Re: The weird GTA San Andreas build

Posted on 2021-11-25, 19:29

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by Standard Def Steve

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Nice! I beat GTA SA on a PIII back in the day (I still have that machine!). It too is a bit of a weird build, in that it pairs a PIII processor with DDR memory. If memory serves, I was getting anywhere from 15-40 fps and averaging a cinematic 24-25 or so, with most visual settings at or close to …

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2021-11-21, 03:52

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Just waiting to pick up some dinner at my fav pizza and lasagna joint. They've got "Never Ending Story" blasting out of the jukebox. This makes me happy.

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Re: Dungeon Siege 1 running poorly

Posted on 2021-11-16, 19:28

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by Standard Def Steve

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I seem to recall Dungeon Siege running silky smooth on an Athlon 1400 with a GeForce 2 back in the day, but perhaps my rose-tinted glasses are adding a big dose of the soap opera effect.

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Re: PCI Video cards benchmark: Electric Boogaloo Edition

Posted on 2021-11-14, 19:06

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by Standard Def Steve

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Ooh, that's super interesting. I still have a ton of those old cards stashed away and never knew that was a thing with them. I think my HTPC actually has a legacy PCI slot in it. That machine runs a 4790K @ 4.7GHz. I may have to pull it out of the component stack one of these days and melt some Rage …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-10, 04:23

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by Standard Def Steve

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Picked up this GX620 for $12 today. I normally don't buy P4s, but (a) it's getting cold outside and (b) this thing is in such good, clean shape inside and out that even if I decide against keeping it, it might be fun to play around with for a while. I won't even have to blast it with the air …

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Re: What phone do you use currently?

Posted on 2021-11-05, 01:00

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by Standard Def Steve

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Currently using a Galaxy S21 256GB.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-10-31, 03:25

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by Standard Def Steve

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Uh-oh, my SE/30 is doing that creepy thing where it hops off my desk the night before Halloween, parks in some random location, and then just sits there chiming in the dark until I beat Uninvited. So I guess I'll be playing Uninvited today.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-26, 15:48

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by Standard Def Steve

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Remember when NT could be installed on PowerPC machines? Well, yesterday to celebrate WinXP's birthday, I pretended that my bog standard copy of XP Pro was a special PPC edition and installed it on my PM G5. Though I (unsurprisingly) couldn't get 3D acceleration working, general Windows performance …

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Re: Identifying Pentium II "LISBON" mainboard...

Posted on 2021-10-19, 23:32

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by Standard Def Steve

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It can't be 440FX based, since it has AGP. The FX is an old PCI-only chipset that was originally designed for Pentium Pro systems. Your picture is a little small, but It looks like you have EDO DIMMs, so it's probably a 440LX motherboard (440BX doesn't support EDO).

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 19:43

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by Standard Def Steve

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I've got another one! I am probably the world's biggest Dell fanboy. No, Dell didn't start the IBM clone business. They didn't out-junior the PCjr with their own custom sound and graphics modes. Hell, they didn't even have the balls to affix "Never Obsolete" stickers to any of their cheapo Celeron …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-12, 15:59

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by Standard Def Steve

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I bought these Guinness World Record books at a yard sale the other day because they were cheap and shiny. So shiny that they reflected the early morning sunlight directly into my eyeballs, which gave my retinas some OLED-like image persistence for a few seconds. :P They were missing the 2001 book, …

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Re: What systems does the R7000 have suitability in?

Posted on 2021-10-08, 17:36

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by Standard Def Steve

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Ok, booted up Radeon 7000 PCI once again on my Athlon XP 3000+ KT333 setup, Catalyst 3.8, Windows 98 SE. 3DMark 2000 is reporting active hardware TnL and chooses it by default. MDK2 also drops FPS when I set hardware TnL, which may sound strange, but it actually indicates that it's working. Everest …

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Re: Behold the VGR - My Pentium III 1GHz Vintage Gaming Rig

Posted on 2021-10-07, 16:48

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by Standard Def Steve

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This is why I shouldn't be reading Vogons on a highish DPI display set to 100% without my glasses. I read your title as Behold the VCR and was totally expecting to find a PIII rig stuffed into an Xbox One inspired black desktop case. :P I absolutely love it though. The LiveDrive, Plextor burner, …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2021-10-02, 15:19

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by Standard Def Steve

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My wife and I got up super early this morning, put on our '90s ultra-guilty pleasures playlist & baked not one, not six, but four loaves of pumpkin zucchini bread. Sweetened with honey and made with fresh zuk from the garden, these bad boys are actually fairly healthy, as far as dessert goes! IMG_ …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2021-09-25, 22:37

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by Standard Def Steve

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Dude! You sunk my battleship! 😜 Even though your timings are a little looser, you're pulling in some spectacular memory latency numbers there. I think mine is around 85 ns, but that could be because it's clocked a bit lower.

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-09-24, 04:11

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by Standard Def Steve

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I've got another one! I am probably the world's biggest Dell fanboy. No, Dell didn't start the IBM clone business. They didn't out-junior the PCjr with their own custom sound and graphics modes. Hell, they didn't even have the balls to affix "Never Obsolete" stickers to any of their cheapo Celeron …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-22, 15:11

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by Standard Def Steve

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Went to a local thrift store again today, picked up a complete Core2Duo tower in an Antec case for $5. I really didn't have a reason to get it, other than it was $5, but the C2D generation of PCs is fun and cheap to tinker with right now, so why not? It has a 500 watt Antec earth watts PSU, what …

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Re: How low can you go with modern, user-friendly Linux?

Posted on 2021-09-14, 22:55

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by Standard Def Steve

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The NX bit did not come to the Banias, or the Dothan- 400s - you will need a Dothan-533 or newer. Actually, some Dothan-400s support NX bit. In fact, I have two of them: a 1.8GHz PM-745 and a 2GHz PM-755. I can install and run Win10 on both of them without having to resort to any special trickery. …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-09-10, 23:16

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by Standard Def Steve

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Way back in 2000, I built a PC for the very first time. It had a 600MHz PIII, GeForce 256, and ran the hot new Windows 2000. It made me very happy. The thing is, I unwittingly ran it at 400MHz for a few months! But even at the reduced speed, that P-frickin-III with its 128MB of RAM and broadband …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-09-09, 03:13

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by Standard Def Steve

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Way back in 2000, I built a PC for the very first time. It had a 600MHz PIII, GeForce 256, and ran the hot new Windows 2000. It made me very happy. The thing is, I unwittingly ran it at 400MHz for a few months! But even at the reduced speed, that P-frickin-III with its 128MB of RAM and broadband …

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