Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-03-19, 15:57
X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty. I don't have a PCIE one yet, and this one was a decent price.
Re: Guidance for Windows 98/Windows XP Gaming Build
Posted on 2020-03-13, 00:06
The 865 chipset is socket 478. It comes with a good combination of "modern" and old school, like SATA 1.5, dual channel support, and support for higher clocked P4 processors, as well as IDE, AGP, and drivers for windows 98. I have an Asus P4P800-E Deluxe with a Northwood 3.0ghz/800mhz FSB and dual …
Re: Guidance for Windows 98/Windows XP Gaming Build
Posted on 2020-03-12, 05:54
For what you are trying to do, I think maybe your only good choice is a pentium IV with AGP. I have an asus board with a 865 chipset and it works great in windows 98. I think ideally you would want an FX card, but an ATI 9800 or a Geforce 6 series are also good choices. I would also suggest getting …
Re: Guidance for Windows 98/Windows XP Gaming Build
Posted on 2020-03-11, 04:29
Which one of your games won't work in XP? Most of the benefit of win9x is DOS. PC parts that can do late DOS through early XP is pretty specific, and there will be a lot of compromises.
Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark
Posted on 2020-02-19, 20:43
Food for thought: https://hothardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-9-3 … shootout?page=2 This review compares Ryzen 3900x with two cores disabled to i9 9900k, with both CPUs locked at 4.0ghz.
Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark
Posted on 2020-02-19, 17:23
Yeah it is interesting. AMD IPC compares favorably to intel processors in some benchmarks and not in others. This dosbox benchmark is probably the biggest gap I have seen so far. The Kaby Lake CPU benchmarks are, on average, 12% faster clock-for-clock than Ryzen, and the haswell CPUs, which are …
Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark
Posted on 2020-02-19, 03:11
I set my clock speed to a fixed 4.15ghz and disabled hyperthreading. Ran the quake benchmark and got pretty much identical results. Ryzen can be sensitive to memory bandwidth. A CAS 14 kit and/or memory with higher bandwidth could improve performance by a substantial amount in some benchmarks.
Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark
Posted on 2020-02-18, 21:35
Hi mothergoose729, I noticed that Ryzens have some way worse performance in Dosbox than intel on same frequency. Just could you make a quake test while set the CPU affinity for dosbox proccess to only one CPU core? And maybe same with disabled hyperthreading/SMT or how it's called on AMD in SETUP? …
Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark
Posted on 2020-02-18, 03:26
Ryzen R5 3600 @ ~ 4.15ghz 16GB DDR 4 3200 CAS 16 Windows 10 Pro x64 Speedsys normal: 625430 parrots, 231.9 XT Speedsys dynamc: 2800000 parrots, 1038.2 XT Doom normal: 79.6fps/938 realtics Doom dynamic: 290.6fps/257 realtics Quake_SW 800x600: 59.2, 58.9, 58.9 Quake_SW 320x200: 183.6, 183.9, 183.3 A …
Re: Super Socket 7 Win98SE masochism (work in progress)
Posted on 2020-02-16, 21:54
I went through two SS7 boards myself. One of them died suddenly after a very short time of use. Another arrived DOA. Never did get my hands on a fully functioning one.
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-15, 04:38
Finally upgrading my PC after many years. Going Ryzen 5 3600 ... I do a lot of emulation, so I am excited for the extra threads and increase in IPC. DOSBox bench thread (check my signature) lacks newer Ryzen 3xxx to compare with previous 2xxx. Would be interesting to see the results for Ryzen's …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-13, 20:06
Nice finds!
Re: Problematic Windows games list
Posted on 2020-02-12, 20:24
I've noticed that in Windows 10, some games need 100% scale in Windows Display Settings to display properly. If it is set higher than 100% the game display may be cropped off. This did not occur in Windows 7. I've found 2 such games so far: Call of Duty 1, and GZDoom. Don't know if that's …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-12, 03:21
Finally upgrading my PC after many years. Going Ryzen 5 3600 ASRock B450 ATX Noctua NH-D15 1TB NVME SSD 2 x 8tb HDD I am replacing a haswell 4690k. I do a lot of emulation, so I am excited for the extra threads and increase in IPC. Going to take my old components and turn it into a super charged XP …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-07, 19:10
HanJammer wrote on 2020-02-07, 15:52: This semi-rare ATI Stereo F/X and nice Adaptec SCSI controller arrived in some poor 486 today... Is that a second Yamaha chip under the stereo FX sticker?
Re: Problematic Windows games list
Posted on 2020-01-28, 23:46
It was removed, yes, but it's possible to restore it. How do you restore it? https://github.com/ericwj/PsSecDrv https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/games_windows_10/secdrvsys-not-loading-in-windows-10-this-will/65a6fe83-08df-4760-b2ad-6b1ce61d40d4?page=3 (Microsoft's forum software is …
Re: Problematic Windows games list
Posted on 2020-01-28, 23:31
I've never heard of either "Secure disc" or "Light disc" so I have a hard time believing either of them are used for most games between 2002-2006. Most games from that time period use secdrv (SafeDisc/SecuROM), which is possible to enable in Windows 10, just a bit annoying. The real problem is …
Re: Problematic Windows games list
Posted on 2020-01-28, 23:07
Everything that used secure disc or light disc DRM requires a no cd crack in windows 10. This includes most games released between 2002-2006. This is true even if you have the original media and an optical drive. Finding a list of "good" no CD cracks is its own challenge. I've never heard of either …
Re: Problematic Windows games list
Posted on 2020-01-28, 20:23
Everything that used secure disc or light disc DRM requires a no cd crack in windows 10. This includes most games released between 2002-2006. This is true even if you have the original media and an optical drive. Finding a list of "good" no CD cracks is its own challenge.
PCI-E SATA and USB addon cards for XP?
Posted on 2020-01-22, 23:04
I am thinking about upgrading my main/modern machine, and I would like to reuse the parts for a late XP/windows 7 hybrid system. What I have now is a socket 1150 board and haswell CPU, which is past the period of official support for XP. I think it will work anyway with USB 2.0 generic drivers and …
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