Re: Rendition Verite Thread

Posted on 2023-08-22, 00:25

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So a bit of a correction for my above post. I took the time to measure every combination of values for renutil (96 benchmarks) to see what differences there are. This was done on my V1000 (Canopus Total3D, VBIOS 1.02.74). The PC is a Pentium MMX 233 MHz, FIC PA-2013, 64 MB SDRAM, running under pure …

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Re: Rendition Verite Thread

Posted on 2023-08-07, 03:50

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I actually did figure out how to run that executable in the time between that post and now. I found an informative article on Google Groups. Apparently there was a text file along with it but somehow it got lost to time. Luckily for us, someone copied it here. Rendition RENUTIL - What do the numbers …

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Re: Help fixing MS-Dos mode autoexec/config? Trouble finding right directory

Posted on 2023-05-13, 20:08

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HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.EXE, and MSCDEX.EXE are located in C:\WINDOWS, so you can just replace the C:\DOS bits with that and delete that DOS directory you made since it's redundant. They should look like this: DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF Not sure what's causing the Syntax Error to show up, …

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Re: an "invisible" HDMI audio extractor

Posted on 2022-05-29, 07:39

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I use this one, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XJITK7E and it works fine for my needs. I verified that it does send EDID. As a note, the HDMI signal out will still have audio so it's not stripping it but rather duplicating it to the audio outs, though maybe that's just common practice with …

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Re: Matrox Mystique 220 crash

Posted on 2022-05-17, 04:03

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That is the final driver for the Mystique, 4.12.013. The subject of inst_16.exe failing (but doing no harm) interested me in trying to fix that, as I've always just ignored it. I've used both the driver from Matrox's website and the one on vogonsdrivers, but they both did the same thing. So I …

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Re: Matrox Mystique 220 crash

Posted on 2022-05-09, 21:24

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There is an option for bus mastering in the drivers. Definitely play with that. inst_16.exe always seems to do that, but it does install just fine anyway, as you've noticed. One thing to note during install though is to make sure you don't keep your settings from the current QuickDesk install (the …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2022-02-07, 16:28

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Yeah my E1S has the same issue. It seems to be something with analog signals. I get around it with the OSSC, which I mainly use anyway because I can set all of the sampling parameters and forget. I still use the E1S for it anyway because of how fast this card can lock on to a signal. Newer capture …

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Re: Help with BSOD in 98SE on 200MMX

Posted on 2022-01-23, 01:48

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If you're doing the "Restart in MS-DOS mode" on the shutdown prompt, "win" typically won't work and will just hang. Try typing "exit" instead.

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Re: What midi modules to cover the most ground? MT32,sc55,sc155, sc55mk2, sc88, alesis nanosynth, others?

Posted on 2021-11-11, 20:41

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If you want to only listen to songs and you want to stick with Roland (as they're pretty much the de facto) and want real hardware, the way I see it is you ideally want between 2 to 4 modules, maybe 5 if you're picky or concerned about playback issues. MT-32 (old, without headphone jack): This …

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Re: Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business (3DFX) in pure DOS

Posted on 2021-07-22, 07:34

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Looks like it wants Windows for whatever reason even though it's a DOS program. Very weird. Thanks for the confirmation. Do you also not get CD audio with the UB disc inserted? During the new levels I mean. I do not, which is also weird because they should be there, and the menu music works just …

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Re: Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business (3DFX) in pure DOS

Posted on 2021-07-22, 05:15

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I just tried it out on my rig (DOS 7.1) using my Gold discs and my Voodoo 1, both using the Voodoo 1 patch. Base game works perfectly fine in pure DOS, Unfinished Business does not. Same symptom: black screen and the system hard locks there, making me have to press the reset switch as it doesn't …

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Re: SC-55 mkII "No Instrument" Message With canyon.mid and passport.mid

Posted on 2021-05-23, 00:29

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Well I am just talking about the file that came with my Win3.1 installation. I didn't download this one in particular and check. Hmm, maybe that version of the file isn't the same as the one with Win98SE so it doesn't have this same issue. Still, good to know that this was just an issue with these …

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Re: SC-55 mkII "No Instrument" Message With canyon.mid and passport.mid

Posted on 2021-05-22, 17:43

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That's funny. On my mkii I don't have to specifically turn on GM mode for it to work. It plays Canyon just fine in the factory default. I just double checked the attached MIDIs above. The first one does indeed say No Instrument in normal operation but is fine in GM mode. Have you run the first …

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Re: SC-55 mkII "No Instrument" Message With canyon.mid and passport.mid

Posted on 2021-05-22, 06:43

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Thanks all for the replies. Very informative! Hi, No Instrument means invalid bank + program combination. Contrary to original SC-55 the mkII has no Capital Tone Fallback feature so it remains silent on channels where invalid combination is found. There are multiple versions of canyon.mid/passport. …

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SC-55 mkII "No Instrument" Message With canyon.mid and passport.mid

Posted on 2021-05-21, 20:42

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So I just picked up an SC-55 mkII and everything seems to work great except this weird behavior with these MIDI files. On both canyon.mid and passport.mid, channel 1 presents a "No INSTRUMENT" message and is in silence, while the rest of the channels play fine. I found this odd since after …

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Re: Apparently not all GS-only sc-55s are the same, some are GM

Posted on 2021-05-19, 19:39

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I just picked up an SC-55 mkII and peculiarly it has ROM version 1.00 instead of 1.01, which I think the latter is more common. I wonder what would be changed between the two. From reading this thread, it's probably something that I'll never encounter. Looks like it's dated 03/17/1993 and the number …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2021-03-23, 17:36

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It becomes much easier if you're able to display an image that alternates black and white pixels. Doing so will allow you to much more easily find the correct phase and other adjustments. The phase on everything is different, even if it's coming from the same piece of hardware (two identical video …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2021-03-17, 17:25

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This ended up being a much longer post than I intended, but here you are. Maybe someone will find this wall of text useful. For my E1S, the most reliable way for me to get good captures (or even just previews) is having VCS open and having OBS doing window capture of the VCS screen, with the source …

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Re: S3 AGP Cards (and possibly others) Too Bright

Posted on 2021-01-26, 19:34

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I was actually just wondering about this as well the other day, as I purchased another GX2 in the hopes that it would be correct, which it wasn't. While the small tools provided work fine under DOS, you can't use them in Windows. If there was a reliable way to patch each VBIOS (from what I gather, a …

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Re: Rendition Verite Thread

Posted on 2020-12-01, 03:30

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How does one use renutil? I can't find any documentation on it and simply running it changes nothing. It looks like you can pass through some input but I can't tell what I should be doing, and there seems to be no built in help. If anything, I've had it drop performance of applications by half or …

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