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Re: Unreal Tournament GOTY causes Windows 98 to stop seeing my CDRom drive

Posted on 2024-01-21, 22:10

in Windows

in Windows

Are you using a "clean" Windows 98 SE install, or have you applied any third party patches or service packs? You could try Total Uninstall (nab it from the Essential Utilities-section of my guide for Win 95 ) to try and track the changes that the UT installer makes to see if any of the modified …

Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2024-01-12, 14:26

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I had planned on doing the "nightmare difficulty" version of the guide that would source and link every update individually, explain their dependencies, and the correct order to install them - but I've been so lazy I never got around to doing it. This would be a good starting point if you want to …

Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2024-01-12, 11:42

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

MS System Information & System Tools Is there a standalone installer for this somewhere? I would rather not use the "unofficial service pack". Not directly, but you have 2 options: Check only the "MS System Information 4.0 & System Tools" option when stating the unofficial service pack installer …

Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2023-12-10, 13:05

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I wanted to install Rain 1.0 by Leading WinTech on my Windows 95, however I only noticed a worsening. With this program the CPU is always at 100%. If I deactivate it the CPU goes back to normal. How come? Hello! I believe this has to do with the way the some CPU monitors on Win9x work - which is to …

Re: About NVIDIA TNT2 M64 (and other graphics cards)

Posted on 2023-10-31, 12:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Virge is, in fact, a hardware accelerator which is about 3x faster than software rendering on high-end Pentium MMX. It was just not enough to suddenly render 4x times more pixels with linear filtering. And S3 didn't really improved performance significantly after DX variation. Virge was an …

Re: About NVIDIA TNT2 M64 (and other graphics cards)

Posted on 2023-10-24, 19:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A friend had a 400 MHz Celeron with a TNT2 M64 graphics card and at the time it seemed like an otherworldly piece of kit compared to my P166MMX with a Voodoo 1. It's a poor memory-bandwidth starved TNT2, a beast in chains. That said, still much better than a lot of its contemporary alternatives. …

Re: About NVIDIA TNT2 M64 (and other graphics cards)

Posted on 2023-10-24, 19:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A friend had a 400 MHz Celeron with a TNT2 M64 graphics card and at the time it seemed like an otherworldly piece of kit compared to my P166MMX with a Voodoo 1. It's a poor memory-bandwidth starved TNT2, a beast in chains. That said, still much better than a lot of its contemporary alternatives. …

Re: Onboard sound card not disabling via BIOS settings, conflicting with SB live

Posted on 2023-10-17, 11:17

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hi guys I'm looking for some sound-card related help. I have a system with this motherboard: MSI K7T Pro2-A ( https://soggi.org/motherboards/msi/K7T-Pro2-A.htm ) For reference I'm running Windows 98se It has onboard sound which does okay but doesn't have adlib. So you can play midi music in windows …

Re: Drivers for USB in Windows 95 (Intel 82371)

Posted on 2023-08-31, 19:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I recommend XUSBSUPP instead of the USBSUPP.EXE on the OSR2 CD. Besides what is included in USBSUPP.EXE, XUSBSUPP also includes storage device drivers for USB thumb drives and a handy tray-utility for ejecting them safely (this was never included by Microsoft originally). When installing Windows you …

Re: PC vintage doesn't boot

Posted on 2023-08-24, 11:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

p.s. There are physically compatible but otherwise incompatible SD-RAM DIMM-modules in existence that you could plug into the motherboard. If your DIMMs use the higher density memory chips, this can result in issues. For example, if you have a 256 MB DIMM which has memory chips on only one side of …

Re: PC vintage doesn't boot

Posted on 2023-08-24, 11:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The P2B is an old-school 440BX motherboard where everything still had to be configured with jumpers. Double-check to make sure that your CPU voltage/multiplier, AGP divider, and FSB jumpers are correctly set. Especially the FSB/AGP divider can result in a blank screen if your video card is the least …

Re: Which system to pick for maxing out a Voodoo 3

Posted on 2023-08-24, 09:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would just like to point out that while it was very common for people to have all sorts of issues with their VIA-based motherboards, a good chunk of those can be blamed on Windows. Windows is a terrible OS at the best of times, and in many instances people took the experiences they were having …

Re: Which system to pick for maxing out a Voodoo 3

Posted on 2023-08-21, 07:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

...I am not sure though if is real issue or if some people just overblow the potential issues... I think there are a lot of people, myself included, who had a very negative opinion of Via chipsets back in the day... Thanks a lot for sharing your impressions. I have just read about the potential …

Re: How were people using CD audio with older Soundblasters back in the day?

Posted on 2023-08-19, 16:08

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

This is also lost on many of us, but the old CD-drives had the 3.5mm audio output jack right on the front fascia of the drive. Hence, if you couldn't route the CD-audio through your soundcard, you could just plug your speakers or headphones directly into the drive. It worked for some games where the …

Re: Which system to pick for maxing out a Voodoo 3

Posted on 2023-08-18, 08:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It seems that I am going to start my second rig project much faster than expected. I got the unexpected offer for 2 systems including a Voodoo 3 2000 agp card. The first system is MSI K7T266 Pro plus Athlon Thunderbird 1400 MHZ , 512 mb ram and the Voodoo 3 2000 agp. The second system would be …

Re: What's up with my CRT, and, are these contemporary Creative speakers even shielded?

Posted on 2023-08-02, 21:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I picked up a lovely Iiyama VisionMaster 450 a little while ago. It's very nice to have a CRT at last, I can enjoy seamless old PC/Mac gaming and even my Dreamcast on there too. However, there are some things with it that I'm not sure about. Firstly, while lower resolutions look good, up to about …

Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2023-07-02, 15:47

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Hi 👋 This guide is awesome 👌 Constructive suggestion -Add a automated answer file to help speed up the install process I believe the serial key can be put into the answer file. https://msfn.org/board/topic/26389-how-to-95-and-98-setup-answer-file/ Thank you for the suggestion - I'll give it a go …

Re: Apple M1 computer SSD

Posted on 2023-06-28, 16:02

in Milliways

in Milliways

No. It is like value of the computer went down sudden if I hear anything that is considered important that potentially fail and SSD *is* finite endurance. Endurance means finite use and finally fails, much like hard drive does. Therefore *MUST* be replaceable helps with value of the console or …

Re: Apple Shady computer hacks.

Posted on 2023-06-28, 12:43

in Milliways

in Milliways

If I had to hazard a guess, could this be an availability issue? I know production is starting to ramp up again after the unspecified virus of unknown origin, but if this particular part became scarce, that could explain why Apple has moved to only including it in higher-priced tier systems. If it …

Re: Getting Unreal and Unreal Tournament to work on Win98

Posted on 2023-06-26, 21:20

in Windows

in Windows

I'm in the same boat, for UT in my case. I know this is an old thread, but Unreal Tournament is a pretty popular game and this thread is probably going to be revisited by many over the years. What is the best way to get Unreal Tournament running on Windows 98, with Glide/3dfx acceleration? This …

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