Re: Does Counter-Strike 1.6 on Steam run stable enough on modern systems?

Posted on Yesterday, 08:36

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by Garrett W

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Should be fine, just pay the 1$ on Steam and give it a try. PCGamingWiki is always the go to place for resolving any issues you encounter. DiGiTALZONE took me waaaaaaaay back. I think that's how I first played (a terribly buggy version of) Half-Life 2. I got to the elevator at Eli's lab and all NPCs …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLi hanging up

Posted on 2024-04-23, 13:23

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by Garrett W

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Only reason you are seeing such a performance increase is likely because of overclocked cards and disabled V-Sync. FastVoodoo drivers don't do anything that fancy.

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Re: Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 08:55

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by Garrett W

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AS/400 is surely still a thing under false name? :) Where I currently work AS/400 was finally replaced 4 months ago. It wasn't actually AS/400 hardware but virtualised on a standard Intel server. Not too sure of the details as it was looked after by the "AS/400" team, well 2 people one of which …

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Re: Gta 1 laggy

Posted on 2024-04-18, 14:01

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by Garrett W

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It's pretty much what leileilol said. As soon as you enter a car, the game seeks to another music track on the CD. It seems like less than a sec, doesn't seem like that big a deal to me. Maybe you could try something like CDBeQuiet to slow down your optical drive to 4x or 8x speeds which should …

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Re: Diamond 3DFX Voodoo 1 sudden death

Posted on 2024-04-17, 13:44

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by Garrett W

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That would be way too slow for the Voodoo 1. Consider that it was aimed at Pentium 133 - 166 and it scales pretty nicely all the way up to early Pentium II systems. Performance will be pretty bad on a 486 of any kind, I would recommend a different system for first time users.

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Re: Diamond 3DFX Voodoo 1 sudden death

Posted on 2024-04-17, 10:14

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by Garrett W

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What rasz_pl is saying is that you should be mindful of your CPU frequency. From my experience, Voodoo 1 runs just fine on anything up to 300 MHz or 66MHz FSB in general, but as soon as the FSB is raised to 100MHz or you start going south 450-500 MHz, all sorts of weird glitches start showing up. …

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Re: carmageddon 2 dosent display proprely on PCem

Posted on 2024-04-16, 12:04

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by Garrett W

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Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 houses an original S3 Virge, hardly ideal for Carmageddon 2. Change your selected videocard or add a Voodoo 2 on PCEM, that should improve performance and make sure you have no image quality issues. That being said, an MMX 200 is a bit too slow for Carmageddon 2. You really …

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Re: P3 Tualatin and Voodoo 3 worth a try?

Posted on 2024-04-16, 08:28

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by Garrett W

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Depends on the game, but it is highly likely you will be GPU limited with a Voodoo 3. Tualatin does not make much sense for the asking price. If you want more CPU and GPU, might I suggest moving or creating a system based on inexpensive Northwood Pentium 4 and a GeForce4 Ti.

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Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L

Posted on 2024-04-10, 12:56

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by Garrett W

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Designing new chips takes a lot of time and manufacturing chips takes quite a bit of time as well. The VSA-100 chip was supposed to be ready sooner than it was, it was going to compete with the GeForce 256. As far as I can tell, acquiring STB and getting into the business of selling their own cards, …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-04-05, 09:42

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by Garrett W

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This post just seems in bad faith but I'll reply anyway. * Cheats have been disabled in Nightmare mode, as was true in the original game as well by the way * "Emulate an entire sound card?" is this referring to SBEMU support? That doesn't work the way you think it does. If you want networking just …

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Re: Cyrix 6x86MX PR300 opinions?

Posted on 2024-04-04, 07:00

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by Garrett W

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cyrix MII is just a rebranded Cyrix 6x86MX. Cyrix did some trickery at some point, there seems to be a regression clock for clock after a certain model. There was a thread about it a while ago.

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Re: Dune II Refuses to Run on Win98SE

Posted on 2024-03-26, 07:37

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by Garrett W

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in DOS

Can you upload a copy of your config.sys and autoexec.bat?

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Re: Win3wave music player for windows 3.1

Posted on 2024-03-25, 22:03

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by Garrett W

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This is such a great vibe and with a cool story attached, what with the finding of the floppy ! I'll be sure to give this one a try sometime!

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Re: DOS Games that don't run as well under Windows 95/98 - Is there a list?

Posted on 2024-03-21, 21:34

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by Garrett W

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in DOS

Yes, quite a few games don't really play nice with Win9x's DOS Box. I don't know of any list and depending on the hardware you are using games will behave differently. I believe Quake runs okay if you are using period correct hardware and I know for certain that its timing issues were fixed with the …

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Re: Slow 3D video card on super socket 7 shootout (sis 305, savage4, trident blade3d, riva tnt, etc)

Posted on 2024-03-20, 13:22

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by Garrett W

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is wrong. Neither the GeForce 2 MX-400 and even less so the TNT2 saturate AGP 2x's bandwidth. AGP 4x does nothing for these chips. Even if it did, it is likely that the K6-2+ doesn't have enough juice to drive them. AGP bandwidth has been discussed multiple times in the past, AGP 8x wasn't …

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Re: Slow 3D video card on super socket 7 shootout (sis 305, savage4, trident blade3d, riva tnt, etc)

Posted on 2024-03-18, 02:10

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by Garrett W

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No miniGL on GeForce. GLQuake is using OpenGL for which GeForce provides a full ICD. The extensions expose this feature!

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Re: Slow 3D video card on super socket 7 shootout (sis 305, savage4, trident blade3d, riva tnt, etc)

Posted on 2024-03-18, 00:54

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by Garrett W

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The reason Quake is so much faster on GeForce is the HW T&L, which Quake can make use of and is particularly impressive on a slow CPU such as the K6 series.

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Re: [Question] Pentium III 450 + Geforce 2 MX400 + 128mb ram Performance

Posted on 2024-03-14, 00:41

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by Garrett W

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Before you go ahead and return the card, I'd try older drivers. 7.76 is a good start. I'd also download a version of Everest from around 2004, this can give us far better insight on what card you have in your system.

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Re: Windows XP fails to install on Gigabyte GA 7DPXDW-P

Posted on 2024-03-10, 00:20

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by Garrett W

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you tried a different version of WinXP? Vanilla or SP2 version for example.

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Re: Why does Rage Software's Incoming crash with an invalid instruction on a Socket 7 motherboard but not a Socket 370?

Posted on 2024-03-03, 17:20

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by Garrett W

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Get the original CD image and perform an installation, the game should run just fine afterwards.

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