Re: Pouet Demoscene Hardware (In)Compatibility Thread

Posted on 2021-07-20, 23:35

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by bakemono

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I've been watching for demos that run on Windows 2000 with extended kernel and BWC drivers. Hardware is (at the moment) Athlon II X2 280, GTX 650 Ti, 3GB RAM. Many demos will ask for the user's screen aspect ratio, but then anyone who admits to having 4:3 (or even 16:10) will just get extra black …

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Re: AMI Color BIOS (1993 and earlier) modification in hex editor

Posted on 2021-07-13, 15:47

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by bakemono

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Now knowing how the checksum calculation is actually performed for the AMI BIOS, it doesn't look too difficult to properly patch it, except for one small detail, which was already mentioned by jakethompson1, it's not clear where the actual checksum correction word is. A sum of 16-bit words is not …

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Re: Bid for a GF 9400 GT but getting a Radeon HD 4550 -> dispute?

Posted on 2021-07-10, 15:03

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by bakemono

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An HD4550 with GDDR3 is just as good as a 9400. And it clocks down when it is idle, for lower power consumption. DDR2 is obviously not as good, so if you get one with DDR2 then maybe send it back...

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Re: Does anyone here understand assembly and machine language? (for mod a bios file)

Posted on 2021-07-08, 14:06

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by bakemono

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Surprisingly, there is some information about BIOS data structures on nvidia's own site. Maybe this can help uncover something: http://download.nvidia.com/open-gpu-doc/BIOS- … tion-Table.html

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Re: Does anyone here understand assembly and machine language? (for mod a bios file)

Posted on 2021-07-04, 09:22

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by bakemono

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Is the dump of your (fake) BIOS online?

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Re: Does anyone here understand assembly and machine language? (for mod a bios file)

Posted on 2021-07-03, 09:31

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by bakemono

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1) Did you reference the part numbers on the actual memory chips (assuming they haven't been tampered with) and determine the real size and speed of the memory? 2) It sounds like you may have already tried flashing the BIOS from other GTS 450 cards, but did those detect the correct memory size or …

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Re: Last games that run on a voodoo 5 5500.

Posted on 2021-06-29, 03:15

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by bakemono

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Maybe Mount&Blade? It works on DX7 level cards (needs a fast CPU though)

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Re: Locked multiplier on CT 479 with p4p00-e dlx

Posted on 2021-06-27, 00:54

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by bakemono

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Why do you want to change it in the BIOS? A Pentium M can change multiplier on-the-fly with speedstep.

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Re: Digital cameras

Posted on 2021-06-25, 02:09

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by bakemono

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Now that you have a DSLR and an EF lens, maybe you'll want to get a cheap close-up lens that screws onto the end (since you are talking about macro). That lets you get closer for shooting small subjects. I like getting dragon flies and bumble bees outside my house. It can produce a little color …

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Re: Windows 7 Retro?

Posted on 2021-06-22, 02:30

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by bakemono

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It is PCs that are retro. A personal, general-purpose, stand-alone computer, owned and controlled by the user. The concept is retro. The current paradigm is disposable devices, tied to a service, tied to a platform, administered remotely, that can do what third parties decide would be sufficiently …

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Re: How can I test the IDE chipset on a motherboard, any utilities?

Posted on 2021-06-17, 06:12

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by bakemono

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If data integrity of the IDE interface is suspected, I would say go in the BIOS and try to downgrade the performance level. Maybe you can drop it from ATA66 to ATA33, or DMA mode 2, or even PIO. Slow things down and see if it becomes stable. I had to do that for a certain HDD on a Pentium III once. …

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Re: PIII + ATI Radeon 9800 proven ATI driver for Windows 2000 OpenGL? and debugging why its not working for my install..

Posted on 2021-05-17, 00:13

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by bakemono

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ruthan wrote on 2021-05-16, 22:16: In both is some strange code end is not searching for atioglxx.dll.dll Did you try to change atioglxx.dll to atioglxx in the registry? Under OpenGLDrivers\ati2dvag\Dll ? Because mine doesn't have the .dll extension:

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Re: PIII + ATI Radeon 9800 proven ATI driver for Windows 2000 OpenGL? and debugging why its not working for my install..

Posted on 2021-05-16, 20:15

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by bakemono

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ruthan wrote on 2021-05-16, 18:13: OpenGL device is still pointing to wrong driver.. or needs to be some hook for OpenGL32 to call ATI OpenGL driver, which is not working. OpenGL32.DLL should call LoadLibraryW to load atioglxx.dll. Maybe you can find it with a debugger and check the error code.

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Re: PIII + ATI Radeon 9800 proven ATI driver for Windows 2000 OpenGL?

Posted on 2021-05-15, 16:03

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by bakemono

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ruthan wrote on 2021-05-15, 00:38: I tried Blackwingcats drivers, but 9.x and 10.xx seems to support only newer cards Did you try the Radeon Legacy drivers? http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/967121.html I used one of these (can't remember if it was 9.8 or 10.2) with an X1300 and it …

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Re: Windows 3.1 max requirements

Posted on 2021-05-15, 15:44

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by bakemono

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I remember somebody analyzing windows drivers for timing loop issues when run on faster machines. He found that even in Win3.1x it has a very similar issue to the k6 bug in Win95. It might be in a specific version, like Win3.1 or Win3.11 or WFW. But I can't remember the name of who did this, but it …

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Re: Hp Vectra VE 4/100 to 5x86 133mhz but slow mem performance

Posted on 2021-05-15, 15:31

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by bakemono

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Nicely done. With a different config_addr I guess it could work for other chips too that use PCI config registers.

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Re: Windows 3.1 max requirements

Posted on 2021-05-14, 14:27

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by bakemono

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I used to run Win 3.1 on a Cyrix MII-300 with 32MB RAM, S3 Trio64, and the motherboard's C-Media sound

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Re: V.90 or V.92 56k Serial Modem w/ DOS, WFW 3.11, Win98 support

Posted on 2021-05-14, 14:12

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by bakemono

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Shouldn't any external serial modem work under any OS? Only Winmodems needed a driver, and they were internal (or perhaps on Cardbus card) Dial-up did have one advantage over the internet: peer-to-peer. Everybody with a phone line had a phone number. Everybody with an internet connection does NOT …

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Re: Is it possible to do a linux dd in Windows?

Posted on 2021-05-10, 13:05

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by bakemono

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Wouldn't a sector editor do the same thing as dd?

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Re: How to Run Cinebench 2003, which Calls for SSE Instructions from the GPU Driver, on CPUs without SSE?

Posted on 2021-04-30, 23:54

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by bakemono

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Short of going in with a debugger and identifying the exact code path that crashes, I'm thinking that one solution might be to drop an OPENGL32.DLL from a software renderer into the cinebench directory so that the nvidia opengl doesn't get called. Search for DarkGL and give that a try.

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