Re: Voodoo 3 DirectX problems...?

Posted on 2023-11-30, 18:56

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by swaaye

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I would just run the 1.07 WHQL drivers and DirectX 7.0a. Drivers from November 2000 will cover everything you probably want to run on a Voodoo3. It is D3D 6/7 hardware. IMO if you want to do DirectX 8 gaming you really should get on Win2K or XP.

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Re: AMD R7 240 poor performance comapred to HD8490

Posted on 2023-11-30, 04:34

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Off topic: How is the RTX 2080 for directx 10, 11 and 12 games? I meant the PRE-ray tracing games. I wanted to choose RTX 2080 for better performance in later games and leave older GTX cards to play with directx 9 games. It's excellent. I've played a few oldies, like Dishonored, Singularity, …

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Re: AMD R7 240 poor performance comapred to HD8490

Posted on 2023-11-30, 01:52

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It's a pretty heavy game for either card. About a year ago I was running it on a i5 4570 / RTX 2080 machine and noticed that D3D9 mode was obviously slowest. I was tweaking grass distance, FOV and anti-aliasing though. I figured they had used some new D3D features with 10/11 and got better …

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Re: AMD R7 240 poor performance comapred to HD8490

Posted on 2023-11-23, 17:15

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Maybe try some more D3D 9 games and see how they behave in comparison. And perhaps try to get some much older drivers if you haven't. You could also try a later STALKER game with D3D 10/10.1/11. I don't remember if there was ever a mod to put Shadow of Chernobyl on a newer iteration of the engine. …

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Re: K6-2 500 and Voodoo Banshee performance in Half-Life

Posted on 2023-11-21, 20:19

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Hmm fair point on the K6-3s of course, the board does support them too. I might give it a try at some point if I feel like messing around with jumpers and DIP switches again. But yeah my gut says, "don't f'kin break it you idiot!" . I've acutally had some stability issues with this system, it's …

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Re: K6-2 500 and Voodoo Banshee performance in Half-Life

Posted on 2023-11-20, 19:12

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by swaaye

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110 or 115 MHz I believe, looking at the manual. I'm a bit wary of overclocking such old equipment though... am I right to worry about that? Not sure how the Banshee would feel about it either. The motherboard and the graphics card are quite hard to get hold of now of course. It's probably a valid …

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Re: K6-2 500 and Voodoo Banshee performance in Half-Life

Posted on 2023-11-20, 18:50

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by swaaye

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The 500 is highly bottlenecked by the 100 MHz platform and motherboard cache. I would try to run it at 112 MHz FSB with 4.5x multiplier. And try to optimize the RAM timings as much as possible. Run a 128-256MB PC133 CL2 on it and that makes this easier. Banshee is an excellent choice for it.

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Re: Ensoniq ES1370 Sound Card w/ MSI MS-6769 Motherboard

Posted on 2023-11-05, 00:37

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by swaaye

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Both sound cards use chips from the same family - Ensoniq AudioPCI. The Sound Blaster 128 uses a later AC97 compatible version of the chip. The original ES1370 has the somewhat coveted ability to play 11.025/22.05/44.1KHz audio natively but the popular-with-DVDs 48KHz out of pitch. Unless the OS of …

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Re: GPU Recommendations for Socket A Windows 98 Build

Posted on 2023-10-26, 20:58

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by swaaye

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Win98 isn't really the platform of choice if you want to run DirectX 9 games. I think of it as the DirectX 1-7 OS and the OS to choose if you have hardware that only has VXD based drivers. DirectX 8 and 9 are more Win2K and XP territory. Far Cry would need a GeForce 6800 or Radeon X800 to run well …

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Re: ATI TruForm - all games, software that use that technology

Posted on 2023-10-11, 15:49

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It's been ~15 years, but I think Catalyst 5.8 was what I used when I tried TruForm in Morrowind on a 9800 Pro. The smoothness made the trees look great to me but I was in the eastern part of the map at the time, so I might not have seen those type of trees. I don't know if the ends of the branches …

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Re: S3 968 Windows drivers

Posted on 2023-10-03, 14:50

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I had a #9 VLB 968 in the Win3.1 and 95 days. It was mostly a Win3.1 product so the support was strongest there. Win95 shipped with a driver for it that is used generically and for several card models IIRC. I'm sure you would also find different versions included with DirectX 2/3 games and maybe …

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Re: very poor OpenGL preformance

Posted on 2023-09-29, 22:03

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by swaaye

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It's one of the Rialto AGP bridge cards so that could be why. The drivers are rather unpredictable with them.

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Re: ATI TruForm - all games, software that use that technology

Posted on 2023-09-22, 20:03

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Actually the problem is partly that Truform isn't very flexible with how it tessellates. It's best with objects that are already intended to be bulbous. This is an interesting discussion about it. https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/ati-trufor … 954/post-482002

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Re: ATI TruForm - all games, software that use that technology

Posted on 2023-09-21, 20:59

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by swaaye

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You should be able to use the old Catalyst Mobility Mod Tool to convert desktop driver packages into one that will install on the notebook. http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1585 You want to use a driver prior to Catalyst 5.8 because 5.8 is especially slow with Truform for some reason. …

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Re: How much does 4 cores matter w/ Windows XP?

Posted on 2023-09-21, 03:06

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by swaaye

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fosterwj03 wrote on 2023-09-21, 03:06: I don't think that's an issue in this case. I'm not running XP in any sort of power saving mode. The BIOS has all of the cores running at 4.2GHz all the time (Full Turbo for the processor). Yeah that would be a way to avoid problems with power management.

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Re: How much does 4 cores matter w/ Windows XP?

Posted on 2023-09-21, 02:54

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by swaaye

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A few things come to mind with XP: -its scheduler doesn't know about core parking or whatever it's called with CPUs that independently clock cores. Phenom for example can see major speed loss because threads bounce to cores running 800-1000 MHz. This can be worked around in a few ways. My fav was …

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Re: Where are the WinXP SATA/AHCI drivers for VIA chipsets, primarily K8M800?

Posted on 2023-09-18, 13:07

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by swaaye

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You can use nlite. A floppy drive is handy to have though. Sometimes USB floppy drives show up at thrift stores.

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Re: Retro XP Gaming Build OS Advice: 32bit or 64bit XP?

Posted on 2023-09-18, 03:13

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by swaaye

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Crysis, UT2004 and Far Cry had builds. It was rather academic for the latter two though. I played around with XP x64 a bit during its run. It's fine for most things but sometimes you might run into problems with games. I remember Oblivion doing something weird at some point. The testing just wasn't …

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Re: Matrox Roundup G200, G400, G400 MAX, G450 and G550

Posted on 2023-09-15, 21:16

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by swaaye

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It's possible TurboGL is faster because of reduced image quality. People didn't really look closely back then. Also, G400 had some early variations that weren't capable of 4X. Maybe that could trip up a 1.5v motherboard. http://www.murc.ws/showthread.php?22558-What- … 0-MAX-Revisions

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Re: GPU recommendations for Pentium 3 600mhz

Posted on 2023-09-10, 16:41

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by swaaye

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Any GeForce is a super fast card for a P3 600. For TNT gen, I would look for a TNT2. A Radeon will have better image quality than the NV cards, including 2D sharpness in most cases. Nvidia cards of that time sometimes have terrible vga output quality. Game compatibility will be somewhat more …

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