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Re: Fastest CPU Descent 1 can handle?

Posted on 2021-03-25, 02:05

for anyone interested in just playing the original .exe, something around p90-p133 will be the sweet spot. it'll be playable down to dx2/66 if one can tolerate somewhat low framerates, and that's probably what most played it on when it came out. speaking of low framerates, the playstation port …

Re: Audigy 2 ZS and Windows XP SP3

Posted on 2021-03-25, 01:52

since the capacitor issues are an inherent design flaw on these cards it's a good idea to look into fixing it instead of ignoring the matter. i have done the replacement on my card years ago and the caps were way out of spec, so this isn't going to get any better in the future. i'd suggest heating …

Re: Audigy 2 ZS and Windows XP SP3

Posted on 2021-03-22, 15:21

if you think it could be the onboard stuff, i guess you'd have already tried disabling that in bios? not sure about the x-fi xtreme music, but for the audigy 2 zs and any similiar card with those little capacitors around the regulators, those caps are notorious for failing. https://www.youtube.com/ …

Re: Voodoo 2 repair, missing legs on Chuck

Posted on 2021-03-08, 10:40

i would have tried to use kynar wire here if the space permitted it, that way you'd have insulation on most of the cable. with long enough wires you could have taped/glued them down to the board (though there might be limitations on length depending on signal). looking at this now i don't see any …

Re: Voodoo 2 repair, missing legs on Chuck

Posted on 2021-02-28, 19:09

dremeling is definitely what you are looking at here - i really doubt much would stick to what little metal is visible. see here for an example of how such a repair can look like: https://imgur.com/gallery/Amt1b i'm not sure that hot air is really needed in this case, just using a regular soldering …

Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-02-26, 21:40

one difference between 95 and 98 is how the swap file and vcache are managed; if you have a lot of RAM installed (even just >32mb, according to some), it's usually said to set 95 to manually limit the vcache size because it can grow quite large and take a lot of memory away from programs to use. you …

Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-02-25, 16:47

that behavior vaguely sounds to me like a badly running vsync, so i would try the "override directdraw refresh" option which i think was under dxdiag. if that doesn't help the best option is to plug in a different card and see if that changes anything... i'm just curious though, what games show this …

Re: Keep GeForce 4 to cards from dying

Posted on 2021-02-25, 13:43

Geforce 4 Cards do run hot and used very cheap crappy heatsink solutions. With bad caps the ripple current will make them run hotter and fail faster. The higher the ripple current, the more the heat. That could also be a possible cause, especially if he also didn't use fresh TIM and continued using …

Re: Creative ALchemy (EAX Abnormal Reverb)

Posted on 2021-02-21, 09:30

in Windows
alchemy never having been all that great is the answer here, as far as i'm concerned... there's a reason it has all these settings for buffers etc. - and i doubt even tweaking these can get rid off all issues. just go with XP if you want to save yourself some headaches; actually even then there's …

Re: FF7 music loop bug

Posted on 2021-02-20, 05:40

i've never heard of this bug before and a quick search suggests it was introduced with the recent ports like on ps4. so just play the original pc version. also there's specific support for AWE32/64 soundfonts and XG here, so either of those is the way to go over the SC-55, which would just play the …

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