Re: Some guys opinion about DOSBox

Posted on 2020-02-06, 00:06

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by Garrett W

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Doom is a rather special case for DOSBox since it runs at 35fps which doesn't display properly on 60hz monitors. Just one more reason one should look into source ports that run the game at 60fps.

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Re: Which Voodoo with Matrox Millenium II and PPro 200 ?

Posted on 2020-02-05, 16:41

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by Garrett W

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Yeah, this has been proven time and time again. Here's another comparison: Pentium Pro 233 vs Pentium MMX 233 vs Pentium II 233 Voodoo 2 is also much faster than a Voodoo 1 and because it offloads triangle setup among other things, the gains are apparent even on older and slower CPUs.

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2020-01-31, 00:14

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by Garrett W

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Did other Dark Engine games such as the original Thief or SS2 use this as well? Yes. System Shock 2 and original Thief also use paletted textures. I see no mention of this on the readme for either Thief games and this is the first time I've ever heard of this being the case, but if you insist I do …

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2020-01-30, 18:25

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by Garrett W

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I'm gonna have a look at the readme to see if this is true, but I find it a little odd that they did this. Did other Dark Engine games such as the original Thief or SS2 use this as well?

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2020-01-30, 13:06

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by Garrett W

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Fairly certain Thief 2 doesn't make use of paletted textures. Your issue could be one of drivers and perhaps 16bit rendering on the 6600 Go. This is usually an issue with later cards such as the 8800 series, however they might have caused issues on older cards with newer drivers. Care to take a …

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Re: Shuttle HOT-613 (Single vs Dual - Pentium Pro)

Posted on 2020-01-30, 09:02

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by Garrett W

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Amazing undertaking! I think you're right on the money on the different BIOS, should probably work if you find the appropriate one!

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Re: Pandemonium! from GOG.com

Posted on 2020-01-26, 20:32

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by Garrett W

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Yeah, DX9 is problematic with Win9X, but doable for later hardware. I usually don't go above DX7 but that's besides the point. I think you may have run into one of those games that are speed sensitive as well, looks like you can't catch a break 🙁.

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Re: Pandemonium! from GOG.com

Posted on 2020-01-25, 19:10

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Hey, glad you managed to get it running! 1. The music's probably in CD-Audio format on the original PC release and I'm guessing GOG is running it through some other means (.ogg or .mp3 files maybe?). I can see a "MUSIC" folder in there, but I have no idea how it plays it. 2. Looks to be running at …

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Re: Pandemonium! from GOG.com

Posted on 2020-01-25, 06:30

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by Garrett W

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Windows 98 does not officially support DirectX9. This is false, Windows 98 does support early DX9. Anyway, since you have a GeForce2, I would suggest trying to run Pandy.exe, that should run the software rendered version of the game I believe. Pandy3.exe should be the 3dfx version, which you can't …

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Re: Pandemonium! from GOG.com

Posted on 2020-01-24, 22:48

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by Garrett W

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Can you show us the folder structure? I don't have the GOG version. You should also see where the shortcut points to, it might be pointing to an executable that tries to call nGlide. Also, GOG might have messed with the executables in a way that makes it impossible to run it under Win9x. Appiah4's …

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Re: Pandemonium! from GOG.com

Posted on 2020-01-24, 16:30

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From the error messages you posted, it seems like it's trying to use Direct3D 9. Does the GOG release use a Glide Wrapper like dgVoodoo or nGlide to run the 3dfx version of the game?

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Re: CPU advice K6 or pentium mmx?

Posted on 2020-01-24, 12:25

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by Garrett W

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Well, I dug up this old test comparing K6 200 and P1 MMX 200 https://www.anandtech.com/show/194/ and it paints a different picture. Depending on hardware configuration and game sometimes the K6 takes the lead, sometimes the MMX. I can't see a clear winner. The K6 233 is definitely faster than a P1 …

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Re: Voodoo 2 help

Posted on 2020-01-23, 23:08

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by Garrett W

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Use the latest reference Voodoo2 drivers. They can be found here: http://falconfly.vogonswiki.com/voodoo2.html

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Re: CPU advice K6 or pentium mmx?

Posted on 2020-01-23, 14:46

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by Garrett W

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Pretty sure I made it clear I was talking about 3D games which, by and large, rely on the FPU and not on integer calculations. Yes, the K6 is faster in integer, but it's kind of a moot point here. SLI is wasted on 233MHz but I'm not too sure about the 233MMX being that much faster. Especially in …

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Re: CPU advice K6 or pentium mmx?

Posted on 2020-01-23, 09:39

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by Garrett W

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Sure. But have you actually tried any demanding games that came out that year on a K6 233 recently? Stuff like Unreal and Half-Life really leave a lot to be desired with wild swings in performance, especially in the case of the latter where framerates can drop to single digits once you encounter a …

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Re: CPU advice K6 or pentium mmx?

Posted on 2020-01-23, 08:33

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by Garrett W

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MMX 233 is faster than K6 233, but as the poster above says, if you're going to run something this new on these CPUs, it will make little difference. In fact, that K6 233 might actually be slightly slower than the MMX 200 you have in there already and moving from an MMX 200 to an MMX 233 is not …

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Re: Do i have bad CPUs?

Posted on 2020-01-14, 18:08

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by Garrett W

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LoL, that is a 2007 video alright. I must have used a KT133A based board (or was it KT266A based?) and I know for a fact that I killed a couple of CPUs on that board by powering it on with a dinky Socket 370 Celeron cooler that was not attached properly. Can't recall if I saw smoke, but the smell …

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Re: Do i have bad CPUs?

Posted on 2020-01-14, 16:49

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by Garrett W

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Even with no chipped corners, Athlon chips with exposed dies... die almost instantly if you pop them on with no or poorly installed heatsink. I've managed to destroy a couple CPUs this way, so be careful both when you're installing them and when buying one online, always ask if they've been tested. …

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Re: Windows 98SE: 64MB SDRAM fully cached or 256MB on 430tx

Posted on 2020-01-14, 16:47

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by Garrett W

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For the past few years I've been using Cacheman on Win95 and 98 builds. It's a little utility that tweaks memory and swap file usage among other things and it also display how much RAM's available while minimized. Never did any benchmarking or noticed less stutters or so, but I've seen other people …

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Re: A TNT2 32MB is apparently better than a 16MB Voodoo 3 3000?

Posted on 2020-01-13, 10:32

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by Garrett W

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32bit has little to do with CPU performance, it mostly lies on the GPU itself. It is not merely a marketing tick as you suggest, other companies such as ATi and Matrox were also featuring 32bit rendering on their cards, in fact ATi's Rage 128 was pretty bad at 16bit initially and the Rage 128 Pro …

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