Re: Who professionally reviews/tests games on poor hardware?

Posted on 2013-06-28, 09:06

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by m1so

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

On this site: http://www.oldgames.sk/casopisy/ you can find tons of old mostly Czech and Slovak old computer and gamers magazines. A lot of the time the games were tested on slow hardware, like say Descent 2 on 486DX4 or Doom 1 on 486/33. It was not on purpose, but simply because our country (and …

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Re: Longest longetivity builds of the 90s

Posted on 2013-06-28, 08:52

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by m1so

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

See I have also not used any of the "Good" Pentium 4's. My experience is limited to a 533fsb with no hyperthreading. I have seen late 478 and 775 rigs that are pretty snappy. The difference between a single i5 or i7 core and a single Pentium 4 core is still huge imho. Obviously the difference is …

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Re: AMD K5

Posted on 2013-06-28, 08:36

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by m1so

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice one eliana. I was willing to do most of these myself but turns out you did them yourself! QuakeGL is especially CPU limited it turns out. At 100MHz it gives me around 17fps no matter what. Tried 640x480 and 512x384 and it produced the same framerate. Also gave Jedi Knight a try, seems playable …

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Re: Longest longetivity builds of the 90s

Posted on 2013-06-27, 22:02

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by m1so

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

133 Mhz was ridiculously expensive. Most people were still stuck with 33 Mhz 486s. And my point stands, the progress in computers in the last decade was small compared to the 1990s.

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Re: AMD K5

Posted on 2013-06-27, 21:47

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just compared AMD K5 PR133 to Winchip C6 180 Mhz and ... surprise... the K5 wins in all performance parameters and as much as 2x in some categories, especially FPU, despite it being clocked at just 100 Mhz vs. the Winchip at 180 Mhz. The Winchip was a serious piece of steaming shit.

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Re: AMD K5

Posted on 2013-06-27, 21:19

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think yes. It is just a cheat that shows your framerate. You just type it in in the middle of the game. Voodoo 3 and 256 MB RAM ... hmm very nice 😀 . How does GLQuake run in 640x480 (and lower if it can be set).

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Re: Longest longetivity builds of the 90s

Posted on 2013-06-27, 21:04

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I know even single threaded software will run faster, but it still cannot adress even 1/4 of the i7s potential. This is why the Sega Saturn got defeated by Sony Playstation - powerful single core has beaten a dual CPU architecture. I guess what I am truly lamenting about is the hideous state of …

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Re: AMD K5

Posted on 2013-06-27, 20:48

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just run Quake at 320x200 with sound on my PR133. Demo2 does 24.1fps. Thanks. Quite nice for a chip that supposedly has a "486-like" FPU (and better than how Warcraft 3 plays on my netbook on which I'm typing right now). What FPS do you get if you turn the screen size down a bit? Nevertheless, it …

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Re: Longest longetivity builds of the 90s

Posted on 2013-06-27, 20:32

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Yes it does. But how much of that i7s Mhz requires a game/application to be written for multicore support? And how many people are willing to mess with affinity settings just to play a 5 year old game? I am not saying having red hot 6 Ghz CPUs is the answers, merely that the IT people should have …

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Re: AMD K5

Posted on 2013-06-27, 19:11

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How does it do in Quake in 320x200?

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Re: AMD K5

Posted on 2013-06-27, 18:24

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Graphics card can be either S3 or Matrox, PCI obviously some shitty ISA/VLB would bring down the system greatly. As for scores, I guess FPS would do. Thanks for the quick answers by the way. If anyone has a large selection of cards, I figure a PCI S3 Trio64+ and Matrox Millenium would be the most …

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Re: Longest longetivity builds of the 90s

Posted on 2013-06-27, 18:18

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

God, how can anyone say a 700 Mhz Pentium III is better than a Pentium 4? Why do the people hate the Pentium 4 so much anyways? Yeah, it needed more than 2 Ghz to really shine, but it did achieve the performance. I played through Oblivion and Morrowind on a 3.2 Ghz Pentium 4 rig, it rocked, and I …

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AMD K5

Posted on 2013-06-27, 16:58

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I am kinda fascinated by the K5 processor as I have never seen one "in the wild", but i know it was a lot cheaper than Pentium in my country in the mid-late 90s and I've read some very positive reviews in old discmags about gaming (they didn't run FPU intensive games tho). Anyone here had a well …

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Re: Technically & artistically impressive games

Posted on 2013-06-08, 10:13

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Yeah the PSX Duke port is painfully slow at times. PAL version is even worse than NTSC I think. Still I played through all of it :lol: some interesting spoofs in those exclusive levels. Also I doubt Build ran great on a 133 MHz Pentium in 800x600. Here it runs on a 233MMX and you can see some …

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Re: Intel HD 4000 GFX Compatibility

Posted on 2013-06-03, 08:44

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by m1so

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a netbook with a GMA950 and System Shock 2 LAGS on it like hell even through it is just 3 years old and the game is 14 years old. Avoid Intel "GPUs" at all cost unless you really have NO other choice.

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Re: Semi-modern all-in-one 440BX machine

Posted on 2013-06-03, 08:40

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The machines from this period are really nostalgic for me. The moment we swapped our 386 for a Celeron 633 Mhz with a RIVA TNT2 (the real one, not the budget "Vanta" or "M64" ones) 32 MB card I will forever remember. I'm envious cause I don't have any retro machines on hand correctly. Anyways wish …

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Re: How many people actually use 1080p?

Posted on 2013-06-02, 21:16

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@m1so Son, until fall 2008 I had a 17" CRT. Then I got a 15" LCD. Then, as I said, in early 2009 I got the 22" LCD. Last summer I managed to sell the 22 and bought the current 24" LED, which I wanted to buy since spring last year. I don't have a big paycheck, 2 years ago I was unemployed and barely …

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Re: How many people actually use 1080p?

Posted on 2013-06-02, 21:15

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I like 1600x900 because it enables me to play games at max details without buying a ridiculously expensive videocard. My desk is already cluttered as it is and I don't NEED a larger screen, I mean, what is so pretty about it? As a matter of fact, 140 dollars IS expensive. And I DO know how expensive …

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Re: Celeron 300

Posted on 2013-06-02, 20:58

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in Marvin \ System Specs

jwt27 wrote: ...because? It is a Windows NT based OS - no DOS support, many pre-2000 games don't work, or work badly, many later games have problems too. It is also the most unstable Windows NT based OS, at least in my opinion.

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Re: How many people actually use 1080p?

Posted on 2013-06-02, 20:40

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I'm actually just 19. I know I give kind of a hateful vibe, but I simply cannot stand most "gamers" on the internet. Most of them seem like people who think everyone's mommy or daddy will buy them a 500 dollar videocard. I think it is also because I don't see anyone around me throwing around money …

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