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Re: It might be a good idea to open a session for Apple

Posted on 2022-06-21, 12:06

in Milliways

Hoping wrote: I don't know much about the Apple environment but I don't think it enjoys the wide window of compatibility and customization of the PC environment. Old pro macs had decent customization, but it's a horrible gaming platform.

Re: AGP video card experts, what would you recommend for this system?

Posted on 2022-06-20, 15:24

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

Radeon X1950 Pro.

Re: Split from the recently bought retro hardware. Discussion about Geforce FX5xxxx series.

Posted on 2022-06-19, 17:34

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

I found it hard to believe that NV38 were something more than rebadged NV35 chips. FX5950 was released quite haphazardly to counter 9800XT, there was simply no time to remove something from silicon. It's much easier to just bump voltage on existing chip and/or stockpile chips with better yields ( …

Re: Geforce4 vs Geforce5 with athlon 64

Posted on 2022-06-19, 17:21

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

Quincunx is hybrid method, which also works on transparent surfaces, unlike classical multisampling AA, but at cost of picture sharpness. Generally, it's not big issue on high resolution.

Re: Geforce4 vs Geforce5 with athlon 64

Posted on 2022-06-19, 10:10

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

I'd like to know if someone likes to have some game tested AquaMark Unreal Tournament 2003 FlyBy (Antalus+Asbestos) Dungeon Siege Return to Castle Wolfenstein (checkpoint.dm_67)

Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-18, 20:00

by The Serpent Rider

in Milliways

Peter.Mengel wrote: nowdays evryone uses UE or Unity or Cry Engine Which is not a problem. You can make drastically different looking games on these engines, all while avoiding the horrors of GPU driver issues, which were oh so common in early 3D days.

Re: Geforce4 vs Geforce5 with athlon 64

Posted on 2022-06-18, 18:49

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

As for compatibility... it depends what games you like. I usually test quite a few. Some of them are: Don't forget about Midtown Madness, which is infamous "Achilles' heel" of Nvidia cards.

Re: Geforce4 vs Geforce5 with athlon 64

Posted on 2022-06-18, 17:16

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

But mah 640x480...

Re: Split from the recently bought retro hardware. Discussion about Geforce FX5xxxx series.

Posted on 2022-06-18, 17:14

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

NV38 can't do hardware video decoding?

Re: Nvidia GeForce 2 MX200 64MB AGP compatibility

Posted on 2022-06-18, 16:57

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

bloodem wrote: You're right! I guess some of those are not connected on mine.. I think you should double-check with RivaTuner.

Re: Nvidia GeForce 2 MX200 64MB AGP compatibility

Posted on 2022-06-18, 16:44

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There was the ASUS V6600MX/32M, but at first glance this card seems to still not be slower than TNT2 It's very bad actually: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1002524#p1002524 The sheer existence of 16 Mb 128-bit card just gives room for speculation. Some noname manufacturers from China/Taiwan …

Re: Geforce4 vs Geforce5 with athlon 64

Posted on 2022-06-18, 13:58

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

the second are faster (FX5500/5700/5900). 5500 is rebadged FX5200 and works fine with manual install. I also think that the 5900 maybe works with the old driver and only the 5950 doesn't. 5950 can work with any driver that has FX 5900 support. Potentially, FX5700 could be disguised as FX5900. Or at …

Re: Is there anything better than a Voodoo 5 6000 from 2002

Posted on 2022-06-18, 12:06

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

Delerium wrote: For a year 2000 graphics card I would say the Voodoo5 6000 performs very well. Even a bit better than the GeForce2 Ultra released the same year. I wouldn't say that, because Voodoo 5 6000 cumulatively has 8 pixel pipelines and almost twice the memory bandwidth of DDR cards.

Re: AGP 1.0 vs PCI Graphics

Posted on 2022-06-18, 11:48

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Main problem with Radeon 9000 and newer cards - driver overhead.

Re: Nvidia GeForce 2 MX200 64MB AGP compatibility

Posted on 2022-06-18, 11:44

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In short, it's perhaps literally the slowest NV GF card ever made No. That would be GeForce 256 SDRAM 64-bit... with 16 Mb VRAM.

Re: PCIe RAM Disk - TAKE MY MONEY!

Posted on 2022-06-17, 02:53

by The Serpent Rider

in Milliways

Their 256Gb ramdisk is $90 cheaper than 4 sticks of the cheapest 32gb DDR4 sticks (128GB). It's not. Because everything is out of stock and was for a long time now. Also it's a "shop" based on WordPress. Intel Optane is still just an nVME SSD Also you can make Intel-based server rack, packed with …

Re: Split from the recently bought retro hardware. Discussion about Geforce FX5xxxx series.

Posted on 2022-06-16, 23:10

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

The change from 5800 to 5900 was from 128bit bus and ddr2 to 256bit and ddr. FX 5700 and FX 5900 share some architecture improvements not available to vanilla FX.