Re: Best AGP Card for Old Win9x Games in XP?

Posted on 2012-03-01, 16:40

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The Rage 128 is an extremely limited card, if memory serves. You might get ZPC running (though why would you want to?), but I wouldn't count on anything else going. It's morbid curiosity on my part. But from what I remember the Rage 128 Pro's a generic DirectX 6 card, about on par with a TNT2 but …

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Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics

Posted on 2012-03-01, 16:27

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I wonder what kind of luck you'd have with the last released ICD and cwdonahl's enhanced Unreal Tournament renderer.

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Re: Best AGP Card for Old Win9x Games in XP?

Posted on 2012-03-01, 15:42

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I'd be more enthusiastic about that prospect if the 5700SE had more memory bandwidth and didn't have a loud heatsink/fan. In the early going the Rage 128 Pro might get the first shot just because I don't think I've ever used one before.

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Best AGP Card for Old Win9x Games in XP?

Posted on 2012-03-01, 14:24

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Hi, all! I've ordered some parts to build a system just for older games, but now have the issue of selecting a graphics card to use with it. The CPU is an Athlon64 2650e - 1.6 GHz, 512k L2 cache, and a 15 watt TDP - and the motherboard's an ASRock AM2NF3-VSTA, an AM2+ nForce3 'board with 5 PCI slots …

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Re: SMP enabled games (pre-2005)

Posted on 2012-02-23, 19:23

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Which for most purposes would be the Athlon 64 FX-55. The P4EE was faster at some tasks like audio encoding and running apps, but for games the FX-55 delivered faster framerates across the board in most games under most conditions. That is the penultimate representative of that era. I think you …

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Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics

Posted on 2012-02-23, 17:24

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VQuake 2 with max AA runs a lot faster then OpenGL http://www.vintage3d.org/images/V1000/vquake2AA7.png more screens here: http://www.vintage3d.org/flashgallery/V1000.php Yep! VQuake2 was based on the software renderer, so there's no colored lighting support. But V1000 users could cruise along very …

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Re: SMP enabled games (pre-2005)

Posted on 2012-02-03, 22:22

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All the id games back to Quake 1 support SMP (well, multithreading at any rate). This is incorrect, at least in the "nearly linear performance scaling with plural cores" sense. Quake I and II were very much single-threaded rendering games, and Quake III Arena's SMP support was quite glitchy out of …

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Re: Patches for Chasm: The Rift?

Posted on 2012-01-19, 20:03

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Thank you both. I didn't mean to clutter up the wrong subforum; at a glance this seemed like the right place. Files have been downloaded and installed - thanks so much!

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Patches for Chasm: The Rift?

Posted on 2012-01-18, 21:37

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Hi, all. I've lost track of the patches I once kept around for Chasm: The Rift. There was an early patch to enable/fix TCP/IP (which I don't care about tremendously), but there was also an add-on patch with some bonus levels which I've had no luck in finding. Does anyone know where those are hosted, …

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Re: Duke Nukem Forever...and ever......and ever.........and ever............?

Posted on 2011-07-14, 13:11

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I've finished the single player, and am just over half-done with a second runthrough on Come Get Some. The good: * It's been too long since I played a shooter that actually gave me a minute to breathe and soak in the ambience. The pacing benefits tremendously. * The gunplay's satisfying, and nearly …

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Re: 3D Accelerator Comparison Thread

Posted on 2011-03-30, 14:57

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That's because the Rage isn't doing that transparent surfaces itself - the cpu is, through the driver ! and that's what made rage suck. You can't even modulate the alpha blend or even use GE128 alphatest. I even tried getting OA to run on Rage Pro better - turns out my optimal effects don't make a …

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Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics

Posted on 2011-03-10, 18:12

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All true about Linux, sadly. The state of hardware and drivers was a mess, the lack of standardized APIs made writing many applications a headache, and there just wasn't the critical mass of users available to sustain a company whose sole job was porting games. I will say that I bought my Linux copy …

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Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics

Posted on 2011-03-07, 16:14

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Are programming details for those early, proprietary API's still available anywhere? It would be interesting to see if someone can create a new game for those old video cards. You can find the Glide SDK without much issue, and the Rendition RRedline SDK was linked earlier in this thread. I can say …

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Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics

Posted on 2011-03-04, 15:51

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Yep. That article by Stefan Podell made a huge impression on me when I was in high school. Damned shame Rendition's support evaporated after Micron's acquisition not long afterward.

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Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics

Posted on 2011-03-02, 17:28

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I can't speak for 3DMark99, but that GLQuake benchmark is entirely within expected ranges. The V1000 wasn't really designed to withstand the rigors of z-buffering; you'd be much better off running VQuake, which was designed using an alternate rendering style much better-suited to the Verite's …

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Re: Geforce4 MX 440 Datasheet/reference/specifications

Posted on 2011-02-24, 23:00

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There really aren't any datasheets available for Nvidia cards... at least, not publicly. Other than the hardware memory controller, it's just a die-shrunk NV11, which itself is a cut-down NV15, which itself is a bug-fixed, feature-tweaked version of the hoary old NV10/GeForce256 GPU from 1999. …

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Re: BOOOH!!!! "SCARIEST" games ever?????????? (Happy Halloween!)

Posted on 2010-10-29, 17:52

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Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and the Penumbra games, all by Frictional Games. I will also suggest the first two Doom games and System Shock 2, and the original Fear had some moments in its last third that give me pause five years later.

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2010-09-01, 14:47

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An attempt to procure a Matrox m3D around six years ago turned out to be a dud - upon installing and firing the system up the system didn't even see it... 'twas simply fried. The opportunity to try again hasn't come up since. However, I owned a Kyro II for a couple of years before I finally broke …

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Re: F.E.A.R. on Voodoo 2 SLI?

Posted on 2010-09-01, 14:20

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Definitely GeForce3 - there are still observable lighting and texturing effects that would require at least DirectX 8-level shaders. It's not officially a supported config, though I played through a fair chunk of the game on a Celeron D 325 with a gig of RAM and a GeForce3 with no issues, aside from …

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Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics

Posted on 2010-07-23, 20:00

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I have an 8 MB Hercules Thriller3D with TV Out at my place, but don't even know if it works... The Quake II-specific renderer was an interesting piece of work: written in RRedline, it's designed for the V1000 and manages the game pretty well at 512x384, but doesn't support colored lighting since …

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