Re: Voodoo 3 and Super VGA / UNIVBE / High Color Mode Issues

Posted on Yesterday, 20:17

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by eddman

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AFAIK UniVBE doesn't work with voodoo3. If you read the GTA readme it says to bypass it simply run gta24.exe directly with the -nounivbe parameter. It should work with no need for vesafix, etc. I misremembered; although it runs without UniVBE the image is glitched so vesafix is needed. You could use …

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Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-04-22, 15:48

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by eddman

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3dmark and other synthetic benchmarks are useless. Only games should be used for testing, and must have both SW and HW options.

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Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 20:06

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by eddman

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And making a comparison by disabling HT&L on the cards that support it does not make much sense, because it would not show reality. It would not be an objective test. It would be a worthless, subjective test. The aim is to figure out the effectiveness of HW T&L alone. You cannot achieve that by …

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Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 19:15

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by eddman

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I never targeted you. Just pointed out the type of testing that is needed to draw a proper conclusion.

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Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 17:03

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by eddman

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A full suite is not needed; just a single card with fixed-function HW T&L and period CPU. For real use case results the test software should be games (with an option to switch between SW and HW T&L) so that the CPU is processing more than just T&L calculations. I only had a TNT2 and then a GF4 Ti.

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Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 07:06

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by eddman

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Sorry to drag this back up but I had to rack my old brain a bit to remember where I saw this benchmark but this really clearly shows why hardware T&L was a nothinbuger. https://www.anandtech.com/show/742/11 You can see the software fallback on the Kyro II kept up with the GeForce 2 without any sort …

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Re: What if I install a Directx not supported by the video card?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 19:38

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by eddman

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Minutemanqvs wrote on 2024-04-19, 18:28: The problems you might run into would be related to SSE if you encounter strange execution errors. Some later DirectX and drivers rely in it being present I'm yet to see a DX dll have its requirements change. Things like d3dim.dll, etc. shouldn't require …

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Re: Tseng Labs ET4000AX: How do I change the refresh rate for Windows 3.11?

Posted on 2024-04-17, 20:28

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by eddman

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Try the VMODE from here: https://web.archive.org/web/19971007111732/ht … nload/index.cgi Interestingly all links except for one seem to be working. Now that's unexpected.

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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-17, 16:46

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by eddman

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Steamworks is mostly a non-issue. There's also SteamStub but it seems very few games use it and, at least the older versions, could be removed with a tool. I haven't really checked but apparently epic launcher can also be circumvented. Practically the only non-online protection that is really a …

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Re: Videoforte Nvidia NV1 - Anyone have drivers?

Posted on 2024-04-15, 00:37

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by eddman

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I checked the manufacturer's archived website, but the links are dead. https://web.archive.org/web/19990222161947/http://www.mediaforte.com.sg:80/support.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20000302122817/http://www.mediaforte.com.sg:80/supportv.htm Luckily searching by the filename resulted in a match …

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Re: 3dtools for banshee

Posted on 2024-04-14, 14:55

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by eddman

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Actually, 3dfx tools are intended for V3 and higher, so the problem with the ref banshee driver is probably normal. Banshee drivers do have their own simpler, built-in control panel but for some unknown reason it simply doesn't work in driver 1.04. Previous versions do.

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Re: 3dtools for banshee

Posted on 2024-04-14, 12:19

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by eddman

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It works here. I don't think it'd work after you've already installed other 3dfx stuff. Try a clean install.

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Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L

Posted on 2024-04-14, 12:18

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by eddman

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Wasn't to be used by D3D directly, simple linked in custom library would take care of the TnL side and hook up directly to D3D5 API (small extension to feed the post TnL hardware from the HW TnL rather than our vertex buffers). One of the selling points is that we could also upload our code so …

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Re: 3dtools for banshee

Posted on 2024-04-14, 11:40

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No idea why the tool doesn't work with the ref driver, but someone back then combined the two in one package and it works. https://www.oocities.org/bansheedrivers/page3.html https://www.guru3d.com/download/3dfx-banshee-drivers-for-win9x|me/ Run setup.exe to install the tool but after that you might …

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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-14, 01:03

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by eddman

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Any digital game that you purchase on steam or epic, make sure to make a backup of the installed files. If you get it from gog, go to your account page on the website and download its offline installer. Don't buy stuff from MS store or publisher stores. Don't buy online only games, and if you do, do …

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Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L

Posted on 2024-04-13, 15:44

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Many HW TnL engine before the consumer revolution were actually embedded CPU(s) dedicated to the task to offload the main CPU It was common for i960, DSP or the Sony design (PS2 Vector Units). (In the Dx5/6 I remember at least one of the smaller vendor talked to us about a prototype card they were …

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Re: Question about XP Pc

Posted on 2024-04-13, 12:24

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I tried using a laptop with 32bit vista on it and it still had massive issues with pre xp games so how can it be usable? The x86 ISA is backward compatible, so the CPU being 64-bit doesn't matter. Vista has issues because of the differences of the OS itself. You'd see the same problems if you …

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Re: Upgrade to AWE64, or keep SB16 + Wavetable board?

Posted on 2024-04-13, 07:59

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by eddman

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My research says that the AWE cards are basically SB16s with their own MIDI synthesis built-in, but they need CPU power to use it. AWE32's synthesis is hardware based. Last I checked AWE64 has hardware synthesis for up to 32 voices. The extra 32 are software and rely on the CPU, but you can simply …

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Re: NVME partioning advice

Posted on 2024-04-13, 07:22

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by eddman

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NVMe drives ARE SSDs. That's the communication/interface protocol. The form factor is called M.2; there are even SATA M.2 drives. The older form factor is called the same as HDDs, 2.5". As for partitioning, it could be of use like any other drive. I usually create two, OS/programs and data, so that …

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Re: "Shader Model 2.0" games released in 2003

Posted on 2024-04-09, 21:36

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by eddman

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Minimum "100% DirectX 9 compatible card" and TNT2 in supported list, haha 😵‍💫 There are a lot of such confused requirements though The game probably needs one or more of DX9b's non-graphics APIs to function. To test you can install it on a system with, say, DX8.1. Just cancel DX9 installation when …

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