Re: Acer G276HL Gbmid - Anyone own/know about this monitor?

Posted on 2020-01-31, 04:29

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I accidentally purchased this monitor instead of the 15khz capable Acer G276HL Kbix. The seller did not cancel my order despite me asking him to 10 minutes after I placed it. So just incase this monitor is 15khz capable and it will actually do what I want I thought I'd check to see if anyone had …

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Acer G276HL Gbmid - Anyone own/know about this monitor?

Posted on 2020-01-31, 01:52

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by Shagittarius

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I accidentally purchased this monitor instead of the 15khz capable Acer G276HL Kbix. The seller did not cancel my order despite me asking him to 10 minutes after I placed it. So just incase this monitor is 15khz capable and it will actually do what I want I thought I'd check to see if anyone had any …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-31, 01:44

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I’m not sure what would have changed to cause that. Can you give me a link to a specific post and I can look into it? Also can you please tell me which version of iOS you are running? I'm using iOS 12.4.4 on an iPad (2016) and an iPhone 6. Tapping on an attached MP3 such as in this post opens the …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-30, 14:57

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Feedback for the mouse cursor: I run at native 4k and use the browsers auto zoom to resize web content. I have my system cursors set to the windows large variant. On this page the cursor is tiny and very hard to find if you lose track of it.

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Re: Problematic Windows games list

Posted on 2020-01-24, 21:44

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Incoming! Is a game that has always vexxed me. Out of the 4 machines i have capable of running it only the one with a single core athlon and a ti4200 will run it properly, the xeons in win 98 and xp that have a 9800pro and 780ti respectivley, and my i9 9990k with 2080ti windows 10, all run at about …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-01-24, 19:11

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I think a part of the failure of the dark suns games were due to the bleakness of the setting and too singular a focus on setting and story. In addition to that engine being clunky and demanding at the time too. At least i don't remember it running very well at the time.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-01-24, 14:49

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I really wish gold box style games had continued to be successful and the missteps of the Dark Sun campaigns had been given the chance to be ironed out. As it turned out before that could happen Baldur's gate ushered in the period of real-time pausable combat that destroyed the classic turn based …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2020-01-24, 14:44

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*Free

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-01-23, 01:35

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The first Witcher is not a very good game and overstays it's welcome. However seeing as how they gave us 2 great games after that it's worth experiencing.

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Re: Sound blaster 2.0 (CT1350B) in 486 machine

Posted on 2020-01-19, 04:54

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I run a CT1600 in my Pentium 90 and it has no speed issues other than the software that doesn't like fast CPUs. I run a CT1320C in my 286 8Mhz which works well there.

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Re: Best video card to pair with a 133mhz system from 1996?

Posted on 2020-01-18, 21:34

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Voodoo 1 & 2 require a primary video board is what he was saying. So by saying "A voodoo 1 is an obvious choice" you haven't specified what video card you are going to use because a voodoo 1 and 2 do not work without a primary video card. Just making sure this is clear. I wouldn't want to see anyone …

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2020-01-18, 17:10

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In case anyone is interested I found the following ram will run at full speed @533 in the 4CoreDual-VSTA: https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/4coredual-vsta/CT825612 No relaxed mode, though I should point out that I am using it with a 4 core Xeon so it is slightly underclocked on this board, but I …

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Re: Video and audio stuttering in fullscreen under manual config in Windows 10

Posted on 2020-01-17, 15:02

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I've had problems with DOSbox getting stuttery when running EVGA - Precision X or MSI afterburner I don't remember which one. I think it had something to do with limiting the framerate using that software...don't know if that has anything to do with your issue though...

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Re: "hidden gems" games 1999 to 2007

Posted on 2020-01-15, 14:56

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Some of my personal hidden gems, these may not have been reviewed well, or they may have, but I like them: Magic the Gathering: Battlegrounds - (An action sports game with realtime MtG gameplay.) 2003. S2: SIlent Storm - (Turn based tatical WWII.) 2003. Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (White …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-01-15, 14:40

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I think it's the law of diminishing returns combined with the threshold of perceptual immersion. Doom (1993) crossed that threshold despite not being true 3D. Compare it's immersive experience in contrast to Wolf3D. It's been smaller and smaller gains since then. And it's why Doom is still fun, …

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Re: The Painfully Inauthentic Windows 9X Build

Posted on 2020-01-14, 06:34

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Video drivers restart automatically if they can often resulting in a brief period of nothing displayed on the screen, I think it's possible that is what is going on, though actually that may be more of a later OS recovery than a windows 9x recovery, you may be right, it might just crash outright on …

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Re: The Painfully Inauthentic Windows 9X Build

Posted on 2020-01-14, 05:50

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That's pretty weird, it looks like it could be the video driver crashing over and over again which I would suspect is a problem with the card, I'd be surprised if you see anything like that with your next card though it could be other things. Lets see what happens with the new card.

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Re: The Painfully Inauthentic Windows 9X Build

Posted on 2020-01-14, 05:26

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That's cool I didn't know there was a version for Win 9x, have you played many games for many hours on it, not just benchmarks? Does it seem stable? I might have to get another x800 XTPE, I owned one back in the day when they were new, it's the only video card I've ever had that died on me, …

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Re: The Painfully Inauthentic Windows 9X Build

Posted on 2020-01-14, 02:10

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The x800 doesn't have native Win9x drivers as far as I know, you're likely to have trouble with it. For Win9X I believe the cut-off is 9800 for ATI and 5900 series for Nvidia. If you do find some drivers to use with the x800 and Win9x and you play a bunch of games please let me know about the …

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Re: Last night I dreamt

Posted on 2020-01-12, 08:05

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of San Pedro

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