Re: Socket 775 system revival story. Bonus: In-place upgrade of a 12-year old Vista install *PICS*

Posted on 2020-12-19, 21:19

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AMD had to do something (PR rating), otherwise they wouldn't be able to compete with raw frequency of P4, even though that number didn't make Intel necessarily faster. Unfortunately, for most people, it always comes down to one simple number (GHz, MPix, GB of VRAM, etc.). I really can't blame AMD …

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Re: Socket 775 system revival story. Bonus: In-place upgrade of a 12-year old Vista install *PICS*

Posted on 2020-12-17, 22:54

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Sure, but QX9650 didn't come until November 2007, few months after Windows Vista release. Also, using 8GB RAM on XP (32-bit one) would be such a waste. I'll admit, that I also using Core 2 era CPU for XP, but that architecture definitely have enough grunt to run Vista/7 without any issues.

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Re: Socket 775 system revival story. Bonus: In-place upgrade of a 12-year old Vista install *PICS*

Posted on 2020-12-17, 18:37

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Why he would use "retro" system for modern games, when he already started, that he have multiple Win 10 machines?

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Re: My first "retro" PC - overkill Win 98/XP build

Posted on 2020-12-16, 10:50

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Yay, another update. This time a big one (at least from outside). I decided to repurposed the original case to some other PC and therefore I needed transplant parts to a new one. And rather then go to some more appropriate one I went even more mental, and put all the parts into modern case with …

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Re: Command & Conquer / Red Alert Remastered source GPL'd

Posted on 2020-06-06, 14:32

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Hopefully modding community will fix some bugs and add proper ultrawide support (currently game has black bar at the left side, while on the right side it renders the HUD for building, etc.) Released source code have nothing to do with rendering, so ultrawide support will for sure not come from …

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Re: Command & Conquer / Red Alert Remastered source GPL'd

Posted on 2020-06-06, 07:40

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There won't be anything more. It was announced from the get go, that they'll release source code for two main DLL libraries, for modding purposes. Full source code for remastered isn't even possible to be released, since the part of game with modern graphics is made under Petroglyphs proprietary and …

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Re: What was your 90s nickname?

Posted on 2020-06-04, 20:00

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by Srandista

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Same as a current one ;)

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Re: AGP and WinXP - Any Real Advantage?

Posted on 2020-06-03, 13:24

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SPBHM wrote on 2020-06-03, 13:22: x800 released in 2004 was already native PCIE with a bridge chip to support AGP With X800, it was the other way around. X800 was AGP native, X700 was PCIe native.

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Re: AGP and WinXP - Any Real Advantage?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 13:10

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I would argue, that X850 maybe is way to much power for 98 (thought is that even thing, "way too much power"?), but it's definitely not enough power for XP in my eyes. To run late XP games comfortably, PCIe GPU is a must imho.

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Re: Grand Theft Auto 1997 don't run in 3DFX mode in DOS

Posted on 2020-06-01, 07:43

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A friend of mine couldn't get this game to work on his Voodoo 2, he had to run it with Voodoo 1. Skip to 7:50 to discussion about that: https://www.dosgameclub.com/grand-theft-auto/

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Re: Has USA ever looked worse internationally ?

Posted on 2020-06-01, 07:28

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Then you have the terrible and delayed response to coronavirus that led to 40 million people unemployed. Why do people believe this? We were doing stuff long before the WHO was saying covid was a problem. flights out of china were blocked when? in late January early feb? And what happens after that …

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Re: The Orange Box. DRM vs Retro Gaming? How can I install it?

Posted on 2020-05-31, 09:13

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by Srandista

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You have PM.

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Re: MUNT disappears in DOSBox

Posted on 2020-05-29, 13:30

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Can you use munt integrated in DOSBox-ECE with May 2020 update?

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2020-05-28, 09:05

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Yeah, my system is addressing 3.2GB RAM. I know, it's kinda pointless, but hey, overkill system should have all the RAM it can get 😀

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Re: My first "retro" PC - overkill Win 98/XP build

Posted on 2020-05-26, 21:12

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Interesting, I had noticed the same poor network performance with my 4CoreDual-VSTA so I also bought a Gigabit ethernet card, however after installing it I had exacly the same speeds as before to my NAS drive, so I removed it thinking the limitation was elsewhere... Well, the stock performance is …

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Re: My first "retro" PC - overkill Win 98/XP build

Posted on 2020-05-26, 18:14

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Well here it is, another small upgrade. Even though there is NIC integrated on 4CoreDual-VSTA, for some reason it's just slower, 100Mbs card. I thought that I can handle that, but after some period of suffering while looking at 12MB/s transfer rate, I decide that there's a time to get a proper NIC, …

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Re: AMD Firepro driver for Win9x? (HP Thin Client T5740)

Posted on 2020-05-26, 07:40

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All Win98 drivers are only available for up to T5720. T5730 and T5740 have only WinXP drivers available. This also applies to that GPU, there are no Win98 drivers for those FirePro GPUs.

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Re: My Windows ME Start menu: It does not say Windows ME Millenuim Edition!

Posted on 2020-05-18, 18:06

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Here. Filename WinME.png File size 24.44 KiB Views 1448 views File license Fair use/fair dealing exception

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Re: Old equivalent of GPU-Z

Posted on 2020-05-18, 06:01

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Which cards you tried?

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Re: My Completed Retro XP Build

Posted on 2020-05-17, 15:38

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Hm guess when i read XP Build i usually expect a Pentium 4/Athlon 64/maybe a early Dual Core. I would not consider this even a Retro Build. Its still so modern it could run everything except few games :D Nothing wrong with that, overkill rig is fine too after all. I would use "retro"in quotes, like …

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