Re: Matrox G200 crashing with Direct3D on Win 98 SE?

Posted on 2024-12-12, 18:30

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I had a similar problem, and found that disabling onboard devices in the BIOS (like audio and USB) fixed the problem. Another option is to open the Matrox display driver settings, and disable bus mastering. But in that case I found that it disabled OpenGL acceleration and lowered D3D performance.

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Re: Moments in computing history when you felt that the future had arrived

Posted on 2024-12-07, 00:53

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*PlayStation 2, playing Gran Turismo 3. *Oblivion running on my Ati x1900xt and dual core Opteron. *The first Core i7 running pretty much anything without breaking a sweat. *D3D 11 games from around 2016, like Fallout 4, GTA 5, Rise of Tomb Raider, running maxed out on my gtx1070.

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Re: 980ti Windows XP HDMI audio

Posted on 2024-10-23, 22:45

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Are you using XP SP3? From my experience, if you use SP2 or earlier, Nvidia HDMI audio will not work.

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Re: What would be the best AGP card that supports XP and 98SE or?

Posted on 2024-10-06, 17:19

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The more powerful 98 compatible cards have more risk of incompatibility with older 98 games. Nvidia is really hit and miss with their later Win98 drivers, but you can get Geforce 6 and 7 to "work" in Windows 98. I would stay away from the Geforce FX series unless you find one really cheap. Its …

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Re: Why I don't like modern, post-AT PC cases. I've finally figured it out

Posted on 2024-10-06, 17:04

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Well, I'm in the same boat, except I hate the beige color too. My favorite cases are the brushed aluminum Lian Li, closely followed by black or dark gray, or even white cases with black accents. But modern cases made with glass, rgb blinkies, and lacking 5.25" expansion bays are of no interest to me …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-07-14, 19:56

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An AGP Asus X850XT. When these cards just came out i bought a Sapphire X850XT-PE (pci-e) for my first gaming pc. For a brief second i was the man at a lan party... then 5 seconds later better cards came out. But that's the nature of the game. The problem with Radeon R400 chipset family was Pixel …

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Re: Windows XP. Pentium4 vs Celeron 420

Posted on 2024-05-16, 13:37

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I would go for the Celeron 420, no reason to get Netburst if you board supports a Core cpu. Need for Speed Porsche is one game that will use low resolution textures if the cpu is faster than about 2ghz. But if the board supports a 800mhz FSB dual core Pentium (E21xx series) or Core2 (E4xxx series) I …

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Re: 1ghz pentium iii fcpga release date

Posted on 2024-05-07, 19:38

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Well, does period correct encompass what people actually bought that year? Because by late 2000, slot1 440bx was old news, as was the 100mhz fsb. If you were still running that platform, it was probably something like a Celeron 533a overclocked to 800mhz, or if you had just bought a Dell, maybe a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-05-06, 04:07

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Continuing my socket 478 P4 experiments... Overclocked a 3.2ghz Prescott D0 stepping, and it made it to 3.6ghz at stock voltage. My 2.8ghz E0 made it to 3.73ghz. Then I tried a 2.8ghz Northwood P4C with the D1 stepping, it only made it to 3.2ghz on stock voltage. Also, clock for clock it's about 5% …

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-05, 18:02

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I personally don't care that a certain P4 can barely run Windows 10 and slowly crawl on the modern web. It's more interesting in a retro build, where I can run Win98 and DOS, without jumping through a bunch of hoops and resorting to various hacks.

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-05, 15:13

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Well, you'll need specify the usecase and then say which cpu is better. Yes, I am referring primarily to games. That's the main reason I would build a retro rig. For the actual CPU models, Iet's say a mid range P4 vs midrange A64. Or high end P4 vs high end A64. Obviously not the slowest A64 vs …

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Re: Athlon XP performance ratings

Posted on 2024-05-05, 14:08

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I read a lot of tests and reviews back then, and the Athlon XP ratings were close to what the P4 could do until Intel went to 800mhz FSB and dual channel DDR. After that the P4 was overall faster.

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-05, 13:33

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It's just that anything a P4 can do, the Athlon64 can do better, and likely use less power, and have better heatsink retention and selection. (aside from SATA quirks on Via chipsets). Are there any Athlon64 boards with ISA slots? I haven't seen any, but the Via chipsets have better DOS …

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-05, 06:33

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The main appeal of a Pentium 4 build these days is that the parts are still relatively easy to find and not ridiculously expensive. And the 845pe, 865pe chipsets are generally trouble free. If ISA slots are not a requirement, there's nothing wrong with a P4 build for late DOS, Win98 and early XP …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-05-04, 16:36

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30% MHz for 20% power doesnt add up. Did you measure power at idle? I measured both, but I was referring to the load power consumption. These are the total system power measurements before and after the overclock: Idle: 81W -> 84W Prime95: 151W -> 175W 7-zip benchmark: 139W -> 159W The RAM was …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-05-04, 03:34

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Today I did some mild overclocking on the 2.8ghz P4 Prescott, and using the box cooler and default voltage, it went up to 3.73ghz, P95 and 3dmark2000 stable. System power consumption at load went up by about 20W. Load temps are about 60C. That's basically a free 33% overclock, I honestly wasn't …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-05-03, 13:00

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For the first time ever I built myself a socket 478 Prescott rig for testing stuff. Cpu runs at 2.8ghz, on a Gigabyte 8ipe1000 board. Using the copper core intel box cooler, the load temps are fine, going to about 55C. The load power consumption is not so nice, about 165w in Prime95. Mostly I want …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-05-03, 12:48

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There are Dell oem versions of the gf3 ti200 and the gf4 ti4200 that are passively cooled. They do get toasty, but I haven't noticed any problems so far.

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Re: AMD 5x86 Question

Posted on 2024-05-02, 13:08

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I had the same problem when I tried my AMD 5x86 system - turbo button would cause a lock up. Later I heard that this may be caused by the L1 cache being in WB mode, but I don't have the system running at this time to test it further.

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Re: Fastest Windows 7 system [omg, it is already retro]

Posted on 2024-04-20, 16:18

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My daily driver is Windows 7 on Ryzen 5800x, Msi x470 board and gtx1080. I had to slipsteam some updates and nvme drivers into my W7 install disk, and it installed no problem. Then had to find the right USB driver for the controller on the cpu. It's been running without problems for a few years now …

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