Re: Mid-1999 GPU That Takes Rendering Load from the CPU

Posted on 2018-12-09, 23:28

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Did you try turning V-Sync Off like I suggested in that thread? I'm fairly certain it will fix performance for the most part. Half-Life probably uses double buffered V-Sync, unless the TNT2M64 drivers allow you to use Triple Buffered VSync.

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Re: Half-Life Performance Issues

Posted on 2018-12-03, 21:57

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by Garrett W

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BeginnerGuy wrote: This game was most certainly the "Crysis" of 1998. Unreal would like to have a word with you.

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Re: Half-Life Performance Issues

Posted on 2018-12-03, 13:56

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by Garrett W

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Lol, I just realized he probably has V-Sync enabled, disable it using PowerStrip and you should be much better off.

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Re: Half-Life Performance Issues

Posted on 2018-12-02, 23:56

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That's odd, because I use a Pentium III Coppermine @600MHz. Being roughly in the middle of those two, I would expect 35-50FPS out of it. I should note that the 333MHz part I mentioned is a Pentium III 667 at 66MHz FSB, so it is faster than a proper 333MHz Pentium II. Your PIII 600 is not in the …

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Re: Half-Life Performance Issues

Posted on 2018-12-02, 19:58

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by Garrett W

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Half-Life is very demanding, but the TNT2 M64 is actually alright, especially at 640x480. It really is the CPU that causes the performance drops here. As suggested, disable A3D or EAX if enabled, they would only make the CPU overhead greater. Also, make sure to use older drivers, perhaps Detonator …

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Re: Sound Profile, a series taking a look at old synths and MIDI hardware

Posted on 2018-11-19, 11:41

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by Garrett W

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Same, this sounds awesome and I'm already subscribed anyway due to your other videos, gotta thabk YouTube's algorithm for not pushing your vids on my feed 😁

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Re: Matrox Parhelia P650 (LX) PCI - Anyone know of this card?

Posted on 2018-11-19, 07:47

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by Garrett W

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Can't speak for the PCI version, but the AGP P650 and P750 cards are essentially cut down versions of the original Parhelia, they have half the pipelines and half the bus width. Memory bandwidth is fine at 8GBps and the card performs on par with an original GeForce 256 DDR, perhaps even a little bit …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2018-11-10, 14:24

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by Garrett W

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Yeah, brainfart! Meant to say that PS2 games usually lack mipmapping which makes distant textures look much sharper than a lot of the games on the Dreamcast for example (Shenmue excluded of course).

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2018-11-09, 16:14

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If we want to get picky, I'm not sure I even like the look of low res bilinear filtered textures, and in that sense, games on the PS2 have aged a lot better for me or if you want to bring this on the PC, Quake's Software renderer >>>>> GLQuake for me 😀.

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Re: VIA 4-in-1 driver experiences

Posted on 2018-10-29, 11:47

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by Garrett W

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Cool, I'll keep it handy, I plan to install a Riva 128 and Voodoo2 on my MVP3 system!

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Re: VIA 4-in-1 driver experiences

Posted on 2018-10-28, 14:15

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by Garrett W

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Thank you for the results. Which video card did you use?

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Re: A PC for Morrowind

Posted on 2018-10-17, 13:49

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I have to agree with posts like appiah4 and badmojo, there is little sense in playing Morrowind on period correct systems, that game was an absolute hog. I remember renting it with my older brother and running it on his Pentium III 733 and GeForce2 MX back in late 2002. It was barely playable, but …

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2018-10-13, 20:51

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2018-10-13, 20:19

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2018-10-13, 19:47

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Re: MMX vs Non MMX for Gaming

Posted on 2018-10-11, 12:03

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by Garrett W

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Which motherboard and CPU are you using now? Motherboards don't prohibit MMX support, but usually they lack the split voltage required for the Pentium MMX parts which run at 2.8V internally. You can usually run MMX cpus just fine though at the standard voltage for original pentium CPUs, yes, they …

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2018-10-06, 06:55

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by Garrett W

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Thank you for the chance to win! 159

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Re: Which card to pair PCX2 with?

Posted on 2018-10-03, 12:43

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by Garrett W

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Yes, I've known about the Techland MiniGLs for a while, which is so weird to me that a relatively unknown company would go through all this trouble. Why not create their game in D3D instead? Not that I'm complaining, since we did get these MiniGLs in the end that are super useful 😀.

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Re: OpenGL ICD for Rage Pro cards?

Posted on 2018-10-03, 01:16

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by Garrett W

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Matth79 wrote: http://www.oocities.org/ziyadhosein/rprow98.htm - looks like this may be a working archive of the "mix your own" drivers page Damn, that's very comprehensive. Many thanks, there are a ton of ICDs on the bottom, I'll grab the latest one!

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Re: Which card to pair PCX2 with?

Posted on 2018-10-02, 23:05

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by Garrett W

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Thanks for the info! I'll be using a late socket 370 board, so I'm guessing PCI should be as fast as it gets. I'll probably pair it with a Matrox G100, just for the combined blending nightmare! I knew about 3Dcc, but I haven't found it to be too reliable especially when using 3Dfx cards. Might give …

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