MPU-401 in the autoexec.bat to H300 and it still doesn't work. I cant use my old sound blaster because it has a messed up audio out jack.

Roland MT-32 checksum error

Posted on 2014-04-07, 22:12

in DOS

in DOS

I have a Midiman MM-401 and a Sound Blaster 32 CT-3600. When I try to run any game I get a checksum error from my MT-32. I tried to set the MM-401 to different settings but it will only work at the default settings. If I remove the Sound Blaster 32 the MM-401 works perfectly. I even put in an …

Re: MIDIMAN MM-401 breakout cable

Posted on 2014-04-05, 13:51

in DOS

in DOS

Thanks for all your help. Solarstorm thanks for the pinout. au1wurf1977, thanks for the pinout, your videos are the best, you put alot of work and dedication into them and we vintage pc guys appreciate that.

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