Re: Castle Wolfenstein on a Pentium 133 (all cache disabled)

Posted on 2022-05-15, 19:50

by

by mothergoose729

in DOS

in DOS

It's a memory address issue and speed issue. On my machine I can get the correct speed but I can't get fix the bug where I get caught immediately. In a dos window I can get rid of the speed bug but it runs too fast. Meh.

---

Re: Weird texture issues in Half Life (WON) on Windows 98SE with Geforce cards

Posted on 2022-05-07, 23:06

by

by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I don't think there is much difference between driver version 45.23 and 56.64. At least, I have never noticed a difference. If you are on driver version 81 though that could be an issue. I would try completely removing the driver and installing 56.64.

---

Re: Is there any Tualatin-compatible Socket 370 board that doesn't cost a million dollars?

Posted on 2022-03-24, 17:16

by

by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IMO a lot of the most sought after equipment is overrated, and maybe none more so than the Tualatin. Compared to a 1ghz copper mine CPU you can find all day at 5$, the Tualatin only extends the serviceability of the machine by at most two years. If you want to play games from after 2002 you are just …

---

Re: IDE To SATA SSD Win 98

Posted on 2022-03-18, 18:48

by

by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I use this exact SSD https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-120GB-Solid-SA400S37-120G/dp/B01N6JQS8C/ref=sxts_rp_s1_0?crid=K5ZISG4HIJ4&cv_ct_cx=kingston+ssd+120gb&keywords=kingston+ssd+120gb&pd_rd_i=B01N6JQS8C&pd_rd_r=f9282fb4-e189-4cb5-a560-772f5a66c544&pd_rd_w=pw24T&pd_rd_wg=mWZEU&pf_rd_p=5d10c7b7-657f- …

---

Re: oh when will the price of gpus come down?

Posted on 2022-03-16, 22:07

by

by mothergoose729

in Milliways

in Milliways

But no one has actually answered any of my questions. Only read the heading and went to town. Thundersnipes! I read your post several times and I have no idea what the question is. The title is also just more interesting. When my wife says a lot of stuff and I haven't followed any of it I always …

---

Re: oh when will the price of gpus come down?

Posted on 2022-03-16, 20:28

by

by mothergoose729

in Milliways

in Milliways

It will be a long time. There has been a lot of investment in new fab capacity by existing and new players, but it takes years to bring production online. Then they have to be integrated into existing supply chains. Price could go up or down depending on global events or the price of crypto, but we …

---

Re: Win linux/xp/98

Posted on 2022-03-12, 23:19

by

by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

It really depends on what you are going to play. The 9700 pro is pretty stable in windows 98 and at much faster than the fx 5600, which is the next best choice.

---

Re: Win linux/xp/98

Posted on 2022-03-12, 21:37

by

by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I would go with the 9700 pro

---

Re: Northwood win98se project - need some input please

Posted on 2022-03-09, 15:49

by

by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A quick look at ebay and I can easily find name brand boards for 40$-60$. The only p4 boards that are that expensive are the industrial boards with ISA... which IMO you can make a case for I guess but it kind of misses the point of a high performance windows98 machine IMO. I don't see much of a …

---

Re: how do i run this .cmd script for an ultima 7 third-party patch?

Posted on 2022-03-07, 20:12

by

by mothergoose729

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

These two patches are what I use on my real DOS PC Ultima VII Frame Limiter Patch U7DCP - Ultima VII DOS Cache Patch

---

Re: Starwars Knights of the Old Republic Kotor

Posted on 2022-03-06, 06:58

by

by mothergoose729

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

For Nvidia cards, the "32xS [Combined: 2x2 SS + 8x MS]" setting works for a 2x2 supersample for OpenGL games. Not sure if it works for all OpenGL games or KOTOR, but it definitely works for some OpenGL games. 8x Multisampling paired with 8x Sparse Grid Sumpersampling actually did work. It's a neat …

---

Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-02-17, 23:35

by

by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

enaiel wrote on 2022-02-17, 22:52: Got a replacement Voodoo 3 3000 PCI. It was slightly cheaper because it was an "arcade" version, but all that meant was that it had an extra bracket that was easy to remove. Using the bracket fan to keep it cool. Initial tests seem to indicate that is working fine …

---

Re: Settling the VIA C3 performance debate once and for all :-)

Posted on 2022-02-17, 20:51

by

by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ah ok, so just silicon lottery then. Thanks! Oh, you mean it's not stable when you go past 10x? That would be weird, I have 7 CPUs (which I bought from different sellers/on different occasions), and they all can do 1.46 GHz. This is why I specifically tested at 1.46 GHz (even though this particular …

---

Re: Settling the VIA C3 performance debate once and for all :-)

Posted on 2022-02-17, 18:36

by

by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ah ok, so just silicon lottery then. Thanks!

---

Re: Settling the VIA C3 performance debate once and for all :-)

Posted on 2022-02-17, 18:27

by

by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am curious, what is the VRM mod for the gigabyte board? I think I can only hit 10x multi on my board and nehemiah.

---

Re: Settling the VIA C3 performance debate once and for all :-)

Posted on 2022-02-16, 23:29

by

by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah. I mean, I do love SS7 for what it is (I love it BECAUSE of all its quirks and bugs). But I imagine that I'm in a minority - I think many people are purchasing SS7 builds because they overestimate their potential. It's enough to look at the prices of that platform to understand that there is a …

---

Re: There has been no sound in Dangerous Dave 3 and 4 at SoundBlaster setting

Posted on 2022-02-15, 15:54

by

by mothergoose729

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

dor123 wrote on 2022-02-15, 14:45: There is 16MB allocated memory. Extended memory and conventional memory are different. If the game can see EMS then it should be fine, but if it can't then conventional memory is all it knows how to use. There are some techniques you can use to try and free up …

---

Re: windows Xp build - code name: the last samurai

Posted on 2022-02-11, 14:26

by

by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Looks like a fun project. I didn't know that XP could run off of a core i5 and newer. XP can pretty much run on anything up to the Haswell generation Intel CPUs, anything newer and you are guaranteed to not find drivers. Even then the lack of chipset drivers isn't usually much of a problem. I am …

---

Re: PSA: FilePlanet now distributing malware

Posted on 2022-02-08, 22:02

by

by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Yikes, I recently put together my own archive extensively from fileplanet. Any idea how long this is been an issue?

---

Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-02-07, 00:13

by

by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Thief and Thief 2 use 8 bit textures and have various problems with even geforce fx cards. I don't think it has anything to do with XP3. Of course there are community patches that fix all of that. Most or all of the games can be made to run one way or another. Splinter cell has a lot of graphical …

---