Re: Shadow of Destiny/Memories
Posted on 2015-01-15, 09:28
Re: Unreal plays a strange sound under the splash screen
Posted on 2015-01-15, 07:38
400 Mhz should be more than enough for Unreal man. The problem is probably your videocard. And yes, this is the A3D sound and has nothing to do with the slowness of your PC.
Quake 3/4/Wars raytraced
Posted on 2015-01-14, 13:37
Were these demos ever released or were they just a tease to put in videos and new articles? If they were, where can I download a raytracing renderer for Quake 3/4/ Quake Wars?
Re: The speed of the tech industries (or what is retro/vintage for the general man)
Posted on 2015-01-09, 18:01
I agree with this, but wanted to point out that Doom 3 on a Voodoo is probably a bad example, because people actually have gotten that to work on Voodoo2 (but maybe you were referencing that ironically). :blush: But I do completely get what you're saying, and agree with the general argument - …
Shadow of Destiny/Memories
Posted on 2015-01-09, 17:17
Guys, is there any way to get this game running on a modern computer? It doesn't work on my Windows 7 PC and it doesn't work on VirtualBox with XP+Direct3D support enabled. I really want to play this game. I'd buy a GoG bundle patched for Windows 7, but this game has not been released on GoG.
Re: Sandbox games for a 286?
Posted on 2015-01-06, 22:15
Not really listing Sandbox games, but a surprisingly large amount of cool games runs on a VGA 286 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_ZEWvokp3o , I think Elite First Encounters will too. These EGA/VGA games run on a 10 Mhz 8088 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzum0M97PaY so these will definitely play …
Re: Geforce power managment mode
Posted on 2015-01-06, 21:56
If I set the general management to adaptive and prefer maximum performance for a certain game, will it stay for the game even if I alt+tab meanwhile?
Re: The speed of the tech industries (or what is retro/vintage for the general man)
Posted on 2015-01-06, 13:39
What's going to happen? Is the speed of the tech industries just too blazing fast? Actually quite the opposite. I have a friend with an old Core 2 Quad rig from 2008 or 2009 and it runs Far Cry 4 comfortably enough on Low (not the lowest possible) settings in 1920x1200 with all components stock …
Re: DPI settings in Windows 7
Posted on 2015-01-03, 22:59
Re: Geforce power managment mode
Posted on 2015-01-03, 22:35
Sorry for adding to a month old thread, but does alt tabbing away from the app that is set to "Prefer maximum performance" change anything or the settings stay as long as the process is launched?
Re: GTX 660 memory arrangement
Posted on 2014-12-30, 18:35
Is there any way to display memory speed in realtime like VRAM usage and temperature in MSI afterburner?
Re: GTX 660 memory arrangement
Posted on 2014-12-30, 15:34
Thanks, so it doesn't put the whole card in 64-bit mode when memory usage crosses 1.5 GB? I've read the whole article before but it's not really clear on if the "worst case scenario" applies to the whole card or just the last 512 MB of memory.
Re: GTX 660 memory arrangement
Posted on 2014-12-30, 15:19
I know it's not old HW but please is there anyone who knows?
Re: The Pentium D 995: A study into a world without Conroe for make benefit glorious forums of VOGONS
Posted on 2014-12-30, 12:08
Laugh at Pentium D? Seriously? This level of performance is more than the average user typically uses NOW. Just because AMD "was teh better at teh times" does not mean Intel was crap.
GTX 660 memory arrangement
Posted on 2014-12-30, 11:31
I know GTX 660 has a 192-bit memory bus and thus the last 512 MB of its 2 GB memory are accessed at just 64-bit, but does whole memory switch to 64-bit mode when the 1.5 GB threshold is crossed or just the last 512 MB? Please, I've seen much mixed and misleading information on so called "gamer" …
Re: DPI settings in Windows 7
Posted on 2014-12-29, 11:07
Re: ISA VGA screen redraw
Posted on 2014-12-28, 21:43
Thanks, very interesting 😀 . I never saw such an effect on our family 386 many years ago with a TVGA 8900, but those were VGA 320x200x256 games, not SVGA. Is there any list that has bandwidth values for videocards?
Re: ISA VGA screen redraw
Posted on 2014-12-28, 16:06
To provide examples: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dyUmny3wj- http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1-TTW3fPypg Wouldn't 2 MB/s speed mean the Trident is running in 8-bit mode? The tearing seems to be more evident in SVGA than VGA. 640x480 in 256 colors would mean 6.5 fps at 2 MB/s and the framerate here is …
Re: DPI settings in Windows 7
Posted on 2014-12-28, 12:16
ISA VGA screen redraw
Posted on 2014-12-27, 15:17
I've noticed in videos of computers using slow ISA video (think Trident 8900), or PCem with video set to slow 16-bit animations redraw in a "flipping page from top to bottom" (or opposite) kind of way even when the framerate is relatively fast (meaning ~20 fps). I never saw this with PCI/AGP/PCIe …
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