Re: "New" gaming pc - OEM's or not?
Posted on 2019-03-01, 03:02
Microcenter was selling RX 580s new for $170 last month, so you can find deals on them new too. Their poor performance in older games is what drove me away.
Re: "New" gaming pc - OEM's or not?
Posted on 2019-02-28, 18:23
1160 is also 6GB. The 500 series is nice, if you only care about the latest games. ATIs cards have piss poor compatibility for even some Windows 7 games.
Re: "New" gaming pc - OEM's or not?
Posted on 2019-02-28, 16:34
I really think a 2060 is a bad deal, as is any GPU that is over 250$ that has less than 8GB of VRAM. You can say 6GB is plenty -- which is the exact same story I heard when choosing my 4GB 760GTX over the 2GB version many years back. Less than a year later I was taking advantage of that unnecessary …
Re: SCSI2SD - Comparison of SCSI SD, CF, and HDD performance
Posted on 2019-02-27, 05:08
It wouldn't be too difficult to order an enclosure for the ACARD + CF-to-IDE adapter. You could use a wall wart for power. Acard? I have an CF to IDE, but I was under the impression that SCSI/IDE wasn't compatible. I agree, it would be great to see a CF adapter in the future, especially with how …
Re: SCSI2SD - Comparison of SCSI SD, CF, and HDD performance
Posted on 2019-02-27, 02:24
The 5.1 version of SCSI2SD PCB has room for a DB25 connector (that you need to get and solder in yourself), precisely to be used with common external SCSI cables. Depending on what kind of connector your card actually has you might need to hunt down a matching cable but that isn't usually much of a …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2019-02-26, 14:56
Personally I was really disappointed with PoE. Coming from other Obsidian games where the choice/consequence was so deep -- I stopped playing after the first major city where, no matter your actions and who you side with, things play out the same -- reminded me of Telltale. I also wasn't a fan of …
Re: Stick to Ti4200. Do I need voodoo 4500 PCI?
Posted on 2019-02-26, 06:07
..but a Geforce 3 or even newer won't work better for those older D3D games? I didn't realize that they had flaky support for early D3D. Getting DOS games working with a V5 and AA is impressive. I'd like to see videos of that -- or Tomb Raider, since that can be made to work with a V3.
Re: SCSI2SD - Comparison of SCSI SD, CF, and HDD performance
Posted on 2019-02-26, 06:02
feipoa wrote: "External" - you mean a box that would connect to the external SCSI port on a PCI or ISA card? Exactly -- to the external port of my 8-bit SCSI card.
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2019-02-26, 05:59
clueless1 wrote: Just started Thief: The Dark Project. Playing on my P3-933 with Voodoo2 SLI and Audigy EAX. 17" CRT monitor at 1024x768. 😎 EAX over A3D? I'm currently playing Detroit: Become Human - my first Quantic Dream game since Omikron way back when.
Re: SCSI2SD - Comparison of SCSI SD, CF, and HDD performance
Posted on 2019-02-25, 23:51
I've been looking for an SCSI CF solution for a long time now, for my XT -- external to be specific. The SCSI2SDs on Ebay are over $200 -- and I don't even see any SCSI to CF external readers ANYWHERE except for some companies that only sell to military, aviation, semiconductors/telecom. I really …
Re: Stick to Ti4200. Do I need voodoo 4500 PCI?
Posted on 2019-02-25, 03:13
True -- but there isn't really much of a reason to use a Voodoo card for D3D games or OpenGL over a Geforce. But any game that works with a v3 can work with a voodoo4/5. I would love to see someone pull of Redguard on a Voodoo 5 -- I wasn't able to do it.
Re: How many different relevant DirectX generations are there for GFX cards?
Posted on 2019-02-25, 00:24
CSAA support isn't needed when higher end Maxwell cards have enough GPU power to push Super Sampling in pretty much every game you possibly can play on WinXP. Does Maxwell's nvidia profile/forced settings play nice in XP? Still, I don't like seeing ingame settings greyed out or locked -- it bothers …
Re: games that are better on a Macintosh
Posted on 2019-02-24, 05:56
Macs were amazingly reliable back in the day. The 1990s-era clones weren't (sub-standard hardware), and the software could be really messed up if you installed a bunch of random shareware extensions. My Performa 6300CD was discontinued mere months after being released. That machine was such an …
Re: games that are better on a Macintosh
Posted on 2019-02-24, 05:53
Almost anything that came out in 1987. I don't know why but 1987 is "The Year of the Shitty DOS Port." I don't expect full VGA implementation when it had just came out, but EGA and more-over TANDY graphics and sound was already mature... having been used in a ton of DOS games. Despite this, many of …
Re: How many different relevant DirectX generations are there for GFX cards?
Posted on 2019-02-24, 05:21
Maxwell might be the last native XP/DX9 card but Kepler was the last to support CSAA and there are certainly games that have this as their in-game anti-aliasing options.
Re: Stick to Ti4200. Do I need voodoo 4500 PCI?
Posted on 2019-02-24, 05:14
Is there really any reason for the added features of the V4-V5 at all? Any games that require Glide aren't going to support higher than 256x256 textures or 32-bit color. If a game DOES support larger texture sizes and 32-bit color then it will also support OpenGL or Direct3D. In fact, can a V5 even …
Re: NVIDIA Kepler/MaxWell/Pascal VESA Bios Bug (workaround found)
Posted on 2019-02-24, 05:02
When trying an A64+ 939 machine for high-res 98/DOS gaming the build engine games (Duke3D/Blood) gave me issues on my FX5900 Ultra and Geforce 4 Ti4200 -- I had to drop down to a Geforce 3 for them to work well without -- though the built-in FPS counter still 'lied' at certain resolutions. Is the …
Re: Thanks Ebay...
Posted on 2019-02-21, 22:20
Dominus wrote: There are services that send you an INSTANT alert as soon as something pops up on ebay. Much better than the alert everyday on a fixed hour by ebay 😉 Could you recommend any? Ebays built in alerts are pretty damn useless.
Re: Need SIMM advice (EMS Card)
Posted on 2019-02-21, 05:46
I highly recommend you get 9-chip memory. Although the 3-chip memory has parity and should be functionally identical, in practice 9-chip 30-pin SIMMs are a hell of a lot more compatible. I have a lot of motherboards and memory cards that don't function at all with the 3 chip stuff. Okay -- but is …
Re: Need SIMM advice (EMS Card)
Posted on 2019-02-21, 01:50
30p SIMMs aren't rocket science. Just like other SIMMs, they come in parity (3/9 chip) and non-parity (2/8 chip) versions and in sizes of 256kB, 1MB, 4MB and 16MB. Apparently these cards only support 1MB and 4MB SIMMs. Speeds are max speeds and are given in times, so lower is better. If the card …
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