Re: very poor OpenGL preformance

Posted on Yesterday, 10:45

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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. Yes I'm not sure either, if I could get a working 6600gt or 6800 series ago I'd just go that route. I've been tempted to swap to a pice board and a quadro fx3450 I just tried Medal of Honor …

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-29, 17:23

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd agree with that, but then I guess the question comes down to, how many parts do you have/need to acquire/etc for an older AGP box vs trying to use an LGA775 machine for 98SE? I think what it really comes down to is what games you want to be able to play. Are any of your favorites likely to …

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-29, 12:54

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is your goal long-term dual-booting? You're making me (again) think of trying to turn my P43/Q9650 into a 98SE rig, but it just seems to me that any GPU that works in 98 SE isn't... really... one that one would want for dual-booting something newer. Yeah, WinXP is very handy to have on the side as …

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-29, 11:14

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by Sombrero

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Congrats! And welcome to the club of highly overpowered Win9x system builders. :D BTW, what GPU did you end up going with? Thanks, though I guess I'm still in the small boys corner with the ATI X700 Pro 😀 From my understanding it's about on par with ATI 9700 pro on avarage, which should be enough …

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-29, 09:48

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Right then, I'm up and running. Was a bit miffed at Asus boards and part of me wanted to get some other brand, but in the end I just swapped the faulty one to my old Asus P5K I had lying around. The coil whine it suffers from hasn't disappeared anywhere, but thankfully it's very much in the not too …

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-23, 09:34

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by Sombrero

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm not sure if the BIOS of my motherboard even has that setting, at least I don't remember seeing it. You can find the manual, drivers and other useful info on Soggi's website so let me know if one of the available CPU configuration settings fits that description. I'm fairly certain that I left …

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-23, 08:05

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Those are excellent temperatures under full load. Yeah that Zalman was a big reason why I got the card, hoping it could be run very silently and if I ever find myself needing a faster X800 card I could use the cooler on that too. Looking forward to your full benchmark results once you set …

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-23, 04:38

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Huh, what a thrilling read! I hope you can tune it out and make everything work without any problems, sometimes it's a long shot. Thanks, I'm sure I will. Just not with that board, it's toast. Not too happy how it decided to die after all the time and effort to find the settings and the procedure …

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-22, 11:56

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by Sombrero

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2023-09-22, 11:42: I see. Does it also happen under WinXP when using DanielK's Audigy driver pack? Never tried, I have tested the card under WinXP with official WDM drivers and had zero issues there. I stick with my anti-Win9x poltergeist hypothesis 😀

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-22, 11:21

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I should note that I'm using ZS drivers on all of my Audigy cards under Win9x, including the aforementioned SB0240. Maybe that "restore defaults" utility is somehow bugged on stock Audigy 2 drivers? I did use the ZS drivers from your guide, same problem as with stock Audigy 2 driver CD from april …

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-22, 10:48

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

While I do use WinME in one of my builds, I always apply this official Microsoft Update CD right after installing the OS. Never had issues with msinfo32 that way. Overall stability is on pair with my Win98SE systems. I have wondered is my install media somehow buggered even though I did check the …

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-22, 09:51

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I'll do more testing once I swap the GPU, kinda hard to test is the OS stable with late NVIDIA win9x drivers 😀 Right then, what a mess this turned out to be. Here's a wall of text of my adventures in Win9x lands with Asus P5Q Deluxe: Windows ME : I started with WinME because I've never used it …

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Re: Cant "detect/hear" EAX effects in games on a SoundBlaster X-Fi??? (SB0880)

Posted on 2023-09-14, 07:29

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Unfortunately, I don't have any specific game examples, since I've always had this setting enabled on my X-Fi. Honestly, I didn't even know you could get EAX working with it disabled, so I may have been wrong about it being necessary. Yeah, while I haven't done any deeper testing I'm quite sure it …

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Re: Cant "detect/hear" EAX effects in games on a SoundBlaster X-Fi??? (SB0880)

Posted on 2023-09-14, 04:19

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by Sombrero

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Isn't that just basically a system wide "EAX" like effect that applies to everything and is completely separate from the actual EAX that you can enable with games that support it? That may have been the case with SBLive cards using older drivers, but on Audigy and X-Fi, you actually need to have …

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Re: Cant "detect/hear" EAX effects in games on a SoundBlaster X-Fi??? (SB0880)

Posted on 2023-09-14, 03:42

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by Sombrero

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[*]EAX effects must be turned in the Creative EAX Console utility Isn't that just basically a system wide "EAX" like effect that applies to everything and is completely separate from the actual EAX that you can enable with games that support it? Having that on can amplify the effect, but is not …

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-13, 11:29

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by Sombrero

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That would be nice to confirm that dual channel is the "deal breaker", thank you very much. Update: it has been independently confirmed by both @mockingbird and myself that the 4GB memory amount lowers performance under Win98, not dual-channel. Check the posts here and here . Oh good, no need to …

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-09, 09:32

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I think it depends on the model and possibly the manufacturer. The high-end cards like the X850XT seem to be fairly loud. Phil demonstrates that in this video around the 2:24 mark. Oh god kill it with fire! Apparently that thing eats 100W so no wonder. Thankfully in my use case I might possibly get …

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-09, 05:37

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

[*]Install unofficial Win98 ICH9 drivers from here I did not know this was a thing! I abandoned my plan to build a WinME PC some time ago due to reasons but apparently I already had one, gonna have to give it a try. Though I probably need to swap my 6800 GT to some X800 card as I've found NVIDIA 6x …

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Re: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 650Ti / X-Fi

Posted on 2023-09-08, 03:43

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by Sombrero

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GTX 970 is some thing you should know, memory full capacity across datapath is crooked. First 3.5GB is full bits, last .5GB is reduced to 64bits If I recall correctly will mess up with bandwidth as it get full. This is due to neutered cells in the GPU die. Safer GPUs is 960 or 980, 980 Ti. Cheers, …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-09-07, 15:10

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Yeah, but it's still rare to see actual bugfixes not being lumped together with a bunch of unwanted gameplay alterations. We've been looking at bugfixmods for different games I suppose, the fixpacks I know/use are nearly all "purist" packs with only fixes. I said nearly, one of the only irksome …

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