Re: The Saddest Steam Build 2021

Posted on Yesterday, 20:45

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by mothergoose729

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I'm still unsure if this thread is for hacking a solution to get steam to work or using vanilla OS with vanilla steam. If you want to emulate things like SSE then this may help: Intel® Software Development Emulator Unknown what the minimum OS for that would be. May have to play the version game if …

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Re: All these interposers and hardware hacking of old chips. What about using new chips in old motherboards?

Posted on Yesterday, 19:02

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It would be pretty cool to have an FPGA drop in CPU for socket 7 or slot 1 that could be configured on the fly for different speed profiles. For CPUs beyond slow 486sx FPGA is a no no, at least in "budget" models who power things like the MiSTER. An extra problem with Budget models, is that them …

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Re: Ruined memory of an old game by playing it!

Posted on Yesterday, 17:57

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sometimes it's not the game as such but the nostalgia that disappears upon replays irksome controls that once were acceptable, the inability to jump in some FPS games, being unable to skip animations and so on moreover there was a kind of ignorance one had about games when younger, beliefs that …

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Re: Is this card a fake?

Posted on Yesterday, 07:12

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by mothergoose729

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I have seen a lot of suspicious looking FX cards on ebay lately. There are some "5950s" circulating around for suspiciously reasonable prices (well, a few hundred dollars anyway). Trouble is I can't find any picture online that match the PCBs. The heatsinks are all different too.

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Re: All these interposers and hardware hacking of old chips. What about using new chips in old motherboards?

Posted on Yesterday, 07:08

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by mothergoose729

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It would be pretty cool to have an FPGA drop in CPU for socket 7 or slot 1 that could be configured on the fly for different speed profiles. I am not sure how practical that would be given the expense of an FPGA and the limitations of HDL (I think the FPGAs you see in projects like the mister have a …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on Yesterday, 00:07

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It maybe possible to use nvidia inspector to force additional driver settings or down sampling. My GTS 250 has super sampling options in the driver but my GTX 960 doesn't. I am not sure which driver version removed the option from the control panel.

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Re: Lowest cpu usage sound card that works on windows 98, 7

Posted on Yesterday, 00:03

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Sphere478 wrote on 2021-01-21, 23:54: Tiido wrote on 2021-01-21, 23:09: X-Fi is not gonna work with 98, Only some of the Audigy2 cards will. So would a audigy2 zs be the fastest card with least cpu usage that works with 98 then? It is a strong choice: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/best-sound-c … …

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Re: The Saddest Steam Build 2021

Posted on 2021-01-21, 21:05

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by mothergoose729

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I am sure there is at least one title in the steam library that you can run in software mode. I don't know what the requirements are to run the windows vista + steam UI. I think even on linux it requires some basic display libraries. You could get a prescott CPU to run on an industrial board with …

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Re: Pentium 4 build choice

Posted on 2021-01-21, 16:25

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by mothergoose729

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If you are looking at FX cards then IMO you don't need faster than northwood to play games made at or around 2002 or 2003. I haven't heard of anyone having much success with PCIE video cards in windows 98. I wouldn't install windows 98 on a machine that doesn't have AGP. From my own experience, the …

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Re: What was considered the best gaming keyboard in the early 2000's

Posted on 2021-01-21, 06:56

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by mothergoose729

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Noone that I know about really cared about keyboards until about 10 years ago when the mechanical boom hit us. I think the more accurate way of describing it is that "regular" keyboards became so obnoxiously unusable that people started looking for alternatives, "the way things used to be." Kids …

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Re: fx5500 or Geforce MX4000 for Pentium200MMX

Posted on 2021-01-20, 21:25

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by mothergoose729

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Phil has a series on super socket 7 video cards. The results should be pretty similar on the pentium MMX if a bit slower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gipW4lcUHg edit: https://youtu.be/TIPtTM456cQ?t=679 I believe he is regular socket 7 and only has pci I believe the results are comparable

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Re: fx5500 or Geforce MX4000 for Pentium200MMX

Posted on 2021-01-20, 21:10

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by mothergoose729

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Phil has a series on super socket 7 video cards. The results should be pretty similar on the pentium MMX if a bit slower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gipW4lcUHg edit: https://youtu.be/TIPtTM456cQ?t=679

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Re: fx5500 or Geforce MX4000 for Pentium200MMX

Posted on 2021-01-20, 19:41

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The later nvidia drivers are really bad. The FX series is supported but the performance really suffers in windows 98, and on slower systems like a pentium MMX, you can actually get worse performance than with a more period correct card. A TNT2 or something of that era is really a better way to go. …

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Re: How much of an issue is "early Windows XP" for a 'fastest XP build"

Posted on 2021-01-20, 18:32

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by mothergoose729

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Very, very minor. The only game made at or around 2000 that I know of that uses legacy features is Thief 1 for a sky texture that you barely see (palletized textures). Serious Sam can have issues with distant textures in some levels but only on some cards, and I think I have only seen it reported …

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Re: GPU for pentium 4 win 98SE/XP gaming machine: MX 440 or Radeon 9250?

Posted on 2021-01-20, 02:42

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by mothergoose729

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Windows 98 can have trouble with 1gb of RAM without a patch. Downgrading to 512mb would be better.

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Re: Compaq OEM Voodoo 3 3500 AGP with only VGA and TV-Out... lets put this to rest.

Posted on 2021-01-19, 19:58

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Tangentially related to this topic - a lot of people aren't aware that you can get a stock standard voodoo 3500 to work just fine with a VGA monitor without the octopus. The compaq voodoo 3500 cards are a kind of halo retro enthusiast product which drives up the price - a bit unnecessarily. All you …

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Re: Best and most cost-effective graphics card for Win98SE?

Posted on 2021-01-19, 07:52

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by mothergoose729

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The MX440 or the slightly faster MX460 are great value. Another good option is an FX5200 or FX5500 if you can find them for a good price and in AGP (PCI will work too but you lose a lot of performance). It used to be the case that you could find quadro equivalents to FX and geforce 4 GPUs for a lot …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-19, 02:48

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by mothergoose729

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The AMD CPU was NOT much less expensive abut about 75% of the Intel equivalent. And so this trend has continued. AMD has always been the Budget CPU when compared to Intel equivalent. How can you call them the Budget CPU when Zen 3 is beating Intel whatever-the-hell-Lake across the board , including …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-18, 03:13

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by mothergoose729

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jmarsh wrote on 2021-01-18, 02:33: Do any AMD chips have AVX-512? No, the rumor is not until zen 4. Probably 2022.

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Re: Ruined memory of an old game by playing it!

Posted on 2021-01-15, 23:36

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I actually like old, bad games :P. So even when I revisit something from my childhood that is terrible, that is part of the fun. There is one I can remember though. My son is going through a Star Wars faze so I booted up the Force Unleashed. I had played it twice before and remember rather liking it …

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