Re: Wierd Radeon 9800 Pro by Palit - What am I dealing with?

Posted on 2021-02-21, 01:53

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I have the exact same card down to the model number. It also reports 256MB of memory and the chips have "HP25D256163CE-4 16Mx16 DDR" imprinted on them. There are 8 chips, which would result in 128MB, which is odd. I also can't find out anything about those memory modules online. A while ago I …

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Re: looking for x1300 win 9x/ME driver

Posted on 2021-02-20, 00:46

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Did that really ever exist? I don't think so. That Readme even says that the driver is for 2000 and XP. As far as I know, the last ATI card that runs on Windows 98 is the X850.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-02-15, 02:02

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Just started playing Anachronox. It's a really nice RPG using the Quake 2 engine. Love the combat and the weird and funny quests.

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Re: newest web browser that will work on amd k6 III+

Posted on 2021-02-11, 02:24

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You're pretty much out of luck on prebuilt browsers, I think. There is a fork of Palemoon, called "New Moon" that could work without SSE if you build it yourself. I think the binaries provided only do SSE1 at the minimum, though: https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/ So you need at least a Pentium MMX and …

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Re: S3 Unichrome IGP (P4M890) and linux experts question

Posted on 2021-02-04, 03:13

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Also, DRI1 in xorg-server had been broken for years and was only very recently fixed: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1107#note_720229 So in order for it to work you either need a really old xorg version or wait for the next release. In current Linux kernels DRI1 support has to …

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Re: Happy New Year 2021!

Posted on 2020-12-31, 22:18

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Happy New Year! Thanks to COVID, homeoffice and cancelled business trips I've had much more time for tinkering with retro machines this year. So in the end, this year turned out pretty well after all...

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-12-20, 19:34

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The "more kosher" way of doing it is by using an ephemeral server, that is, one that you only spin up when you absolutely need to with SMBv1/NTMLv1 support Or you just use smb.conf options like these which allow for SMB1, 2 and 3 simultaneously: [global] min protocol = CORE max protocol = SMB3 I …

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Re: Let's talk about our hated trends

Posted on 2020-12-17, 20:28

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cyclone3d wrote on 2020-12-15, 15:45: Voxels . They sucked then and, unless something has changed, they still suck. Cloudpunk is doing them pretty well. Voxels in a beautiful Cyberpunk neon-world. So simple, yet so beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDEDICQEze0

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-12-13, 23:23

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Let us know how it goes as you progress 👍 I am now 35 hours in and I really love the game. It's got a really slow start, though. I didn't like the gunplay at first, because all of the weapons were weak as hell. But the world really opened up in Act 2 (after 7 hours for me). Once I got more features …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-12-12, 21:09

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I am currently 27 hours into Cyberpunk 2077 and so far I really love the game It's a little glitchy, but still very playable.

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Re: Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things

Posted on 2020-12-07, 20:55

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Got this weird Zalman fan controller a while back. It's a bit dusty and the knobs need some polishing. Filename zalman_cooler.jpg File size 156.76 KiB Views 1456 views Looks like it was released in 2003. I have it hooked up to four Noctua fans, the red controls are just for show and do nothing at …

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Re: Does PCI-Express sound card with gameport exist?

Posted on 2020-12-07, 02:02

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For a Joystick to be recognized in Windows, it needs more files than just the gameport driver. It also needs the control panel extension for the controller configuration and this was never ported to x64 versions of Windows. 32bit Gameport support was dropped after XP, but it still works on Vista+ …

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Re: In-game audio using Daemon Tools with BIN/CUE images

Posted on 2020-12-07, 01:41

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EpsilonP wrote on 2020-12-05, 03:46: @bregolin - I have no such option under device properties. Imho, digital audio playback is only available with WDM drivers. If you use the VXD drivers it probably won't work with Daemon Tools. Tried that and wasn't able to get it working on my SB Live Value.

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Re: Good OS selectors ?

Posted on 2020-12-07, 01:37

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aleksej wrote on 2020-11-28, 10:48: Boot-US. Not free but superb. It's free for private use. Can also hide partitions depending on the one you want to boot from, it's also my bootmanager of choice. Needs at least Windows XP(/2000?) so you can run the installer for it, though.

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Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2020-12-07, 01:01

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Archimedian Dynasty works with a Banshee but some of the ground textures are missing (showing only black squares). Probably because the second TMU is missing.

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Re: Fact review on graphics card purchase for XP

Posted on 2020-12-06, 14:24

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My GPU of choice for Windows XP is the MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr III Power Edition/OC . Comes with a switch on the card for silent mode or power mode - the latter one is extremely loud, but for XP games I don't even need the extra power - so I always run it in Silent Mode and enjoy the games. Crysis …

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Re: EU votes for Right to Repair

Posted on 2020-12-01, 20:46

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Bruninho wrote on 2020-12-01, 17:48: No, right to repair is about a bunch of (censored) trying to change the way the Macs are done to please their non-official dangerous mods & upgrades, at the expense of reducing the performance of these Macs That made me chuckle. It's such a load of bullshit.

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2020-11-30, 17:16

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Some actually work better if they use both CPUs. Cloudpunk is a good example for that. I only tweak the affinity if the game runs really bad. It's kind of funny - I can understand why Eastshade didn't like it. But EA's Harry Potter was also really struggling and that's a Quake1 engine game. 😁

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Re: EU votes for Right to Repair

Posted on 2020-11-30, 17:09

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From the first glance, this looks like an amazing idea. But being a citizen of Germany, I'm pretty sure it won't do a lot of good. The EU wanted to make sure we had the USB standard for chargers, too - but in the end, certain companies like Apple just provided a USB adapter for their own connectors …

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2020-11-30, 17:00

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This is my Dual CPU beast of a machine. IMG_20201130_173618.jpg IMG_20201130_173731.jpg Specs Case: In-Win Q500 Mainboard: SuperMicro X10DRi CPUs: 2x Xeon E5-2620 v3 (six-core, 2.4GHz regular, 3.2GHz turbo) RAM: 64GB DDR4 ECC GPU: Geforce GTX 1060 6GB Power Supply: Corsair RM750 SSD: Crucial BX500 …

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