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Re: Maxing out Win95 conventional memory

Harry Potter wrote on 2025-03-19, 10:55: Try EMSMagic! https://www.emsmagic.com/. EMSMagic appears to be geared towards running programs that require EMS on NTVDM. I'm talking about conventional memory here, not EMS. On DOS 7.1 EMSMagic takes about 70k of conventional memory...

Maxing out Win95 conventional memory

The whole point of this is research is to free up as much conventional memory as possible on machines that are not compatible with other memory managers, such as UMBPCI, while remaining in real mode. I'm using HIMEMX since it appears to be 100% compatible with HIMEM.SYS (is it?) and it frees as much …

Re: FX5500 PCI Running INCREDIBLY slow on hardware

in Windows
The FX 5500 has programmable shaders, which require greater CPU overhead than older cards with a fixed-function pipeline, like the GeForce4 MX series. So, the best video card for a PCI-only Socket 7 system is likely the GeForce4 MX 440 or MX 4000. Keep in mind the bus width.

Re: 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI SGR rev. C3 rescued - running but missing 2 tiny smd capacitors and some video corruption

If nobody answers, I'd remove C61, and maybe others nearby, measure them, and get similar values for C64 and C69. Did you manage to replace the RAM chips? Hopefully that solves it. The fact that it's missing the heat sink makes me think it was removed (by a human or by the forces of nature...) in a …

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