Re: Greetings! Just bought a IBM GL300 (P2 400) for vintage gaming!

Posted on 2020-10-15, 07:28

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Voodoo 1 and 2 are not 2D cards at all so you will still use your current card in DOS. The voodoo banshee, voodoo 3 and onwards are 2d/3d cards and their performance in DOS is great. I think the AGP and PCI versions are both as good as each other (someone correct me if this is not right). The voodoo …

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Re: Geforce 4 ti4200 winfast leadtek - capacitor replacement

Posted on 2020-10-14, 23:41

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ Video

Hoping wrote on 2020-10-14, 13:35: 330uf 6 volts, polimer capacitor I think, but not sure it can be electrolitic. Can be replaced with a low esr electrolitic. Thanks a million!

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Geforce 4 ti4200 winfast leadtek - capacitor replacement

Posted on 2020-10-13, 10:18

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ Video

See the image attached - do the numbers printed on the cpacitor indicate certain values? Or is this just for the manufacturer? This is a cap ive accidentally bent over while taking off the heatsink last night. It is one of two identical caps that sit between the ram chips. I dont really want to …

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Re: PC Build for Ultimate Windows 98 Gaming

Posted on 2020-10-09, 10:42

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

it really depends on how far into the 3d gaming era you want to go. if the latest thing you're gonna run is quake 3 from 1999 then i think the 5500 is great. someone correct me if the driver issues are going to be an issue but going from specs alone ( https://technical.city/en/video/GeForce-FX-5500- …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-09, 09:54

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by foil_fresh

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i'm wondering if it's an okay idea to heat up the legs a little before moving (re-bending) them? i'm guessing probably not as it might send heat to the chip and that does not sound good.

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Re: PC Build for Ultimate Windows 98 Gaming

Posted on 2020-10-09, 01:48

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

yeah that 5500 paired with the P4 will be super strong for anything up to 2001. Maybe it's too fast for some games, that might be the only caveat. nice PC 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-09, 01:21

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm excited, anxious, worried... I bought 2 damaged voodoo 2 12mb cards - a few bent/broken chip pins going to solder pads. Gonna give them my best to repair. Should arrive within the week.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-10-08, 07:37

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by foil_fresh

in Milliways

in Milliways

I had played Dark Force 2 Jedi Knight not long ago and then found out there was an expansion for it - Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith. You play as Kyle Katarn for a bit and then switch roles and play as Mara Jade. I like that it assumes you've played DF2:JK already so you get some starting jedi …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-08, 07:20

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

are there shadow complexity/resolution options? i am not at home to check. cheers. There are, and the performance does improve a bit when changing the shadow resolution from "High" to something lower. Not enough to offset the huge dips though. BTW, if you haven't seen them already, check out Phil's …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-08, 06:31

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

damn thats heavy stuff! what kind of cpu are you using it with? i'm planning on swapping out my 9600xt (on an athlon xp 2200+ atm) for this geforce 4. I was using this rig with an extra 512MB RAM (for a total of 1GB) and running the game under Windows 2000 + SP4. I also swapped out the SBLive for …

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Re: How to install Vortex2 drivers on Windows 98?

Posted on 2020-10-08, 06:24

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@dr.zeissler i was having those same problems - S370 VIA apollo Pro, Turtle beach vortex 1 - the sound card ran fine until installing chipset drivers and then i would either get boot lockups or games would crash instantly. changing to a yamaha pci card fixed everything. i tried several drivers in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-08, 06:00

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Super excited to see if it works. Its a bargain in my eyes. I want to see how splinter cell looks with the special shadow buffer tech. It looks excellent. Performance is not so great though. At 800x600 with all the settings maxed out, I'm getting slowdowns in certain locations, mostly the ones with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-08, 05:56

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Super excited to see if it works. Its a bargain in my eyes. I want to see how splinter cell looks with the special shadow buffer tech. It looks excellent. Performance is not so great though. At 800x600 with all the settings maxed out, I'm getting slowdowns in certain locations, mostly the ones with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-08, 05:18

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Saw a local ad, someone selling an intel 845 mobo and a P4 2.4 with ram and gpu. I saw a peculiar leadtek heatsink and after some googling found that it is a geforce 4 ti4200 which ive been chasing for a while. Its not stated in the ad what it is so my assumption is that the seller didnt know what …

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Re: Recommended good (but cheap) GPU for Tualatin system

Posted on 2020-10-02, 01:15

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by foil_fresh

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9600xt is a solid card, you're gonna enjoy it. The jump in core speed and performance from the 8500 (flagship chip) to the 9600 (mid range chip) is huge, and the XT variant has an even smaller production process so it's less power hungry than its older brother (maybe some overclocking potential!). I …

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Re: Mixed issues with Soyo 7vba133 (VIA Apollo Pro 133) & Geforce2 Pro 32mb - frustration.

Posted on 2020-10-01, 16:00

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd check the condition of your power supply too. If the capacitors are on the way out, the additional strain of the new video card may topple it over. I plan to get a new PSU soon - everything else in this PC is NOS except RAM and motherboard (case is a fat short ATX beige style with some nice …

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Re: Mixed issues with Soyo 7vba133 (VIA Apollo Pro 133) & Geforce2 Pro 32mb - frustration.

Posted on 2020-10-01, 13:29

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

OK so I have made a big leap forward -the Turtle Beach Montego (Vortex 1) was the problem, or at the very least the compatibility with whatever sound system setup that is in NFS:PU. I had no idea it could be this weird. Up to that point I had tried 3 sets of Vortex 1 drivers, but I decided to heck …

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Re: MSI K8T NEO-V + Athlon 64 - very slow 3D performance in Windows 98 (works great in Windows XP)

Posted on 2020-10-01, 07:22

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

if you have some PCI cards like sound cards, try changing slots? sometimes this can help.

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Mixed issues with Soyo 7vba133 (VIA Apollo Pro 133) & Geforce2 Pro 32mb - frustration. (SOLVED)

Posted on 2020-10-01, 02:02

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I ordered a new old stock Asus V7700Pro (OEM, AGP 32mb) to replace the Voedoo 3 3000 AGP in my Pentium III machine. When I had the V3 in, no issues whatsoever. I had the FSB overclocked from 133 to 145 so the CPU was running at 950mhz. Nothing was crashing and everything was sweet. Now that I've …

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Re: Any good DOS adventure games with a detective as the protagonist?

Posted on 2020-09-27, 07:23

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by foil_fresh

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in Milliways

Another perhaps more obscure detective adventure is Return of the Phantom: https://www.mobygames.com/game/return-of-the-phantom entertaining game with a talkie version, but dont bother playing the last part without a walkthrough or enjoy hours/days of getting lost in hallways. i didnt care for the …

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