Re: 3dfx glide2x.dll 25-years old bug in the system [affected all v3 cards with 8MB vmem]
Posted on 2024-03-31, 10:27
It's good to hear that another three beauties back to a life. Happy Easter Day!
Re: 3dfx glide2x.dll 25-years old bug in the system [affected all v3 cards with 8MB vmem]
Posted on 2024-03-30, 17:56
edit: * added 2 links with problematic cards
Re: Voodoo 4 graphical glitch
Posted on 2024-03-26, 19:46
It looks like usual effect of weak capacitors, just recap bigger ones to new poly/tantalum and smearing should gone.
Re: 3D Accelerated Demoscene Demos for DOS/Windows List (Proprietary APIs - including 3DFX)
Posted on 2024-03-19, 18:17
Great idea, here is missing one: Space Pussy by Purple @TG98 3dfxcompo Seems this section should be checked too: https://demozoo.org/productions/tagged/3dfx/
Re: 3dfx glide2x.dll 25-years old bug in the system [affected all v3 cards with 8MB vmem]
Posted on 2024-03-15, 17:32
wait a minute, this https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=185967&mode=view indeed isnt notepad, so npp with no toolbar/tabs/line numbers/syntax highlighting ??? :o To me this is that Cypher "All I see is blond, brunette, redhead" scene :] Your're mad, you know that? ;) But i like it ;) And …
Re: 3dfx glide2x.dll 25-years old bug in the system [affected all v3 cards with 8MB vmem]
Posted on 2024-03-15, 13:46
rasz_pl wrote on 2024-03-14, 17:45: Fantastic investigation! I cant decide what is more impressive, the level of RE or the fact you are using Notepad to read code 😮 😀 hehe, thx, actually I use notepad++ on win and mcedit on linux console, sometimes nano/vim depending of platform
Re: Another Voodoo 2 SLI bridge
Posted on 2024-03-09, 11:51
Here is, few days ago I made one and it works perfectly with two v2 where 1st has 8MB and 2nd has 12MB: http://vogonswiki.com/index.php/How_to_make_a … doo_2_SLI_cable The smaller one waits for ram mod, there is place on pcb for 8 extra chips.
Re: Rune Gold: Grey Models in Glide Mode
Posted on 2024-03-07, 23:51
Elo, I'm the guy who did the fix and I'm glad it works :) I'd like you to do small favor: Please post your results. It would be nice to include in the report game title, card name/model/video mem size and 2 screenshots from the game before and after fix - 1st one from original AmigaMerlin v2.9 …
Re: The World's Fastest 486
Posted on 2024-03-07, 22:52
It seems waitstates are holding back the memory throughput. With SIS471 at 40MHz 47MB/s memory throughput (values of speedsys) are possible. Well, maybe with edo ram, however this mobo doesn't support it, only fpm, I tested about 40 different edo modules and they always freeze @ post. The DOS …
Re: The World's Fastest 486
Posted on 2024-03-07, 22:38
2-1-1-1 is 0.2% faster than 2-2-2-2 4x40MHz is 19.4% faster than 4x33MHz 3x50MHz is 31.3% faster than 4x33MHz and 9.8% faster than 4x40MHz I'd say to not compare synth mem bandwidth/throughput numbers but real fps in dosbench testers. Bandwidth is just calculated and not measured like throughput. …
Re: 3dfx glide2x.dll 25-years old bug in the system [affected all v3 cards with 8MB vmem]
Posted on 2024-03-07, 15:53
I fully understand your point, moreover, I'd like to do same thing like you did, just drop smartphone and back to classic cell, but real life is tough nowadays 😉 I hope soon I will break the PM limits and we will talk normally 😉
Re: The World's Fastest 486
Posted on 2024-03-06, 18:01
It seems waitstates are holding back the memory throughput. With SIS471 at 40MHz 47MB/s memory throughput (values of speedsys) are possible. Well, maybe with edo ram, however this mobo doesn't support it, only fpm, I tested about 40 different edo modules and they always freeze @ post. The DOS …
Re: The World's Fastest 486
Posted on 2024-03-05, 19:38
My attempt to build HI-END 486 VLB (PL lng): http://3dfx.pl/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1691482911/0#0 mods: * mobo repair * mobo factory hw bug * mobo vcore mod * mobo cpu mod * mobo clockgen mod parts: * mobo: SOYO SY-25K VLB SiS 85C471/407 (Green PC ISA-VLB 486 Single Chip) * cache: L2 256K 15ns * …
Re: 3dfx glide2x.dll 25-years old bug in the system [affected all v3 cards with 8MB vmem]
Posted on 2024-03-04, 16:39
@analog_programmer: Due PM rules for fresh users, if you wanna contact with me, just install signal app from https://signal.org and send me your phone number on PM, I can read msg and then I'll answer you on signal via text.
Re: 3dfx glide2x.dll 25-years old bug in the system [affected all v3 cards with 8MB vmem]
Posted on 2024-03-04, 15:44
I'd like to answer but seems I'm too fresh fish on forum and can't reply PM msgs. So... Dunno how to solve this issue, seems I need to send more posts to get higher rank to reply PMs... Sorry, I also wrote PM to you forgetting that you still can't answer. If I'm not mistaken, after you post 20 …
Re: 3dfx glide2x.dll 25-years old bug in the system [affected all v3 cards with 8MB vmem]
Posted on 2024-03-04, 15:20
great discovery! Thx Dominus. Due I just joined vogons club and I still learn how to use it, finally I found you wrote PM to me. I'd like to answer but seems I'm too fresh fish on forum and can't reply PM msgs. So... Dunno how to solve this issue, seems I need to send more posts to get higher rank …
Re: Repairing an Orchid Righteous 3D, question about memory chips
Posted on 2024-03-04, 15:01
Here is log from my old repair 3dfx VooDoo1 PCI 4MB (ORCHID Righteous 3D) , maybe you'll find there smth useful: http://3dfx.pl/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1617221455/83#83 . Unfortunatelly to see links/images registration on forum is mandatory, also Polish text, but this shouldn't be a problem to …
Re: 3dfx glide2x.dll 25-years old bug in the system [affected all v3 cards with 8MB vmem]
Posted on 2024-02-28, 16:08
I thought that this fog effects are used to limit the view distance and thus the weak GPUs of the time are partially offloaded from texturing and rendering of some "far" objects. It may seems strange to you, but back in the days of widely used fog effects in 3D games I never liked this artificial …
Re: 3dfx glide2x.dll 25-years old bug in the system [affected all v3 cards with 8MB vmem]
Posted on 2024-02-28, 15:38
But if this 8 MB Banshee card needs reversed Z-buffer, it now seems that this patch will break its fog table. It's not a problem at all, in this case, if you're lucky owner of this very rare banshee 8MB, you just install Amigamerlin v2.9 drivers and don't use patched dll. Actually I'm not sure if …
Re: 3dfx glide2x.dll 25-years old bug in the system [affected all v3 cards with 8MB vmem]
Posted on 2024-02-27, 21:12
Well, nowadays, machine translation is almost perfect translation 😉 Anyway, text was edited and corrected by me and my friend Gallu, who is native us speaker, so it should be "readable" for everybody 😉 Enjoy reading 😀
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