Re: Radeon X800 XT vs FireGL X3-256, any concerns for Win9X

Posted on 2020-05-09, 23:59

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by lost77

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You probably wont be very happy with the OpenGL performance, if the game even runs. The professional OpenGL drivers are different from the consumer ones. Also, the X3 is actually a cut down version of the X800 XT, similar to a Pro but with less ROPs. Here is an example: https://www.anandtech.com/ …

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Re: A worthy Voodoo 5 Replacement ?

Posted on 2020-05-09, 23:48

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by lost77

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I would go with a Geforce 4. Fast, compatible and cheap.

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Re: Incompatibilities between Voodoo2 and some AGP cards?

Posted on 2020-04-06, 00:05

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by lost77

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There are no compatibility issues that I know of. Voodoo II doesn't use the 2D card for anything. The only thing I can think off at the moment is this: FastVoodoo drivers automatically overclocks the cards to 96Mhz (no idea why). This can persist after driver uninstall. Try to downclock the cards to …

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Re: How to benchmark Unreal Tournament (1999) using patch version 436?

Posted on 2020-03-28, 15:17

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by lost77

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Not sure why the intro isn't playing for you but try this in the console: timedemo 1 open cityintro

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Re: AMD 760 and KT133A release date evidence (2000 or 2001?)

Posted on 2020-03-09, 10:56

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by lost77

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I was looking at KT133A back then. I remember the Asus A7V133 was avaliable in mid January 2001. I wanted Abit though and bought the Abit KT7A in late January. I'm pretty sure I saw the Asus a7M266 in stock at that time.

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Re: 7800 or 7900 series?

Posted on 2020-03-07, 14:35

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by lost77

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If you are running XP there is no difference between the two. They use the same GPU architecture.

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Re: Bioshock with EAX

Posted on 2020-03-03, 23:32

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I dont know of any way to get the DVD to work. You can try to install it through steam on another computer and then copy it and steam over after setting steam to offline mode.

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo 5500 & Starwars Rogue Squadron 3d?

Posted on 2020-03-01, 23:28

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by lost77

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This one: https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file … on-3d-patch-12/

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo 5500 & Starwars Rogue Squadron 3d?

Posted on 2020-03-01, 21:51

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by lost77

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Did you install the patch that fixes issues with Voodoo cards?

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Re: Multiboot using NTLDR and FreeDOS

Posted on 2020-03-01, 21:46

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by lost77

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I'm no expert but have you tried just D:\ ?

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Re: NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL softmod options.

Posted on 2020-03-01, 21:44

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by lost77

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For the 980, you'll be just as well off leaving everything as-is and running the Quadro driver as OpenGL is faster on the Quadro drivers due to additional features and DirectX doesn't suffer any penalty for it. My limited testing showed the Quadro4 to be a bit slower in OpenGL (Direct3D was the …

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Re: Old memtest86 needed for K6-2 CPU

Posted on 2020-02-29, 14:46

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by lost77

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bloodem wrote on 2020-02-28, 19:40: I guess I'll need to buy a FDD... or a Floppy emulator 😀 You should just be able to turn it into a boot CD using most kinds of burn software.

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Re: Old memtest86 needed for K6-2 CPU

Posted on 2020-02-27, 18:54

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by lost77

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You can grab MemTest86 2.7 from 2001 here: https://www.ime.usp.br/~rbc/lixo/memt27.zip

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Re: Identify unknown TSENG ET4000/w32P card

Posted on 2020-02-27, 18:44

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by lost77

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Compro Video Magic ETW32PVS 1MB

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Re: Disappointing Windows XP gaming performance

Posted on 2020-02-24, 16:55

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by lost77

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Looking at it from a time perspective i'm not surprised that you are not getting good performance. Pentium 3.06Ghz: Late 2002 Geforce 6600, maybe similar to 9700 Pro?: Late 2002 GTA: San Andreas: Mid 2005 More than 2½ years was a long time back then.

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Re: Running without chipset drivers

Posted on 2020-02-20, 00:40

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by lost77

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So any chipset drivers usually work regardless of motherboard? As long as it is the same chipset, yes. Also the Intel chipset driver from the Asus site (you can get it many other places) supports tons of different chipsets. Just like an AMD or Nvidia graphics card driver will support maybe 7-8 …

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Re: Running without chipset drivers

Posted on 2020-02-17, 23:29

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by lost77

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He was using Snappy Driver Installer to get the drivers. You can grab them elsewhere like here on the Asus site: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/B85MG/HelpDesk_Download/

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Re: Voodoo II with a bad TMU

Posted on 2020-02-17, 08:44

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by lost77

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Nope, I didn't have to do anything. The voodoo 2 architecture actually support 1-3 TMUs and 3dfx used one for the banshee and two for the Voodoo 2. A version with three didn't make sense at the time, dual texturing wasn't even implemented in games yet.

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Re: ~20 Windows 98 SE Installs later....STILL isn't 100%, ever

Posted on 2020-02-16, 23:14

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by lost77

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Just as many other people here I dont have any serious problems using Windows 98. The way I go about it is not to treat it like a modern OS. 1. Take things slow. I wait at least 15 seconds after booting to desktop before doing anything. Also a bit of waiting after exiting programs/games. And just …

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Re: Creative's intended market for 16 bit audio?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 22:23

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Most people back then (and today) didn't know enough about hardware to know what they could use it for. They did know numbers though and 16 is bigger than 8. It is the typical checkbox type marketing. Either Creative Labs kept up or they would miss out on sales. So they looked at what the market had …

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