Re: Dual (SLI) Voodoo2 1000 worth it?

Posted on 2021-09-20, 18:48

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by swaaye

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I feel that Voodoo2 SLI is only really useful for <= 1998 games. But Unreal seems to suffer from some stuttering with it so there are exceptions. It doesn't have enough texture memory.

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Re: NVIDIA SoundStorm. Remember when they made sound cards?

Posted on 2021-09-18, 21:27

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by swaaye

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From what I understand, NVidia's audio was a combination of a licensed Parthus MediaStream DSP and 3D audio tech licensed from Sensaura. It probably only existed because they built the XBox. It's functionally quite similar to a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz or Hercules GameTheater XP as they are also …

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Re: Matrox Parhelia P650/750 and Retro Gaming?

Posted on 2021-09-15, 18:14

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by swaaye

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What are the clock speeds of the P650/750? It might be interesting to compare to the bigger Parhelia and see if efficiency changed. Though it seemed like Matrox stopped caring about 3D game performance, compatibility, control panel options, etc after about a year of Parhelia.

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Re: Radeon 9550 and Intel 440bx motherboard?

Posted on 2021-09-14, 00:02

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by swaaye

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I haven't heard of any Radeon 8500 / 9100 cards that are 1.5v-only. The Radeon 9550/9600/9800 problems come up with cards not made by ATI though so anything's possible. Lots of cheapo 3rd party Radeon cards out there. GeForce 6200 came in a lot of varieties too.

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Re: Matrox Parhelia P650/750 and Retro Gaming?

Posted on 2021-09-13, 23:50

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You would be better off with a GeForce 3 or Radeon 8500. They are faster and more compatible.

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Re: Radeon 9550 and Intel 440bx motherboard?

Posted on 2021-09-13, 04:17

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by swaaye

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This comes up for Radeon 9800 fairly often too. Some do work and some don't, and the keying can be incorrect. Fun. The older Radeon 9700 and 9500 do work.

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Re: Problems with usb 2.0 card on win 98

Posted on 2021-09-12, 15:38

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by swaaye

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On some motherboards with integrated USB 2.0 I configure them for USB 1.1 because of stability problems with 98. Nforce 2 and VIA boards come to mind. There's a thread here about USB 2.0 cards and 98. Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

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Re: Problems with usb 2.0 card on win 98

Posted on 2021-09-12, 15:20

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by swaaye

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I would begin by removing all cards except the video and USB card. Try the USB card in each PCI slot. VIA USB 2.0 cards can be troublesome. 98SE is also fairly touchy about PCI cards. It's not uncommon for 2K/XP to be stable with a hardware configuration that 98 doesn't like.

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Re: Is there any reason to use pre-TNT2 from NVIDIA or pre-Rage 128 from ATI?

Posted on 2021-09-06, 23:47

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by swaaye

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Riva128 - fascinatingly ugly rendering! 😀 Misleading control panel options! Fun! NV1 - how do you tell it's actually rendering? 🤣

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Re: Diablo 2 glide worth it?

Posted on 2021-09-06, 20:13

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I beat the first four acts on Voodoo2 12MB SLI and Voodoo3 2000 a month ago. Voodoo2 seems to run out of texture memory and drops to about 10 fps sometimes. Act 3 swamps were the worst areas. Voodoo3 doesn't have that problem. I also tried D2DX. D2DX is a form of Glide wrapper with various …

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Re: GeForce4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2021-09-04, 06:10

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by swaaye

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Yeah, pre-R300 Radeons had the option to have some FloydSteinberg-like dithering as an alternate option to the usual, vertical kernel ordered dithering. It can bring some filmgrain like tastes. nVidia's 16x16 dithering matrix is well... what the hell is this supposed to be? a Restore Down button? ( …

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Re: GeForce4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2021-09-04, 04:58

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by swaaye

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I feel like chiming in!! :D I like the R300 cards for the better 16-bit dithering quality, and their superior anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering. They had NV beaten with AA & AF until G80 came out. Well, unless you like to mess with the hidden NV SSAA modes. And of course if you want to play …

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Re: Why was the Kenwood TrueX so unreliable

Posted on 2021-08-31, 01:55

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by swaaye

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I really liked how quiet and fast those drives were but they do tend to fail in fairly short order. I took one apart years ago and I was surprised at how much control circuitry is in there. Considering optical drives were racing towards the bottom to become $25 disc exploders, there probably wasn't …

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2021-08-30, 03:03

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by swaaye

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Dege might have some input on this if he's ever looked into it for DGVoodoo2.

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2021-08-29, 22:13

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by swaaye

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GeForce 6 doesn't support pallette textures AFAIK. https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/exten … ted_texture.txt http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/readme.htm#reqs Riva 128 supports it too. Or at least emulates it because it is mentioned in the control panel.

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Re: Star Trek Voyger Elite Force A3D Sound

Posted on 2021-08-23, 04:25

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by swaaye

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these game lists that are out there with list of what supports what alot of them don't know what there talking about. Yeah they are quite incorrect. We had some thread on here discussing that years ago. There aren't very many games with a quality A3D implementation, and some games removed support …

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Re: Star Trek Voyger Elite Force A3D Sound

Posted on 2021-08-22, 00:10

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by swaaye

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Install the base game (no expansion pack) and patch 1.2 (eliteforcepatch1_2.exe). You may also need to install the Aureal A3D API update (a3ddrivers312.exe). This is the game that I noticed the flipped stereo problem with Aureal driver 2048 so use 2041 or older. If A3D.dll or a3dapi.dll exist in the …

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Re: What are Tough American Strong components ?

Posted on 2021-08-15, 16:34

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by swaaye

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🤣 I'm not sure how I feel about this thread and it has been reported by another member. It has a Milliways vibe but maybe some interesting old brand discussion can happen? Keep it civil or it gets locked.

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Re: TESTING ATI RADEON 9600 AGP LIVE ON YOUTUBE

Posted on 2021-08-08, 02:57

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by swaaye

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Amiten wrote on 2021-08-08, 00:12: Thank you swaaye , no idea initially where to post this , now I know this Video Category for future stream posts. It's because your thread is about a video card. That is the subforum for discussion of video related hardware.

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Re: TESTING ATI RADEON 9600 AGP LIVE ON YOUTUBE

Posted on 2021-08-07, 20:21

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Moved to Video

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