Re: What are your thoughts about the Matrox G450 for Win 98 Gaming (97 to late 2000)

Posted on 2023-06-02, 11:09

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by iraito

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Speaking from experience, i used for win98 gaming a Compaq deskproEN with PIII at 1 ghz and Matrox G450 - PCI version (no AGP slot), slower then the AGP version. I played Diablo 2, Drakan, Unreal Gold, Starcraft, Red Alert, Thief I, Quake 3, Quake 2 and many others. It has good compatibiliy. It has …

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Re: What are your thoughts about the Matrox G450 for Win 98 Gaming (97 to late 2000)

Posted on 2023-06-02, 08:39

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by iraito

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I use the stronger version (400) for my 98 pc, it's good for DX games of that period and it pairs really well with a voodoo 2 if you want glide support at the same time, all in all if you want to run games at their intended resolution and most of the times sub 60fps (just like we all did) it does …

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Re: I'm looking for another game.

Posted on 2023-06-01, 14:00

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It reminds me of commandos 2

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Re: Nvidia GeForce 4 4200 TI 128MB; overkill for a PIII 500MHz rig?

Posted on 2023-05-31, 08:20

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by iraito

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I used a GF4 4200 and also a GF3 200 on a pentium 3 933, both bottlenecked pretty hard, i just couldn't put up with the fact that i couldn't run deus ex above 25fps with both cards, the CPU couldn't take it, then games more appropriate for the GPU like Nolf 2 lags and drops quite a bit of frames, i …

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Re: Nvidia GeForce 4 4200 TI 128MB; overkill for a PIII 500MHz rig?

Posted on 2023-05-31, 07:53

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by iraito

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I used a GF4 4200 and also a GF3 200 on a pentium 3 933, both bottlenecked pretty hard, i just couldn't put up with the fact that i couldn't run deus ex above 25fps with both cards, the CPU couldn't take it, then games more appropriate for the GPU like Nolf 2 lags and drops quite a bit of frames, i …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-05-27, 14:58

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by iraito

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I just noticed that i can't access the vintage wallpaper thread, i need to recover a bunch of wallpapers i posted there since i lost the original files.

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2023-05-27, 08:00

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by iraito

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Can you validate? I had updated to the new 1.04 release which worked, 1.03 gave me the same error actually. Odd, I remember doing it a long time ago because I was going to use the sig on here but opted out... oh well. Maybe my memory is garbage these days :( https://valid.x86.fr/h3hbu9 win98 …

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2023-05-26, 13:39

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by iraito

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Can you validate?

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2023-05-25, 17:29

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by iraito

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I tried using the vintage version of CPU-z on my pentium 4 systems (willamette etc.) but it tells me that the system is too recent, this with WinME as operating system, it strikes me as weird since i was able to use it on XP and with an athlon XP. That's strange, my Northwood P4s (2.0a and 3.0c) …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2023-05-12, 13:25

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by iraito

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Aren't some 423 willamette rare? i think the first 1.4ghz release is pretty hard to find.

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2023-05-11, 18:58

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by iraito

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Sphere478 wrote on 2023-05-11, 17:16: Does the normal edition work? The latest one nope, it's too new, and i can't use the previous versions validation file.

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2023-05-11, 17:10

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by iraito

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So i guess for now i can't validate my P4 machines? is the vintage edition still being updated?

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Re: Best brand of GeForce 2 cards to look for?

Posted on 2023-05-11, 17:09

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by iraito

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Asus seems to be pretty reliable from personal experience and the 2D quality at least in my eyes is no different from a good matrox card.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-11, 16:28

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Today i finally got in my hands a decent KVM (Aten CS-84A) which was pretty much required between the work PC, the old one for general use and the retro one; The keyboard and mouse emulation finally solves my issues at boot. Also this thing is built like a tank.

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2023-05-10, 14:06

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by iraito

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I tried using the vintage version of CPU-z on my pentium 4 systems (willamette etc.) but it tells me that the system is too recent, this with WinME as operating system, it strikes me as weird since i was able to use it on XP and with an athlon XP.

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Re: Aureal Vortex vs Vortex 2

Posted on 2023-05-09, 06:31

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by iraito

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Everybody knows about the MX300 so that is the card people look for. A few companies used the Aureal chipset to make their own cards and I have a few models that mostly differ in whether they use coax or optical for digital out. And those cards are using the actual AU8830 chip? because i searched …

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Re: Aureal Vortex vs Vortex 2

Posted on 2023-05-09, 06:24

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theyre not that rare but for some reason the diamond cards prices are usually jacked but I've seen a lot of OEM Aureal cards and cards of other brands like turtle beach and I think DELL and the like at reasonable to cheap not to long ago. I checked a bit into it and i think that's because of the …

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Re: Aureal Vortex vs Vortex 2

Posted on 2023-05-09, 04:23

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It's one of the best known Aureal 2 cards. How much are you looking to pay for one? Locally I have an indefinite supply of these for about $17 a piece. Sorry to necro this thread but I do not have the ability to PM yet and was wondering if you still had a source for MX300 cards and if I could buy …

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Re: Win XP and DualShock 4

Posted on 2023-04-28, 11:27

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by iraito

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Yeah that sounds fair. Can't say I know of any tools to specifically disable/hide single buttons... Next best thing that comes to mind would be to use something like Xpadder or x360ce to define a virtual second controller, making a clone of the DS4's inputs while omitting the misconfigured ones. I …

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Re: Win XP and DualShock 4

Posted on 2023-04-28, 07:22

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by iraito

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For some reason they appear auto assigned in prince of Persia sands of time, if it was me i would like to fix them.

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