Re: Older PCI gpu in newer system.

Posted on Yesterday, 00:59

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by Baoran

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You can install XPDM drivers on Windows 7, Windows 7 is last Windows OS to support them. Aero won't work but you can then use full screen NTVDM if you want. That is only for 32bit windows 7 though, right? If I understood correctly 64bit windows 7 requires drivers to be signed. Also I read that …

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Re: Best 'native' 5.25 floppy disk games

Posted on Yesterday, 00:44

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My favourites were wing commander and M1 Tank Platoon, Airborne Ranger, Sierra games like Leisure Suit Larry 1-3, King's quest 1-5...etc and wasteland.

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Re: Older PCI gpu in newer system.

Posted on Yesterday, 00:18

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I was thinking of buying something like PCI Geforce FX 5500 for a haswell system that has the integrated Intel HD 4600 already and trying to install XP or Vista drivers to with 32bit windows 7 in it and get better compatibility with older games. Nobody has any idea what are the chances to getting …

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Older PCI gpu in newer system.

Posted on 2023-06-04, 18:46

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by Baoran

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Anyone has any experience of installing secondary gpu and 32bit windows 7 to newer system that has pci slots and trying to install windows XP driver for that PCI gpu for compatibility with older games? One use could be to install PCI geforce card that would support 8-bi paletted textures in those 4 …

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Re: VGA cable signal degradation at high resolutions.

Posted on 2023-06-03, 18:06

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by Baoran

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VGA has no inherent resolution limit, you can push as high freqs as your video card allows and monitor can accept. The main limit is video card, they usually have 400MHz pixel clock limit on VGA output which makes it impossible to do stuff like 4k for example. 2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz is not at all a …

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Re: VGA cable signal degradation at high resolutions.

Posted on 2023-06-03, 14:30

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by Baoran

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Is it an artificial limitation when a manual of a motherboard for example says that maximum output resolution from d-sub in the I/O panel is 1920x1200@60Hz?

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Re: VGA cable signal degradation at high resolutions.

Posted on 2023-06-03, 13:24

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IIRC, VGA does 2048x1536 at 85Hz max. (assuming RAMDACs on your card can actually cope with it). It doesn't support 2560 horizontal width, so you don't have to worry about signal quality at 2560x1440. I don't count downsampling/DSR/VSR in above. PS. Unless you thought 1920x1440 instead of 2560x1440 …

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VGA cable signal degradation at high resolutions.

Posted on 2023-06-02, 20:24

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by Baoran

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Anyone has experience of how much the signal degradation will affect the picture if you try to get higher resolutions like 1440p using a normal vga cable? It is hard to say if any of my vga cables are better quality in some way.

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Re: Nvidia GeForce 4 4200 TI 128MB; overkill for a PIII 500MHz rig?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 22:06

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by Baoran

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How much faster do you think a Ti4600 should be compared to a Ti4200? That is what I just said. ti4600 is about 20-25% faster than ti4200 depending on the game so if like in my case if there is still cpu bottleneck with 1000Mhz P3 then it seems logical that with a gpu that is only that much slower …

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Re: Nvidia GeForce 4 4200 TI 128MB; overkill for a PIII 500MHz rig?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 09:34

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by Baoran

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I have a ti4600 on my 1000Mhz coppermine and that is also cpu bottlenecked clearly on my system and ti4600 is only like 20% faster than ti4200. If cpu bottleneck bothers you it might be good idea to get even faster cpu than mine in my opinion.

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-05-28, 22:48

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This thread made me wonder. Is there a good reason why people prefer using detonator 45.23? If I remember correctly nvidia increased the shader performance of FX cards in later driver versions. In reviews detonator 52.16 showed clear shader performance improvement over 4X.XX drivers in FX series …

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-05-28, 21:57

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This thread made me wonder. Is there a good reason why people prefer using detonator 45.23? If I remember correctly nvidia increased the shader performance of FX cards in later driver versions. In reviews detonator 52.16 showed clear shader performance improvement over 4X.XX drivers in FX series …

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What would dos performaace of S3 P86C928 chip be like?

Posted on 2023-05-27, 21:37

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by Baoran

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I know S3 P86C928 chip is meant mostly for windows GUI stuff, but how well it would a vlb card with that chip do in dos? Would it be better to use an ISA card in dos like one with normal TSENG ET4000AX chip compared to that one?

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Re: Voodoo 1 on very fast machine?

Posted on 2023-01-06, 10:54

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by Baoran

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From my poin of view it seems that it works fine in windows on 1Ghz P3, but dos drivers dont detect the card unless I change the fsb to 66Mhz to slow down the PC to 500Mhz. It would be nice if someone could modify the card detection issue with the dos glide.

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Re: which is better: ISA svga + voodoo2 vs voodoo3 pci?

Posted on 2022-12-24, 05:38

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by Baoran

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any voodoo on 486 will be <20fps I have a 133Mhz 486 system with voodoo 1 card and I dont agree with this. I have mostly played games like tomb raider, Archimedean Dynasty and lands of lore 2 that have been using 3dfx and frame rates have felt pretty good to me even if I dont have any way to …

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Re: Will my SOYO SY-5EMA+ unofficially support an AMD K6-2+?

Posted on 2022-12-05, 05:07

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by Baoran

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I have been using that motherboard fine with K6-3+ for few years, but you have to understand that there are quite big differences between revisions when it comes to this motherboard. It took a while to find a manual online that matched the exact revision I have of this motherboard if I remember …

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Re: How do you store your keyboards?

Posted on 2022-09-27, 22:07

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by Baoran

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I have only piled them on top of each other so far of a shelf. This makes me wonder if I am damaging them somehow by just doing those. I suppose there is most weight on the bottom one when there might be 4 others on top of it but so far I have not had any problems with any of them when I take one …

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Re: Best Game compatibility Win98se Computer Build ?

Posted on 2022-09-25, 23:38

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by Baoran

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My take on this subject is this https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=65089 It has been pretty much perfect for me these past few years and I have noticed that you can drop the speed of the cpu in bios enough that even dos games voodoo games work fine that dont recognize the voodoo 2 cards if …

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Re: Three questions about SVGA, DOS and Dual Boot

Posted on 2022-09-25, 23:12

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by Baoran

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I'll answer to question #2. You can make pc to boot to dos always by editing the system file msdos.sys in a text editor and change bootgui=1 to bootgui=0. You probably need to change the attributes not to be system, hidden and read only before you can edit it. If you do that the pc will boot to …

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Re: Windows XP Build advice.

Posted on 2022-09-25, 18:38

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by Baoran

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I just would not trust old CX430 psu. Those old corsair budget PSUs had quite bad reputation even when they were new. The ones that had CX with green letters on the side of the PSU had quite bad failures. The ones that had CX with black letters were fine. I would wholeheartedly disagree with that …

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