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Re: PCem forums - registering issue

Posted on 2024-04-29, 05:30

Good to know about the forum. Sarah! One can't be expected to be in the same project forever. Regardless, please let me express (as I'm sure many have done) how grateful I am for such a project to exist. I've been playing with PCem over the weekend and it's really been impressive. I've built various …

Re: PCem forums - registering issue

Posted on 2024-04-27, 21:39

SarahWalker wrote on 2021-01-31, 21:14: I ignore the ones that look like spam at first glance. Which is so many of them. Recently discovered PCem. I built a stable Wing Commander 1 system last night. Amazed. I too would love to join the PCem forum if still accepting new comers. Could not find any …

Re: best windows 98 agp card

Posted on 2018-03-11, 00:38

If you like, I'll snap some photos... I would not stop you if you chose to :happy: Don't go to too much trouble though. Just been curious about Geforce4 history recently. Seems like another fun chapter I missed. Would be interested in the vendor and model number too. I was surprised to find that …

Re: best windows 98 agp card

Posted on 2018-03-10, 18:31

Is anyone familiar with vedors and model numbers for the 8x Geforce4 TI4800 ? The only picture I have seen is an Albatron with the cooler removed. I have not seen very many old reviews or images of high end 4x or 8x Geforce4 cards. I did stumble upon an image on ebay for a broken Asus V8460, a 4x …

Re: DirectX 8 Gaming

Posted on 2018-03-05, 05:10

leileilol wrote: Geforce3 supported DX8 and came out in early '01 Ah! leileilol wrote: and then there's the confusing late 2000 DX8+Radeon7200 launch that led assumptions of pixel shader support... I love the plethora of info you and others have. Good stuff 😁

Re: DirectX 8 Gaming

Posted on 2018-03-05, 03:48

squiggly wrote: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=best+pc+games+of+2001 Just wondering why 2001? The first DX8 cards from Nvidia did not come out until 2002. So there would certainly not be any DX8 support in a 2001 game upon release. Is this right?

Re: DirectX 8 Gaming

Posted on 2018-03-05, 03:42

Pretty much all of them had installer who asked if you want to install directx. Also when you search for minimum system requirement for a game online, it often says the directx version required. Also the graphics card that is in minimum requirements for the game usually gives also a hint because it …

DirectX 8 Gaming

Posted on 2018-03-04, 23:15

Does it make any sense to purposely downgrade to a Geforce 4 card to try and see what life was like before DirectX 9 showed up? Geforce 4 is listed as a DirectX 8.0 supported chip. So if I wanted to taste life before DirectX 9.0c, is it just a simple matter of installing the older card, install …

Re: Unreal plays a strange sound under the splash screen

Posted on 2017-03-13, 19:36

in Milliways
The splash screen and sound used to happen for me. Still does in Half-Life. Any ideas why it no longer does for me in Unreal? Retail disc and 226 patched. s_wavetracing shows Enabled. I run Win9x. I did uninstall a Diamond MX300, and replace it with a SQ2500. I ran the uninstallers before removing …

Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2017-03-13, 18:25

It's the Micomsoft SC-512N1-L/DVI. You guys mentioned it earlier in the thread. I'm looking to stream old PCs on twitch with the absolute most faithful picture. I've recently shared the same interest. So just posting some game capture information that I have been doing. Thought I would fish for …

Re: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Windows 98 Driver

Posted on 2017-02-28, 17:09

Historically, was the Audigy 2 and it's variants intended for Windows 98? Some searching around, leads me to think it was marketed for Windows XP. Obviously it can be made to work for 98. Is this a mild hack or work around of some kind? Creative's website also did not list any Windows 98 drivers …

Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2016-07-20, 20:00

The idea I was trying to propose, is that no vendors from the time were officially targetting MS-DOS users. The Voodoo1, 3dfx patches for existing games, and 3dfx new games, all became available after Windows 95 was established. However, since many of the games that received patches were DOS based, …

Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2016-06-07, 17:01

Yep, good call. Some games can ask for 800x600, and a better card can be of use in that case. The example I was going with, was just showing how Tomb Raider, regardless of which official 3dfx patch you choose, never asks for more than 640x480 of any voodoo card. At least, I don't think it does. So …

Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2016-06-06, 22:02

No, but maybe yes? DOS based 3D games use replacement executable files, which are patched with code to make use of a vendor specific video card. Tomb Raider 1 tends to be a "goto" game for this discussion. It was shipped with a handful of different replacement executable files you can try on various …

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