Re: Need for Speed High Stakes Glide or D3D?

Posted on 2024-10-10, 16:03

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and NFS Porsche is actually better in D3D https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=750256#p750256 You need a Voodoo 4/5, if you want the best texture quality in NFS Porsche with 3dfx cards, also in Glide Mode, because Voodoo's up to the 3 cards only support a texture resolution size of 256x256, and …

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Re: Replacing Voodoo2 1MB chips with 512k chips?

Posted on 2024-09-11, 16:27

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Most Voodoo2 work stably up to 98 MHz. Most Voodoo2 cards out there, also all my Voodoo2 cards from different brands, are using 100 MHz EDO RAM (25ns) chips, some rare ones have 110MHz (22ns) EDO chips . So 98MHz is not really a problem with 100MHZ EDO RAM, but the Voodoo2 from the Threadstarter …

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Re: Voodoo 2 with mild artefacts

Posted on 2024-08-09, 12:06

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Hijacking this thread :) I got a Diamond Monster II 8MB Voodoo 2 card. It shows these artefacts on Unreal start scene: Voodoo2 artefacts.jpeg Voodoo2front.jpeg I had this problem on one of my Voodoo2 cards. It was one TMU unit with dust/oxidation on the pins. After intensive cleaning with isopropyl …

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Re: 7800 or 7900 series?

Posted on 2024-08-08, 18:33

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GeForce 7900 series was absolutely affected by it, because first revisions of PS3 were also affected, with RSX on 90nm lithography. All Nvidia 90nm chips are just ticking timebombs. So, I am happy, that I have a Gainward Bliss 7800 GS+ 512MB AGP with the first version of the 110nm G70 core (7800 GT …

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Re: BX vs VIA chipset

Posted on 2024-07-22, 19:22

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PlaneVuki wrote on 2024-07-22, 16:52: What else can be done? Maybe this VIA Apollo Pro 133A tweak guide could help? https://www.snakebytestudios.com/columns/hardware/biostweak/ SDRAM Memory timings also on 2/2/2 latencys? You can see this with CPU-Z Vintage Edition.

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Re: Matrox G550 hardware T&L in OpenGL

Posted on 2024-07-22, 17:31

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Matrox has never released a G550 MAX, so you also have tried to overclock the G550 to see, if you can reach G400 performance in Direct3D? Would be interesting. The "Matrox Technical Support Tweak Utility" is the tool you need: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/drivers-for-matrox.html

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Re: BX vs VIA chipset

Posted on 2024-07-19, 16:32

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The VIA Apollo Pro 133A supports the memory interleave option for a much faster memory performance (not all VIA Boards have this option in the bios), so you could try out the tool George E Breese Memory Interleave Enabler. https://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/readmes/venabler_v015_readme.htm …

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Re: Intel PD440FX with PII 350?

Posted on 2024-07-02, 17:46

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My Deschutes(2.0V) P2-333@66 does have a max. multiplier of 5. My P2-400@100 has max. 4. I had a PII 400 SL2S7/Malay stepping with a free multiplier. 450Mhz (4.5x) was fully stable, also boots with a 5x multiplier (Bios says 500 MHz), but not stable (also tested with 2.2V), because this is a …

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Re: Super Socket 7: VIA MVP3 vs. ALi Aladdin V

Posted on 2024-05-24, 17:41

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PA2013 2mb can’t overclock to FSB higher than 100MHz even motherboard manual indicate it can reach 112MHz or 124MHz, it can’t get work higher than 100MHz, won’t boot. My AOpen AX59 Pro with MVP3 only works with 112MHz FSB, if I change the VIO Voltage Jumper to 3,48V. With the default 3.3V, I get …

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Re: 75 MHz fsb on 430TX memory issue

Posted on 2024-05-15, 12:18

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Try to disable the SPD check in the diagnostic program, for example in CPU-Z. You need to go to "cpuz.ini" and change the "SPD=1" to "SPD=0". Prime95 is the way to go for a stability check, or 3DMark2000 in a loop. 3DMark2000 always crashed, if the memory module was broken, or unstable.

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Re: P6BXT-A+ Rev: 2.2E best CPU?

Posted on 2024-04-27, 12:38

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A Coppermine based Pentium III with 100MHz FSB should also work with the Revision 2.2E. A Socket 370 PIII Coppermine (FSB100) would be the cheapest option, because this board has Slot 1 and Socket 370 options. The 1,1GHZ PIII S370 should be the fastest option. I olny would flash to the latest …

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Re: Lenovo Thinkpad R61I Installing Windows with 4gb causes BSOD's

Posted on 2024-04-24, 16:13

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Whoops, my bad. It is Gl960. But the question still remains: why it BSOD's with bellow 3GB? The 2GB stick is the closest to mainboard and the 512MB stick, which is a know good one, is in the top slot. Ill try borrowing an 1GB stick form my laptops and see if that changes. 2x 1GB DDR2 667/800 is …

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Re: Lenovo Thinkpad R61I Installing Windows with 4gb causes BSOD's

Posted on 2024-04-24, 15:31

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Only the T61 has the GM965 chipset, here are also more infos: https://thinkwiki-de.translate.goog/R61?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=eng&_x_tr_hl=eng&_x_tr_pto=wapp You can find the answer in this article: Advantages: DVI via a docking station works; depending on the old board, the T61 board comes with …

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Re: Lenovo Thinkpad R61I Installing Windows with 4gb causes BSOD's

Posted on 2024-04-24, 13:26

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The problem is the chipset. The GL960 chipset (the GM965 does not have this problem and can handle 2x 2GB RAM, the T61 fore xample has this better chipset) of the R61 officially only supports max. 2GB RAM in dual channel (2x 1GB). Unofficially, however, 2GB+1GB in dual channel = 3GB also run without …

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Re: VIA MVP3 (2a5led4gc) w/ K6-2 500

Posted on 2024-04-15, 11:56

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Voodoo3 is good choice, but it has 16 bit only Voodoo 4 4500 (Voodoo 5 is overkill for this build), the best 3dfx option for a SS7 build. 32-bit colour in 3D, texture compression, 32MB memory and support for 2048x2048 textures. NFS Porsche for example looks better with more detailes textures on a …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2024-03-29, 12:32

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Trashbytes wrote on 2024-03-29, 09:00: Now all we need is for some lucky person to walk in with a K5 PR200. My K5 PR166 runs completely stable (Prime 95 and DOS/Windows Games) with 133MHz (PR200), also with only 3.3V, instead of the stock 3.5V.

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Re: A plain K6-2 build with some Matrox flavoring

Posted on 2024-03-20, 19:10

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Very nice! I have the 8MB WRAM version of the Millenium II PCI. Maybe this can improve the performance, compared to the 4MB version? 16MB should be the max. for the Millenium II. It looks like the Mystique 220 4MB is a better choice for games: https://vintage3d.org/mga2.php

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2024-03-13, 12:54

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All P60 cpus that I have tested worked at 66mhz without a voltage raise(no matter if the VRM section was installed or not). Thanks for the info! So the yield quality was not so bad for the P5 core. Maybe the very eralier ones with the FDIV Bug need more voltage with 66MHz, because it was reported …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2024-03-06, 12:58

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Most of the P60 should also run well with 66MHz? Default VCore of the 66MHz version is 5.15V and 5.00V for the 60MHz Pentium. Also the Socket 4 mainboard must support the overvoltage settings.

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2024-02-05, 17:58

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Also a thread with "AMD K5 3DMark, aiming for stars." in the future?

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