Re: List of games you'd choose to play on V2 SLI over any other graphics subsystem

Posted on 2019-04-17, 22:27

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@bestemor My reasons for System Shock 2 are mostly nostalgic. The engine is not held back at all by the Voodoo2's, so any added performance of a faster D3D card is wasted. Yes, dithering might be an issue, but this is one of those games that felt best to me on 3dfx hardware at the time it was …

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What are the best games to showcase a V2 SLI setup?

Posted on 2019-04-17, 17:20

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edit: thread title changed to clarify topic intent There's plenty of lists of glide games, games that support V2 SLI, openGL games, mini-gl games, etc. This is a different list. Nevermind which platforms the game supports, let's make a list of games that play best on Voodoo2 SLI. If you could play …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2019-04-17, 16:56

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Playing Clive Barker's Undying, or trying to anyways. My XP system won't run it so trying it on Win98. Creepy as heck, maybe I'll turn off all the lights to maximize the effect! I've got this on my retro PC and plan on playing it sometime soon. I've played it before, but never finished it. I agree, …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2019-04-15, 11:27

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@henryVK Thanks for posting that recipe. Sounds delish and similar to a soup my wife makes. I'm saving it to try. BTW, I love the combination of sour cream and cilantro in Mexican dishes. When I make salsa, I will process an entire bunch of cilantro in. Good stuff.

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Re: 90’s graphics cards

Posted on 2019-04-14, 20:30

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I'm not sure the TNT2 PCI will be a noticeable upgrade to what the V3 3500 could do in the same game, even in 16 million colors. For simplicity I'd just use the V3. Unless you had a couple of V2's that you could run in SLI, that might make more sense.

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Re: Did you Overclock back in the day? Pencil Mods etc?

Posted on 2019-04-09, 10:54

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Yep! I always tried to overclock, sometimes the gain was worth it and I left it, usually I didn't get enough boost for it to be worth it, and I'd go back to stock. Both on cpus and graphics cards. I was attempting it as far back as the 486 days, but the first time it was worth keeping the OC was …

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Re: Pentium 133 or 200MMX for "time-machine" build

Posted on 2019-04-07, 20:44

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well i currently have my time machine(to play 386,486 and pentium) era games, everything working flawlessly, when both caches are disabled wing commander 1 run perfectly fine, do you guys think that 386 speed sensitive games would run too fast with a 200 MMX, cause i was thinking of also getting a …

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Re: Impact of write-back or write-through cache

Posted on 2019-04-07, 15:22

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Maybe I'm not connecting the dots on my own, but I'm guessing based on the info in your post that 512KB L2 can cache up to 64MB of RAM? Still, I'm not understanding how bumping RAM up to 128MB turns write-back cache into write-through cache. I guess I would've thought that if you go >64MB than …

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-04-07, 12:40

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Thanks for the Half-Life review! I mostly agree with it. It starts off amazing, but the further in you get, the more bizarre and unbelievable the story becomes. Also, I'd have to say that Unreal's graphics are a big step up from Half-Life's. And that is because of what jmarsh said above. Did you …

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Re: i installed windows XP, need best driver for voodoo 3000

Posted on 2019-04-02, 22:09

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Adjust the monitor? Lower the refresh rate?

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Re: Your game suggestions for an OPL2/OPL3 test suite?

Posted on 2019-04-02, 17:27

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Darklands has a jukebox that lets you play its 20+ songs from the game folder. It can be found here: http://www.darklands.net/files/files.shtml I haven't listened to the FM versions of their songs much, so I can't speak for their quality, but the MT-32 versions sound impressive.

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Re: Your game suggestions for an OPL2/OPL3 test suite?

Posted on 2019-04-01, 09:52

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Origin were masters of FM music quality in the early 90s. I'd recommend WC1-2, UU1-2, and U7Pt1-2. Also, Prince of Persia 2, Transport Tycoon and Under a Killing Moon.

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Re: Building a Y2K system, need input.

Posted on 2019-03-31, 20:24

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Here's a couple of hardware databases that fellow Vogoners have made on here that could help you out: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bhlr_ … 44jM/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Fqh7a … NwCQ/edit#gid=0

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2019-03-29, 22:20

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I'm still working my way through Realms of Arkania: Star Trail in MS-DOS. What a gem. They improved some things over Blade of Destiny, such as diagonal attacks in turn-based combat and optional free movement (as opposed to discrete NSEW steps). Unlike Blade of Destiny it supports GM, so despite the …

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Re: Hardware by Year Build Guide

Posted on 2019-03-28, 09:52

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Thank you, appiah4! I just checked it out and its very well done. Concise, to the point, no fluff. I agree with most of what's on there, but even when I don't, it's close enough that it's not worth being a pedant about. The only suggestion I'd make is to freeze the first column so when you scroll to …

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Re: Looking to build the ultimate win98 computer ?

Posted on 2019-03-25, 22:53

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i440BX with Pentium III late Coppermine or Tualatin, 512 MB RAM, Voodoo 3 will be a very capable machine for everything Win98, turn of the century - pre-P4 era which is best for XP. I want to be able to turn off CPU cache so I can play old DOS games on this computer too. I want to be able to boot …

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Re: GOG Request: Original Disk Images/Installers!

Posted on 2019-03-25, 22:33

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I upvoted this too. Thanks for starting it.

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Re: FM vs MT-32 vs General MIDI DOS Game Music Comparo

Posted on 2019-03-25, 22:28

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The compatibility wiki suggests it doesn't actually support the MT-32 correctly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MT-32-compatible_computer_games Entry says it plays on channels that the MT32 doesn't have, which I guess suggests it's just pushing through general midi? Interesting, that …

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Re: FM vs MT-32 vs General MIDI DOS Game Music Comparo

Posted on 2019-03-25, 11:11

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How different SC-55 would be compared to these general midi samples? That is the only thing this left me wondering about. Someone needs to do an SC-55 vs DreamBlaster X2 GUD 1.04 comparison. Seems like Phil might have a video or someone uploaded some samples on SoundCloud that might fit the bill? …

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Re: FM vs MT-32 vs General MIDI DOS Game Music Comparo

Posted on 2019-03-25, 09:47

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This project is DONE. I've got seventeen games and 81 tracks uploaded to SoundCloud (see first post for link). Hopefully this is useful/interesting/entertaining to some of you. I had a blast doing this for the past couple of weeks, but I'm now burned out and finished. :) Back to gaming! Nice work! …

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