Re: Your Opinion on the Best Video Card by Retro Operating System

Posted on 2021-01-31, 08:04

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by Joseph_Joestar

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There's also the potential for newer drivers to cause compatibility issues with older games. Mainstream support for Win98 ended in 2002, extended support lasted until 2006. It's unlikely that GPU manufacturers did a huge amount of driver testing on Win98 after mainstream support expired.

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Re: Your Opinion on the Best Video Card by Retro Operating System

Posted on 2021-01-30, 21:34

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by Joseph_Joestar

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That would be pretty costly! Does the Voodoo 2 pass any resolution and refresh rate to the monitor, or just a fixed set? I've never seen it mentioned. It's possible to hook up the GeForce directly to the monitor for normal gaming, and only use the Voodoo pass-through when playing Glide games. Those …

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Re: Your Opinion on the Best Video Card by Retro Operating System

Posted on 2021-01-30, 19:02

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by Joseph_Joestar

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A GeForce4 Ti4600 paired with a Voodoo2 SLI covers pretty much all bases in Win9x with regards to game compatibility. It will cost quite a bit though. Also, it may not have enough performance if you want to play late-era games at 1600x1200 with both AA and AF fully maxed out. As far as DOS gaming is …

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Re: Your Opinion on the Best Video Card by Retro Operating System

Posted on 2021-01-30, 18:49

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I'm thinking mainly about Win9x games with regards to this: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures Later ATI cards support neither and the GeForce 6xxx series has no support for palletized textures. Also, there are some early games which only support Glide for 3D acceleration.

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Re: Your Opinion on the Best Video Card by Retro Operating System

Posted on 2021-01-30, 18:34

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Note that there is more to graphics cards than just highest performance. I agree with your list if that's the primary concern. However, if you're also taking game compatibility into account, those picks are not the best.

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Re: Ruined memory of an old game by playing it!

Posted on 2021-01-30, 15:45

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Also the television standards in Europe just didn't have the colour issues that the US had with NTSC, so again, rainbow outlines, nasty dot crawl and other limitations of the US TV system was not a memory that a lot of us share. I grew up with SCART as well, but I do recognize that there may be …

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Re: What should I know about building my first ever Windows 98 Retro Gaming PC?

Posted on 2021-01-30, 09:19

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by Joseph_Joestar

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fine but it still wont work with 12.xx drivers. which was my point. Indeed, the GeForce3 has an advantage there since you could potentially go as low as 8.05 depending on the model. BTW, is there a list of older games which don't work properly with newer Nvidia drivers? I have a Ti4200 but I mainly …

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Re: What should I know about building my first ever Windows 98 Retro Gaming PC?

Posted on 2021-01-30, 09:08

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Warlord wrote on 2021-01-30, 08:54: Geforce 4200 is a popular choice, its also overpowered. Not a bad thing, but keep in mind you are limited to drivers no older than 45.xx which can be a bad thing. That's only true for the later AGP 8x models. An earlier AGP 4x GeForce4 Ti4200 works fine with 30. …

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Re: Ruined memory of an old game by playing it!

Posted on 2021-01-30, 07:08

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by Joseph_Joestar

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RGB was used in Europe since the 80s, yes. But it was a luxury, not the norm. Many cheaper and existing TVs still lacked it. From my experience, only the cheapest European TVs didn't have a SCART port during the '90s. It was pretty much standard for any mid to high range TV set and was fairly …

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Re: Memory not working together but works individually

Posted on 2021-01-30, 04:30

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by Joseph_Joestar

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The 440ZX chipset is limited to 256 MB RAM total. Archived link with specs.

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Re: New PS/2 compatible mouse options?

Posted on 2021-01-28, 20:15

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by Joseph_Joestar

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If you're not dead set on a Logitech, there are still some new PS2 mice available for purchase on Amazon and similar places. I have a couple of A4Tech branded mice and they are pretty decent for DOS gaming. For Win98, I just use a modern USB mouse and keyboard. They work fine, no special drivers …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2021-01-28, 19:08

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by Joseph_Joestar

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That’s $279 for an ISA sound card. More expensive that 1993 prices. On one hand, we have a commercial sound card built by a huge company in extremely large quantities using cheap components. On the other hand, we have a fan-made sound card built by hobbyists in a limited quantity using high quality …

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Re: Quest for the most compatible DOS audio chip setup.

Posted on 2021-01-28, 18:47

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by Joseph_Joestar

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You want to know what game has the candy-store for audio options - including WSS for Music AND Voice? Under a Killing Moon. I have all four CD's ripped to ISO on my vintage NEC laptops, including theM/75 with WSS - music AND sound effects AND voice acting all go through the WSS in DOS for that game …

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Re: Using Audigy drivers with a Sound Blaster Live

Posted on 2021-01-28, 16:57

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by Joseph_Joestar

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The only issue I have sometimes that after boot the VxD part (windows part) of the driver malfunctioning eg: any apps like basic windows sounds, winamp, diablo2, half life which would use the windows driver stucks in forever either don't open or hangs on 100% while the DOS games always work. It's …

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Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages

Posted on 2021-01-28, 13:16

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Tali wrote on 2021-01-28, 13:03: I don't think you can physically remove ESS from Gus Extreme... and even if you could, I doubt I would want to mod such a rare card. In any case, the problem lies elsewhere. Ahh, my bad. I thought it was a separate card. Interesting piece of hardware indeed.

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Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages

Posted on 2021-01-28, 12:58

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Currently it is set to have ESS on 220/5/1 and GUS on 240/7/5 , but that's in DOS. But Windows just refuses to let me make any changes in the device manager (it ends up with nothing selected and stops working, even if I return to original values). Removing the device and adding it through Add New …

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Re: Quest for the most compatible DOS audio chip setup.

Posted on 2021-01-28, 10:15

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by Joseph_Joestar

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TBH, on the subject of WSS, I'm not that big of a fan because of it's lacking support on older DOS titles. Concerning older titles, I have mostly seen WSS support in Sierra adventure games (Gabriel Knight, Space Quest V, Police Quest IV) and also a few Disney games (Aladdin, Lion King) but not much …

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Re: Quest for the most compatible DOS audio chip setup.

Posted on 2021-01-27, 08:58

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by Joseph_Joestar

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dionb wrote on 2021-01-27, 07:45: WSS is technically the best DOS sound standard - but I'm not aware of any game that actually uses its 48kHz vs SB16 44kHz (hell, there are precious few that actually do 16b 44kHz and not just 8b 22kHz). Turrican 2 can use 48 kHz. Filename Turrican2_Setup.jpg File …

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Re: Quest for the most compatible DOS audio chip setup.

Posted on 2021-01-27, 07:30

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by Joseph_Joestar

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who the hell really needs WSS compatibility? There are a few edge cases where a game will sound its absolute best using WSS. Examples would be Aladdin and Space Quest V. Otherwise, WSS is kinda nice for cards that don't have SB16 compatibility when playing late-era DOS games. Genuine OPL3 is little …

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Re: Quest for the most compatible DOS audio chip setup.

Posted on 2021-01-27, 07:09

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by Joseph_Joestar

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IMO, you need a number of things for the perfect DOS gaming experience, and no single sound card delivers it all. It's necessary to combine at least two cards to tick all the boxes. In order of priority, I would look for: 1. Low self-noise 2. Genuine OPL3 2. Sound Blaster Pro compatibility 3. …

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