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Re: Duke Nukem 3D isn't happy about my CPU upgrade?

Posted on 2018-06-20, 04:16

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Do you know which patch version you're running? There is an official Duke Nukem 3D v1.5 patch that solved an "echo" crash, that was why I suggested seeing if killing the audio would solve it. https://gamebanana.com/gamefiles/1337 --> from a quick google search I'm not sure if this applies to Atomic …

Re: Duke Nukem 3D isn't happy about my CPU upgrade?

Posted on 2018-06-19, 19:31

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I recently played through every episode of d3d via widows 98 on a coppermine 800/256/100 without issue using GM audio, so I doubt thats the problem. I'd start by stress testing the cpu and running memtest to check for stability errors. From there a clean install of the game and I'd run it with …

Duke Nukem 3D isn't happy about my CPU upgrade?

Posted on 2018-06-19, 18:00

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I've been running Duke Nukem 3D on a Pentium 3 550MHz (Katmai, 550/512/100 SL3F7) nicely for quite some time; since I'm still getting slowdowns here and there (in Windows), I decided to get a CPU upgrade. I bought a Pentium 3 850MHz (Coppermine, 850/256/100 SL43F) and installed it on my rig, but now …

Re: CD audio and dual sound cards?

Posted on 2018-06-16, 18:14

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Just get a second CD drive, and connect each drive to a different card. This way you have all bases covered. I'd of course love to do that, but I'll have to get myself another case: I just don't have enough front slots :D The only remaining problem being: will the PCI card actually play CD audio …

Re: CD audio and dual sound cards?

Posted on 2018-06-12, 11:07

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Thank you for the ideas sir, I think I almost figured it out :D I actually have some REALLY stubborn Windows games that refuse to play CD audio digitally - to the extent that I even wanted to _inmm them all (patch them that they would read CD tracks from HDD) - that is why I'm in such an awkward …

CD audio and dual sound cards?

Posted on 2018-06-12, 06:42

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hi, I have a dual sound card setup, with a Genoa Systems Audioblitz 3D and Creative Sound Blaster Audigy installed on my system. I mainly use the Audigy for Windows applications, and AB3D does excellent job with a DB60XG daughtercard under DOS. Then it came to me that if I have a game that plays CD …

Re: Motherboard failing to boot with a certain CPU for a while

Posted on 2018-01-16, 13:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I agree with derSammler . The cause is most likely due to bad caps but, it can also relate to bad memory. You could first try to swop out the memory and see what happens (or run a memory test, either on the existing motherboard or, another one). Unfortunately, not all bad caps can be identified …

Re: Motherboard failing to boot with a certain CPU for a while

Posted on 2018-01-16, 12:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Check the caps on both boards. Getting stuck on a reboot or not starting at first power-on often comes from bad caps. I've thought of that possibility but I'm a complete noob at identifying blown caps; a random clue led me to search for visually blown ones (which I'm not sure if it's the right …

Motherboard failing to boot with a certain CPU for a while

Posted on 2018-01-16, 12:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The title is indeed, very weird - because the issue is as well, super weird. I have two ASUS P3V133 mobos, as well as a Pentium III 450 MHz and another in 1GHz. Both motherboards and Pentiums worked flawlessly until I decided to tinker with some hardware; and they now share the same issue as well. …

Re: Honour & Freedom (Juliet)

Posted on 2017-12-27, 17:54

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

People reported to have it running flawlessly on Voodoo 1. I wonder what could have made the difference... 😵

Re: Honour & Freedom (Juliet)

Posted on 2017-12-23, 12:58

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

This game suffers from 2 problems: - dgVoodoo crashes when quitting a mission because the game double-releases some textures (the facepalm-technique again... :D), altough I was able to workaround this on dgVoodoo side, will be included in the next WIP. - The game allocates its z-buffer through …

Re: Geforce 4 Ti4200 @ AGP2x, benchmarked against an array of Nvidia drivers

Posted on 2017-11-25, 17:10

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

What I'd like to see - and it's probably been done before - is tests showing which graphics cards are bottlenecked by different AGP speeds. Like at what point does AGP 2x start bottlenecking an AGP 4x card? Ya know what I mean? Like, I have an AGP 4x motherboard for Windows XP with an Athlon XP …

Geforce 4 Ti4200 @ AGP2x, benchmarked against an array of Nvidia drivers

Posted on 2017-11-25, 11:39

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

While building my own Windows 98 machine, I took a scenic route and benchmarked my Ti4200 against various versions of Nvidia driver. It seems that performance DO get worse as the driver get newer and newer as opposed to a speculation where they could get better with a certain update. I didn't …

Re: Ti4200 in AGP4x on AOpen MX64 / Acer S61 (VIA 133A)

Posted on 2017-11-24, 20:10

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I have had freezing problems with Radeon 8500 on KT266/KT333. I'm not sure if there could be problems on Apollo Pro 133A. Seems possible. Radeons don't officially support some things old D3D 3-5 games sometimes use. There's another thread about it. Table fog, 8-bit textures, etc. Games that use D3D …

Re: Ti4200 in AGP4x on AOpen MX64 / Acer S61 (VIA 133A)

Posted on 2017-11-17, 06:43

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

It's probably a combination of inadequate AGP power delivery and buggy chipset. Cheaply built motherboard with a flaky chipset. Cards that use external power are usually the least unstable. Seems unlikely that you'll get that generation of VIA stable at 4X. I've almost gave up 4x since it seems …

Ti4200 in AGP4x on AOpen MX64 / Acer S61 (VIA 133A)

Posted on 2017-11-16, 18:25

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

They said VIA Apollo 133A is a bad idea - it is . I know this might be discussed over a million times , my apology in advance - but I think I've got this last resort since everything I've read and tried doesn't work. :dead: Got myself an Acer S61 motherboard, which is almost an AOpen MX64 with a few …

Re: A very interesting (stained) keyboard

Posted on 2017-11-12, 03:25

in Milliways

in Milliways

Thank you sir, for an interesting piece of history! That does make much, much more sense; even much more than "keyboard broken, repaired with a different one".

Re: What was your favorite computing era?

Posted on 2017-11-11, 14:06

in Milliways

in Milliways

Because having a SLOT-1 CPU as opposed to a Socket 370 one looks cosmetically bad ass, I'll go with 98-2000 😎 Also we have tons of impractical and obsolete multimedia keyboards, mice and all those peripherals - yes it's even bad-ass-er than RGB, why not. 😎 😎 😎 😎

A very interesting (stained) keyboard

Posted on 2017-11-11, 13:56

in Milliways

in Milliways

Today I got myself a used Legend (known as Lenovo of today) keyboard and brushed it up, just to find that it has some interesting stains: https://i.imgur.com/rPKQ5Ds.jpg Since it's widely known that every stained keyboard might tell a story of its former owner, we could make a speculation of what it …

Re: [SOLVED] DIY SB1394 Cable for Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum?

Posted on 2017-11-05, 02:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm surprised it works at all, it may be unreliable. High speed signals such as 1394 should be transmitted over twisted pair transmission line with proper impedance. It would be better to cut off connectors of a firewire cable and put those connectors on it, making sure the signal pairing is …

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