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

Posted on Today, 08:55

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Maybe the Celeron 533A is also fun to play with. I read somewhere that Intel forget to make some of them PGA incompatible. It might depend on the stepping. I have a Coppermine Celeron 600 which is officially supported by my Abit ZM6 and works just fine . It's of the cB0 stepping, and I specifically …

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Re: Best Drivers for GeForce4 MX-440

Posted on Today, 05:36

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by Joseph_Joestar

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As a long time MX440 user, I can't understand some of the modern hate for the card (yeah, when it was released it was misleading - it was not a true GeForce4 card, but we all know that). I don't think the MX440 cards are particularly disliked for retro gaming purposes. Their performance is on pair …

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Re: Still using XP and dont want to change

Posted on Yesterday, 19:13

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by Joseph_Joestar

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No way, tried different desktops env and nothing beats the feeling i have working in NT4+, and XP is just latest classic NT. Plus i want to use the same software that was with me latest 25 years, like winamp, winrar, Paint Shop Pro 7, Office 2000 and Lotus 123, Visual Studio 6, Art Icons, etc and …

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Re: Still using XP and dont want to change

Posted on Yesterday, 18:57

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Last month i decide to try use linux as my main OS, and the same, the experience is not nice, I feel uncomfortable Try a different desktop environment. I was using Xfce for a long time, but switched to KDE Plasma about a year ago. It's very customizable and can be made to "feel" like the classic …

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Re: NVIDIA 8-series and beyond + Windows XP + Unreal Engine 2 = judder?

Posted on Yesterday, 18:40

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Just delete the ISACT.ini file and the music is back to its UT2004 glory. Nice find! BTW, I recently stumbled upon the archived version of Creative's UT 2004 page which lists the relevant console commands and explains all the new additions from their EAX 5.0 patch. Basically the same stuff as on …

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Re: 1997 Pentium MMX 233 'fantasy' PC build

Posted on Yesterday, 17:41

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Video cards will be a Riva 128 (PCI) and a Orchid Righteous 3D. Based on my testing of various 1997 era PCI video cards, the Riva 128 seems to have the best combination of performance and compatibility. Pairing it with a Voodoo 1 card seemed a logical combination. Personally, I'd ditch the Riva 128 …

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Re: Some GOG offline installers not executing under Windows XP

Posted on Yesterday, 04:08

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by Joseph_Joestar

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jmarsh wrote on 2024-11-30, 22:48: Check the installation directory for suspicious looking DLLs - things like directdraw.dll or winmm.dll are a dead giveaway of a third-party wrapper. Yeah, that's what I usually do, but it didn't work in this particular case. I'm guessing GOG directly modified the …

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Re: Some GOG offline installers not executing under Windows XP

Posted on 2024-11-30, 21:42

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I got Kane & Lynch: Dead Men on a recent GOG sale, and discovered that their version of the game doesn't run on WinXP. The installer works fine, but the game itself crashes on start with a SHELL32.DLL error. It does work properly when installed on Windows 7. Figured this might be worth mentioning, …

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2024-11-29, 19:36

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by Joseph_Joestar

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And since we're comparing EAX 4.0 to EAX 5.0, here's another example from Prey (2006). The first screenshot is with the game running on an Audigy 2 ZS: Prey_ZS.jpg The second screenshot has the game running on an X-Fi Titanium: Prey_X-Fi.jpg The number of mono and stereo voices on the X-Fi is more …

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2024-11-29, 19:19

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by Joseph_Joestar

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From what I gather, this indicates EFX 1.0 support, which may supersede EAX 5.0 (not entirely sure about that). The same entry appears in my log file, and it may explain why UT3 and Gears of War behave that way. Since both games were released in 2007, around the time when Vista started shipping …

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2024-11-29, 11:33

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Icewind Dale is a strange one. Officially supports environmental audio (EAX 1.0) like Baldur's Gate. I have ran it on XP and 98 with the Audigy 2 ZS drivers - VxD for 98 - and can't hear any difference at all versus having it switched off, while with Baldur's Gate 1/2 there is a night and day …

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Re: Some issues with lag in Tomb Raider 1 and 2 on a voodoo 1 Pentium MMX

Posted on 2024-11-28, 11:40

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by Joseph_Joestar

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auron wrote on 2024-11-28, 11:31: it's also possible that a pentium ii system would allow it to hit 30 fps more often. Not with a Voodoo 1. Even the original Tomb Raider is GPU limited on that card in Glide mode. Especially if the in-game anti aliasing option is turned on.

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Re: How to change Win95 startup programs?

Posted on 2024-11-28, 11:11

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I use Startup CPL under Win95. It's a freeware tool which creates an entry under Control Panel, allowing you to see and disable every startup program.

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Re: Some issues with lag in Tomb Raider 1 and 2 on a voodoo 1 Pentium MMX

Posted on 2024-11-28, 06:38

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I have finally about a few weeks ago got to set up my Pentium MMX 233MHz PC with 3dFx voodoo graphics and so far it is overall a pretty playable and fun experience. However, a few things have come to my attention as far as frame rates such as some areas in Tomb Raider 1 and 2 where if I look at …

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Re: How do you play your Doom?

Posted on 2024-11-22, 17:18

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Also, can that NOVERT be used in other retro FPS games too? Particularly if they use the idTech 1 engine? So games like Heretic and Hexen etc.? And similar games like Blood, Duke3D etc.? You can use NOVERT with Heretic and Hexen, as mouse movement in those games works similarly to Doom. But it's …

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2024-11-19, 11:23

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Unfortunately, I can't provide any additional info for that, since the Internet Archive doesn't work properly at the moment. Here are the old links, for when the site goes back up: EAX Pure Path Sound Blaster X-Fi Audio in QUAKE 4 Looks like the archived links work once again. When time permits, I …

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Re: 7 PCs to cover 1985-2010

Posted on 2024-11-19, 08:40

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I think 19" CRT at 1600x1200 doesn't really need high AA does it? So perhaps a 900 series GPU is overkill for that monitor? Is SGSSAA noticeable on CRT? Honestly, I don't think you need that on a CRT monitor. The jaggies are far less noticeable there. I could maybe see SGSSAA being useful for …

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Re: Some GOG offline installers not executing under Windows XP

Posted on 2024-11-19, 06:35

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by Joseph_Joestar

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As long as installers keeps updating i`ve lost most of compabillities with GOG games for XP. For example i`ve played for years Heroes 3 Complete edition, know it simply wont start showing error message. I think it might be because of this: https://www.gog.com/blog/the-gog-preservation-program/ From …

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Re: Creative no longer offers drivers for legacy products

Posted on 2024-11-18, 09:21

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by Joseph_Joestar

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vetz wrote on 2024-11-18, 08:56: Looking more closely at the website I think all downloads up untill 2004ish could be easily ripped from the webside. From a retro gaming standpoint, those would likely be the most valuable drivers. It would be great to have them backed up somewhere more reliable …

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Re: Guide: Installing Windows 9x and DOS drivers on Audigy cards (version 3.1)

Posted on 2024-11-18, 06:43

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I've noticed after playing many games during hours and when i want poweroff the PC on Windows 98, CTHELPER.EXE hold Windows 98 in the screen "Windows is powering off your computer". In that case only way is to force manually poweroff or reboot the PC then normally poweroff from Windows 98. There is …

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