Re: age of empires 2 bad performance on pentium iii

Posted on 2021-04-09, 06:54

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if you mean CPU frequency, i don't see how that comparison would especially support that notion - barton 2500 runs just 433mhz faster than tualatin 1400s but has 333mt/s FSB and ddr ram versus 133mhz FSB and i'm assuming just pc133 sdram on tualatin. granted athlon xp will probably have higher IPC …

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Re: Socket A Motherboards That Have 12V-Centric VRMs?

Posted on 2021-04-08, 12:16

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so, since the 2000-2002 asus pentium 4 boards with dual auxillary power connectors haven't been discussed much: first, with the P4T, P4T-E etc. they had a setup with p4+6-pin aux connector: p4te.png the manual isn't clear at all about this, do both connectors have to be used? does the board have …

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Re: USB Devices heavily slow down my Pentium III

Posted on 2021-04-08, 04:47

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The results pretty much tell me there is no considerable performance difference between both OSes, which leads me to think is not an OS problem, although further tests with Windows 2000 RTM/Windows 9x would be needed to confirm that. this article may be of interest: https://www.igorslab.de/en/games …

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Re: WMP11 and CRAM/CVID

Posted on 2021-04-08, 04:42

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try VLC perhaps? even the newer versions can supposedly run on XP...

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Re: IBM Aptiva 2159 S76, any love for these “Stealth” setups?

Posted on 2021-04-07, 09:02

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same for the CD drive. it's a neat setup actually - makes swapping disks more convenient without resorting to the full hulking desktop. they could have probably made the actual PC case smaller too, as there's no need for what looks like 3 5.25" bays.

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Re: vintage budget cards instead of 'good' cards

Posted on 2021-04-07, 08:51

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high-end cards are perhaps mostly of interest when it comes to AA/AF performance, and in the lower fps regions even a few frames might decide between playable or not... that being said, when even a gf2 gts gets somewhat hard to find i'm all for just going with budget cards instead of paying insane …

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Re: age of empires 2 bad performance on pentium iii

Posted on 2021-04-07, 08:01

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the game could well be reacting unusually strongly to FSB or memory speed - i don't know why else the pii 400 would have felt so similar in performance. and the performance issues are really little freezes instead of a more granular drop in performance, so along with those sound cutoffs, that's …

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Re: age of empires 2 bad performance on pentium iii

Posted on 2021-04-07, 03:07

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200 pop yes, but the stutters and little freezes already start creeping up when at 80 pop or so. i have tested this on some other hardware as well in recent times - pii 400 (strangely pretty similar performance from memory, so maybe an FSB bottleneck) and p200mmx (pretty bad right from the start and …

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Re: USB Devices heavily slow down my Pentium III

Posted on 2021-04-07, 01:11

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i actually didn't have any perceivable issues with a usb mouse even on a k6/233 setup (HX chipset usb, of course no silly USB cards), but you could be right and there is a performance difference. just not sure about how to go and benchmark this exactly...

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age of empires 2 bad performance on pentium iii

Posted on 2021-04-07, 01:04

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just a quick question for everyone that played this game on period hardware in recent times, how was the performance? on my p3 1100/512mb pc100/ti4200/sblive!/98se setup i find that on for example with 5 difficult AIs game the early- and midgame plays just fine but in the endgame it starts to …

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Re: Audigy 2 ZS Crackle Fix

Posted on 2021-04-07, 00:54

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audio issues with these cards can have other causes as well, particularily when putting them into old VIA chipset machines and such. heck, keep in mind that some games are simply broken or need a very specific card to work. i once removed the caps in that spot on a 2zs and they all measured well out …

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Re: USB Devices heavily slow down my Pentium III

Posted on 2021-04-07, 00:42

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ditch the usb live! card for an actual pci live! card and ditch the usb 2.0 card altogether - its performance impact should speak for itself and there's numerous other threads about this, so it's not just you. i'd also suggest going with an actual ethernet card with SMB or FTP for file sharing. an …

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Re: ZDoom LE (Legacy Edition)

Posted on 2021-04-07, 00:33

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as it says on those github pages, one is a zdoom fork while the other is a gzdoom fork. of course brutal doom needs the GL features to work properly. i actually got the regular release of v21 to run acceptably with this version, the only problem i've ran into is that upon a midi track ending there's …

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Re: Replace Low ESR Electrolytic KZJ Cap with a polymer or similar NOS electrolytic ?

Posted on 2021-04-07, 00:29

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you should definitely be able to see a brand and usually series on the sleeve. if this is 90s stuff i would probably go with panasonic FC/chemicon LXZ or something like that with a bit higher ESR than panasonic FR, as you're already likely to undercut the original ESR and some PSU types are said to …

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Re: Audigy 2 ZS Crackle Fix

Posted on 2021-04-07, 00:23

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might be wrong here but as i understand it, these "fine gold" caps you picked are meant for the audio signal path, while you put them around those VRMs where something with low ESR and even a little upgrade to capacitance is more appropriate. there's a reason why the original caps in that particular …

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Re: DMA Mode check does not stick in Windows 98SE?

Posted on 2021-04-05, 05:57

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bloodem that is definitely not a BIOS issue, that is HDDs newer than UDMA33 (most of them) working properly only at their native UDMA 66/100 or PIO. That is true for Seagate and IBM drives. That's also half of famous W98 shutdown bug. Because of that many people suggest using third party …

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Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?

Posted on 2021-03-31, 23:21

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Not a SC55 and not a battery... but there are other things that can leak too :/ The Korg AG-10 I got wasn't working, it receives MIDI data but doesn't output any audio, luckily the seller was honest enough and refunded me the money, I poked around a bit to see if I can find anything and well... …

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Re: socket 775 and agp 3.3v compatibility?

Posted on 2021-03-31, 03:21

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Which brings me to a point how much faster is the RTX 3080 versus the original GeForce 256 in real benchmarks? Order of thousands or millions? depends on the metric you're going by, but if you mean benchmarks from when the geforce 256 was current, probably not as much faster as you think. there's …

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Re: Voodoo 3 PCI 640x480 resolution in DOS Strangeness?

Posted on 2021-03-31, 03:14

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i'll attach the tool here, but if you say you don't get better scores under windows, you probably have a different issue - check the voltage on your CPU and run a memtest, just in case. or maybe try plugging in the s3 card, i never thought 3dfx cards were all that ideal for DOS anyway.

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Re: Retro PC for WinXP 2D performance optimization - Tom2D

Posted on 2021-03-31, 03:03

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that's an interesting topic, that tom2d benchmark seems almost forgotten these days. i don't know what constitutes cheating for you but i managed to beat your score with a p3 1100/gf4ti4200 setup under 98se: tom2d.png on a more serious note, your upgrade options are pretty obvious - an overclocked …

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