Voodoo pass-thru Option #431987

Posted on 2019-02-09, 16:43

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by FFXIhealer

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Title is a bit funny, yeah. This has probably been posted a thousand times before. But I think I found a modern equivalent for people with these cards that for whatever reason, original owners of these cards either never sell the cable with the card, they throw it away for whatever reason, they …

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2019-02-08, 03:58

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DOOD! I wasn't aware Apple IIe came with gigahertz processors! EPIC!!!

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2019-02-07, 15:24

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by FFXIhealer

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2019: Intel Core i7-6700k 4.0GHz running at 4.5GHz stable OC 2009: Intel Pentium M 2.1GHz single-core, no Hyper-Threading, in a laptop (Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2) 1999: Intel Pentium II 350MHz (100MHz FSB) 1989: No computers in the house. I was only 8 years old for most of that year. I drew steering …

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Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2019-02-07, 00:08

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by FFXIhealer

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I think you might have confused between TR1 and TRUB, and used the TR1 3Dfx patch on TRUB. TRUB is a bonus level and has its own separate 3Dfx patch. TRUB should be installed on top of TR1 installation. Hence, I think your TR1 installation might also have gone bad or a bad CD or questionable source …

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Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2019-02-04, 23:05

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by FFXIhealer

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This might be stupid question but did you install the 3dfx rush patch to the tomb raider and use that executable to run it? I ask this because I thought that executable would not run at all if it doesn't find voodoo card and you would not get software rendering with it either. https://www. …

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Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2019-02-02, 15:24

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I tested tomb raider quite a while to get it working with voodoo 2 card. Basically in the end I managed to make it work on my pentium 3 system. From http://falconfly.vogonswiki.com/voodoo2.html I downloaded driver version win9x V3.03.00 and I copied glide2x.ovl file from the driver to the tomb …

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Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2019-02-02, 04:19

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by FFXIhealer

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I never could get Tomb Raider 1 working on any of my Voodoo2 cards, no matter what driver I used or variables I set. The game would simply not use the 3dfx card. Period. So, today I pulled the plug and spent way too much money to get a Diamond Monster 3D 4MB version of a Voodoo1. Should be here in a …

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Re: Pentium II taking apart horror

Posted on 2019-01-24, 21:07

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by FFXIhealer

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Yup. Was very nervous taking apart my 350MHz Pentium II as well. The push-clips really did not want to come loose. But once I got them separated, 20-year-old thermal dust (you couldn't call that dry crap paste anymore) was replaced with Arctic Silver 5 and reassembled. CPU still works perfectly. …

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Re: Can't See D: Drive in Win 98 MS-DOS Mode

Posted on 2019-01-24, 01:13

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by FFXIhealer

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So, what is it you're trying to do? Use the entire hard drive as one drive? Are you willing to wipe the drive clean and start over? Because if your BIOS has a limit of 8GB, then find the Drive Overlay software that goes with that brand of old hard drive. I'll tell you what I did with my build so you …

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Re: Pentium II went kablooy

Posted on 2019-01-08, 03:48

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by FFXIhealer

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As do I: 350MHz (100Mhz FSB, 2.0v)

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Re: SSD with MS-DOS, Win9x, XP & Vista. how long will it stay a live?

Posted on 2018-12-20, 14:00

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by FFXIhealer

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The process goes something like this (I've had to do this at least once myself): 1. Set SATA mode to IDE in the BIOS. 2. Install Windows XP. 3. Install all chipset drivers. 4. Open REGEDT32.EXE (registry editor). 5. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci 6. Right …

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Re: Proper RAM Amounts For Mid-1999 Gaming Build

Posted on 2018-12-13, 15:08

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by FFXIhealer

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I built my first PC in early 1999, so the parts I used would make it a 1998-era PC. I only had a modest budget of around $1,000, give or take a few $100. So here's what I ended up with: ASUS P2B Revision 1.02 (i440BX chipset, Slot 1) Intel Pentium II 350MHz "Deschutes" (100MHz FSB, 2.0v) 128MB PC- …

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Re: Built me a server!

Posted on 2018-12-11, 15:39

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by FFXIhealer

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I know there's a lot one can do with a server, but my problem is I really have no need for anything else. It's like "Cool, you can do your own private e-mail server!" Yeah, if you wanna pay some company monthly fees to be able to publish and host your domain name credentials so that the e-mail …

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Re: Pentium III Katmai SL35E Build (Update)

Posted on 2018-12-08, 04:32

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by FFXIhealer

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I don't really have a way to monitor FPS output in Windows 98, but it seems to run smoothly enough to play in 1024x768 resolution using the Voodoos. I haven't tried testing it on the TNT2 card yet. But you gotta realize that I remember first playing Half-Life back in 1999 on a 350MHz Pentium II, 128 …

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Re: 2007 "retro" C2D XP PC

Posted on 2018-12-08, 04:06

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by FFXIhealer

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I really do like the fact that we have 10-year-old hardware in the Core 2 Quad and the Xeon quad-cores that are still PERFECTLY ABLE to run modern Windows 10 for everyday tasks and even gaming at 1080@60 with moderate graphics settings. Even Phil showed that, using a Radeon RX 570 with the Q9650 in …

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Re: Pentium III Katmai SL35E Build (Update)

Posted on 2018-12-08, 03:33

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by FFXIhealer

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Nice build. Very similar to my Windows 98 gaming rig. MB: ASUS P2B Revision 1.02 CPU: Intel Pentium III "Katmai" 600MHz Slot1, 100MHz FSB RAM: 256MB SDRAM (2x 128MB) AGP: Diamond Viper V770 (NVidia Riva TNT2 32MB) 3dfx: 2x STB-1000v 12MB Voodoo2 cards in SLI Sound: Creative Labs AWE64 Standard ISA …

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Built me a server!

Posted on 2018-12-08, 03:13

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by FFXIhealer

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So I have a few LGA775 systems lying around. I got this Micro-ATX LGA775 motherboard from a buddy after we upgraded him to a new Ryzen 5 6-core/12-thread gaming rig. Yeah, it had a dual-core Pentium in it running around 2.4GHz. But recently I got into running PLEX on my computer at home and I've …

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Re: Pentium III Katmai 500 Build

Posted on 2018-11-27, 15:53

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by FFXIhealer

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I remember having a friend back in college who had a rather hot AMD K6-2+, just a bit slower than my Pentium II at the time. He drastically increased his cooling by using some styrofoam tubing and duct tape. He completely sealed the fan shroud in the front of the case sucking in cold air and had the …

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Re: Psu help

Posted on 2018-11-19, 15:08

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by FFXIhealer

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To answer the original question, how do you tell a system that needs lots of 5V power from a system that needs lots of 12V power? Simple. Does your motherboard have this: CPU Power Socket.jpg See that extra 8-pin CPU Power socket on the bottom right? That's an extra 12V power delivery rail …

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Re: 2009 build - Win 7 or XP?

Posted on 2018-11-14, 17:12

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by FFXIhealer

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According to my device manager for my 6GB 980ti in Windows 10 64-bit, the memory mapper only shows address ranges that total up to ~40 MB. The reason I call foul is because there's NO WAY the CPU can dump enough game data to fully load the card during gaming or rendering with only 40MB of …

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