Re: Voodoo 1 and Voodoo 2 (2 cards w/ SLI) on same PC

Posted on 2024-11-25, 18:18

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by Garrett W

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Yes, it is doable but it's a headache. I'm not sure why you want to go through with this. Passthrough cables are the least of your worries, though you are complicating this a bit more than needed, you don't need another passthrough cable on the 2nd Voodoo 2 card, it communicates with the first one. …

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Re: Tex Murphy: Overseer - questions concerning the DVD version

Posted on 2024-11-20, 13:36

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by Garrett W

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Overseer came out simultaneously on CD and DVD, the original release included them both. You may want to check this thread out: Tex Murpy Overseer DVD Edition Being a Pain

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Re: Video game actors are now on strike

Posted on 2024-07-28, 14:03

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by Garrett W

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Bring on the AI! Especially in indie games with lower budgets that can't afford union prices. Games will move to where much of the spoken word is LLM generated anyway, actors cannot read those lines so AI voices will I've also see some amatuer mods/games voiced by some text to speech variant - …

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Re: Hella fast Magic Carpet

Posted on 2024-07-25, 06:22

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by Garrett W

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Bullfrog learned a lesson by 1995 (MC2 should be frame limited), though partially lapsed with Syndicate Wars.... I first saw Syndicate Wars circa 2001-2002. My brother borrowed it from a friend who was running it fine on an MMX 166, however my brother's Pentium III 733 run it insanely fast ( …

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Re: Is Sb0060 the best Live! Card?

Posted on 2024-07-25, 06:14

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by Garrett W

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Cursed Derp wrote on 2024-07-24, 20:58: Heyyyyyyo, I want to know if SB0060 is considered the best sb Live! card. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Yes

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Re: My first Voodoo 1

Posted on 2024-06-03, 21:42

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by Garrett W

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You can use PowerStrip or 3Dcc to swap which card takes over D3D. Classic add-on card woes, but it was worth it at the time!

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Re: My first Voodoo 1

Posted on 2024-06-02, 21:20

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by Garrett W

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What drivers are you using?

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Re: Quake DOS page fault and other jankeroo

Posted on 2024-05-19, 16:19

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by Garrett W

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Patch the game to the latest version.

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Re: RIVA TNT2 M64 .VS. 3dfx voodoo 3 2000 AGP which is superior?

Posted on 2024-05-11, 06:31

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by Garrett W

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They are not equally fast. The TNT2 M64 performs like a TNT most of the time, though it can surpass it at lower resolutions such as 640x480. It is severely bandwidth limited due to the 64bit bus. As a reminder, the Voodoo 2 was the contemporary to the TNT. Voodoo 3 matches the performance of a …

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Re: My experience returning to Win98 after 25 years

Posted on 2024-05-10, 15:59

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by Garrett W

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As a big box collector I have around 200 big box games on my shelves from around that era of gaming, so I wanted to try some of them out and relive those nostalgic memories from when I was kid. I quickly realized that there are lots of compability issues with games from this era. First I tried out …

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Re: Tex Murpy Overseer DVD Edition Being a Pain

Posted on 2024-05-09, 11:23

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by Garrett W

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Glad to hear you got it working! Enjoy!

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Re: Tex Murpy Overseer DVD Edition Being a Pain

Posted on 2024-05-09, 07:54

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by Garrett W

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Yeah those community installers for eliminating disc swapping on the CD version are not the same thing. The DVD version actually features MPEG2 video at 30fps and much greater quality than the CD version (which runs at 15fps). It really is a massive leap in image quality. It's also one of the first …

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Re: Tex Murpy Overseer DVD Edition Being a Pain

Posted on 2024-05-08, 15:55

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by Garrett W

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Overseer was indeed a massive pain in the ass. It can be forgiven though, since the DVD version was offered as an extra when very, very few players owned a DVD drive. Installation was a headache and I haven't kept the instructions but I've kept all of the software needed to run the DVD version with …

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Re: Broken Sword 1 - SC55 as RAP10 + Sound blaster for digital?

Posted on 2024-05-03, 18:18

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by Garrett W

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Broken Sword has pre-recorded music at 11KHz I believe. There is no MIDI soundtrack.

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2024-04-30, 19:25

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by Garrett W

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So I’m sorry to keep going on about my 6x86 build but I’m just looking for some confirmation really. It’s now paired with a TNT2 M64, a 32GB variant on PCI. Even at the best overclock, 290MHz, the 3DMark99 CPU score is about half that of the same bench with the same card but with a Pentium II 233. …

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Re: Does Counter-Strike 1.6 on Steam run stable enough on modern systems?

Posted on 2024-04-26, 08:36

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by Garrett W

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Should be fine, just pay the 1$ on Steam and give it a try. PCGamingWiki is always the go to place for resolving any issues you encounter. DiGiTALZONE took me waaaaaaaay back. I think that's how I first played (a terribly buggy version of) Half-Life 2. I got to the elevator at Eli's lab and all NPCs …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLi hanging up

Posted on 2024-04-23, 13:23

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by Garrett W

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Only reason you are seeing such a performance increase is likely because of overclocked cards and disabled V-Sync. FastVoodoo drivers don't do anything that fancy.

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Re: Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 08:55

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by Garrett W

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AS/400 is surely still a thing under false name? :) Where I currently work AS/400 was finally replaced 4 months ago. It wasn't actually AS/400 hardware but virtualised on a standard Intel server. Not too sure of the details as it was looked after by the "AS/400" team, well 2 people one of which …

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Re: Gta 1 laggy

Posted on 2024-04-18, 14:01

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by Garrett W

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It's pretty much what leileilol said. As soon as you enter a car, the game seeks to another music track on the CD. It seems like less than a sec, doesn't seem like that big a deal to me. Maybe you could try something like CDBeQuiet to slow down your optical drive to 4x or 8x speeds which should …

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Re: Diamond 3DFX Voodoo 1 sudden death

Posted on 2024-04-17, 13:44

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by Garrett W

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That would be way too slow for the Voodoo 1. Consider that it was aimed at Pentium 133 - 166 and it scales pretty nicely all the way up to early Pentium II systems. Performance will be pretty bad on a 486 of any kind, I would recommend a different system for first time users.

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