Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2023-08-25, 22:23

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by havli

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Weird question maybe.... but is it possible to disable the fog on Voodoo cards? I actually like the screenshots without the fog and I see it only as an artificial draw distance limit (in most games).

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Re: Kyro II and Abit BH6

Posted on 2023-08-04, 09:00

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by havli

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Kyro II should run on i440BX just fine. If it doesn't, then it is probably damaged somehow. AGP 4x/8x boards (chipsets) are completely different story as the Kyro II is known to have issues there. But on any AGP 2x capable board it should run.

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Re: My weird GeForce 256

Posted on 2023-07-29, 07:56

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by havli

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Congrats 😀 Fixing your GF 256 DDR is great news. If you currently run Pentium III on VIA chipset, then it is very likely a bottleneck. In 3dMark99 especially. For example on 2 GHz Athlon XP I got 11000 points.

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Re: My weird GeForce 256

Posted on 2023-07-28, 12:11

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Most likely the card is defective in some way. I am 99.9% sure GeForce 256 DDR 16MB / 64-bit doesn't exist as an official product. I have the same memory chips on my Asus GF 256 DDR and it certainly is 32 MB / 128-bit. I guess on your card either the memory controller in the GPU or half of the …

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Re: Geforce 6800 Ultra PCIe and Win98

Posted on 2023-07-27, 11:35

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by havli

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7900 GTX works in 98. https://hwbot.org/submission/3228042_zafiropo … gtx_69807_marks

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Re: Geforce 6800 Ultra PCIe and Win98

Posted on 2023-07-24, 16:43

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98SE. And it was on Core 2 Duo with P965 board, where everything else including GeForce 7000 series worked reasonably well.

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Re: Geforce 6800 Ultra PCIe and Win98

Posted on 2023-07-24, 10:09

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by havli

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Laser wrote on 2023-07-24, 08:21: you guys can test these drivers on your own hardware,then post here that I was trolling if you find something strange I did, many years ago. Tested GF 8600 GT and 8800 GTS 320. The only thing I got was BSOD at boot.

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-07-03, 05:06

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vvbee wrote on 2023-07-01, 17:22: For the time being you can use the command-line option "-i 2". There should also be the shortcut Shift+1/2, if it hasn't been removed. Thank you for the tip, I will try that.

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-07-01, 07:41

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I've finally got to try and build some Windows binaries :) Hello, thank you for the great work :) I just tested the version 2.7.0 on VisionRGB E2s on Windows 10 PC and it works great. A few bugs I have observed: 1. If I activate the ECO mode, the older versions remembered it and when started again, …

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Re: i5 Sandy Bridge with Windows XP - SATA AHCI mode issues

Posted on 2023-06-09, 06:49

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by havli

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I don't exactly remember the procedure, but few months ago I managed to succesfully switch from IDE to AHCI on existing winXP installation. It was installed in IDE mode (so no extra drivers needed at install time) and after that I did some of the changes needed and AHCI works now. The platform is …

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Re: AGP GPU to pair with 2.8Ghz P4 + 2GB PC133

Posted on 2023-06-02, 08:51

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by havli

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Do you really have P4 2.8 GHz with SDRAM? It is possible but very unusual configuration. In case you really have SDRAM, the performance of such PC will be much lower compared to regular DDR memory.

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Re: TNT2 Ultra faster than Geforce 2MX on Slot A?

Posted on 2023-05-31, 09:40

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by havli

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SPBHM wrote on 2023-05-30, 20:25: I have never seen a geforce 2 MX with 128bits SDR and only 4 chips. They are very common actually. Take a look at these: http://hw-museum.cz/vga/165/asus-geforce2-mx--dvi-pcb- http://hw-museum.cz/vga/166/nvidia-geforce2-mx-mac http://hw-museum.cz/vga/169/hercules- …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-18, 08:49

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by havli

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Maybe I can get some images via capture card, so we can get some hard evidence how Voodoo3 16 bit and TNT 16/32 bit image looks like.

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-17, 07:29

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by havli

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Well, I am not sure what is the point of 32 bit textures with 16 bit framebuffer. Still, you will see blurry mess either way because m64 will not run these games at resolution better than 640x480 at decent fps. Not to mention generally poor quality of the VGA output unless you are very lucky.... …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-16, 08:49

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by havli

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Well, I am not sure what is the point of 32 bit textures with 16 bit framebuffer. Still, you will see blurry mess either way because m64 will not run these games at resolution better than 640x480 at decent fps. Not to mention generally poor quality of the VGA output unless you are very lucky.... and …

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Re: Should I get a cooling fan for a Voodoo 3 2k?

Posted on 2023-05-15, 18:01

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by havli

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For any Vooodoo, I would strongly advice to use some kind of cooling fan. If you have enough space below the card, something like aaronkatrini showed is the best. You can keep the card in its original state without modifications and still keep it nice and cool. Also in case of V3 PCI pay attention …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-15, 06:21

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by havli

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As product out-of-the-box, Velocity was worse than M64/Vanta. Why do you think so? It is definitely faster than M64 even with single TMU. Also don't forget in D3D both TMUs are enabled by default. Image quality in 2D is much better on Velocity and in 3D it is perfectly fine too. Btw - good luck …

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Re: Voodoo5 6000 (yes, the one from ebay $15k) on LinusTechTips

Posted on 2023-05-09, 12:20

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by havli

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VSA-100 is limited by poor geometry throughput, and SLI doesn't solve this bottleneck. So with a bit more modern game you can easily see performance of V4 4500 / V5 5500 and V5 6000 more or less the same. But you can get 4x AA for free.

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Re: Non-standard floppy disk in old system

Posted on 2023-04-14, 13:53

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by havli

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Success! :D I managed to flash the FlashFloppy firmware on the Gotek. Configured it according to the drive geometry (77 cylinders, 16 sectors, 2 heads, 256B per sector). Then I created empty floppy images with this format by HxCFloppyEmulator and put two of them on the flash drive. After that I …

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Re: Non-standard floppy disk in old system

Posted on 2023-04-14, 07:02

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by havli

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Thank you all for the input. I didn't expect so many people interested in this topic. :) It is possible the device is of East Germany origin. I just tried ImageDisk 1.19 and it can read the floppy into image file. It indeed detects the sector size as 256B. There are 3 bad sectors (perhaps on purpose …

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