Re: 1996-1999 emulation status in 2025?
Posted on Today, 12:04
I wonder if there's anyone who tried and could report what emulated CPU can Intel Core Ultra 9 285K do at full speed in PCem / 86Box / DOSBox-X.
Re: New DirectMusic breakage in Windows 11
Posted on Yesterday, 20:01
If we're being pedantic, if I'm understating this right, we should be looking for the following sequences: 4C49535404000000494E464F Breaking this down: 4C495354 - ASCII "LIST" 04000000 - length of the chunk - 4 bytes - 32-bit integer in little-endian 494E464F - ASCII "INFO" - start and at the same …
Re: Alternative to run The Need For Speed Special Edition under VMware Windows 98 SE guest
Posted on Yesterday, 06:40
nervoushammer's EXE and a couple of workarounds provided by DxWnd also work quite well for me on Win11 23H2 and the old XP with NVIDIA drivers on Win11 being from the time of release of that OS, at least with forced windowed mode, workarounds being Win9x heap, faking RAM amount, disk space, fixing …
Re: Is it possible to have CPU automatically downclock when load is low on Windows XP?
Posted on 2025-05-18, 14:41
Both options don't work well with frame limiting in games. Unless frame limiter is old school, so just busy waits and doesn't give CPU time to breathe, things start lagging massively.
Re: Is it possible to have CPU automatically downclock when load is low on Windows XP?
Posted on 2025-05-18, 07:17
It is worth noting that AMD driver's installer adds /pmtimer switch to C:\boot.ini, which likely screws with performance of applications.
Re: Is it possible to have CPU automatically downclock when load is low on Windows XP?
Posted on 2025-05-17, 16:02
AMD Processor Driver was the missing piece (linked on that Wiki page), this comes with newer Windows versions out of box, now changing power scheme in Windows makes a difference and CPU is chilling like it's supposed to. Only took until 2025 'till that was figured out. To be fair, I only daily drove …
Re: End of 10
Posted on 2025-05-17, 15:43
Updating Windows sucked since at least XP. I don't update it (I change to newer build occasionally, so new install), so not effected by the horrible slowness on HDDs, other than the thing coming together after boot / logon. Linux? I suspect only handful of people leave for Linux when the new bad …
Re: Monitoring RAM usage under WinXP while gaming
Posted on 2025-05-17, 08:13
🤣, still had only 256 MB by the time Call of Duty 2 and Need for Speed: Most Wanted were released. Took about 5 minutes for maps to load in these games.
Re: New DirectMusic breakage in Windows 11
Posted on 2025-05-16, 13:01
So crazyc meant to write "without", not "with". And if this is an error in Music.rrc, why is it suddenly the problem? Is MS fixing random bugs in old deprecated components? Assuming it was meant to error out in the first place in such case.
Re: Interstate 76 on Windows 10 (or at least Windows 7?)
Posted on 2025-05-16, 12:53
OK, so CDs with music in PCem or 86Box aren't a problem. Additionally, there is native support for mounting CUE. I wonder though, did this game really run that horrible on a real 133 MHz Pentium at 640x480 resolution, high detail, software renderer? Feels like 5 - 10 FPS. 86Box emulation speed …
Re: New DirectMusic breakage in Windows 11
Posted on 2025-05-16, 12:42
Wait, in which cases is this necessary? I don't have the problem with music playback with old DLL.
Re: Alternative to run The Need For Speed Special Edition under VMware Windows 98 SE guest
Posted on 2025-05-15, 21:15
This game has memory management / heap bugs too. 😁 Messing with the EXE on my fresh 32-bit XP install, if I don't add EmulateHeap via Compatibility Administrator, CreateFileA fails with ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND when opening nfs.cfg file.
Re: Is it possible to have CPU automatically downclock when load is low on Windows XP?
Posted on 2025-05-15, 19:53
So there's a manual included with ASUS Cool & Quiet application, it pretty much says it should work if feature is enabled in BIOS, driver installed and Minimal Power Management selected as power scheme. But CPU still runs at max frequency all the time. This computer just doesn't like XP. Well, I'm …
Re: End of 10
Posted on 2025-05-15, 09:49
No, it's just that people just don't want to upgrade (especially if it is perceived as forced), period. So each time a new version of Windows comes - it's the same old tune - sucks, old one was so much better, I'm staying with it. 3-5 years later a good portion of people moves, finds out it is not …
Re: Alternative to run The Need For Speed Special Edition under VMware Windows 98 SE guest
Posted on 2025-05-15, 09:26
They complicated things with multi-threading and didn't synchronize them right. Guess it works on Win9x on slow hardware due to timing adding up. As we know, single core CPUs can't run things in parallel and even when forced on one core on newer CPUs, I suppose how much time each thread runs is …
Re: Is it possible to have CPU automatically downclock when load is low on Windows XP?
Posted on 2025-05-15, 06:37
Oh, that's new to me, I thought the only difference in power schemes on XP were the times 'till standby and others you see there. I'll give it a try and report back. Yeah, Cool'n'Quiet is enabled in BIOS and accompanying driver installed. I always found it weird that the only thing CNQ app does is …
Is it possible to have CPU automatically downclock when load is low on Windows XP?
Posted on 2025-05-14, 09:56
Specifically, the motherboard in question is ASUS M3N78, CPU is AMD Phenom II X4 920. On all recent Windows versions, CPU downclocks to 800 MHz when idling, but on Windows XP, it runs top speed all the time. My BIOS has C1E configuration setting, enabling it doesn't make a difference. I've read C1E …
Re: New DirectMusic breakage in Windows 11
Posted on 2025-05-14, 08:39
@KainXVII Maybe I went a bit overboard and should clearly separate those parts. If I remember right, they shouldn't detect you from beyond viewable distance, but if you want to be 100%, you can simply skip copying folders Common, Mountain World, Islands World, Volcanic World, Multiplayer, Rift World …
Re: Interstate 76 on Windows 10 (or at least Windows 7?)
Posted on 2025-05-14, 07:19
Does OS in the emulator pickup on CD audio in this case? Last time I messed with these things I remember only data getting through.
Re: Interstate 76 on Windows 10 (or at least Windows 7?)
Posted on 2025-05-14, 07:13
What emulator / virtualizer did you use? I don't recall what I used last time, probably VMware, I got crash near the end on Win98 as well. On a somehow related note, is there any emulator / virtualizer that lets you mount proper CD images (MDS, CCD...), not just ISOs? Or maybe I could use Alcohol …
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