Search \ VOGONS

Login

Login

Username

Password

2FA token (optional)

Remember me

Hide my online status this session

Lost password
Send activation email

or Create a new account
Create a new account

Common searches

Active topics

Search results

Display options

Re: Slow AMD K6-2+ 550 MHz performance?

Posted on 2020-03-25, 10:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why you don`t use MVP3 Onboard USB ? On 486 you can feel the impact on performance if you use a USB Mouse. The Overhead is significant. I would always go with PS/2 even on Athlon S462 etc. its faster, less overhead.. It even makes a difference on my Athlon 3200+. Specially if the CPU is very loaded …

Re: Slow AMD K6-2+ 550 MHz performance?

Posted on 2020-03-23, 13:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't know... Back in 1999 I was using a full ATX SS7 Ali Aladdin V board (beautiful board, if I might add, also had ESS Solo-1 onboard sound and an SB-Link connector). Can't believe I sold it for 15 bucks. Still,I had all sorts of issues with it (RAM compatibility problems, AGP freezes, etc). …

Re: 5.5 multiplier / 2.0V settings on DFI P5BV3+ rev. A motherboard

Posted on 2020-03-23, 13:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Update2: Indeed, the settings from the manual listed above worked perfectly. I managed to set the multiplier to 5.5, but eventually settled for 2.0 (which is interpreted as 6.0 by K6-2/3 CPUs). Fun fact: even though I have a "P5BV3+ rev. A1" motherboard (as written on the PCB), it seems that it's …

Re: Slow AMD K6-2+ 550 MHz performance?

Posted on 2020-03-23, 13:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've observed this exact same behavior on my Tualatin so it takes a fairly decent amount of power before the performance hit of the USB drivers becomes negligible (well technically it's not that bad on the Tualatin, but it's definitely observable). I've found that disabling the card in device …

Re: Slow AMD K6-2+ 550 MHz performance?

Posted on 2020-03-22, 15:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@cyclone3d: Yeah, I also remember fiddling with the MouseRate program back in the day. Good idea regarding the USB polling. However, I think that it should only be a concern when having a USB device actually connected in one of the ports. @derSammler: yes, I have nusb36 installed. Tried your …

Re: Slow AMD K6-2+ 550 MHz performance?

Posted on 2020-03-22, 12:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tested your theory with the Aida64 CPU tests (which don't use the videocard at all). Memory tests don't seem to be affected by the PCI USB adapter. However all CPU tests (Queen Benchmark, PhotoWorxx, ZLib, AES, etc) are taking a 30 - 40% hit with the adapter. Also, I checked the adapter IRQ and …

Re: Slow AMD K6-2+ 550 MHz performance?

Posted on 2020-03-22, 10:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, but why would it affect the software mode? Based on everything I've seen, the CPU performance is affected, not particularly the video card.

Re: Slow AMD K6-2+ 550 MHz performance?

Posted on 2020-03-22, 09:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

OK... problem..... solved?! You guys won't believe this: it was because of the... USB 2.0 PCI card. :-o I found these charts and I thought that the Quake 2 software mode benchmarks were particularly of interest, since I could eliminate potential GPU related issues (I did suspect all along that this …

Re: Slow AMD K6-2+ 550 MHz performance?

Posted on 2020-03-22, 08:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, it becomes L3. But on a K6-2/3+, even if you disable the motherboard cache, the performance impact is minimal.

Re: Slow AMD K6-2+ 550 MHz performance?

Posted on 2020-03-22, 08:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The cacheable RAM limit should not be important for an AMD K6-(2|3)+ CPU, since it has on-die L2 cache. But still, no, I'm only using 128 MB of RAM (with a 1 MB motherboard cache).

Re: Slow AMD K6-2+ 550 MHz performance?

Posted on 2020-03-22, 07:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's at 5.5, of course. I've already verified everything with Aida64, CrystalCPUID, etc. The CPU is running at 550 MHz, RAM is at 100 MHz CL2.

Slow AMD K6-2+ 550 MHz performance?

Posted on 2020-03-21, 19:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all, I was watching Phil's video , where he benchmarks the K6-2+ 550 MHz, and I realized that my numbers are extremely low, compared to his. Tested with Voodoo 3 / GeForce 4 Ti 4200 and my results are (at most): GLQuake timedemo: 82 FPS Quake 2 timedemo: 44 FPS!! (in Phil's video even the normal …

Re: Dyna Blaster on Super Socket 7 with K6-2+

Posted on 2020-03-21, 19:09

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

OK... So managed to find the issue. For some reason the controls were not working in game, until I finally switched to Player 2 keyboard in the config. Now it's working properly.

Re: Dyna Blaster on Super Socket 7 with K6-2+

Posted on 2020-03-21, 18:09

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Seems that my problem is similar to this: Dyna Blaster - joystick only works in menus (stops working in game) Unfortunately no solution is listed on that thread 🙁

Re: Dyna Blaster on Super Socket 7 with K6-2+

Posted on 2020-03-21, 12:40

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Tested with two ISA sound cards: Yamaha YMF719E-S, ESS AudioDrive ES1869F. Sound actually works great with both cards.

Dyna Blaster on Super Socket 7 with K6-2+

Posted on 2020-03-21, 10:51

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Hi guys, Did anyone manage to make Dyna Blaster work on a K6-2+? I tried everything... running on Windows 98 DOS mode with/without expanded memory, multiplier 2x (200 Mhz), disable external cache from BIOS, disable l1 / l2 cache... still nothing. After all these modifications, I get 10 - 12 FPS in …

Re: 5.5 multiplier / 2.0V settings on DFI P5BV3+ rev. A motherboard

Posted on 2020-03-20, 17:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Update: Found this one (for Rev. C) and I compared the settings and they seem very similar: https://www.manualslib.com/manual/816826/Dfi- … ?page=15#manual I will try and play with it as soon as I have some time.

5.5 multiplier / 2.0V settings on DFI P5BV3+ rev. A motherboard

Posted on 2020-03-19, 15:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello, Does anyone have this board either working with this multiplier/voltage combination or a newer manual revision for it? The manual that I have lists the 2.1V setting as being the lowest and 3X multiplier as being the highest. However, I've seen on 20 year old forum threads that higher …

Re: Sound blaster issues with Yamaha YMF724F-V PCI & YMF719E-S ISA in Prehistorik

Posted on 2020-03-14, 16:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks, Joseph, but I actually tried this with the ESS AudioDrive card, without success. 🙁 For now I have only one card that is compatible with SB in this game (and it's a PCI card): Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 SB0100. This one works on any IRQ including 5 and 7.

Re: Sound blaster issues with Yamaha YMF724F-V PCI & YMF719E-S ISA in Prehistorik

Posted on 2020-03-12, 20:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just tried an ESS AudioDrive ES1869f ISA sound card - same thing. Adlib is working, but SoundBlaster still not detected... For other games the SB works perfectly. I'm pretty sure I'm missing something but can't put my finger on what that might be.

Page 1 of 3

Go to top of page Go to top of page