Re: Tweak refresh rates on Windows 98?

Posted on 2014-05-15, 00:01

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There is also a handy utility called HZTool. It is the Reforce of Win9x. http://www.3dgw.com/Articles/articlepage.php3?id=4 http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Mi … s/HZ-Tool.shtml

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Re: Cooler Prices!

Posted on 2014-05-14, 21:10

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by swaaye

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One note - I wouldn't use a Golden Orb on a CPU with exposed die. These coolers can crack/chip the die because of the goofy twisting mount mechanism.

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Re: Diamond S3 Savage 4 Question.

Posted on 2014-05-12, 03:16

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The 2D/GUI/video parts are definitely improved over Virge. It has complete MPEG2 acceleration for one. It is also referred to as a 128-bit GUI engine instead of 64-bit like Virge. http://www.anandtech.com/show/291/2 Savage3D is very similar.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2014-05-11, 23:50

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by swaaye

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Tex Murphy Tesla Effect. Entertaining. Just like their old games. I like the casual mode because I am a lazy adventurer. Played a bunch of Sin Wages of Sin but got burned out on that. I've also been working on Homeworld 2 on and off. I get addicted to these sorts of strategy games, but I really …

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Re: Windows 3.x specific games

Posted on 2014-05-11, 17:37

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I've watched the Journeyman Project series on YouTube. Interesting games. The comic relief Arthur AI that everyone thinks is hilarious is grating to me though. 🤣

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Re: Athlon MP vs Athlon XP

Posted on 2014-05-11, 01:55

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Swaaye, the problem with XP-M chips is that in those old motherboards the chip will usually be interpreted at 800mhz, and since most of them only have multiplier adjustments via dip switches of up to 10x max you would be nowhere near of getting close to the 133x16 that 2800MPs run at Yeah that is …

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Re: Old Apogee/3D Realms stuff

Posted on 2014-05-10, 23:44

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Gimme gimme Duke Forever's Quake 2 and Unreal alphas. 😀

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Re: are all the k6plus with bad health in my hands?

Posted on 2014-05-09, 22:02

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by swaaye

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The motherboard can be troublesome too. When I had a FIC VA-503+ (maybe it was 503A), I couldn't get my III+ quite stable at 600 even with plenty of extra voltage. The same CPU is solid at 600 on my ASUS P5A.

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Re: Has anyone here built a Kaveri box?

Posted on 2014-05-09, 18:19

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i3 4330 also has 4MB L3, a much better IGP, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, and AESNI. The L3 boost benefits the IGP, plus it is a fully enabled Haswell GPU AFAIK. Pentium is quite gimped. I am curious to see what Intel will do for an IGP in their 14nm CPUs. What I really want to see is EDRAM or stacked DRAM on …

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Re: Sin and Athlon - no flashlight

Posted on 2014-05-09, 01:30

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I cant even figure out how to use the torch edit: its only in wages of sin works with amd gfx and with the included nglide (with the gog version) Orly! I haven't played the original game in awhile. Did beat it a year ago or so. I did get around to testing the Athlon flashlight (AKA TORCH) fix with …

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Re: Voodoo1 compatible with Voodoo2 RAM?

Posted on 2014-05-09, 00:58

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These cards use EDO DRAM and that is rated a bit differently than SDRAM. EDO mode on these chips does have a 10ns cycle time. 25ns is the RAS access time. Heh. I just found a Usenet post from Gary Tarolli about why they used EDO instead of SDRAM. we choose EDO because Voodoo 1 was EDO EDO is still …

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Re: Has anyone here built a Kaveri box?

Posted on 2014-05-08, 20:01

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I like the Core i3 4330. It has world class single-thread performance and that is still maybe the most useful metric, plus it is extremely power efficient. It has the full GPU enabled. The CPU part will just dust Kaveri. They are also around $50 cheaper than Kaveri A10 7850.

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Re: Voodoo1 compatible with Voodoo2 RAM?

Posted on 2014-05-08, 19:43

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Voodoo1 and 2 run the RAM synchronously with the graphics chips so no can't really benefit from faster chips. I'm not sure you can run 8MB on a Voodoo1. I think there may be a hardware limit on framebuffer size. But having more texture memory like the 6MB cards (w/ 4MB texture mem) is definitely a …

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Re: Has anyone here built a Kaveri box?

Posted on 2014-05-08, 17:46

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I'd wait and see what Intel does next. I think Kaveri is quite uninteresting. Its GPU is horribly bandwidth limited and the CPU is junk. It's too expensive. AMD APUs will forever be budget boredom unless they can figure out how to get more memory bandwidth to them as Intel did with the EDRAM. DDR4 …

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Re: Sin and Athlon - no flashlight

Posted on 2014-05-06, 20:42

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Gamecollector wrote: By the way, which version of 3dfx MiniGL you use with the game? Default 1.4? 1.47? 1.49? I'm using GeForce cards with it right now. I did run it on a Riva 128 ZX for a bit too....wow look at those bright white polygon seams! 😁

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Re: Sin and Athlon - no flashlight

Posted on 2014-05-06, 18:23

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Good game, I should play the expansion someday! Anyone play the ill-fated Sin Episodes? It could have been pretty good. Yup I have beaten Sin Episodes a few times. I liked it. Ritual made decent games with spirit. Elite Force 2 and FAKK are fun too. Sin always makes me think Half Life combined with …

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Re: Sin and Athlon - no flashlight

Posted on 2014-05-06, 01:16

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Btw, if anyone cares, discounted on GOG right now at $3.99. www.gog.com/game/sin_gold

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Re: Sin and Athlon - no flashlight

Posted on 2014-05-06, 01:01

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I disassembled the Athlon setup once I figured out the CPU was the issue and I didn't find the possible 3dnow solution until this afternoon so I'm probably not going to test it. I just posted for posterity. Future web searches et al. 😀

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Re: Windows 98 MPEG video playback low performance

Posted on 2014-05-05, 20:18

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I think you need hardware overlay output. Virge has hardware video scaling and color space conversion with overlay. Windows Media Player should use it AFAIK. It could be that Win98 is not using overlay for some reason, a Directshow problem as surmised or a new incompatibility with 486s.

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Sin and Athlon - no flashlight

Posted on 2014-05-05, 18:49

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There's something wrong with Sin: Wages of Sin's 3Dnow support when run on Athlon and it breaks the flashlight projection. Disabling 3Dnow is supposed to fix it but I haven't tested it. vid_checkamd 0 Or just use an Intel CPU. The add-on pack has a lot of darkness so a broken flashlight is a big …

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