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

Posted on 2023-05-31, 21:32

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I do not have personal experience with 8MB V2 cards, but considering that the 12MB version already struggles with textures in some games even from 1998 (Unreal shows off texture thrashing) and it struggles even worse in SLI at 1024x768, I'd urge you to rethink your approach. Miro were among the …

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Re: TNT2 Ultra faster than Geforce 2MX on Slot A?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 13:28

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You haven't mentioned which drivers you used for each card. Also, are you sure the Dell OEM GF2 MX isn't using a narrower memory bus, say 64bit?

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Re: Vodoo 2 Sli vs Vodoo3 ? Which configuration would be more flexible?

Posted on 2023-05-27, 14:10

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Sigh only people with no valid counter arguments say such silly things, google is your friend here and can give you all the citation jollies you want. You've made a claim that a number of people have questioned, me included. You have provided zero evidence for said claim. Instead you've offered us …

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Re: Vodoo 2 Sli vs Vodoo3 ? Which configuration would be more flexible?

Posted on 2023-05-27, 13:44

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By the time of VSA100 3DFX knew that Glide as an API was dead so naturally the VSA chips had the best D3D support of all the 3DFX chips, the earlier 3DFX chips however treat D3D as more of an afterthought and at times you can spend more time switching drivers trying to find a version that is …

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Re: Vodoo 2 Sli vs Vodoo3 ? Which configuration would be more flexible?

Posted on 2023-05-26, 08:13

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Geforce 2 and 3 don't break games, you'll only ever see that with later models and newer drivers, Voodoo3 Direct3d will break far more games than a GF2 ever will. You can find lots of posts here on Vogons and many fora of the era where people were complaining they couldn't play their favorite game …

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Re: Windows 95 - memory leaks? Memory issues

Posted on 2023-05-26, 07:29

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Try Cacheman, it's a utility that was created exactly for the reasons you have encountered.

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Re: Vodoo 2 Sli vs Vodoo3 ? Which configuration would be more flexible?

Posted on 2023-05-26, 07:25

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I'd honestly go with the cheapest Voodoo 3 you can find. It's cheaper, faster than V2 SLI even with the 2000 model, you can usually overclock it one tier above its rating if you really want extra performance, image quality and sharpness is fantastic and will cover your needs just fine for the time …

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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 2023-05-26, 07:16

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Intel doubled the L1 cache when they launched the DX4 chips. AMD (and I assume Cyrix as well) did not AFAIK, it was only with the 5x86 that the cache was doubled, which should explain the performance discrepancy.

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Re: Would this be a good basis for a Vodoo 2 or Vodoo 3 system?

Posted on 2023-05-24, 13:21

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PIII 800 is IMO more than enough for either V2 SLI or V3. Yes, you can squeeze a little bit more performance out of them, but you have already reached the point of greatly diminishing returns. Phil of Phil's Computer Lab had a rather thorough document created with CPU scaling showcased for the V2 …

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Re: Unstable Slot-A build.

Posted on 2023-05-10, 09:24

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by Garrett W

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I'd use that Voodoo 3 to make sure it's not the GPU + AMD 750 that's causing these issues. You should approach this chipset like one does with VIA chipsets.

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Re: Matrox videocards - functional test (Mystique, G100, G200, G450 etc).

Posted on 2023-05-04, 15:03

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Unfortunately, it does miss a lot of surfaces, so maybe there's more to it. Swaaye has a great video up on his channel playing various titles and you can see the card in action. I seem to remember telephone booths in Half-Life 2 not getting the AA treatment.

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Re: Matrox videocards - functional test (Mystique, G100, G200, G450 etc).

Posted on 2023-05-04, 07:10

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Parhelia's only advantages were the display outputs. But even there the initial chip had some hardware bugs that caused problems on the secondary outputs. For games it's usually noticeably slower than a GeForce 3 or Radeon 8500. Radeon 9700 launched right after it did. So other than for that triple …

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Re: Unstable Ibm 300PL

Posted on 2023-04-30, 16:04

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by Garrett W

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Maybe it's classic Matrox Mystique + Millennium II bus mastering issues that are causing the instability. I'd try a different videocard (or an integrated one if it exists) to troubleshoot whether or not the system is stable.

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Re: Geforce 6600 256MB AGP issues

Posted on 2023-04-18, 16:54

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I got a little confused reading that, I'm not entirely sure your GPU is in one piece. Is your VGA output always having that purple-ish hue you described, even in the BIOS or from a DOS Prompt? If we assume that hardware issues are not an issue, it seems to me you may have borked something when …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2023-04-17, 23:52

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Likely zero. Remember that PCX2 is slower or at best equivalent to a Voodoo 1.

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Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2023-04-10, 12:42

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Ah, I thought it could do iDCT. That certainly makes for a much more limited usage, although running video full-screen + scaling/resizing however you wished without the CPU breaking a sweat was a big deal even on Pentiums believe it or not. I believe it was Scali that mentioned the upgrade going …

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo 1 - Does it support Glide 3?

Posted on 2023-04-10, 12:18

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by Garrett W

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Yes, it does on real hardware. I believe PCEm offers more robust V1 + V2 emulation.

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Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2023-04-10, 09:27

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Rage II and Rage Pro had a few things going for them: a) 2D was faster than Virge 325 and Virge DX. That being said, for most people, Virge 325's 2D performance was more than enough. b) Image Quality on Rage cards was pretty good as, much like Matrox, ATi made the cards themselves instead of selling …

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Re: Starcraft 1 Lag Pentium 200MMX

Posted on 2023-04-07, 11:09

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by Garrett W

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Maybe it's a driver issue with DirectX? Have you tried different audio drivers?

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Re: Screamer 2 Voodoo Banshee PCi giving an error

Posted on 2023-04-06, 18:24

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Hi. Have you actually managed to get your copy of the game running in standard, software mode on any of the systems you've tried? I'd start with that first and then work my way on getting 3Dfx support to run. Perhaps there's some other issue with your copy of the game or the systems you have tried …

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