Re: Win9x Quick Slipstreaming Utility

Posted on 2019-09-12, 04:44

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It's interesting. Mainly most people around here are just using the retro system for gaming, and so unless a hotfix or a patch will either improve system stability, or compatibility than its not of much use for someone who doesn't have a problem getting their games to run. Problem I have with all of …

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Re: Win98/XP multi-boot on "modern" P55 chipset (BUILD LOG)

Posted on 2019-09-11, 02:32

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Cross checking duga3 results with a different driver, updated other thread. So far I have not be able to reproduce the same issues with the FX1300 on driver 70. PCIE Graphics Card

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Re: Could this be the best Retro PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2019-09-11, 02:25

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Small update, was able to get to testing, working on trying to reproduce the same problems duga3 reported. I'm using driver 71.84 and I added these lines to the Nvagp.inf [Mfg] %NVIDIA&DEV_00FE.DeviceDesc% = NV30, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00FE [strings] NVIDIA&DEV_00FE.DeviceDesc="Quadro PCX FX 1300" Quadro …

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Re: CH-890C Mobo and Cache

Posted on 2019-09-09, 21:54

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It is the slug of slugs, it's even slower than earlier UMA attempts like SiS 5511+6202 boards. If anything is interesting on this board it's to see how slow it will actually go. As you can see on your pic, there are settings for FSB down to 33MHz. Watch it crawl :P maybe thats good for retro gaming …

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Re: What SCSI hardware were people using back in 1998?

Posted on 2019-09-09, 16:30

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since everyone wants good quiet and reliable scsi drives fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) are the best look for drives that have those.

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Re: Win98/XP multi-boot on "modern" P55 chipset (BUILD LOG)

Posted on 2019-09-09, 06:08

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I'll be working on it as well. I will see if I can mod other drivers and do some more tricks to see if I can fix these issues presented here. My system just isnt ready yet.

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Re: Could this be the best Retro PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2019-09-08, 22:51

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5900(NV35) is listed in the INF file of crowd favorite 45.23 - that would be nice to get it working. That and 82.69 which would not be as nice because one could simply use more powerful cards. I will look into those soon then. I mean yes and no. There are plenty of more powerful cards but not for …

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Re: Why are 3Com NICs regarded in such high regard?

Posted on 2019-09-08, 03:01

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intel had better drivers and intel drivers are supported better across multiple platforms. That being said there was a time when 3com was the best it just happened before later revisions of intel pro 100 nics which was about the time 3com sold out to broadcom who had already been fabing for them for …

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Re: Could this be the best Retro PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2019-09-07, 19:29

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Not sure if most people here are aware but NVIDIA website driver search tool lists exactly z e r o drivers for FX1300 for Win98. Yes but we know it uses NV38 and the only other card that used NV38 is a 5950 which there are many many references in the drivers for. So we can assume that any driver …

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Re: Could this be the best Retro PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2019-09-07, 16:41

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Ya I just meant in hinds sight hypothesis was that since the QuadroFX1300 uses a FX GPU that it would have better retro compatibility than a 7 series becasue of the lack of tablefog and palleted texture support in later cards. Again Driver optimization issues plague the card but it that can be …

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Re: Could this be the best Retro PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2019-09-07, 03:11

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Do you recall which drivers you used, so that I can reference them when I get around to benching one day? Sure, I tried the official 61.76 and 66.94. Then I also tried to INF mod older drivers and only 56.64 kinda worked. It did not even occur to me at the time to look at the list of supported GPUs …

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-09-07, 02:38

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I do wonder if a dual PIII-S @ 1.63 would be able to pull off 1080p H.264 decoding in software. The dual 1.25GHz G4s in my Powermac MDD can actually handle 1080p (barely), so dual PIIIs might have a fighting chance. No crystal HD can enable just a PIII 1ghz without overclocking to play back H264 …

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-09-07, 00:18

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I tested on a OR840 with RDRAM (i840) its a fast board. I remove 1 cpu for testing. I don't have a faster PIII to test with. I could run dual CPU but that would defeat the purpose. All I know is it works but I felt that I was being held back by the graphics card, a faster CPU certainly wouldn't of …

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-09-06, 23:00

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Well as much as I could test it, it works it just wont work on really slow Pentium III builds, you probably need at least a ATI 9700PRO or better, a pentium 1ghz(even though the Brodcom offloaded 50% from my CPU) and Id wager DDR chipsets would work better than SDRAM ones but who knows. I am only …

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-09-06, 19:56

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theres a difference between a mega bit and a mega byte my friend. :kiss: 1 megabyte is 8 megabits. 133megabytes per second PCI bus is 1064megabits. AGP 2.0 is 1066 Mega bytes per second. that is 8528 megabits persecond. megabit is lowercase mbps megabyte is upercase MBps :lol: PCI bus is more than …

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-09-06, 18:20

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you don't need 300 MBits per second bandwidth. The maximum bitrate for Blu-ray Disc movies is 48 mbps. that and a PCI bus is 133 megabytes per second (300 mega bits = 37.5 Mega Bytes) Small update. Playing GOT 1080 10k bitrate with only 40% cpu utiliation on a pentium III going to try a better …

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Re: Windows 2000 Disablded the CPU-1 Cache, does anyone know how to fix this please?

Posted on 2019-09-06, 04:15

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Could try no ACPI, and no ACPI hal NT4 has no ACPI support btw Press F7 when you install instead of F6 HAL File Description Standard PC Hal.dll Any Standard PC, non-ACPI and non-MPS (Usually 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium II, or Pentium III) ACPI PC Halacpi.dll Applies to a single processor motherboard …

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Re: Could this be the best Retro PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2019-09-06, 00:42

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the chips on my card say hynix hy5du283222a F-28 they appear to be the same ram as on a ATI 9800Pro People said they flashed their card with those chips to a 9800XT So there should be no problem overclocking them, 400 (800) MHz,

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Re: Could this be the best Retro PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2019-09-05, 23:20

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It's a Quadro FX1300 seems about the same as a FX5900. It is a FX NV38 AGP GPU on a PCI-E bridge. Its a 256bit bus with SDRAM. The modded 82.69 for 98se should be the best drivers for it. Based on the specs it should be close if not faster than a geforce4 TI 4600. But again 8 dollars for comparable …

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-09-05, 22:37

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Thanks all for your interest. I had that PCI-E to PCI adapter for some time now laying around, the rest was about 15 dollars More to come. Ill post results soon. Testing on this. I removed 1 CPU, so it is single core. 1ghz PIII Geforce 440MX SBLIVE 1GB ram Broadcom Chrystal HD https://i.imgur.com/ …

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