Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

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I just finished reinstalling Win95 and testing some games. The issue seems to have gone away! I played through the entirety of Virtua Cop (my first time ever beating it, actually) and a fair bit of Croc and Atlantis and never noticed any of that annoying jittering whatsoever. Guess I should make an …

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Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-03-06, 23:53

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http://www.putergeek.com/vcache/ I just followed this guide and no, it didn't fix it... Looks like I'll try reinstalling Windows (without formatting) pretty soon.

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Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-03-06, 21:55

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one difference between 95 and 98 is how the swap file and vcache are managed; if you have a lot of RAM installed (even just >32mb, according to some), it's usually said to set 95 to manually limit the vcache size because it can grow quite large and take a lot of memory away from programs to use. …

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Re: DOS drivers, .sys vs executable

Posted on 2021-02-28, 13:24

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SYS drivers occupy slightly less RAM, because there's no Program Segment Prefix. But COM/EXE drivers can be loaded at any time, and occupy no RAM until loaded... There's actually a PC-98 DOS program called ADDDEV that allows you to load .SYS drivers at any time. It also bundled a program called …

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Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-02-26, 11:38

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Atlantis: The Lost Tales is know for disk access woes. Also the symptoms when running Virtua Cop makes me think it's an disk access problem somehow. Are there any DMA settings in 95 you can check? Atlantis is running entirely from the hard drive using the patch from this post: https://www.vogons. …

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Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-02-26, 09:20

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Just tried SDD and... it didn't really work out. It was a nightmare to install, kept blue screening the first few attempts, but eventually got it working and the perfomance may actually be worse now when using the SDD driver. The DXDiag refresh rate override didn't help, either. I think next I'll …

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Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-02-26, 00:15

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You might want to try SciTech Display Doctor . It can be used as a universal Windows 9x driver for a number of PCI graphics cards of the era, including the S3 Trio64, and I'm fairly sure the V2 as well. I remember using this as an alternative driver for the Diamond Edge3D (based on the NVIDIA NV1 …

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Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-02-26, 00:11

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that behavior vaguely sounds to me like a badly running vsync, so i would try the "override directdraw refresh" option which i think was under dxdiag. if that doesn't help the best option is to plug in a different card and see if that changes anything... i'm just curious though, what games show …

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Re: HP Vectra 486/33VL not booting up

Posted on 2021-02-25, 16:17

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Deksor wrote on 2021-02-22, 10:56: My hp Vectra has been working ok with a cr2032 battery for at least 10 years so I don't think it's the problem. That's interesting. I remember mine having odd issues with the settings getting corrupted until I used a BR2325 instead of a CR2032.

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Re: HP Vectra 486/33VL not booting up

Posted on 2021-02-25, 16:13

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On my HP Vectra VL2 4/66, there's a jumper on the mobo to enable/disable the on-board graphics. Would yours happen to have that?

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Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-02-25, 12:45

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You may also try to use Win98 First Edition (4.10.1998). I think it is better suited for earlier systems. Moreover you can use 98lite to strip IE from it. I have tried 98lite before, and honestly I didn't really like it. Installing it breaks the Win98 USB mass storage driver, too. Fyi, I do have …

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Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-02-25, 12:43

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Well, as I expected, using a 98 driver didn't work. I got it to install (it's dxs3.inf, fyi), but every time I'd try to use it after restarting it will always give me an error saying the display adapter is disabled and even if I enable it It'll just give me the same error again after restarting once …

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Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-02-25, 11:07

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I've transplanted Ati Rage Pro WinME drivers to Win98, it was a matter of figuring out in which .cab file on the cd the files were, and then extracting the relevant .inf/vxd/etc files. If you know in which .inf file to look, it will say what other files it requires. Or you could probably just …

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Re: PC games on consoles

Posted on 2021-02-25, 08:17

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One that sticks out for me would be Atlantis: The Lost Tales from 1997 by Cryo. In 1998 it got ports to the Sega Saturn and PS1, and neither of them are nearly as good as the Windows/DOS PC original. First link is the Saturn version and the second is the PS1 version. In both, the visuals are much …

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Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 13:35

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I downgraded to DirectX 6.1 and... it sadly didn't fix the issue.

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Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 11:41

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I just installed Win98 SE on a different hard drive as a test to see if these issues would happen under there. Using the video driver and DirectX 6.1a that Win98 comes with, everything works fine. No jittering issues at all. So, there's something wrong with my Win95 installation. I'd much rather use …

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Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 02:53

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The issue isn't exactly low framerates. Just that the motion will be fairly consistent for a bit and then become really jittery for no reason even if I'm just sitting in a menu or an FMV is playing, etc. It seems to effect anything using DirectX. I'm pretty sure this is a Win9x era card, too, and …

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Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-02-23, 09:39

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For some reason, with an S3 Trio64 V2/DX+ card I have installed in my P166mmx Win95 machine, I keep having a problem in Windows games where the motion becomes very jittery at random intervals. It'll go from being smooth, to jittery, the back to smooth, and so on. I'm using DirectX 7, fyi, and …

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Re: OS recommendations?

Posted on 2021-02-18, 03:40

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I'd say go with Win95. I have a Pentium 266mmx laptop, tried both Win95 and Win98 on it, and Win95 ran noticeably faster overall. Any games and software you'd want to run on a machine like yours would work just fine under Win95 anyway. I even have some games like SpongeBob Employee of the Month that …

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Re: Quake for Macintosh Hangs on Startup

Posted on 2021-02-16, 02:52

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dr.zeissler wrote on 2021-02-15, 09:44: OpenGL installed? Or do you play on software-renderer? As I said in the first post, software-rendered. Maybe there's an extension issue going on here, though idk how I'd find out which one it is.

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