Re: Pentium 200 MMX vs Pentium III 500 MHz - Any reason to NOT use the faster hardware?

Posted on 2022-10-10, 05:30

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Will it be able to toggle all the registers and caches being an Overdrive? I expect the multiplier being locked at least? Oh, I just realized that it's an overdrive. Not sure about all the test registers in that case. Furthermore, if it's an OEM system, it should be checked if the BIOS allows …

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Re: Pentium 200 MMX vs Pentium III 500 MHz - Any reason to NOT use the faster hardware?

Posted on 2022-10-09, 18:56

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Sell Pentium MMX200 MHz and use the money to buy parts for PIII. Speed sensitive DOS games will run too fast on it anyway and it's too slow for Windows 98. Depends on how speed sensitive the game is. A Pentium MMX can easily be slowed down to 486 and 386 speeds using SetMul for toggling the test …

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Re: Motherboard suggestions for i810 (or better) PIII Coppermine? Needs either SB-Link header or YMF744 onboard audio.

Posted on 2022-10-09, 08:23

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by Joseph_Joestar

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This might help: List of motherboards with SB-link (PC/PCI) header

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Re: Best LCD for Windows 98 gaming?

Posted on 2022-10-09, 07:49

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Dell 19" monitors work pretty well for all my retro needs. 5:4 but there are basically no 4:3 LCDs out there, and the stretch is not really noticable. Many late Win98 games support 1280x1024 anyway. And for the games that don't support 1280x1024, but can use 1280x960, you can choose aspect ratio …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-10-08, 10:00

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Finished playing through Sigil. I ended up enjoying it more than the official episode 4. There were some irritating level design elements like too many narrow ledges placed above hazardous floors (lava, acid etc.) but it was still fun to play overall. Some of the areas were a bit too dark, and I had …

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Re: List of Win9x games with surround sound support

Posted on 2022-10-08, 05:48

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I tried out Daikatana too. Like you I could only hear stereo sound with the Audigy. Strange since the readme says it supports EAX and A3D. When I get a chance I'll try testing it with the Yamaha and see if that makes any difference. I found a forum post claiming that Daikatana's surround support …

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Re: List of Win9x games with surround sound support

Posted on 2022-10-07, 09:11

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by Joseph_Joestar

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As far as I understand, all games using DirectSound3D for audio will be surround capable. Here's a list of DirectSound3D games: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SyOw7D0H2ecGxzPsCFEFKwupU8LuazUrlkI-gVTpyhc/edit Same for OpenAL, unless it ends up in SDL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/ …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-10-06, 20:07

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Finished Ultimate Doom. This was the first time that I actually played through the fourth episode. Not impressed at all. The levels feels too gimmicky, and it's just not fun to navigate through these messy areas. Furthermore, I don't like how the developers casually throw Cyberdemons at you like …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-10-05, 18:21

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I'm very familiar with the base game and the second expansion, just never got around trying the first expansion for some reason. But very glad to hear it also has better story than the base game. Been a while since I last played it, but I think the first expansion ended up being my favorite overall …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-10-05, 13:19

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I think I need to start a full playthrough of Neverwinter Nights on the side to force myself slow down with C&C and also finally check out the first expansion for NWN that I've never played. In terms of story, both Neverwinter Nights expansion packs are better than the original. Gameplay is similar …

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Re: List of Win9x games with surround sound support

Posted on 2022-10-05, 13:15

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Meatball wrote on 2022-10-05, 12:23: ‘Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D’ has native 4 speaker surround support. Added, thanks!

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Re: Text corruption in certain games on a GeForce FX 5900XT

Posted on 2022-10-05, 08:49

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I also encountered the problem of fuzzy fonts in many Direct3D games on my GeForce FX 5950 Ultra (And earlier on FX 5800 Ultra) and the main (Universal) solution was to set anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering to 8x in the driver settings or in RivaTuner ( AA\AF While this helps with NFS: …

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Re: ALS120, ALS100 Plus audio fix ?

Posted on 2022-10-05, 07:34

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Thank you for researching this so thoroughly. Excessive noise is the main reason I stopped using my ALS100. Good to know the full story behind it.

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Re: List of Win9x games with surround sound support

Posted on 2022-10-02, 17:30

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I tested two more games today - Red Faction and Daikatana. Red Faction delivers 5.1 surround sound on my system, though the PC Gaming Wiki has it listed as 7.0 so I'll defer to that. On the other hand, I could only get stereo sound from Daikatana. Maybe someone else will have better luck with that …

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Re: How many builds adequately covers the DOS-era of gaming?

Posted on 2022-10-02, 07:45

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by Joseph_Joestar

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First, I'm curious how people would define the DOS era? I'm assuming it would cover at least from 1981 at the advent of PC-DOS and MS-DOS? But where does it end? Does it go to 1995/DOS 6.22? Or should it include Windows 95/98/Me, since technically those OSs still had DOS-based architecture and go …

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Re: Final Fantasy VII AWE Ripping

Posted on 2022-10-01, 19:46

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by Joseph_Joestar

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interesting, also I think that the PC version soundtrack just wasn't as "polished" as the ps1 version (overall) regardless of the soundcards used, for the XG version there are plenty of tracks that I really prefer over PS1 versions but those that I like less have about the same flaws regardless of …

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Re: Text corruption in certain games on a GeForce FX 5900XT

Posted on 2022-10-01, 10:08

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by Joseph_Joestar

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You might want to try older drivers for the Geforce 4. I tested it with something like 40.72 driver. Also, I used the coolbits registry patch to make the setting visible in the Nvidia control panel, instead of RivaTuner. I just tried the 40.72 driver and the texel adjustment slider does indeed show …

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Re: Text corruption in certain games on a GeForce FX 5900XT

Posted on 2022-09-30, 17:24

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by Joseph_Joestar

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So I took my GeForce 4 Ti4200 out of storage and did some testing using Win98SE, DirectX 9.0c and Nvidia drivers 45.23. The texel adjustment options in RivaTuner are grayed out and unusable on this card as well: RivaTuner_GeForce4.jpg However, even so, the GeForce 4 Ti4200 perfectly renders the text …

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Re: Sound cards with FM Synth and Chorus/Reverb included

Posted on 2022-09-30, 04:57

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I'm so sorry to not make initial request correct way. Yes, request is for Windows MIDI devices: Chorus/Reverb If you mean the MIDI music played by the AWE card using the on-board ROM samples and/or any loaded soundfonts, that should be doable as well. Download this driver CD and use it to install …

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Re: Sound cards with FM Synth and Chorus/Reverb included

Posted on 2022-09-30, 04:27

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I bought CT4500. No chorus or reverb can be added to it's FM... Is it only Gold option? It should work on any AWE64 card, including your CT4500. You do need to activate it manually in pure DOS, since it's not enabled by default. To do that, run AWEUTIL.COM with these parameters: AWEUTIL.COM /R:30 …

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