Re: XInput driver for XP
Posted on 2021-09-07, 21:04
Found it archived. Original MS Installer. Link for anyone in the future seeking the same thing: https://archive.org/details/xbox-360-64-eng
XInput driver for XP
Posted on 2021-09-07, 14:51
I would hope this is the right forum section... Does anyone have a good, solid link to the XP drivers for XInput (i.e. Xbox 360 controller support) that works on XP SP3? Microsoft doesn't carry this driver anymore and all the links you can find on google are suspicious sites. Would appreciate if …
Re: Mysterious XT keyboard issue with extended keyset
Posted on 2020-10-18, 17:34
It smells like a buggy or incompatible keyboard bios routines. Late reply, other projects getting in the way, but his might be it. If I use a BIOS ROM that I flashed with a later date Phoenix BIOS, it works just fine to load the charset via KEYB. Weird thing is the machine was sold in Sweden back …
Mysterious XT keyboard issue with extended keyset
Posted on 2020-10-09, 10:53
Hi. After recently acquiring a “10MHz Turbo Board”, which is a Taiwanese XT clone board with an 8088 and a jumper to statically overclock it to 10MHz, basically, I have fixed and fiddled to the point it now boots fine and states it has a Phoenix BIOS dated 1985 and 640K of on board RAM so a fully …
Re: Orchid R3D performance?
Posted on 2020-01-11, 17:15
Update: I fixed it. It wasn't memory-related... For whatever mysterious reasons, one of the DirectX updates had managed to overwrite and corrupt the Voodoo driverset with its own "certified" driver. This caused all sorts of weirdness. After rolling back to DX7a and reinstalling 3dfx drivers, i now …
Re: Orchid R3D performance?
Posted on 2020-01-10, 18:03
I have a 200 MMX with a Voodoo1 as well. And it also has Quake II installed. I wish I could tell you the fps I get there, but I never measured it. All I can tell is that it was running smooth and certainly never dropped to single-digit fps. If you get the time to do so, i would be interested in a …
Re: Orchid R3D performance?
Posted on 2020-01-10, 17:39
Found this: https://www.soldcentralfl.com/quakecoop/compare2.htm That has a similar system to this one, except the RAM is less in the test system. It states the results: P-200 MMX, 32mb, Win95 32.8 na na na Righteous 3D Voodoo, i.e. 30+ fps on average... This would lead me to believe that something …
Re: Orchid R3D performance?
Posted on 2020-01-10, 15:18
All Voodoo1 cards offer the same speed. Did you delete the OpenGL DLLs from the Quake 2 folder and/or replace it with the 3dfx ones? Yeah, thay all follow the same spec obv. I was thinking more along the lines of it being bottlenecked or faulty or something... After all it was in the bottom of one …
Orchid R3D performance?
Posted on 2020-01-10, 14:33
Hi guys, So... Felt the urge to slap together something for the 1997/1998 era as i wanted to play some era specific games. Took a nose dive into my parts bins and returned with the following: Pentium 200MMX 128MB RAM S3 Trio64 VGA Orchid Righteous 3D Voodoo1 (the one with the relays) Installed Win95 …
Re: Where do you guys find your parts?
Posted on 2018-12-17, 11:17
I have some 400 systems and i've only ever paid for 4 of them. So 1/100th bought, the rest free donations. I ask people to give it to me, and they give it to me. Simple as that. eBay these days are just silly, so no use at all for an enthusiast to ever use it as it stands. You have to remember, to …
Re: Performance concerns on PIII machine
Posted on 2018-12-09, 23:54
That is indeed an AGP 4X board (it's even in the name). Do you have something similar to "Via CPU to AGP Controller" in device manager? Weird about the memory, maybe try one stick at a time and other memory slots. PCI speed at 33 is standard so no problems there. I do have that, but it’s stuck on …
Re: Performance concerns on PIII machine
Posted on 2018-12-08, 12:43
Ok. So the Everest results indicate that AGP support is 1x or 2x and it runs at 2x. But BIOS says 4x. Also, Everest reports crazy memory latency on one of the sticks, but reports the other faster one as speed reduced, for some reason. Also, no luck in getting the VIA drivers on there. Everest lists …
Re: Performance concerns on PIII machine
Posted on 2018-12-08, 09:23
Just tested Re-Volt again on another system: Athlon Thunderbird 1Ghz (133Mhz FSB) 512MB PC133 RAM VIA KT133A chipset Geforce 4 Ti 4600 This should be comparable to your setup. Botanical Garden intro, 1024x768x32 Max settings: 66 minimum fps. This increases if I lower settings, up to about 150 at …
Re: Late MS-DOS games and fast cpus questions
Posted on 2018-12-07, 23:46
The ones that are tied to CPU for timing will have issues. But that would be the minority. Especially so with the later DOS games, that would normally sync internally and not use the unconstrained game loop methods of some past games, that would end up running way too fast and with timing issues on …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-12-07, 23:42
Bought another AS/400 system for cheap. I really don’t have the space for another one, but the company that owned it was going to migrate and trash it. Can’t have any of that happening to such a gorgeous setup. So I bought it for about 5 usd 😀 Now to figure out where to put it...
Re: Performance concerns on PIII machine
Posted on 2018-12-07, 23:08
Some more interesting observations, as I’m now able to put in some more time on this machine. Tried a few more games. Interesting observation is that Quake 2 runs fine, at maximum FPS cap no matter what. Smooth as butter. So that works really well. Further observations in REVolt: Changing resolution …
Re: Performance concerns on PIII machine
Posted on 2018-12-07, 21:22
I checked out SiN (wow, that's been awhile). Used "FPS 1" to see fps. In the start of demo2 there is an exploding truck where my fps did drop to 40-ish. This is running in 1024x768 32-bit color on the Ti 4200. 16-bit color it dropped to 70-ish. I'm not getting as low drops as you in Re-Volt. 62 fps …
Re: Performance concerns on PIII machine
Posted on 2018-12-07, 16:28
Put in a GeForce 4 Ti4600 in there to test. Frame rate still drops to sub-40s in SiN in places. In REVolt, in 1024x768 on botanical garden track, it goes as low as 29 frames per second in places. Now this is on a high end card released many years after the games themselves, in the upper market …
Re: Performance concerns on PIII machine
Posted on 2018-12-07, 07:14
quake2 is very lightweight compared to sin; same engine != same load I know. But they are still the same tech, from the same timespan. SiN was released in 1998, so what magic would it bring from the engine that would cut frame rates on a 64mb 2001 video card (albeit an MX) to a third in places!? It …
Re: Performance concerns on PIII machine
Posted on 2018-12-06, 23:51
I just did some fast testing on one of my systems: Pentium III-S 1.4Ghz Intel 815EP 512MB PC133 Geforce 2 MX200 32MB This is the slow version with 64-bit memory. Re-Volt with highest settings: 1024x768x16 40-90 fps 1024x768x32 20-45 fps Dont be fooled by the minimum requirements. There is a long …
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