Re: Prevent Vortex2 trying to load au30dos.com
Posted on 2020-07-28, 04:05
Perfect, thanks. Works great now.
Prevent Vortex2 trying to load au30dos.com
Posted on 2020-07-27, 06:40
Any tips on how to prevent Vortex2 drivers automatically trying to load the dos driver? I have a Diamond MX300 Vortex2 PCI sound card installed along a YMF 718 ISA sound card. The Vortex2 is only needed for Windows, but the driver insists on loadind au30dos.com from autoexec.bat and dosstart.bat. It …
Re: Your favorite retro socket/platform
Posted on 2020-07-25, 14:46
LGA2011 not retro yet? I plan on keeping mine until it is, though, makes for a great WinXP and Win7 combo system. Slot1 is my choice for mid to late 90s games, Win 98, Glide, and some late DOS games. Good combination of backwards compatibility and modern conveniences, and can handle a wide range of …
Re: Collecting rants
Posted on 2020-06-23, 16:55
About raising prices, a few times I had a relatively uncommon item item for sale at a fair price, and there were like 10 watchers but no buyers for months. So I raised the price, and it eventually sold anyways. Why raise the price? Because the hardware is not getting more common by the day, and I'm …
Re: Strange issue with 9700 Pro and AOpen board, no idea where to start.
Posted on 2020-06-12, 15:59
I remember reading in the manual of some Asus s478 board that the early revisions of the 9700pro may have compatibility problems with the board. So chances are you're running into the same issue. Speaking of which, your board also has integrated video which should automatically be disabled when an …
Re: Half-Life Performance Issues
Posted on 2020-06-04, 20:56
D3D in Half-Life is not that bad, but OpenGL is faster and more stable, I guess owing to the engine's roots in id tech 2. Not sure what was going on with that G400 there. With OpenGL you don't get overbright lighting on textures (a type of early bloom lighting effect). I would rather play it in D3D …
Re: Oldest video card with DVI?
Posted on 2020-05-21, 05:59
I have an IBM OEM Number Nine-made S3 Savage 4 Xtreme with DVI from late 1999 - here's a stock pic of the card: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Number_Nine_SR9_SGRAM_AGP_16_MB_DVI_S3_Savage4_Xtreme_%2886C398%29.jpg/1200px-Number_Nine_SR9_SGRAM_AGP_16_MB_DVI_S3_Savage4_ …
Re: Video card for a PII/PIII (400 to 600Mhz)
Posted on 2020-04-16, 04:49
After testing numerous Geforce cards, I would not recommend them for a Windows98 or DOS machine. Geforce4 Ti or MX have flickering in Build engine games at high resolutions. All Geforces have screen corruption in Midtown Madness. Forcing AA&AF usually causes laggy or unresponsive mouse/keyboard in …
Re: Geforce 2 GTS vs Radeon 7500
Posted on 2020-04-15, 17:10
Unreal engine D3D might have been troublesome, but people certainly were using it with these cards . That would be UT and Unreal engine licensees though, not so much Unreal the game. Quake 3 is an interesting OpenGL example because you are probably seeing the best ATI could muster. It was critical …
Re: 3dfx Voodoo 1 and 75 MHz FSB
Posted on 2020-04-15, 16:01
Voodoo cards are sensitive enough to PCI bus usage even when not run out of spec. On my Sis 651 chipset, I can use a 3GHz P4 with a Voodoo as long as none of the integrated stuff on the motherboard touches the PCI bus - something that's configurable in BIOS. But if I move the USB controller or …
Re: Voodoo passthrough cable -- 14-pin OK?
Posted on 2020-03-28, 03:33
Standard VGA cable works ok for my Voodoo1 and Voodoo2.
Re: 4MB voodoo and k6-2 400MHz ?
Posted on 2020-03-23, 04:23
I tested a Voodoo1 in a few systems, and in Windows 3D games it works fine with a 800mhz P3. But some DOS Glide games like Tomb Raider will not detect the card unless the cpu is a 450mhz P3 or lower. On an AMD Athlon system, it usually instantly locks up or displays artifacts, even if the cpu is …
Re: Apple Radeon x1900 XT, wanted to convert into PC using VBIOS firmware flashed on chip..
Posted on 2020-03-23, 02:28
Have you tried it in a PC already? It's possible that the Mac version works just as well in a PC.
Re: Wht's the fastest unlocked PII?
Posted on 2020-02-09, 17:27
The replies in that cpuworld thread are wrong. The highest clocked P2 with an unlocked multi is a 400mhz version, with stepping dA1. That's about week 38 of 1998 or older. The advantage of the 350mhz and 400mhz models is that the L2 cache chips are cooled by the heatsink. Older models do not cool …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-12-21, 07:20
Tested a Matrox G200, and ran into a problem people complained about back in the day - the default bus mastering option in the driver causes a hard lockup or BSOD in any 3D game I tried under Win98. Disabling bus mastering fixes the problem under D3D, but makes OpenGL acceleration unavailable. :lol: …
Re: Windows 98SE, 2000 & ME multiboot
Posted on 2019-12-19, 22:55
I just recently set up a Windows 98/XP multiboot, and IMO the advice to install the oldest OS first is not the best idea. The problem is XP (and likely Win 2K) will install itself to drive D:, meaning that whenever using XP or 2K, you have to remember not to install stuff to C: as is common …
Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?
Posted on 2019-12-18, 21:29
I'll keep running Windows 7 as long as the software I use supports Windows 7. As for Microsoft's support, I don't care one way or another. I've already been running EMET for a few years, and don't rush to get the latest flavor of the month patches from MS, and didn't have a problem with malware or …
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-18, 20:52
To me, AMD's modular design of Zen2 is a choice resulting from technological and economical constraints of the time. Similarly to placing L2 cache next to the cpu, running at half the speed, and combining it all in a slot package in the mid-late 90s. I don't necessarily see it as some paradigm shift …
Re: I don't need to upgrade: Modern Gaming on a 10 Year Old Platform
Posted on 2019-12-18, 16:30
I'm still using my i7 860 that I bought in 2009, and it still runs everything I want. However, I disagree about the "clunky base clock overclocking" - there's nothing clunky about it. What's clunky is the way intel intentionally disabled overclocking for most cpus that followed, while intentionally …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-12-16, 01:07
Was testing the original Nvidia Quadro (Elsa) aka Geforce SDR, under Windows XP in my Sis 651 AGP test system. Initially the card kept pausing, freezing and artifacting in 3D Mark 2000 and 2001 when using the popular drivers like the 45.23, 41.09, or the latest official 71.89. I was starting to …
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