Re: WinXP Ultimate Legacy Video Cards

Posted on 2015-07-08, 07:30

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by obobskivich

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Sometimes I wish I had bought a high performing 500 series card to future proof myself for gaming in WinXP, but I didn't want to spend the money, and still don't. I'm afraid eventually I'll be stuck buying somebody's 2nd hand card on eBay and crossing my fingers that it's not already beaten to hell …

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Re: Anyone else dislike multiplayer? No, just me?

Posted on 2015-07-08, 05:08

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by obobskivich

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This is a common misconception. I didn't know that it was strictly single player for a while. I am guessing that it's big online presence misleads a bit. I wondered if that wasn't the case. There being a multi-player game in the series (TES: Online), and its title being shortened to "Skyrim" ( …

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Re: GF4 or Radeon9600

Posted on 2015-07-08, 04:52

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by obobskivich

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lets just settle this, get a Geforce 7950GT AGP XFX, get the modded drivers and get very big overkill lol There's no kill like overkill! :lol: (I'm not very educated on this, and I'm sure that Obobskivich will be able to provide more accurate details.) Because the GF6 cards came out at a time when …

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Re: WinXP Ultimate Legacy Video Cards

Posted on 2015-07-08, 04:35

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by obobskivich

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the Geforce 6xx cards may have XP support but don't bother with them, i remember the reviews at the time showing some strange preformance problems under XP, honestly for XP, your best bet would be the grab a DX10 class card and call it quits, everything in 2007 except crysis could run on an 8800GTX …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-07, 15:53

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by obobskivich

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Nice CRT there! Shame about the other one - hopefully it was insured. And 13W3 isn't weird...if you're a Sun workstation lol I have a Sun CRT on loan that has such a connector - adapters are also available if you want/need that second input and don't have an RGBHV switch; they're like $10-$20. : …

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Re: WinXP Ultimate Legacy Video Cards

Posted on 2015-07-07, 15:38

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Doesn't Fallout 3 have big problems with Windows 7? Or did they finally fix those? As far as I'm aware there have not been any significant patches released for Fallout 3 in many years, since 1.7 came out (according to the Fallout Wikia, the last patch (1.7) was released July 27, 2009). So "they" ( …

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Re: Anyone else dislike multiplayer? No, just me?

Posted on 2015-07-07, 14:50

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The big problem with modern day multiplayer, for me, is that you don't really get the same sense of community like you did in the past (I have no evidence to support this, but I just don't feel as welcome as I used to). The learning curve with some games is too steep, it seems quite easy (thanks to …

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Re: WinXP Ultimate Legacy Video Cards

Posted on 2015-07-07, 14:42

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My XP box has a pair of NetBurst Xeons and a GeForce FX 5800 Ultra. I've yet to encounter a newer game that won't run in Windows 7x64, which my main PC runs. I've got a Socket 939 motherboard that I'll likely finish out with FX-55 and 6800 Ultra, but that machine is hardly necessary from what I've …

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Re: Steam Killed My XP Install

Posted on 2015-07-07, 09:07

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mirh wrote: Cool, so many steam veterans here. Is there anybody with latest half-life 1 pre-linux/pre-steampipe version? Thanks <3 Why?

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Re: Athlon 64 project - finally finished!

Posted on 2015-07-07, 09:01

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by obobskivich

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Live would be fine, but Audigy would be nicer. X-Fi may be era accurate but personally I'd pass (I don't like the drivers and IME Audigy 2 ZS is right there with sound quality and hardware features). On drivers - for an ATi card I'd just grab the latest and greatest, generally speaking. On the X …

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Re: GF4 or Radeon9600

Posted on 2015-07-07, 08:50

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by obobskivich

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Radeon 9600XT is comparable to GF4 Ti4600, except with DX9 support. As has already been mentioned, the Radeon cards don't support table fog or palletized textures. The GF6 is like that as well. I ran both 9600XT and GF4 Ti4600 cards for years, but for different purposes. The 9600XT was in my HTPC …

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Re: Anyone else dislike multiplayer? No, just me?

Posted on 2015-07-07, 08:30

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I think it depends a lot on your age and surroundings. I guess if you're a teenager and it's all about the latest Call of Duty, Battlefield, Skyrim, etc - then you may come across as weird if you avoid all these. Skyrim is not a multiplayer FPS game series like CoD/Battlefield, if you didn't know. …

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Re: Need help building a Retro Gaming PC

Posted on 2015-07-07, 08:21

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by obobskivich

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I agree with getting a more powerful GeForce (or Radeon) card - GeForce 2 as mentioned on the first page is a very good suggestion. They will generally offer better performance than Voodoo2/3 (and G400) and will support 32-bit color while doing it. These might give you some insight into what you're …

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Re: How to install Sound Blaster Audigy Install CD

Posted on 2015-07-07, 06:45

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by obobskivich

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I'm not sure if VAC works in Windows 8, but that would replace (and expand) the functionality of the "What U Hear" mix. Their website says it works in Windows 8, would be worth a try: http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm

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Re: GF4 or Radeon9600

Posted on 2015-07-07, 06:41

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by obobskivich

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yea but Radeon R300 and R400 based GPU's dont support angel independent AF I don't think any card supports angel -independent AF (sorry I couldn't resist). :blush: True "angle-independent AF" didn't come about until later than any of the cards mentioned here (GeForce 8 and Radeon HD 5000 and up if …

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Re: GF4 or Radeon9600

Posted on 2015-07-06, 04:59

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by obobskivich

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honestly for the best AF you want GF6+ or Radeon x1k or better, it has edge independent AF and Transparent AA Radeon X (X600, X800, etc) officially support transparency AA in later drivers, and it can be supported via registry hack on Radeon 9 series (although I've heard very mixed things about …

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Re: Athlon 64 project - finally finished!

Posted on 2015-07-05, 08:47

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by obobskivich

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Very neat - would've been very rad back in ~2004 as well. As far as cool suggestions, I'd add an Audigy card of some sort (those were pretty slick back then), and some intake/exhaust fans, but otherwise it should be well equipped for early-2000s gaming. The X800's lack of SM3 will probably …

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Re: how rare (or fake) is this?

Posted on 2015-07-05, 08:32

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by obobskivich

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+1 those blue straps are probably either some crude anti-theft device or for shipping purposes (I've seen some packages from Amazon even today come strapped like that - I guess it supports the box from deforming or something). I've worked with the machines that put them on before, but I haven't the …

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Re: GF4 or Radeon9600

Posted on 2015-07-04, 13:05

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by obobskivich

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The bottom rung for DX9 is the FX series, which have no business doing DX9 in the first place even if they technically support it. A 9600 (atleast the 9600 XT I had) ran games just fine for its expected price point and release date. I got a free copy of Half Life 2 with it and it ran it well. …

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Re: GF4 or Radeon9600

Posted on 2015-07-04, 10:48

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by obobskivich

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If you're in Windows 9x the Radeon 9600 (or any other Radeon) will not support table fog (the driver version that fixes this is only available for 2000 and higher). The 9600 also won't support palletized textures. Otherwise I'm not aware of any big glaring issues going with the Radeon. If you're in …

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