Re: Radeon 7200 (R100 SDR) and AGP (MVP3) problem

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by Jasin Natael

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I hate to necro bump....but I'm having this EXACT same issue on my Tekram MVP3 board and with both my Radeon 7200, Radeon 7500, and my Radeon 9250. I've tried the three earliest VIA 4n1 drivers, as well as a few different ATi GART drivers, all under Windows 98SE. Does anyone have any other ideas? …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2024-12-09, 17:12

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by Jasin Natael

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7.76 works for me @3DMark99/2000, but i am using Geforce2 MX400 and Geforce3 TI200 for it, not Geforce2 GTS, it should also work. Thank you for checking. I tried my Geforce 3 Ti200 and it worked fine. I also dug out my cheapie Geforce 2MX-200 and it also worked. Funny thing is that this card USED …

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Re: Best driver for riva tnt2 32 mb

Posted on 2024-12-05, 18:32

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I don't think that they are on Phil's page. I don't have links handy as I'm at work and not home. I can post some later, but all I had to do was a quick Google search to find them. I'd start there. Also, I'd keep color depth at 16bit when trying to run Q3 on a TNT2. Even then it's not going to …

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Re: Moments in computing history when you felt that the future had arrived

Posted on 2024-12-05, 17:24

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by Jasin Natael

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Virtual Reality (circa 2016-2018) The arrival of 'modern' VR was the last time I felt I was seeing something truly revolutionary. To go from viewing a game on a computer screen, to feeling I was standing inside the game was incredible. Unfortunately it's been marred by stagnation, in part due to …

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Re: Best driver for riva tnt2 32 mb

Posted on 2024-12-05, 16:58

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I don't think that they are on Phil's page. I don't have links handy as I'm at work and not home. I can post some later, but all I had to do was a quick Google search to find them. I'd start there. Also, I'd keep color depth at 16bit when trying to run Q3 on a TNT2. Even then it's not going to knock …

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Re: Best driver for riva tnt2 32 mb

Posted on 2024-12-05, 16:39

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by Jasin Natael

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Try 7.76 or 7.58 if you can get them to work.

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2024-12-05, 16:37

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by Jasin Natael

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Has anyone had any issues getting the earlier Nvidia drivers to work properly? Using a Geforce 2 GTS. I can install most any drivers just fine I've tried 5.32, 6.18, 7.58, 7.76, 8.05, etc and they install fine but will crash on either 3DMark 99 or 3Dmark 2000. Not entirely stable in games but are …

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Re: Arm desktop pc, any future\hope?

Posted on 2024-11-22, 16:18

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by Jasin Natael

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The issues with ARM PCs are - based on what's currently being served up in the market and to devs - hardware designs that are "just good enough" for basic computing uses and not good enough for enthusiasts and power users, a focus on "everything integrated" (no expandability or performance …

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Re: Apple M4 Macs to be a Best Seller.

Posted on 2024-11-21, 13:59

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by Jasin Natael

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Not, it won't. Benchmarks performance aside, most average use people are turned off by the price. They don't want desktops anyway. All in Ones or laptops are the meat of the market share. Secondly, tech savvy people are turned off by the proprietary Apple nonsense and the utter complete lack of …

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Re: intel is back!

Posted on 2024-10-10, 13:51

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by Jasin Natael

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I am just waiting for Qualcomm to really buy them out... Yeah, might be nice but I don't see it actually ever happening. I'm pretty sure Qualcomm would need their own agreement with AMD for the x86/x64 license if they intended to manufacture those chips.....and AMD isn't likely to do that. Plus …

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Re: CPU MELTDOWN!! (show me!)

Posted on 2024-10-01, 21:02

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by Jasin Natael

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I had an FX-9590 that boiled over a Deepcool 360mm AIO. Sprayed all over the case and destroyed pretty much everything (including my Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z) except the SSD. Deepcool, warrantied it all and that is how I built my first gen Ryzen system. Board, ram and PSU still going strong to …

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Re: Post your Packard Bell computers here!

Posted on 2024-10-01, 16:10

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by Jasin Natael

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Update: The Packard Bell has been confirmed working. I upgraded the ram from 8MB to 64MB EDO, Upgraded the onboard Cirrus Logic video from 1MB to 2MB, also installed ISA 3Com NIC. Upgraded the OG 800MB hdd with a Seagate 1.2GB one that was lying around. I have a Pentium 120 kicking around that I'll …

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Re: Intel 486 DX2 and AGP x2 graphic port

Posted on 2024-09-19, 13:28

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by Jasin Natael

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This is an Ian Malcolm question if I've ever heard one. "Your Vogoners were so obsessed with whether or not that they COULD, that they never stopped to think if they SHOULD!

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Re: Post your Packard Bell computers here!

Posted on 2024-09-11, 20:35

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by Jasin Natael

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Apologies for the multiple posts, but just trying to get stuff down before I forget about it. So I am leaning more to PB 900 PB900 PB-900 I have seen it styled multiple ways and I don't know which one is most correct. It appears that Packard Bell used the model number for this series in marketing …

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Re: Post your Packard Bell computers here!

Posted on 2024-09-11, 16:29

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by Jasin Natael

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Recently rescued this old thing off of eBay. Fairly rough looking. Much to my surprise the thing just fired up and worked with no real fiddling. Appears to be 100% original, Windows has been reinstalled and isn't booting properly. But other than than I'm pleased. Pictures are from the original …

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Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?

Posted on 2024-09-10, 14:20

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by Jasin Natael

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I think at the time I went thru several cards quick because I was trying to get a good Quake3 experience on my P2-400. I was disappointed with my Banshee and upgraded to a Voodoo3 but that made almost no difference. Still disappointed, I tried a GeForce2MX and that made all the difference in the …

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Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?

Posted on 2024-09-05, 19:37

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by Jasin Natael

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I think that I went directly from a budget box with a K6-2 with integrated SiS530 (6236) to a still yet cheap Geforce 2mx PCI, and somewhere along there to a Duron with the same Geforce card (later a Radeon 7200). I had a few friends that had 3dfx cards, I can remember being jealous of a buddy who …

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Re: VIA C3 Ezra vs Ezra-T: Interesting Behavior of MTRR/FASTVID

Posted on 2024-09-05, 01:24

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by Jasin Natael

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Might just be me or my config, but it does seem like my build is underperforming for the average results I'm seeing for similarly specc'd machines. Comparing your Nehemiah 1500 (15x100) to sunmax's 1400 (10.5x133), it's a 7.1% increase in clock speed but a 10% improvement in Quake SVGA framerate. …

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Re: VIA C3 Ezra vs Ezra-T: Interesting Behavior of MTRR/FASTVID

Posted on 2024-09-04, 03:18

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by Jasin Natael

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I tested the J7F2 (C7-D 1.5GHz) with a Matrox G200 PCI in Quake: Quake VGA: 172.5 -> 185.8 Quake SVGA: 27.5 -> 77.0 (2.8X) This is slightly slower than the results with the CN700 UniChrome Pro iGPU (-5.06% at SVGA with WC). I did have to manually specify the LFB base address as MTRRLFBE couldn't …

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Re: VIA C3 Ezra vs Ezra-T: Interesting Behavior of MTRR/FASTVID

Posted on 2024-09-01, 21:34

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by Jasin Natael

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Hi jtchip, yes agree. Good point on the Unichrome Pro. I got a ProSavage Twister IGP (2D core from Savage 2000 + 3D core form Savage4) which is on the AGP and also uses shared memory, and still some of the top PCI cards (especially Voodoo3) outperform it, when MTRR VGA WC is on. With WC off, as …

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