Re: List of video card tech demos

Posted on 2022-06-16, 08:46

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I fetched the demos as @elianda provided, many of which are DOS based (and I am currently listing Windows ones). Rendition ones have been tough to classify, first I have to ascertain if they were really developed for the Rendition and then many of them don't use RRedline but OpenGL, so I will update …

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Re: What is the lowest resolution your "modern" flat-panel monitors supports?

Posted on 2022-06-16, 04:59

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Those legacy things are probably still implemented even over HDMI. Even if it wasn't, how would you know your HDMI to VGA converter itself doesn't linedouble? Actually with VGA a OSSC would tell you that, but most people don't have one of those lying around. I don't know what linedoubling is and …

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Re: Outlast problem with dgVoodoo

Posted on 2022-06-15, 18:12

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I can confirm the unresponsive control symptom. Actually it turned out to be a bug in dgVoodoo, I'll fix it in the next version or WIP (x64 only). However, I get no rendering glitches. I hate to ask this, but don't you have an AMD card? Just make sure, try the game with D3D12. Thank you for the …

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Re: What is the lowest resolution your "modern" flat-panel monitors supports?

Posted on 2022-06-15, 17:03

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AFAIK no VGA card outputs a 320x200 or 320x240 signal. 350 scanlines is the minimum output. 320x200 and 320x240 modes are doubled to 320x400 and 320x480 output. I prefer to have the pixels in the correct aspect ratio for the original display. 320x200 and 640x350 don't have square pixels on a 4:3 …

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Re: Any possible UEFI "shim" to allow running e.g. Windows 7 32bit on newer hardware?

Posted on 2022-06-15, 17:02

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cloverskull wrote on 2022-06-15, 16:15: I won't need msdos player if I use win7 32 bit, which is precisely the reason I created this thread 😀 I think you should try WinXP on VMware, I remember it working quite fine on my 4gb ram Windows 10 PC.

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Re: What is the lowest resolution your "modern" flat-panel monitors supports?

Posted on 2022-06-15, 16:21

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I'm guessing just about all monitors support 640x400 for legacy purposes, but they don't necessarily display it correctly. No one talks about the lowest resolution monitors can display, because there is no reason to. There's just never a good reason to give a LCD a that low resolution signal. I'm …

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2022-06-15, 14:29

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Cornfield Chase by Dorian Marko

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Re: List of video card tech demos

Posted on 2022-06-15, 05:50

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I tried the Ogre and the Vulcan demos and they are presenting high exposure at some points, but I don't remember seeing them like the white regions:

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Re: Sound Blaster drivers keeping PC from restarting

Posted on 2022-06-14, 18:50

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Um, why don't you just use the defaukt SB16 drivers that do ship with Windows 98SE? The SB16 is hardware-SB compatible, so no VXD Sound Blaster emulation would be needed? 😕 Edit: Never mind. I've just looked up the CT4830.. The USB2 driver for Windows 98 SE causes a restart problem just like you …

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What is the lowest resolution your "modern" flat-panel monitors supports?

Posted on 2022-06-14, 08:01

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People often buy the highest resolution monitor nowadays. Many people often don't talk about the lowest resolution their monitor can offer to display. This thread is for that purpose, to share the lowest possible resolutions available on their display. My Samsung C24F390 supports the lowest …

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Re: Sound Blaster drivers keeping PC from restarting

Posted on 2022-06-14, 06:07

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So Î tested all the different drivers for Sound Blaster Live Value CT4830 for Windows 98SE that I found in Vogons, Philscomputerlab and other sites, and I had different levels of success. From the available .VXD drivers I looked for, the best ones I found had SB16Emulation correctly installed and …

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Re: A program to determine the CPU features required to run another program.

Posted on 2022-06-14, 06:03

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it depends what the developer of program X says it needs. otherwise you'd have to analyse down to the opcodes to see but even then you dont know the execution path and some app could have 386 opcode that never use them if its on a 286.... so... no... you cant tell. That's an issue I encountered. A …

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Re: Any possible UEFI "shim" to allow running e.g. Windows 7 32bit on newer hardware?

Posted on 2022-06-13, 19:50

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lafoxxx wrote on 2022-06-13, 18:18: How about running a 32-bit OS in a Hyper-V VM? I never used Hyper V. Maybe someone better can comment on it. vmware and virtualbox should be fine as well imo

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Re: The brilliant first person shooter Timesplitters 2 is now on the PC! And it was free (sort of).

Posted on 2022-06-13, 18:24

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Thanks for the heads up on this. Had no idea. Also, found out last night about the Quake GBA prototype. Glad to see this stuff getting saved. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/06/unreleased-quake-prototype-for-game-boy-advance-discovered Mvg covered it on his channel today. If we had more …

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

Posted on 2022-06-13, 18:07

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Does Windows 11 support MFM drives?

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Re: Any possible UEFI "shim" to allow running e.g. Windows 7 32bit on newer hardware?

Posted on 2022-06-13, 15:56

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OTVDM and NTVDM does my work

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A program to determine the CPU features required to run another program.

Posted on 2022-06-13, 10:41

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I am trying to search for a program which can tell what CPU features a "program X" requires. Till now my search terms have been unsuccessful in finding one. Can Vogons tell what to use or how to list CPU features needed for "program X"??

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

Posted on 2022-06-13, 10:34

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The more concerning matter is whether or not Microsoft will require the Pluton security processor for Windows 12. AMD is incorporating it in their future hardware, in collaboration with Microsoft, but Intel isn't committing to it yet and Dell has publicly gone against it, saying they won't ship …

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Re: List of video card tech demos

Posted on 2022-06-13, 10:30

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Schule04 wrote on 2022-06-12, 04:27: PowerVR Midas-3 or PCX also seems to have demos: https://vintage3d.org/midas3.php I went through the website. Only thing I didn't find was the demos used and the links to them

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Re: Crysis Setup Oddities

Posted on 2022-06-11, 08:36

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This was probably listed somewhere, but with 1.2.1 this patch restarted working: https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file … -exception-fix/

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