Re: When did optical drives stop support cd audio despite still having the connector for it? How to avoid buying one?

Posted on 2019-09-14, 02:07

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Oh yeah I guess I could try using WDM drivers, but I have a Yamaha YMF744 card, and the post about it on here states that the WDM drivers aren't that good so I've been using vxd. Is it really buggy or does it work as well as analog audio (except for DOS)? I don't think the performance hit should be …

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Re: When did optical drives stop support cd audio despite still having the connector for it? How to avoid buying one?

Posted on 2019-09-14, 01:47

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Well when looking up the problem I read a post from Phil that says it happens so I'm not sure if it's that rare.

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When did optical drives stop support cd audio despite still having the connector for it? How to avoid buying one?

Posted on 2019-09-14, 01:39

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I got around to hooking up my IDE optical drive for cd audio in Windows 98, since I previously bought the wrong style cd audio connector. After trying out the new connector and getting no cd audio in Windows, I discovered that the drive doesn't support it even though it has the pins. The digital …

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Having issues cloning a windows 98 drive with clonezilla

Posted on 2018-10-12, 14:44

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I'm trying to make a cloned image of my windows 98 install that's on an ssd hooked up to a sata port on my 775 motherboard. Clonezilla saves and restores the image just fine with no errors that I can see; however, trying to boot with the drive makes the whole bios unresponsive, and I can't enter the …

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Re: Possiblility for optical drive emulator (hardware DTLite)?

Posted on 2018-10-08, 20:44

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Most disc based games seem to be fine with either cue/bin or iso for dvds, at least that's what redump uses. I think it's consoles where a lot of the obscure formats come into play although most of those can be ripped as cue/bin too.

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Re: Possiblility for optical drive emulator (hardware DTLite)?

Posted on 2018-10-07, 01:46

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So that was 3 years ago and there is still no such device available? Is there something about the pc interface that makes it harder to do than the solutions found on other platforms? edit: It seems installing directx 8 has fixed at least quake 1, 2, and half life for audio playback in daemon tools, …

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Possiblility for optical drive emulator (hardware DTLite)?

Posted on 2018-10-05, 18:55

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I've been having issues getting cd audio to work with daemon tools when using vxd drivers in Windows with a YMF744 sound card. Some games like quake don't play any cd audio while others like need for speed III and IV play just fine. This is actually better than what I've experienced with a Sound …

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Re: Having issues getting descent to run correctly with FM music

Posted on 2018-10-04, 19:16

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Interesting, I didn't know it had a 640x480 mode. That actually does help quite a bit with the speed when unthrottled, although it still runs quite a bit faster than normal, but much improved. It's pretty playable at a faster speed, although my cheap logitech keyboard isn't really up to the task …

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Re: Having issues getting descent to run correctly with FM music

Posted on 2018-10-04, 14:25

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Besides running too fast everything else seems fine. FM synth probably plays the most consistently and at the correct speed without throttling. edit: I think I may have been mistaken about opl2/3 making a difference in speed. It seems like the best setup right now is to only use msred at 6x …

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Re: Having issues getting descent to run correctly with FM music

Posted on 2018-10-04, 05:15

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Yes I load the sound card like this: setupds /s dsdma SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 edit: Selecting OPL2 instead of OPL3 seems to have made a decent improvement. The speed of the music seems a little off still but the gameplay is more fluid at least.

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Having issues getting descent to run correctly with FM music

Posted on 2018-10-03, 14:27

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Specs: asrock 775i65G 3.0 pentium e5800 yamaha ymf 744 geforce 4 ti 4800 restart in dos mode win98 I'm using throttle and msred to slow down the sytem. Using these settings: msred w 194 10628 msred w 19A 12 throttle 4 -c I have to use jemmex in my config.sys in order to use msred and launch descent …

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Re: Any tips for running dos games in windows 98?

Posted on 2018-09-28, 14:24

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Well, I understand you. VSync and tearing is one way where real hardware may excel over emulation; that is, if you can get it to run at all... :wink: Do you get the same error in pure DOS mode of Win98? I don't get an error in pure dos. It just goes back to the dos prompt after launching nfs.exe. I …

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Re: Any tips for running dos games in windows 98?

Posted on 2018-09-28, 08:20

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Right but like I said, I can't get good vsync using dosbox so I'd rather not use it on any machine, even if it is modern. On Windows 98 I can actually get good vsync without tearing/stuttering that happens on dosbox without the vsync patch. Just using doom or duke3d as an example (I would probably …

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Re: Any tips for running dos games in windows 98?

Posted on 2018-09-28, 07:48

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If I was going to use dosbox I think I would rather just use my modern machine, unless there's some advantage to using it on Windows 98? The main reason I don't like using dosbox is that it does not vsync properly unless you have a gsync monitor, or use dosbox with a vsync patch, which only svn daum …

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Any tips for running dos games in windows 98?

Posted on 2018-09-28, 04:37

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System: Pentium e5800 ASRock 775I65G R3.0 geforce 4 4800se 45.23 yamaha ymf 744 5.12.01.2228 WDM 512mb ram I've had issues getting dos games running in Windows with this system. I realize it's not the ideal configuration using a WDM driver, but I don't have an optical drive currently and would …

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Re: leadtek geforce 4 ti 4800se has fuzzy/blurry vga output above 800x600

Posted on 2018-09-21, 03:41

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Using dvi-d seems to mess with the refresh rate of games on my display so I don't think using an active converter would help much if it's still using the digital signal. So if I want to increase the longevity of the asus 4800se I have, what could I do? Is cooling an issue on these cards? The leadtek …

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Re: leadtek geforce 4 ti 4800se has fuzzy/blurry vga output above 800x600

Posted on 2018-09-18, 20:18

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Cable. You mean there's something wrong with the cable? It's the same vga cable I use with the other geforce 4 and it's fine above 800x600. Shitty RAMDAC was somerhing very common in dx8 and earlier nvidia cards. But what would dx8 have to do with it? It's fuzzy and blurry just sitting at the …

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leadtek geforce 4 ti 4800se has fuzzy/blurry vga output above 800x600

Posted on 2018-09-18, 11:56

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I bought a leadtek geforce 4 ti 4800se and it produces a blurry image at resolutions over 800x600. This happens in both windows 98 and linux, even if I use a dvi-i to vga adapter. Using digital output over dvi seems to be fine at least. Is this a sign that the card is going to die soon or is there a …

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Re: High end agp card for a windows xp system?

Posted on 2018-08-24, 19:46

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What would be the best driver version to use for a 750ti on windows xp? In a philscomputerlab video he said when using the latest drivers some things didn't work like gpu scaling and custom resolution support.

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Re: High end agp card for a windows xp system?

Posted on 2018-08-24, 10:48

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Hm ok. I decided to just get a sandy bridge motherboard and use that for xp instead. I guess I'll look for some gtx 750 card although even those are somewhat pricey it seems.

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