Re: Aladdin (DOS) music - SB16 vs. SBPro vs. WSS

Posted on 2024-04-22, 16:08

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I tried this but it still didn't work. (ref. my last message in thread) himem.sys reports 2GB of XMS? am I seeing this correct? also what is the deal with the SB16 emulation driver error that does not load because you do not have EMM386 loaded? Ignore the sb16 emulation thing. That was some …

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Motherboard with two PCI x16 slots that can simultaneously run in x16 mode?

Posted on 2024-04-15, 19:59

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Hope you're all doing well. I've seen motherboards with dual PCIe x16 slots, but with a caveat that one is a primary slot that runs in full x16 mode, while the other runs at x8 mode max. Do there exist any motherboards that have two PCIe x16 slots that can simultaneously run in full x16 modes if …

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Re: Aladdin (DOS) music - SB16 vs. SBPro vs. WSS

Posted on 2024-04-08, 12:46

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I tried this but it still didn't work. (ref. my last message in thread) himem.sys reports 2GB of XMS? am I seeing this correct? also what is the deal with the SB16 emulation driver error that does not load because you do not have EMM386 loaded? Ignore the sb16 emulation thing. That was some …

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Re: Aladdin (DOS) music - SB16 vs. SBPro vs. WSS

Posted on 2024-04-05, 12:44

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[...] 1. boot and press F8 -> start in MS-DOS mode 2. and run the command: XMSDSK 32000 /t Is this it? Or anything I'm missing? do a MEM and see how much XMS you get (probably 64mb) then like you write but with more mem allocated: XMSDSK 50000 /t /y after the game finishes you can unload and free …

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Re: Quake III Arena Benchmark Thread

Posted on 2024-04-01, 06:40

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Parameters as in the "System" gettings in the in-game menu? They're all at max and vsync is off. For recording fps, I just typed "timedemo 1" in the console, went to DEMOS and played the demos (fps stats are shown after end of demo in the console). If you didn't mean the system settings, what do …

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Re: Aladdin (DOS) music - SB16 vs. SBPro vs. WSS

Posted on 2024-03-31, 19:15

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[...] 1. boot and press F8 -> start in MS-DOS mode 2. and run the command: XMSDSK 32000 /t Is this it? Or anything I'm missing? do a MEM and see how much XMS you get (probably 64mb) then like you write but with more mem allocated: XMSDSK 50000 /t /y after the game finishes you can unload and free …

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Re: Quake III Arena Benchmark Thread

Posted on 2024-03-31, 18:43

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I'm getting the following for demo1 and demo2 (max settings, 1280 x 1024 resolution): 1. Asrock 775i65G, C2D E7500 2.93 GHz, (1Gb+1Gb) DDR800 RAM, ATI Radeon X800 XT PE. Demo1: 577 fps, Demo2: 575 fps 2. Asus P5KPL-AM/PS, C2D E8500 3.16 GHz, 2 Gb DDR2800 RAM, ATI Radeon X850 XT PE. Demo1: 500 fps, …

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Re: Quake III Arena Benchmark Thread

Posted on 2024-03-31, 18:26

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I'm getting the following for demo1 and demo2 (max settings, 1280 x 1024 resolution): 1. Asrock 775i65G, C2D E7500 2.93 GHz, (1Gb+1Gb) DDR800 RAM, ATI Radeon X800 XT PE. Demo1: 577 fps, Demo2: 575 fps 2. Asus P5KPL-AM/PS, C2D E8500 3.16 GHz, 2 Gb DDR2800 RAM, ATI Radeon X850 XT PE. Demo1: 500 fps, …

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Re: Aladdin (DOS) music - SB16 vs. SBPro vs. WSS

Posted on 2024-03-31, 12:22

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Xmsdsk is indeed the way to go Better use the /t switch too - just in case Just allocate enough ram so you end up with under 16mb free I'm really sorry for the inconvenience, but could you help me out on how to use it? I'm going through the readme and it's a bit too technical for me. More like I'm …

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Re: Aladdin (DOS) music - SB16 vs. SBPro vs. WSS

Posted on 2024-03-31, 09:00

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Is IRQ 5 used by only the YMF724? I have not tried Aladdin with PCI sound card nor under Windows. You should try MS-DOS mode. Although I'm not familiar with PCI Yamaha chips. ISA based YMF for Blaster Pro not needs driver in DOS at all, but likely this is full different with PCI YMF. I don't see …

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Re: Aladdin (DOS) music - SB16 vs. SBPro vs. WSS

Posted on 2024-03-30, 12:34

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Sorry to bring back an old thread but this is relevant to an issue I'm facing. I have a Win98 build with YMF724 sound card (model A301-G50), along with a 775i65G motherboard. I installed the sound drivers (which includes a legacy driver) - the resource allocation is proper (port 220, DMA 1, IRQ 5). …

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Re: Retro motherboards that can fit 2 different PCI-e GPUs for Win98/XP gaming

Posted on 2024-03-30, 08:06

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Dual display with extended or cloned desktop works on win98, I have had two configs running like that in the past, not PCIe though. #1 I had Voodoo3 and Trident PCI cards installed. Annoyingly, direct draw would not work on Trident as secondary... not much troubleshooting done, and 98 was too new …

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Re: Retro motherboards that can fit 2 different PCI-e GPUs for Win98/XP gaming

Posted on 2024-03-29, 04:25

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O O O That's a Venn diagram of PCIe cards that work with 98, ATI and nVidia cards that work together in the same system and driver versions that don't argue with each other. Well as far as I am aware the situation is that GPU and driver versions that don't argue are more like Vista/7 era than …

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Retro motherboards that can fit 2 different PCI-e GPUs for Win98/XP gaming

Posted on 2024-03-28, 21:11

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Sorry if this question sounds outlandish. I have a couple of PCI-e graphics cards - but they're very different (one GeForce and the other ATI). I'm trying to look for a motherboard that can fit both graphics cards and can run on Win98. No official support for Win9x in the motherboard is fine - as …

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Tank Wars in Win98SE, ATI GPU - internal stack overflow

Posted on 2024-03-25, 16:46

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I'm trying to play Tank Wars in Win98 SE. With a GeForce 7800 GTX, it works properly. But with an ATI X850 XT PE, it crashes on startup with the message: "An internal stack overflow has caused the session to be halted. Change the STACKS setting in your config.sys file, and then try again." What's …

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Re: Making CD audio to work with virtual CD drives for DOS games in Win98

Posted on 2024-03-24, 17:33

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Sometimes it helps to reassign the letters of the drives, so that the virtual drive is before the physical drive. In your case, try setting the virtual drive to "H" and the physical drive to "I" (or any letter after that). You can reassign the physical drive letter from Device Manager. That said, …

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Making CD audio to work with virtual CD drives for DOS games in Win98

Posted on 2024-03-24, 08:48

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I'm facing some problem with getting CD audio to work with a couple of games in Win98. I have bin/cue images for Tomb Raider and Carmageddon - mounted images via Daemon Tools (also tried with MagicISO). Both games detect the sound card (port 220, IRQ 5, DMA 1) successfully and the inbuilt "test …

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Re: Running Portal on Windows 98

Posted on 2024-02-28, 11:26

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I managed to run Portal on Win98 - needed to install Win98SE unofficial SP 3.24 first, and then KernelEx. It works just fine with Radeon cards (tested with X850 Pro and X850 XT). But with GeForce 7800 GTX, the initial splash screen shows just fine (the bald guy with a valve on the back of his head), …

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Re: Large discrepancy in Win98 graphics performance of X850 XT PE

Posted on 2024-02-20, 06:21

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Truthfully, you don't really need dual channel for Win 98 (the performance difference between single and dual channel is negligible). Just one 2 GB module will do just fine. Wow you were absolutely correct, thank you so much! After removing the extra memory stick the 3dmark score increased to 36.3k …

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Re: Large discrepancy in Win98 graphics performance of X850 XT PE

Posted on 2024-02-20, 05:45

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bloodem wrote on 2024-02-20, 04:24: Most likely, it’s because you are using 4GB of memory (a known issue). Drop it to 2 GB or less and performance should greatly improve. Whoa this is unexpected. Is this really true? So a dual channel 1GB + 1GB memory will work better than 2GB + 2GB memory?

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