Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on Today, 00:29

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I played Crysis to completion at 10 fps, but the motion blur helped a lot to compensate. This game was definitely the exception for me, as there wasn't anything contemporary at the time that could run it well anyways. Crysis for me was the last of its kind that pushed the limits of the PC hardware …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on Yesterday, 23:26

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badmojo wrote on Yesterday, 23:00: I think we're lucky to have mods at all, and a site for that matter. Get over it. I'm fine with the moderators deleting the post made by a spam account. What happened was an accident and I reposted the information without any further problem.

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on Yesterday, 17:46

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predator_085 wrote on Yesterday, 17:35: It was not my intention to be offensive. I am sorry. No worries, I didn't see your post as an insult. In the end, it depends how people want to play the games. 😀

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on Yesterday, 16:19

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The range where PII/ PIII of range 233 MHz to 800MHz is too underpowered for made to run in windows 98 era games and too fast for DOS games. "Too fast for DOS games" is irrelevant for almost all mainstream DOS games released in the VGA/SVGA era (with the exception of a handful of Turbo Pascal based …

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Re: Calcification on definition of abandoneware on Vogons.

Posted on Yesterday, 15:45

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If a piece of software was only available with hardware and NEVER sold separately, is it ok to let people know where to get it if they ask? I think the nuance here has been missed by the replies. I see. It was really about bundled software with the possibility of a special version not being …

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Re: Calcification on definition of abandoneware on Vogons.

Posted on Yesterday, 14:19

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Abandonware is a very nebulous term, considering that people may talk about non-existent issues that could be caused by pirated or cracked software. Examples are missing files and CD music being disregarded. Originally the term was meant for software that the original owners or manufacturers …

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Re: Old games that had CD Audio tracks?

Posted on Yesterday, 14:03

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While I was not the mod who did this and don't know the exact details, I can generally say that when you're quoting and answering a "spam" post, then it's normal that any replies to that post is removed during thread cleanups, or else it just gets confusing for other visitors who will not …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on Yesterday, 13:58

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I recently had one of my posts deleted by a moderator without any notification or reason given. After I raised a report, it was explained that my post got deleted because I had replied to a spam account. To clarify, I quoted exactly three lines from that spam post. They were simply the names of …

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Re: NVPatch - making UniVBE work on NVidia cards

Posted on 2023-06-03, 19:13

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I suspect there could be some sort of compatibility trouble with your machine in SDD 6.53 itself- does it crash the system when using with other non-NV cards? No, Alien Trilogy with SDD 6.53 loaded doesn't freeze the computer with non-nVidia cards. I'm also suspecting that there could be indeed a …

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Re: NVPatch - making UniVBE work on NVidia cards

Posted on 2023-06-03, 15:54

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If SDD is not loaded, vertical stripes are shown instead of copyright screen, and main menu colors are garbled: Those vertical stripes and bad colors happen in my case too on nVidia video cards without SDD/UniVBE. Vertical Stripes.jpg Bad Colors.jpg Does high-color version work on your …

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Re: What's this strange video card?

Posted on 2023-06-03, 14:49

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It is a video card that uses the CHIPS B69000 (if I'm correct), originally intended for notebook computers. Here is a datasheet for more information: https://pccomponents.com/datasheets/ASIL-B6900.PDF

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Re: NVPatch - making UniVBE work on NVidia cards

Posted on 2023-06-03, 14:30

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This one sounds weird as well, Alien Trilogy seems to work for me on both GF2 MX200 and FX5500 with patched SDD 6.53 (the other specs are Celeron 300A/i440BX/256MB/IDE CD-ROM/DOS 7.1 + UMBPCI + UIDE + SHSUCDX, TRILOGY.EXE is dated Nov 13 1996 19:41). First mode-switch is pretty long (waiting a …

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Re: NVPatch - making UniVBE work on NVidia cards

Posted on 2023-06-02, 23:35

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Did test with both TNT2 and GeForce2 GTS AGP cards on my Slot 1 computer and the patch mostly worked well in regard to 15bpp and low resolution VESA video modes. UNICENTR from UniVBE 6.7 is more stable when setting the position and refresh rates for each VESA video mode. Unfortunately, Alien …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-02, 16:09

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Hi. Just bought this card, waiting delivery. Is it any good for vintage msdos gaming ? Yes. The ESS AudioDrive chip onboard has very good SBPro compatibility, with ESFM being mostly faithful to the OPL3 FM synth. However, I don't have any experience with the Dream SAM9407 chip, but from what I read …

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Re: A surprinsigly expensive LGA1336 motherboard. What alternatives are out there.

Posted on 2023-06-02, 15:51

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Not to mention that those third-party IDE controllers increase boot time when enabled, with a separate screen after POST.

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Re: Voodoo. 2 Sli vs Voodoo3 ? Which configuration would be more flexible?

Posted on 2023-06-02, 14:43

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@all Got another question. It is more like a just in case question because the chances that it will really happen is rather slim. In case I can find a Voodoo 4 or Voodoo 5 card that is priced way lower than normal would be worth considering instead of a Voodoo 2 or Voodoo 3? In theory the answer …

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Re: Help with.. green borders on videos

Posted on 2023-06-01, 23:13

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Those are the overscan borders and in 8-bit video modes they get affected when the color palette is modified. Looks more like a software and/or driver problem, where the developers didn't take account of it.

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Re: Cirrus Logic CL-5446

Posted on 2023-06-01, 23:09

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Yep, the VBE implementation on older nVidia cards are decent. UniRefresh or VBEHz can be used to set the screen refresh rate for each resolution. The only exception is that they don't support 15bpp video modes that some games use (Alien Trilogy's high color option is one of these). offtopic: with a …

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Re: Voodoo. 2 Sli vs Voodoo3 ? Which configuration would be more flexible?

Posted on 2023-06-01, 14:16

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Unreal (and games using its engine) has the tendency to constantly upload textures on the fly for several effects which is inefficient on early hardware 3D accelerators. Although it isn't a completely smooth experience (let alone 60+ fps, something barely achievable on authentic period correct …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-01, 12:56

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however the vintage tech and the marginal differences can be fun, interesting and feel like something authentic and so on. building something in order to play x is what we tell ourselves, the real game is the maintenance of all this and testing it out and so forth :) +1 Experience isn't the same …

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