Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2019-09-16, 15:29

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Should be the driver, because confirmed with other people with different cards including a guy with HD 5670 that we were all experiencing the same problems, so I suppose hardware had nothing to do with it and it was just because we were using the latest drivers is this the problem you experienced? …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2019-08-20, 20:50

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PS2 version of the game is superior anyways, PC version had cool online multiplayer but that's dead with gamespy, so, eh.. play the PS2 ver 😀

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2019-08-16, 06:11

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Yes, exactly, those triangular holes, they happened in quite a lot of places, usually distant objects and arhitecture, really bugging me, and I remember the trees in the open terrain in the end of the 2nd level valley of the jaguar had ugly blue overlay from distance, and there was z-fighting …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2019-08-15, 18:48

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Should be the driver, because confirmed with other people with different cards including a guy with HD 5670 that we were all experiencing the same problems, so I suppose hardware had nothing to do with it and it was just because we were using the latest drivers

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2019-08-15, 05:54

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The Serious Sam issues can be a bit harder to notice if you don't know where to look, as basically distant stuff may get triangular holes and also in TSE distant trees may get a blue overlay, theres some spots I can recommend, probably easiest thing that comes to mind is to go with The Second …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2019-08-14, 10:53

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Well thats cool, and yeah, I think I was using the latest driver? Like, can't remember, maybe 14.4 or something? Yeah could indeed be a driver issue, I should really buy an AMD card for testing again and give it another chance. ideally something compatible with even older driver versions so I can …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2019-08-14, 06:46

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My MSI N780 Lightning died :X Idk why, I rarelly pushed it, and it was getting really good cooling. A friend working in electronics repair service told me its an issue with BGA chips, when you're pushing 250 watts trough them, even if you cool them well, they give out eventually. I was planning to …

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Re: Win98SE When is the hardware overkill?

Posted on 2019-07-28, 07:29

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according to some old review, FX 5900 Ultra in UT 2003 scales pretty linearly with cpu speed, they only tested it up to P4 3.2 it seems but it looks like it would keep scaling with faster cpus https://archive.techarp.com/review/NVIDIA/5900_Ultra/CPU_Scaling.gif now UT 2003 is not exactly a win98 …

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Re: Win98SE When is the hardware overkill?

Posted on 2019-07-25, 23:22

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1ghz pentium 3 will be holding back a GF4 Ti, unless you meant a GF4 MX. Also GF4 Ti itself, cant quite handle forcing AA and AF at the same time, at 1600x1200. A fast P4 or Athlon XP with FX 5900 (Ultra) is a much better pick imo, it can do 1600x1200, it can force AA and AF, and dx9 compatibility …

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Re: Win98SE When is the hardware overkill?

Posted on 2019-07-25, 20:54

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I own an Asrock Conroe865PE with Pentium E5800, hopefully that will be enough to run Painkiller well on the cpu side of things, but how about graphics, what kind of win98-compatible gpu will get good fps at a high res (like 1600x1200), I bet the usually recommended FX 5900 will struggle... would ati …

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Re: Win98SE When is the hardware overkill?

Posted on 2019-07-25, 17:34

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thought A3D was supposedto increase performance by offloading sound processing from the cpu, not the other way round. Also didn't know Painkiller supports A3D, nice to know, gotta try it on mine

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Re: Win98SE When is the hardware overkill?

Posted on 2019-07-23, 13:17

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yes, it takes care of all those annoying "insert win98 CD" prompts

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Re: CRT gaming on period systems

Posted on 2019-07-23, 00:34

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Yeah, good thing, its just that my first post may seem pretty weird for a post starting a thread without the context of what I was replying to, someone might wonder what I was smoking "by starting this thread" 😀

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Re: Win98SE When is the hardware overkill?

Posted on 2019-07-23, 00:30

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Yes Ive seen this exact same error with IDE optical drive, when using the 3rd party IDE controller on a P45 board, and using the chipset-integrated sata controller in ide mode fixed that. So when going modern, its a thing. One thing you can do if you have working floppy to boot to dos at least, is …

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Re: CRT gaming on period systems

Posted on 2019-07-05, 22:04

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Yes, the problem shows up with both the VGA and the DVI, it even shows up with nothing connected at all and just looking at the OSD menu on a black screen with no signal from anything. Fields was the best way I could describe it, as it doesnt usually cover the whole screen, just parts of it, usually …

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Re: CRT gaming on period systems

Posted on 2019-07-05, 21:36

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Lowering G2 with windas was the first thing I did after buying this IBM P275, but colorimeters are a bit too expensive for me at the moment... I'd like to have one eventually but cant afford it now. More importantly, the monitor has developed an annoying issue, where dark fields flicker onto the …

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Re: CRT gaming on period systems

Posted on 2019-07-05, 19:38

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That Acer looks really nice actually. I can't find any detailed reviews to see how its like in pixel transitions and backlight bleed and such, but 24" 1200p IPS at 75hz has got to be a very rare combination. About CRTs being a bit dim, I can confirm, in NFS High Stakes you can (way too easily) break …

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Re: CRT gaming on period systems

Posted on 2019-07-05, 08:26

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Curious if you have any sources for those ideas? ... Actually you picked my curiocity, an Acer 1920x1200 monitor that has 75hz over display port? What model is that, might really be 75hz, to begin with, it having display port means its probably newer than any 1200p monitor I've seen, they tend to …

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Re: CRT gaming on period systems

Posted on 2019-07-04, 08:00

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I'm not sure what you mean that 'a good CRT will beat every LCD' - as long as you don't mind possibly needing to have some black bars, modern 1ms response time high refresh rate monitors are great for enjoying retro PC games on. They do the job but they are not as ideal. To begin with, no 1200p LCD …

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Re: Win98SE When is the hardware overkill?

Posted on 2019-07-03, 21:17

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nah, I'm fine with using dgvoodoo and nglide on a retro PC as long as it works fine with no missing effects or anything broken. Using a fast graphics card like the X850 in combination with dgvoodoo or nglide is the only way to play glide games at 1600x1200 + 8xAA/16xAF and to have good fps at that, …

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