I have a SC-88Pro in which the RCA outputs on the back work fine, but audio from the front headphone jack has a constant loud electric hum in the background. It starts as soon as the unit is powered on. Ideas on how to repair this? I also did the input voltage mod (the unit was from Japan originally …

Not mentioned in the list or discussion so far, the Mac version of Descent 1 features highres menu, HUD and status bar/cockpit graphics, similar to those in Descent 2. The PC version of D1 got highres video modes in a patch but they never updated the UI assets. It also has a CD-DA soundtrack which …

One word (an acronym): SLP. It means System Locked Preinstallation. little edit to clarify: the system needs not to have been literally provided preinstalled for you (needs not include any OEM crapware) as long as you can get untouched OEM XP installation media somehow, and this way you don't need …

The new versions don't have (working) OpenGL support anymore. -graphicsapi OpenGL2 just gives a black screen (game still runs in background though) and -graphicsapi OpenGL4 crashes on startup. This wouldn't be a problem for people other than Wine users except that the game has always had slight …

LOL at the prices. Fortunately TFTs aren't even really bad anymore except for the scaling at non-native resolutions. Back when I bought it I got the FW900 for about 100 euros locally. I used it happily for many years with my PCs, and a PS3 and Xbox360 with an external DAC (HDFury), but in the end it …

Kepler was a lot more power efficient than Fermi though, and the RTX Turing chips are sort of a sidegrade for new features instead of an upgrade. With that said, there's no denying the current prices are ridiculous (I still remember when you could get the absolute latest and best gaming GPU for 500- …

The FW900 has an auto-adjust function (accessible via a single button press) that's supposed to automatically setup a good 4:3 picture for you in the current video mode. However, at least on my FW900 it never worked completely correctly: after pressing the button and letting it do it's thing the …

Well... I just found out the Linux kernel actually includes a framebuffer driver called "sstfb" which supports old Voodoo cards! Now I definitely have to see if I can get some picture out of the cards using this when I get back home. I wish I knew about this a bit earlier, at the moment I can only …

I remember the FX card a friend of mine bought back when the FX series was the latest thing out from Nvidia had a terrible, very loud cooling system compared to my GF4Ti. I don't know if this problem affected all of the high-end cards from all manufacturers though in this series though.

I remember Voodoo1 needing patched driver >1GHz So a patched glide2x.ovl file could possibly help? (in games that don't have static linked Voodoo support) I could also underclock the i7-2600K but I'm not sure how low it will go and whether it helps that much (also IIRC there's no option to disable …

Hello, I'm trying to use a real 3dfx Voodoo card in a relatively modern (well, about 7-8 years old now, 2nd gen Core i7 based) system by booting it into FreeDOS from a USB stick and running DOS games that support Voodoo cards from there. Is something like this even supposed to work, because I sure …