Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures

Posted on 2012-03-31, 08:45

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by kool kitty89

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I personally had no problems with UT on a k6-2 w/ Voodoo2 on high back in the day. ;) It's the poor MMX implementation on K6. One game unplayable on K6-2 but well playable on a Pentium II is Serious Sam Didn't the K6-2 dramatically improve MMX performance over the K6 classic (not sure if the III or …

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Re: What's your favourite gamepad for DOS?

Posted on 2012-03-31, 08:35

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leileilol wrote: shspvr wrote: If recall rigth dos only allow for 4 buttons Gravis Gamepad Pro had GrIP which expanded support to 10 though few games supported it Was the Xterminator (or other late Gravis gameport pads) compatible with GrIP too, or just the pro?

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2012-03-31, 08:19

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by kool kitty89

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From my recent tests of Cyrix 6x86 CPUs, I have found that even the smallest overclock can be enough to show instability. The instability may be temperature related, but may also be from the frequency element. It's probably a mix of both issues (logic stability at high speeds and heat dissipation). …

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Re: The "Not a 486 anymore, sadfase" 6x86 Build

Posted on 2012-03-30, 21:32

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I've had discussions with gold scrappers/recycles. They are actually quite excited about how much people are over paying for CPU gold content. He said that after the extraction (he also extracts), most of his eBay buyers can only break even if lucky. The only way that will make any profit is if …

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Re: 286 - The trials and tribulations!

Posted on 2012-03-30, 05:38

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A few months ago, I was digging through some of my dad's old PC parts and found a 286-12 and AM286-20 along with a whole mess of LCC support ICs and a few BIOS chips -including one for a hedland chipset- (looks like they were pulled from 286 boards with socketed CPU+chipset). However, I haven't seen …

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Re: Cyrix MII-433GP Build

Posted on 2012-03-29, 23:38

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No. I'm not sure what information could be concluded from that test. 262 MHz (75x3.5) exceedes the rated speed of 250 MHz (100x2.5). I should also point out that one benchmark test failed on the MII-366GP even at 66x3.5, 233 MHz (it was the Final Reality - Software test, which had to be run on the …

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Re: The "Not a 486 anymore, sadfase" 6x86 Build

Posted on 2012-03-29, 23:18

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The MII-400GP's might be a bit more expensive though, $10-$20 usually. They don't come up very often either . . . mostly in scrap lots from what I've seen recently (and often it's hard to tell if there's no list of chips and limited quality pictures). And, unless you want to invest in a load of …

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Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures

Posted on 2012-03-29, 23:09

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The Virge was still slow as hell and outdated long before the architecture was actually discontinued so adding all that stuff without substantially upgrading the speed would be pointless. It is akin to nVidia calling the FX5200 a DX9 card when it never had the power to run DX9 games. It wouldn't be …

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Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures

Posted on 2012-03-29, 21:33

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Putas, you've run Unreal with your ViRGE MX, right? How did that compare with elianda's video? Ah, the MX can just render filtered textures, that's about it. All lighting and effects are broken. But with Trio3D/2X (supporting additive and multiplicative alpha, more mature drivers) one can do much …

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Re: Cyrix MII-433GP Build

Posted on 2012-03-29, 21:07

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My MII-366GP 2.9V unit was only able to handle up to 233 MHz (66x3.5). I tried it at its rated 250 MHz, but the system would hang on the benchmarks (even the DOS ones). I had to replace it with a MII-400GP to run the 250 MHz benchmarks. I ran my MII-366GP 2.9V at 83x3.0, not the marked 100x2.5, …

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Re: The "Not a 486 anymore, sadfase" 6x86 Build

Posted on 2012-03-29, 00:07

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Keep an eye on ebay. MIIs and 6x86MXs will go for $5-10 shipped every once in a while. (a PR233 went for about $8 a few days ago, a 366 went for $5 about a month ago, and I got my 366 for $7 about a week earlier -all prices+shipping)

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Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures

Posted on 2012-03-28, 04:15

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Powerstrip says: My Rage IIC AGP 62 MHz (no info if core or memory), does 147 3DMark99 Rage Pro Turbo PCI Core 75 MHz, Memory 100 MHz. Putas mentioned the IIC was clocked up to 83 MHz, but it's certainly possible that some models were clocked lower too. (there was certainly a lot of underclocking …

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Re: Cyrix MII-433GP Build

Posted on 2012-03-27, 23:15

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by kool kitty89

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couldn't you at least do some quick preliminary tests for basic stability (ie will with system at least boot and maybe run some basic tests/benchmarks -like speedsys, etc) You could, but it wouldn't prove long-term stability. I have found that CPUs can pass all the benchmarks, pass Windows98 …

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Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures

Posted on 2012-03-27, 22:54

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So whats your flyby intro fps (timedemo 1) with all graphical features on then? next thing coming up is some Rage II action... I also recorded a bit from Rage Pro Turbo, which is incredibly faster than Rage II. It has also the missing features +32 bit rendering and does even 3DMark2000 and Dethkarz …

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Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures

Posted on 2012-03-27, 20:32

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So here we have another surprise: S3 Trio3D running 3DMark2001SE pure win The blending is far from stipple alpha technique. I was thinking if the Virge could use some speed hacks, like small color look up table to speed up the work at expense of rounding errors. But that wouldn't make sense since …

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Re: Cyrix MII-433GP Build

Posted on 2012-03-27, 05:36

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Testing for long-term stability isn't so easy, nor is it a quick process, unfortunately. The best method I've found for this is to run the system routinely for everyday use. I may eventually retire my Cyrix 5x86-133/4x box from everyday use and use a MII @ 300 MHz, which would make for good …

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Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures

Posted on 2012-03-27, 02:13

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Some more hot action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNiYRcm3NbE Alpha blending seems just dithering. In what cases does alpha blending look like plain dithering (I assume you mean dithered "mesh" like Mystique and some software rendered games do). I've seen tons of dithering in ViRGE stuff, but …

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Re: 168-pin edo 5v ram - did any pc's use it?

Posted on 2012-03-27, 01:58

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by kool kitty89

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Didn't a fair amount of early DIMM-equipped boards support both SDRAM and EDO DRAM? (particularly those with both SIMM and DIMM slots for RAM) I seem to remember mention of some Socket 7/SS7 boards doing that. EDO DRAM was available in speeds roughly equivalent to PC66 and PC100 SDRAM in the late …

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Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures

Posted on 2012-03-26, 18:24

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by kool kitty89

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So here we have another surprise: S3 Trio3D running 3DMark2001SE. This is a S3 Virge core. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMA6xdQq1o4 Next thing coming up is some more footage and even some Unreal D3D gameplay on this S3 Virge core. Huh, so you managed to find drivers that avoided many of the bugs …

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2012-03-26, 06:55

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by kool kitty89

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The IBM/Cyrix deal worked as well as it did because before then the only fabs that Cyrix had access to were older ones that didn't have the capacity or the quality that Cyrix really wanted but they had no other choice. IBM also needed 486/5x86 designs so they would't have to pay a huge fee to Intel …

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