Re: Diamond 3DFX Voodoo 1 sudden death

Posted on 2024-04-17, 13:44

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by Garrett W

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That would be way too slow for the Voodoo 1. Consider that it was aimed at Pentium 133 - 166 and it scales pretty nicely all the way up to early Pentium II systems. Performance will be pretty bad on a 486 of any kind, I would recommend a different system for first time users.

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Re: Diamond 3DFX Voodoo 1 sudden death

Posted on 2024-04-17, 10:14

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by Garrett W

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What rasz_pl is saying is that you should be mindful of your CPU frequency. From my experience, Voodoo 1 runs just fine on anything up to 300 MHz or 66MHz FSB in general, but as soon as the FSB is raised to 100MHz or you start going south 450-500 MHz, all sorts of weird glitches start showing up. …

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Re: carmageddon 2 dosent display proprely on PCem

Posted on 2024-04-16, 12:04

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by Garrett W

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Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 houses an original S3 Virge, hardly ideal for Carmageddon 2. Change your selected videocard or add a Voodoo 2 on PCEM, that should improve performance and make sure you have no image quality issues. That being said, an MMX 200 is a bit too slow for Carmageddon 2. You really …

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Re: P3 Tualatin and Voodoo 3 worth a try?

Posted on 2024-04-16, 08:28

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by Garrett W

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Depends on the game, but it is highly likely you will be GPU limited with a Voodoo 3. Tualatin does not make much sense for the asking price. If you want more CPU and GPU, might I suggest moving or creating a system based on inexpensive Northwood Pentium 4 and a GeForce4 Ti.

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Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L

Posted on 2024-04-10, 12:56

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by Garrett W

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Designing new chips takes a lot of time and manufacturing chips takes quite a bit of time as well. The VSA-100 chip was supposed to be ready sooner than it was, it was going to compete with the GeForce 256. As far as I can tell, acquiring STB and getting into the business of selling their own cards, …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-04-05, 09:42

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by Garrett W

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in Release Announcements

This post just seems in bad faith but I'll reply anyway. * Cheats have been disabled in Nightmare mode, as was true in the original game as well by the way * "Emulate an entire sound card?" is this referring to SBEMU support? That doesn't work the way you think it does. If you want networking just …

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Re: Cyrix 6x86MX PR300 opinions?

Posted on 2024-04-04, 07:00

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by Garrett W

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cyrix MII is just a rebranded Cyrix 6x86MX. Cyrix did some trickery at some point, there seems to be a regression clock for clock after a certain model. There was a thread about it a while ago.

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Re: Dune II Refuses to Run on Win98SE

Posted on 2024-03-26, 07:37

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by Garrett W

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in DOS

Can you upload a copy of your config.sys and autoexec.bat?

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Re: Win3wave music player for windows 3.1

Posted on 2024-03-25, 22:03

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by Garrett W

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This is such a great vibe and with a cool story attached, what with the finding of the floppy ! I'll be sure to give this one a try sometime!

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Re: DOS Games that don't run as well under Windows 95/98 - Is there a list?

Posted on 2024-03-21, 21:34

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by Garrett W

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in DOS

Yes, quite a few games don't really play nice with Win9x's DOS Box. I don't know of any list and depending on the hardware you are using games will behave differently. I believe Quake runs okay if you are using period correct hardware and I know for certain that its timing issues were fixed with the …

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Re: Slow 3D video card on super socket 7 shootout (sis 305, savage4, trident blade3d, riva tnt, etc)

Posted on 2024-03-20, 13:22

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by Garrett W

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is wrong. Neither the GeForce 2 MX-400 and even less so the TNT2 saturate AGP 2x's bandwidth. AGP 4x does nothing for these chips. Even if it did, it is likely that the K6-2+ doesn't have enough juice to drive them. AGP bandwidth has been discussed multiple times in the past, AGP 8x wasn't …

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Re: Slow 3D video card on super socket 7 shootout (sis 305, savage4, trident blade3d, riva tnt, etc)

Posted on 2024-03-18, 02:10

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by Garrett W

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No miniGL on GeForce. GLQuake is using OpenGL for which GeForce provides a full ICD. The extensions expose this feature!

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Re: Slow 3D video card on super socket 7 shootout (sis 305, savage4, trident blade3d, riva tnt, etc)

Posted on 2024-03-18, 00:54

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by Garrett W

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The reason Quake is so much faster on GeForce is the HW T&L, which Quake can make use of and is particularly impressive on a slow CPU such as the K6 series.

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Re: [Question] Pentium III 450 + Geforce 2 MX400 + 128mb ram Performance

Posted on 2024-03-14, 00:41

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by Garrett W

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Before you go ahead and return the card, I'd try older drivers. 7.76 is a good start. I'd also download a version of Everest from around 2004, this can give us far better insight on what card you have in your system.

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Re: Windows XP fails to install on Gigabyte GA 7DPXDW-P

Posted on 2024-03-10, 00:20

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by Garrett W

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you tried a different version of WinXP? Vanilla or SP2 version for example.

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Re: Why does Rage Software's Incoming crash with an invalid instruction on a Socket 7 motherboard but not a Socket 370?

Posted on 2024-03-03, 17:20

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by Garrett W

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Get the original CD image and perform an installation, the game should run just fine afterwards.

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Re: Big Box PC Games – Show and Tell

Posted on 2024-03-03, 12:14

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by Garrett W

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That's a lot more than expected, thanks for sharing! I've read about some other ports to PC from the late 90s/early 00s such as Final Fantasy VII and Metal Gear Solid and the devs there faced the same issue with code comments in Japanese and having to work off rough translations which is why I asked …

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Re: Big Box PC Games – Show and Tell

Posted on 2024-03-02, 22:01

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by Garrett W

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in Milliways

Small box but with a special significance (to me). Got this today in a bundle of other small box games. TBH This was the main one I waited. Silent Hill 2 Directors Cut PC is a hard to get game in general, and generally considered the best way to play it on modern hardware (using the Enhanced …

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Re: Poll. How did you handle AGP to PCI Express stepover?

Posted on 2024-02-28, 10:52

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by Garrett W

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in Marvin \ Video

I picked B. I had a Celeron Northwood and GeForce FX 5600XT until early 2007, at which point I found a second-hand Northwood HT for my board and a cheap AGP GeForce 7600 GS that clocked to 7600 GT levels and that made me happy for about a year. Jumped the wagon in early 2008 when I picked up a Core …

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Re: Winamp 2.95 plugin support.

Posted on 2024-02-14, 18:53

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by Garrett W

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in Marvin \ Software

SNESamp and Ganbatte! allow you to play .spc, .d00 and .d01 OPL2 files respectively.

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