Re: Pentium III Windows 98 SE computer not running games as well as it used to?

Posted on 2023-10-15, 00:53

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by ocdmonkey

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Thank you to everyone for all the information. I ended up reinstalling Windows (and applying the virtual memory modifications listed in andre_6's PDF), and now Quake (winquake) and Half-Life run much more like how I remember them running (and would expect). I haven't tested the Voodoo 3 card's 3D …

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Re: Pentium III Windows 98 SE computer not running games as well as it used to?

Posted on 2023-10-03, 21:35

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by ocdmonkey

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The sound card I'm using is, I believe, a Turtle Beach Montego A3D, and I don't remember it ever giving me problems before. Half-Life, at least in software mode, will sometimes have this "skipping" behavior when playing voice lines, but I'm guessing that's due to the performance issues rather than a …

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Re: Pentium III Windows 98 SE computer not running games as well as it used to?

Posted on 2023-10-02, 18:00

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by ocdmonkey

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I thought of background applications too, and I think performance improved slightly when I turned off my audio card's tray utility, but aside from that I think the only thing that's running that isn't just a normal Win98 thing is the VooDoo 3 tray utility. I do sometimes get an error on login that I …

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Re: Pentium III Windows 98 SE computer not running games as well as it used to?

Posted on 2023-10-02, 04:59

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by ocdmonkey

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I prefer how WinQuake looks, and it's been a long while since I fist played Quake on this machine but I know I was having issues running at least the DOS version I think, and I wouldn't be surprised if GLQuake gave me issues as well, though at the time I would have had a different graphics card in …

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Pentium III Windows 98 SE computer not running games as well as it used to?

Posted on 2023-10-02, 00:52

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by ocdmonkey

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Maybe I'm not remembering correctly, but I recently played Half-Life on this old Windows 98 computer I have that I'm pretty sure I played years ago with the same hardware configuration, but the framerate was way more unstable than I remember, to the point where it was pretty much unplayable without …

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Re: What could cause a very faint horizontal line to constantly go down a CRT?

Posted on 2022-07-10, 10:03

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by ocdmonkey

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Might simply be old phosphor in the tube, the phosphor coating on CRTs doesnt last forever and will eventually degrade, it sound more like its the electron gun as it scans down the tube + old phosphor causing the black line. The brightness/darkness is likely bad pots that need replacing or …

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What could cause a very faint horizontal line to constantly go down a CRT?

Posted on 2022-07-10, 03:44

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by ocdmonkey

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I was monkeying around in an old IBM monitor I have trying to fix a brightness issue I've been having (which I unfortunately was not able to solve), but since doing that I've noticed a very hard to see dark line that makes its way down the screen, almost like when capturing a CRT with a camera, but …

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Re: Can't get it to work with MT-32 (blank screen in Hero's Quest)

Posted on 2022-02-22, 19:40

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by ocdmonkey

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Ok, I feel kinda dumb now. I forgot to change which computer it was plugged into. Once I had it plugged into the right one it was on that black screen for what felt like forever, but the midi message light was blinking and after a while it worked just fine. Only thing now is that the volume seems …

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Can't get it to work with MT-32 (blank screen in Hero's Quest)

Posted on 2022-02-21, 19:50

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by ocdmonkey

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I've been trying to get this to work for a while now, but I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. No matter what I do, when I launch Hero's Quest I just get a black screen with a mouse cursor, where it was working fine before I reconfigured it to expect an MT-32 using the install program. …

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Sound Blaster 16 popping when CD is being accessed

Posted on 2021-10-12, 19:30

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by ocdmonkey

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I started playing Gabriel Knight last night, and I noticed that seemingly when the game was reading data off the CD there would be some pops in the audio. I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this and if you have any idea how I could go about fixing it. I don't remember the exact model of SB16 …

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Re: Single blue, horizontal line after recapping monitor

Posted on 2021-08-21, 19:26

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by ocdmonkey

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Thanks but I'm glad to state that while poking around I found I forgot to plug in one of the connectors, and sure enough that's what was causing it! The monitor appears to be behaving as normal now, only without turning itself off when starting my computers. Now I can get back to reassembling it, …

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Single blue, horizontal line after recapping monitor

Posted on 2021-08-21, 16:40

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by ocdmonkey

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I recapped a CRT monitor of mine (an IBM type 8515) because I had to leave it on for several minutes before starting my computer otherwise it would turn itself off. Anyway, I finally replaced all the caps and it seems to be working except that it only displays a single blue, horizontal line. When I …

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Re: 4 specific 5.25 floppies won't read

Posted on 2021-02-17, 15:47

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by ocdmonkey

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Looking at the box closely I see now that it says that it has 1.2 MB 5.25 in floppies. Strange that the 5th one is the more standard 360KB (since it's the startup disk maybe they did that so they could give a more relavent error message to those without 1.2MB drives). Anyway, I have a 360K drive in …

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4 specific 5.25 floppies won't read

Posted on 2021-02-17, 02:27

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by ocdmonkey

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I've finally gotten around to backing up a lot of my old floppies, and it's been going pretty well but the first 4 (of 5) disks for Quest for Glory 2 won't read at all. In winimage it says a disk is not in the drive, which I haven't seen before, and I even tried reading them on the only other …

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Re: SB16 (CT2290) Suddenly very quiet selectively and only playing certain instruments

Posted on 2020-12-06, 19:10

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by ocdmonkey

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I've tested every trace on that chip I can see with a multimeter and they all seem to be fine. It would make sense for it to be a bad solder joint, since even in the short time I was testing it the symptoms weren't 100% constant, but I would really like to know for sure the source of the problem …

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SB16 (CT2290) Suddenly very quiet selectively and only playing certain instruments

Posted on 2020-12-06, 00:07

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by ocdmonkey

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Ok, so something weird I noticed after changing out the VGA card in my HP Vectra is that the Soundblaster card I have installed in there doesn't seem to be working properly anymore. Depending on the application it will either be barely audible, or only play certain MIDI instruments. Jazz Jackrabbit …

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Re: Later Sierra AGI games not working when installed on 5160

Posted on 2018-09-29, 00:03

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by ocdmonkey

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Early AGI games, like KQ2, had copy protection that looked for a damaged sector, but that works just fine on my 5160. The games I'm having trouble with (KQ4 AGI and Gold Rush) don't have on-disk copy protection (I'm not sure if Gold Rush originally had copy protection, but the game files I have …

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Re: Later Sierra AGI games not working when installed on 5160

Posted on 2018-09-28, 03:43

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by ocdmonkey

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I managed to get an original copy of KQ4 AGI, so I installed it using the INSTALLH.BAT file on Disk 1. Gold Rush I also managed to obtain the original INSTALLH.BAT and _INSTALL.BAT files and so I manually copied what I perceived to be the appropriate files onto 5 360K floppy disks, and installed it …

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Later Sierra AGI games not working when installed on 5160

Posted on 2018-09-28, 01:10

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by ocdmonkey

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Hi, I've run into a rather annoying problem: I recently got an IBM PC XT 5160, in which I have since installed an XTIDE interface card so I could use a CF card as a hard drive. It works fine for the most part, but for some reason I'm having a problem getting some Seirra AGI games to run. Basically, …

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Re: Problem with KVM switch and 5160

Posted on 2018-08-13, 20:46

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by ocdmonkey

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I found out what's going on. See, the keyboard I'm using is a Model M, and apparently most PS/2 keyboards use the AT protocol instead of the XT protocol, which the 5160 is not compatible with (the KVM's documentation refers to the connector as an AT connector, which should have tipped me off). …

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