Re: Nvidia GeForce 2 MX200 64MB AGP compatibility

Posted on 2022-06-18, 04:46

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by swaaye

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Hi. Yeah that card will work with any AGP slot. Nvidia had compatibility with 3.3v AGP up to GeForce FX 5xxx. Some GeForce 6200 cards are as well. Useful link http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html

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Re: Is there anything better than a Voodoo 5 6000 from 2002

Posted on 2022-06-17, 00:02

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by swaaye

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Get a Peltier thermocouple :D That's not really a serious suggestion. But I did mount one to a G400 once upon a time. It did very little for clocks however. It would be complicated to cool a CPU with significant power consumption with one. Almost any Socket A heatsink is overkill for a Socket 370 / …

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Re: Is there anything better than a Voodoo 5 6000 from 2002

Posted on 2022-06-15, 03:29

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by swaaye

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Savage cards are solid for most games on Quake(s)/Unreal 1 engines but outside of those don't get your hopes up. I think the most interesting thing to do with them is play with S3TC tech demos and UT with S3TC.

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Re: Is there anything better than a Voodoo 5 6000 from 2002

Posted on 2022-06-14, 19:34

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by swaaye

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Their supersampling has such a huge performance hit. At 4X AA on the 6000 you may be limited to 1024x768 with even 1998-1999 games to keep the framerate high. And since it's 32MB effective, I wonder if memory consumption might be a problem and you might get some additional stuttering. To me, …

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Re: DirectX and OpenGL problems with my Matrox G200?

Posted on 2022-06-14, 00:21

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by swaaye

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Quake 2's water is opaque without that OpenGL driver. One example. But that wasn't always a problem. It was a regression that happened at some point and nobody noticed I guess.

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Re: DirectX and OpenGL problems with my Matrox G200?

Posted on 2022-06-13, 15:28

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by swaaye

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Yeah that G200 ICD included with the G400 drivers has some bug fixes and they never bothered to package it into a new set of G200 drivers. G200 was not really supported anymore. Many years ago, I posted about that G200 transparency bug on Matrox tech support forum, a bug report was raised and …

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Re: DirectX and OpenGL problems for my Matrox G200?

Posted on 2022-06-12, 23:56

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by swaaye

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Fun fact - the first Direct3D renderer for Unreal was a beta made for the G200. 😁 D3D is probably the best way to play it on a G200. UT needs the multi texturing disabled too.

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Re: Windows 11 - MS wants to get rid of HDDs for drive C:

Posted on 2022-06-10, 19:42

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by swaaye

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When hard drives were still something tweakers liked to tweak, there was a thing called "short stroking". They would give up capacity in order to keep data on the outer tracks of the platters to both increase transfer rate and reduce access time. Which to me always sounded like what you get with one …

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Re: Windows 11 - MS wants to get rid of HDDs for drive C:

Posted on 2022-06-10, 03:15

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by swaaye

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SSDs must be available to OEMs for extremely cheap these days. The one issue I see is that the ubiquitous 1TB HDD is probably going to be hard to replace in those budget machines with 1TB SSDs and I am sure a lot of people judge a PC by storage capacity. And what is the lowest most terrible custom …

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Re: IBM ThinkCentre S50 - slower than expected

Posted on 2022-06-09, 21:42

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by swaaye

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I don't think it has anything to do with the card's performance. Try renaming the game's exe to quake3.exe. That sped it up tremendously on a HD 5770 I played it on years ago. It was getting ~20 fps too. Basically ATI used app profiles that activate based on executable to configure compatibility …

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Re: Radeon HD3650 agp under W98SE

Posted on 2022-05-31, 18:47

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by swaaye

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Are you sure you'd want a Radeon HD for Win9x? The DirectX 10 cards have some significant backward compatibility issues.

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Re: Kingston KVR-GPA/4 4mb GPA for AGP video

Posted on 2022-05-30, 18:08

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by swaaye

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Interesting. So it's a way to add the "display cache" RAM to a 815 motherboard?

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Re: Promise Sata 150tx2 speeds windows 98

Posted on 2022-05-25, 03:57

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by swaaye

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~70MB/s isn't all that bad. I don't recall whether I've seen more than that from 440BX. The best you can practically get out of PCI is 90-100MB/s. That is also all the bandwidth available to the southbridge with 440BX.

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Re: amd 751 irongate motherboard questions

Posted on 2022-05-23, 19:07

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by swaaye

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Yeah AMD 750 does have some AGP issues. All GeForce cards will likely run at AGP 1x and may still be unstable for example. There are a few steppings of the northbridge as well. I wasn't even aware of Socket A AMD 750 motherboards until now. I'm not sure when the AMD platform finally had rock solid …

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Re: What thermal paste stays wet the longest?

Posted on 2022-05-20, 18:05

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by swaaye

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AS5 isn't conductive. It is said to be very slightly capacitive. If you stick multimeter probes in it you will not get any continuity. However it has the potential to cause undesired behavior in a circuit because it is capacitive so you should try not to make a mess. I slathered it all over the top …

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Re: Downgrading Dx Versions

Posted on 2022-05-19, 18:56

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by swaaye

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The only time I've seen it be useful is for some Aureal Vortex 2 VXD-based sound drivers (> version 2015) that can BSOD the system on any DirectX after 7.0a for some reason after playing a game. However that alone makes me prefer not to run a newer DirectX than necessary for the games and hardware. …

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Re: What thermal paste stays wet the longest?

Posted on 2022-05-19, 18:36

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by swaaye

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I think they will all separate to some degree. They will also pump out of the gap over time due to thermal cycles causing expansion and contraction. This is something the wax-like phase change materials try to prevent. The pastes that I've seen dry up are only the cheapest most generic white goop. …

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Re: GPU 7970 vs 9800 gtx

Posted on 2022-05-17, 22:00

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by swaaye

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I wonder what the frame time microstutter looks like with 3-4 card SLI. 2 cards are already not great.

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Re: Voodoo2 + USB 2.0 Card = Crash!

Posted on 2022-05-17, 20:30

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by swaaye

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It may also be Win9x causing the problems. Sometimes 2K/XP work fine on a configuration that blows up 9x. I shudder at the thought of whether it could be ACPI, PCI PNP, or VXDs causing that. I usually just disable USB 2.0 with it.

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Re: What are the different versions of MechWarrior 2 ever released for DOS and Windows?

Posted on 2022-05-16, 18:40

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by swaaye

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I have an ancient site bookmarked that thoroughly covered most of the releases. https://web.archive.org/web/20040611024931/ht … com/k_lupinsky/ I actually didn't know they ever supported RRedline. But yeah apparently Titanium does.

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