Awesome job!!

D3FEKT wrote:

Awesome job!!

Thanks! I'm glad you like it! 😉

Tremendous work, Snowman. = ) I want to give this a deeper look, but occupational burnout is holding me back.

Still, I've spent the evening trying to get this pack together:

May I ask you a favour? Could you try out the demo/shareware versions of these games with the Intel GMA x4500, and see if it reaches the same heights of compatibility as the Macronix MX8600, or the S3 virge cards? If it's really as compatible as you say, then it should be the new, #1 standard for dos-gaming on newer systems. (I've kind of got a crazy idea to make a PCI-e card out of it too...)

DoS VGA test-matrix
----------------------------
https://we.tl/t-IDA5ciS61T

I have included all but two of the games, and I have also updated the Excel-file so you can easily start filling in the intel chip.

Doomn00b wrote:

Tremendous work, Snowman. = ) I want to give this a deeper look, but occupational burnout is holding me back. […]
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Tremendous work, Snowman. = ) I want to give this a deeper look, but occupational burnout is holding me back.

Still, I've spent the evening trying to get this pack together:

May I ask you a favour? Could you try out the demo/shareware versions of these games with the Intel GMA x4500, and see if it reaches the same heights of compatibility as the Macronix MX8600, or the S3 virge cards? If it's really as compatible as you say, then it should be the new, #1 standard for dos-gaming on newer systems. (I've kind of got a crazy idea to make a PCI-e card out of it too...)

DoS VGA test-matrix
----------------------------
https://we.tl/t-IDA5ciS61T

I have included all but two of the games, and I have also updated the Excel-file so you can easily start filling in the intel chip.

Sweet, thanks for putting that package together - I am excited to give it a whirl! 😉

I should have an updated spreadsheet and screenshots (from the X4500) posted by tomorrow night.

FrostyTheSnowman wrote:

Doomn00b wrote:

Tremendous work, Snowman. = ) I want to give this a deeper look, but occupational burnout is holding me back. […]
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Tremendous work, Snowman. = ) I want to give this a deeper look, but occupational burnout is holding me back.

Still, I've spent the evening trying to get this pack together:

May I ask you a favour? Could you try out the demo/shareware versions of these games with the Intel GMA x4500, and see if it reaches the same heights of compatibility as the Macronix MX8600, or the S3 virge cards? If it's really as compatible as you say, then it should be the new, #1 standard for dos-gaming on newer systems. (I've kind of got a crazy idea to make a PCI-e card out of it too...)

DoS VGA test-matrix
----------------------------
https://we.tl/t-IDA5ciS61T

I have included all but two of the games, and I have also updated the Excel-file so you can easily start filling in the intel chip.

Sweet, thanks for putting that package together - I am excited to give it a whirl! 😉

I should have an updated spreadsheet and screenshots (from the X4500) posted by tomorrow night.

Awesome! ^^

Looking closer at the list, I actually missed one game though... 😮 LO'LLYPOP - I've got it right here for you though:

https://we.tl/t-ISYYl0HQX5

Just a quick update - normal life took over for the last week, so I don't have any compatibility results to share at the moment. 🙁

I do plan to do the testing this weekend though, hopefully should have it up by Saturday evening. 😉

FrostyTheSnowman wrote:

Just a quick update - normal life took over for the last week, so I don't have any compatibility results to share at the moment. 🙁

I do plan to do the testing this weekend though, hopefully should have it up by Saturday evening. 😉

I'm guessing you've had your hands full for a while? Do you think you'll have time this weekend instead?

Doomn00b wrote:

FrostyTheSnowman wrote:

Just a quick update - normal life took over for the last week, so I don't have any compatibility results to share at the moment. 🙁

I do plan to do the testing this weekend though, hopefully should have it up by Saturday evening. 😉

I'm guessing you've had your hands full for a while? Do you think you'll have time this weekend instead?

Yeah, unfortunately my normal job hijacked all my free time for the last few weeks (and will also be taking my next few weeks too) so i've only been able to test a few games at a time... but I can tell you that it has worked with all of them so far, no graphical issues or anything yet. 😀

Fingers crossed that I will get through the rest of them this week. 😉

FrostyTheSnowman wrote:

Doomn00b wrote:

FrostyTheSnowman wrote:

Just a quick update - normal life took over for the last week, so I don't have any compatibility results to share at the moment. 🙁

I do plan to do the testing this weekend though, hopefully should have it up by Saturday evening. 😉

I'm guessing you've had your hands full for a while? Do you think you'll have time this weekend instead?

Yeah, unfortunately my normal job hijacked all my free time for the last few weeks (and will also be taking my next few weeks too) so i've only been able to test a few games at a time... but I can tell you that it has worked with all of them so far, no graphical issues or anything yet. 😀

Fingers crossed that I will get through the rest of them this week. 😉

IT'S VACATION-TIME!! : D

Which means, if the missus lets you, this is the moment for fun, games and hobbies. Have you had any opportunity to test the IGP any more, recently?

Doomn00b wrote:

IT'S VACATION-TIME!! : D

Which means, if the missus lets you, this is the moment for fun, games and hobbies. Have you had any opportunity to test the IGP any more, recently?

I knew I had forgotten something! Thanks for the reminder, I am actually home all week so I should have the testing done within a few days. 😎

I can say for sure that every game I have tested thus far has worked (including Keen games, Jazz Jackrabbit 1 and 2, etc), but I did find that higher resolutions in 3D DOS games (800x600 and up) seem to suffer from artifacts/palette corruption with the Intel IGP.

FrostyTheSnowman wrote:

Doomn00b wrote:

IT'S VACATION-TIME!! : D

Which means, if the missus lets you, this is the moment for fun, games and hobbies. Have you had any opportunity to test the IGP any more, recently?

I knew I had forgotten something! Thanks for the reminder, I am actually home all week so I should have the testing done within a few days. 😎

I can say for sure that every game I have tested thus far has worked (including Keen games, Jazz Jackrabbit 1 and 2, etc), but I did find that higher resolutions in 3D DOS games (800x600 and up) seem to suffer from artifacts/palette corruption with the Intel IGP.

Interesting... The colour artifacts sound similar to the issues a majority of the cards had with Alien Trilogy. Have you tried the igp with some early Windows 3d games though, for comparison? If not, I'll support some demos of Quake 2 and Dungeon keeper for Windows.

Could you elaborate a bit more on the fx 5200? I'm having a bit of trouble understanding why you want the 44.x drivers specifically. I tried searching for posts referencing that version on vogons, but I'm not really finding anything. Is there a particular game or set of games you are trying to target for that card? I'm trying to figure out if I may want to throw one into my build as well.

I'm also a bit confused why you have chosen the fx 5200 over the pci versions of the fx 5500 and the fx 5600. They seemed to also be listed on the driver at Phil's site: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/nvidia-9x-gr … cs-drivers.html.

Were you not aware of those at the time, or are you aware of other issues with those cards?

Sorry for the thread necromancing.

Dog wrote on 2021-02-05, 22:20:

Could you elaborate a bit more on the fx 5200? I'm having a bit of trouble understanding why you want the 44.x drivers specifically. I tried searching for posts referencing that version on vogons, but I'm not really finding anything. Is there a particular game or set of games you are trying to target for that card? I'm trying to figure out if I may want to throw one into my build as well.

Re: Geforce FX Go 5200 and Windows 98SE - drivers that work?
Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

You can get a lot of information by searching for "Geforce Fx 44"
Detonator version 45 or higher is basically a driver targeting DirectX 9.0 and WindowsXP after 2003 (Windows 98 decline period) , so there is no special reason to use driver version 44 or higher on DX 7.0 and Windows98.
AFAIK you can find an article in the link above that Detonator 45+ has issues with some 98 targeted games.

Dog wrote on 2021-02-05, 22:20:

I'm also a bit confused why you have chosen the fx 5200 over the pci versions of the fx 5500 and the fx 5600. They seemed to also be listed on the driver at Phil's site: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/nvidia-9x-gr … cs-drivers.html.

Were you not aware of those at the time, or are you aware of other issues with those cards?

It may simply be because the fx5600xt pci doesn't come up often on ebay etc.
FX5500 is just an overclocked version of FX5200, and if you're not that sensitive to speed performance, there may not be much difference.