Re: My 486 (150MHz and Voodoo! :)

Posted on 2014-09-14, 21:10

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Is Quake timedemo optimized for Pentium instructions? That might explain why it runs better with a PoD than a Cyrix despite the slower clock speed. For reference at 640x480 in Quake timedemo I got 27.0fps and 26.9fps at 800x600, cant remember the exact figures for the Cyrix 5x86-120 but its …

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Re: My 486 (150MHz and Voodoo! :)

Posted on 2014-09-14, 21:00

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sledge wrote: ...and Descent with 3dfx patch (perfect - 25 FPS in 800x600!) Descent has a timedemo? Could you provide instructions on how to run this?

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Re: My 486 (150MHz and Voodoo! :)

Posted on 2014-09-14, 11:35

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by feipoa

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Not in my experience.

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Re: My 486 (150MHz and Voodoo! :)

Posted on 2014-09-14, 11:21

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by feipoa

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Such is the downfall of using the 50 MHz bus. Many motherboards also need to have the cache slowed down quite a bit on the 40 MHz setting. It makes using them hardly beneficial. I wish AMD would have made a 5x Am5x86.

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Re: My 486 (150MHz and Voodoo! :)

Posted on 2014-09-14, 10:33

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Your L2 cache isn't doing much here. I guess you had to set your L2 cache to the slowest for the system to be stable with a 50 MHz FSB?

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Re: Anyone have a RIVA TNT PCI card and a UMC motherboard?

Posted on 2014-09-14, 07:56

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After further testing I actually found that the proprietary Diamond drivers are compatible with 100% of the games/benchmarks I throw at it - whereas the Detonators were working when they wanted. These results only happened for Windows apps/games, as MS-DOS wasn't affected. numeriK, could you share …

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Re: My 486 (150MHz and Voodoo! :)

Posted on 2014-09-11, 09:51

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GLQuake processor and resolution scaling with Voodoo2 attached :lol: Interesting, so a P100 would get about 45 fps. Did you notice the screen resolution of the game play change when you set the resolution to 800x600? For some reason, 640x480 and 800x600 look identical to me, with the exception of …

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Re: My 486 (150MHz and Voodoo! :)

Posted on 2014-09-11, 01:23

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Ok, so Tomb Raider has a frame counter and BattleZone (1998) and Interstate '76 Gold have timedemos? How do I run the timedemos? Are these D3D or 3Dfx games?

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Re: My 486 (150MHz and Voodoo! :)

Posted on 2014-09-10, 07:51

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Are there any DOS/Win95 games from approx. 1995 to 1997 which have a timedemo and take advantage of GPU acceleration (preferably 3dfx, OpenGL, or D3D) and were targeting the P75-P166 crowd besides Quake, GLQuake, and Quake II? After achieving close to 30 fps in GLQuake on an Am5x86, I am curious …

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Re: My 486 (150MHz and Voodoo! :)

Posted on 2014-09-10, 06:57

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vetz wrote: Other early Voodoo games that might run well on a 486: Battle Arena Toshinden Descent II Scorched Planet Whiplash/Fatal Racing E […] Show full quote Other early Voodoo games that might run well on a 486: Battle Arena Toshinden Descent II Scorched Planet Whiplash/Fatal Racing Extreme …

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Re: Post your 486 Winamp benchmarks

Posted on 2014-09-10, 05:36

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I pulled the PCI sound card out of my 486 after comparing GLQuake results. IBM 5x86c-100-HF at 100 MHz / Voodoo3 / Win95c GLQuake results with: AWE64Gold (ISA) = 19.2 fps Aureal Vortex2 (PCI) = 18.8 fps Yamaha 718 w/XR385 (ISA) = 18.0 fps

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Re: My 486 (150MHz and Voodoo! :)

Posted on 2014-09-10, 04:42

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Good to see someone else try a 3D card on a 486 system! In my experience the best CPU to use is the Pentium overdrive 83mhz, I use a Voodoo3 on my machine but I dont think it would be any faster for this class of machine compared to the voodoo1. For reference at 640x480 in Quake timedemo I got 27. …

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Re: Post your 486 Winamp benchmarks

Posted on 2014-09-10, 03:12

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OP updated to show results with Win95c vs. NT4. There was no reduction in CPU usage except when using DirectSound.

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Re: Win95 choppy mouse pointer

Posted on 2014-09-09, 22:16

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I ended up using a program called PS2Rate, found here: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/ps2rate.html It made a world of difference! I think Win95 was using a 40 Hz setting. When I upped it to 80 Hz, the results were remarkable. You can go all the way up to 200 Hz, but I was happy enough with …

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Re: Win95 vs. Win98 for pre-Pentium 200 games

Posted on 2014-09-09, 20:32

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by feipoa

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For SiS 496/497 boards from 1995-1997. There were quite a few varieties of boards. Every SiS 496/497 board I've tried and read about seems to work with Voodoo3's.

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Re: Post your 486 Winamp benchmarks

Posted on 2014-09-09, 20:28

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I didn't get a chance to try this. But have you tried winplay3? Its seems pretty darn fast for playing MP3s on slow systems. Winplay3 in Windows NT 4.0 had about a 10% reduction in CPU usage compared to Winamp, however it had an audible skip sound every 3-5 seconds. Perhaps it works better in Win9x …

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Re: Win95 choppy mouse pointer

Posted on 2014-09-09, 19:34

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Jolaes76 wrote: ...one can also use PS/2 Rate Adjuster or similar utilities on any Win9x. Is there any one utility you recommend for Win95 to accomplish this?

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Re: Win95 choppy mouse pointer

Posted on 2014-09-09, 08:18

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I can't go back to serial mice either. I would say that my PS/2 mouse feels a little like a serial mouse in Win95, but not as bad. If your 386 has an AWARD BIOS, even a version 4.20, you can modify the motherboard to use a PS/2 mouse. I have a AWARD-based 386 board I plan on doing this with.

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Win95 choppy mouse pointer

Posted on 2014-09-09, 07:38

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I find mouse movement in Win95 a little choppy compared to Win98SE and WinNT when using the same computer. Is this a common problem, and if so, how is it corrected? I have a PS/2 mouse. Does installing the Logitech drivers make any difference? If installing Logitech MouseMan drivers for the M-S38 is …

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Re: Win95 vs. Win98 for pre-Pentium 200 games

Posted on 2014-09-08, 09:46

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Quake is made for pentiums, not for 486s. I used to think that way until I tried a Voodoo3 with GLQuake. Using an AMD X5-160 and a Voodoo3, I could get 27.5 FPS in GLQuake at 640x480 with 16-bit colour. Enabling sound reduces the framerate to 24.5 fps, which is very playable. A Cyrix 5x86-133/4x …

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