Re: Doom II choppy sound...
Posted on 2020-05-03, 22:30
Maybe I should fall on the adage: "If it's old electronics, change the capacitors." My SB16 is from 1992, I believe.
Re: Doom II choppy sound...
Posted on 2020-05-03, 21:09
What sounds are being repeated? Music or effects? Are you selecting Adlib for music? It's any sound. Any one of the sounds repeat, if there are too many, it seems. I was going to discount this, but it seems that it randomly locks up too, even when there aren't exactly any sounds playing. It only …
Re: Doom II choppy sound...
Posted on 2020-05-03, 20:38
kolderman wrote on 2020-05-03, 20:31: Which Windows? Windows 98SE, but I used it with my previous motherboard, and I don't remember having any problems with it. Also, for some reason, I seem to remember it crashing once on my current system when too many sounds were playing.
Doom II choppy sound...
Posted on 2020-05-03, 19:57
I've been slowly finding ways of bringing Doom/Doom II back up to speed with my new system: First I kept having crashes in Windows when starting it up or playing it. I realized it had to do with IRQ and DMA conflicts, and had to force their arbitrary use through the BIOS for my SB16 (CT1740). (i.e. …
Re: (Windows 98SE) Windows Media Player not detecting MP4 codecs (from K-Lite Codec Pack)
Posted on 2020-05-02, 02:04
Huh, seems I was hasty again. Microsoft didn't just provide video card drivers from other companies. They also seemed to add DirectX/DirectDraw support for those cards. (Which explains partly how the video image was not being drawn. S3's original driver does not have support for DirectX, cause it …
Re: (Windows 98SE) Windows Media Player not detecting MP4 codecs (from K-Lite Codec Pack)
Posted on 2020-05-02, 00:09
Here's a very good example of what I see (but in Win98): https://youtu.be/s6Qxsd88fmA?t=4
(Windows 98SE) Windows Media Player not detecting MP4 codecs (from K-Lite Codec Pack)
Posted on 2020-05-01, 23:50
Previously, I was able to use the K-Lite codec pack to view videos through the feature connector on a video card in windows 98. Now Windows Media Player doesn't play them properly (any other non-monitor display only shows the magic pink overlay color) or even detect the MP4 codec (i.e. "error …
Re: Original ASUS P2B breaks Doom/Doom II/Heretic?
Posted on 2020-05-01, 10:46
A CT1740. It's not so much the card. It was the resource management. I had to set the basic configuration to something simpler.
Re: Help finding a video card for my system! (With what may be a difficult set of conditions...)
Posted on 2020-05-01, 09:48
I take it back. There was a problem with the game settings on Doom and Doom II, and a problem with the settings of the sound card in windows.
Re: Original ASUS P2B breaks Doom/Doom II/Heretic?
Posted on 2020-05-01, 09:30
I take it back. It was 3 AM when I made this discovery (I woke up too early), and it seems that I needed to finagle with both the game settings, and the settings for the SOUND CARD. (A Sound Blaster 16) ID Tech 1 doesn't like my USB-PS/2 mouse (which is fine, I never use it) And It may have fed too …
Re: Original ASUS P2B breaks Doom/Doom II/Heretic?
Posted on 2020-05-01, 08:28
Oh, and one more thing, I've tested this with the Boom sourceport, and it seems to work fine. It's the vanilla games that don't work.
Original ASUS P2B breaks Doom/Doom II/Heretic?
Posted on 2020-05-01, 08:04
I got an original Asus P2B a week or so ago, but I've been tearing my hair out searching for problems these past two days. I thought that I was having trouble with a video card, because apparently Windows 98 doesn't like mixing DVI and VGA video cards together, but I nailed down what seems to be the …
Re: Help finding a video card for my system! (With what may be a difficult set of conditions...)
Posted on 2020-04-30, 17:20
but couldn't the feature connector just be used without regardless of those? maybe you'd get better answers if you specified what you need the feature connector for in the first place. I'd like to use the feature connector with my VFX1 Headgear VR Headset, because later, I would like I start trying …
Help finding a video card for my system! (With what may be a difficult set of conditions...)
Posted on 2020-04-30, 05:08
I know I posted this in the pinned topic, but looking at the last post in that particular topic, I thought it would be a while before anyone answered, so I made a separate topic. I need some advice for a good card. It needs: to be PCI (AGP is already taken up by an NVidia FX5500, and ISA does not …
Re: Best video cards with DOS / Win 3.x / Win 9x support
Posted on 2020-04-30, 03:29
I need some advice for a good card. It needs: to be PCI (AGP is already taken up by an NVidia FX5500, and ISA does not work for video cards on my chipset.) to have a (WORKING) feature connector to have compatibility with the odd Mode X games (and the Multimedia PC version of Myst) to be $20-$40 ( …
Re: Hypothesis: VESA Feature Connector MAY be restored on certain video cards...
Posted on 2020-04-27, 01:39
I think I have it figured out. It seems to be available only on ATI video cards, at the moment. The feature connector uses a few pull-up resistors at 4.7 KOhms to allow color output (Z4), and drive the SYNC and BLANK pins to output (z5, which I'm guessing a secondary decoder card would use to lock …
Re: Windows 3.1 / 9x games that require Quicktime
Posted on 2020-04-26, 22:50
Myst is THE quintessential use of Quicktime, on BOTH Mac and Windows.
Hypothesis: VESA Feature Connector MAY be restored on certain video cards...
Posted on 2020-04-26, 05:50
Looking through my collection, I've noticed that later video cards (1999-that have the VESA feature connector disabled or not-working seem to be missing a 4-resistor array (33 ohm) from a set of 8 SMD pads close to the feature connector. What adds to this hypothesis is that the same pads are …
Original SB Audigy: Would bad electrolytic capacitors cause a failure of sound channels?
Posted on 2020-04-20, 14:47
I've seen this before, a long time ago, where a Voyetra Turtle Beach Sound Card failed, but I don't know what kind of failure it was. I only mention it because the Turtle Bay and Audigy were around the same time period of production, same style of sound card, but different manufacturers. The problem …
Re: 3D Accelerator Cards with properly-working VESA Feature Connector pin headers?
Posted on 2020-03-21, 21:54
Realmyst is remastered to work on 3D accelerated card with more eye candy than normal Myst (had both). This was reason I got Geforce2 MX (was poor at that time and did not realize needed 128bit memory to make video card fly!). Cheers, Thanks, but that's not what I was asking. I was asking if there …
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