VOGONS

Search

Common searches

Search results

Display options

Display options

Re: VGA cable signal degradation at high resolutions.

Posted on 2023-06-03, 08:58

Usually cheap LCD monitors doesn't seem to have a great quality cable and the one found in shops are usually bad. For a video analog connection looking at the game console experience and on computers at the old add-in video card/decoder cards of the '90s, the cable should be much thicker and each …

Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-28, 09:46

Considering how many features both cpus and video chips were supposed to "change the world" back in those days when personal computers became the must have home device, I'm not surprised that for the generic consumer none was realistically really needed to upgrade any previous config. When I bought …

Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-27, 07:29

Last time I tried the Pentium MMX 233 maybe I had too high expectations on the multimedia side but it could not (just like the K6 233) help a lot for MPEG2 high bitrate real time decoding, even with some card supposed to offload a bit of that work like the Rage Pro PCI with Motion Compensation which …

Re: Radeon X300SE and Linux: web browser question

Posted on 2023-05-24, 13:22

From the gpu page there are the classic first part with listed the software rendering features and after that the line posted above which explain acceleration is disabled, then the Driver Workarounds as usual, the Vulkan and SwiftShader driver being used and interesting at the end of the page …

Radeon X300SE and Linux: web browser question

Posted on 2023-05-22, 21:57

Hello, I am building an old Pentium 4 661 build and wanted to use it as an everyday machine with SSD and 4GB DDR2, using linux as o.s. being lighter and going for Wine app to launch old games and I found a Radeon X300SE 128M (Dell) video card that felt like a good basic linux friendly passive card …

Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2023-04-10, 15:06

Ah, I thought it could do iDCT. That certainly makes for a much more limited usage, although running video full-screen + scaling/resizing however you wished without the CPU breaking a sweat was a big deal even on Pentiums believe it or not. I believe it was Scali that mentioned the upgrade going …

Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2023-04-10, 11:20

As said various Rage II DVD oriented variants only did Motion Compensation and not really useful until the Celeron 300 and above. iDCT was there also in some Rage Mobility versions and the Rage 128 early design. But on the cpu side the sw player engine did a big difference and some could get full …

Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2023-04-10, 06:58

I suppose the Rage Pro at least the AGP version would have been a good choice at those prices but drivers did the difference too late considering how many were released. What surprised me of the Rage Pro '3D Turbo' whatever version was the SGRAM PCI layout with the older chip package which was much …

Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2023-04-08, 18:28

I don't remember the Rage 2C quite late final drivers having any OpenGL support but a good (probably much CPU dependent) Direct3D one being able to render many Directx6 and even later games @ 400x300 15-20 fps like results with a interesting enough correct rendering accuracy for such old accelerator …

Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom

Posted on 2023-03-12, 12:11

Probably they can be used as a very light office linux machine or as said some retrogaming Directx6/7 ones or even older as suggested. Imho a huge problem of the netbooks CPU/GPUs wasn't necessary their speed but the time they existed with a changing much heavier and demanding o.s./driver/game …

Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom

Posted on 2023-03-12, 09:34

Yes, it has a 3150, the 3150 (https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/gma-3150.c3375) in raw power seems to be similar to a Geforce 256 (https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-256-ddr.c734), so depending on the drivers and other things I think that it could be good for games up to 2001 maybe …

Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom

Posted on 2023-03-11, 17:08

Some years ago I did a test with a Zotac NM10 ITX Wifi, Atom D525, two miniPCIE ,one standard PCIE 1x, two SATA ports and 2gb DDR2 800 and Win 7 32. With a Radeon HD 5570 it was good for anything until 2007 at 1024x768, the low IPC of the atom CPU is a problem even with a better GPU and the dual- …

Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom

Posted on 2023-03-11, 16:54

I've also tested the E-350 APU too but at the end it had its problems too. The power/heat was a lot for a mini itx config SoC and the boards I've tested felt like difficult to get a good cooling solution but at least the Radeon into it has a very good linux driver. The dual core CPU instead felt …

Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom

Posted on 2023-03-11, 16:10

I'm still testing these Atom based configs and tried most of the old and modern o.s. combinations. I usually tested the low end version without HT with a clock of almost 1,9Ghz dual core SSSE3 SoC having the "famous" GMA36x0 (PowerVR SGX 545 based architecture integrated into it) I've tested so many …

Re: Video playback on a 286? - here's how to do it

Posted on 2023-03-11, 10:15

Interesting. I remember a developer for the Master System console was able to encode videos to run on its original Z80 4Mhz cpu with the limited storage of those consoles. From my old similar test with music, I was impressed to listen some MP3 encoded @ 56Kbits 16Khz on a 386DX@40Mhz with a FPU IIT@ …

Page 1 of 146

Go to top of page Go to top of page
Close window
Close window