Re: Is it possible to have CPU automatically downclock when load is low on Windows XP?
Posted on 2025-05-16, 07:59
You can leave OS-based throttling off and use PhenomMSRtweaker or P-ST8 to do the job instead.
Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing
Posted on 2025-05-13, 15:22
Thank you for your reply, I also found CPUZ had no impact, which HWiNFO32 did you use? I used 8.25-5720, maybe the Extended Kernel has an effect on it. It was 8.24-5700 Now I remember you! I recall issues caused by the Extended Kernel half supporting GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariable() , do I recall …
Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing
Posted on 2025-05-12, 14:56
Update: I remembered I had Windows 2000 Advanced Server on my Supermicro X7SBL Intel Xeon X3320 QC (Yorkfield) so I booted it and the HPET was stopped, but when I ran HWiNFO32 it started it and it remained running even after I had exited HWiNFO! Out of interest how many CPUs show up? I installed AS …
Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing
Posted on 2025-05-11, 16:45
Is it normal that HPET reads zero on Win 2000? I believe there is no OS support for HPET until XP SP3, so maybe this is expected behavior. (under hardware/cpu detail/cpu timers)
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-05-09, 11:59
I've been playing Hard West, and finished two of the scenarios so far. I think the turn-based battle system is great, the wild west theme is well done, but I'm not too sure about everything else. The game doesn't seem to be as strong on story or RPG elements as the usual SRPG, which would be …
Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread
Posted on 2025-04-26, 10:06
70826 3D marks Ryzen 3500X, GTX 650 Ti, Win2k
Re: Rant "Requires Windows"
Posted on 2025-04-23, 19:12
Yes, pretending that "Windows" is one single thing, or even being unaware that it is not a single thing, is quite lame. It's also pretty lame when games are listed (eg. on wikipedia) as having been released for "PC" or "Windows" when said games were only released on the Steam DRM platform. Just do a …
Re: Did any 486 systems try to implement write protection of shadow RAM areas in L1 cache?
Posted on 2025-04-13, 09:28
In protected mode, the memory range can be marked as read-only in the page table. Not sure if DPMI hosts actually do this. Under Windows it's a non-issue because user processes won't have the adapter area mapped into their virtual memory. In real mode, maybe some buggy code could crash itself by …
Re: How to install BWC Windows 2k GPU drivers?
Posted on 2025-04-07, 18:49
Make sure you have also installed Extended Core (which is separate from Extended Kernel)
Re: chips 82c435/436 based vga card?
Posted on 2025-04-07, 08:22
http://bitsavers.org/components/chipsAndTech/ … _436_198808.pdf 435/436 chipset can't do the standard 256-color mode because it doesn't have the chain-4 bit in sequencer register 4 (among others). It's probably just another EGA card with VGA monitor support.
Re: How to install BWC Windows 2k GPU drivers?
Posted on 2025-04-07, 07:33
For whatever reason, nvidia didn't include the device IDs for anything above the GTX 960. To use a 980, you need to add a couple of lines to the .INF file (usually called nv4_dispi.inf) (under NVIDIA_Devices) %NVIDIA_DEV.13C0% = Section008, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13C0 (under Strings) NVIDIA_DEV.13C0 = " …
Re: PIT interrupt handler: should I expect jitter if I'm doing more than incrementing a counter?
Posted on 2025-04-03, 09:27
interrupt handler should work fine if it is setup to fire at a reasonable rate. The default ~18Hz is not good for music unless it was composed specifically so that the tempo matches up.
Re: What Windows 9X feature other than DOS do you miss on Windows NT?
Posted on 2025-04-03, 09:18
The ability to launch Win9x from DOS and then (unofficially) exit back to DOS was nice. The main thing missing from NT is the ability to fall back on DOS/BIOS API for disk access instead of just going dead with a 0x7B BSOD. Always and forever.
Re: Question about charging smartphone through computer's USB port
Posted on 2025-03-25, 10:38
Re: database of video card capabilities?
Posted on 2025-03-25, 09:40
GeForce and Radeon cards are pretty well covered. Not sure about others. There used to be some charts on a site called neeyik.info but it seems to be gone now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_gra … rocessing_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_ … rocessing_units
Re: Succession of gaming resolution standards for graphics card
Posted on 2025-03-24, 11:13
The idea that modern video cards should be associated with one specific resolution is an invention of the marketing people and tech press. Maybe if you are playing the exact games that the reviewers are using to test video cards then there is some sense to it. Otherwise it's pure marketing. Soon …
Re: Question about charging smartphone through computer's USB port
Posted on 2025-03-24, 10:40
There is a protocol to query/negotiate the available current on a USB port. Implementations handle this in various ways depending on what version of the USB standard they were aiming at and how closely they follow it. My guess is the negotiation doesn't work when the computer is off, so Sony doesn't …
Re: Tale of Ancient Land - new game for CP/M
Posted on 2025-03-19, 18:21
Can you check on your machine and send the result of the SURVEY.COM application? https://retrobrewcomputers.org/n8vem-pbwiki-archive/0/38274845/4200862/index.htm This program runs, and the memory map looks correct, though it doesn't seem to handle harddisk partitions correctly. For the |CPM command …
Re: Tale of Ancient Land - new game for CP/M
Posted on 2025-03-18, 16:30
Turbo Pascal programs never work on my Z280, this confirms it. A new release without 40 years of bitrot also silently returns to the command interpreter...
Re: Question about Win2k on a Modern Motherboard Error
Posted on 2025-03-12, 11:16
The problem could be related to MPS if it affects 2000 and NT but not 98. You might want to seek out the ACPI 2.0 driver that was posted on discord, and then try running 2000 with ACPI HAL instead.
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