Re: Pentium PRO?
Posted on 2024-04-19, 19:40
2MB was one of the Pentium II Xeon CPUs.
Re: Asus K7V Slot A hi-lo-hi-lo beeps
Posted on 2024-04-19, 19:30
BIOS beep codes https://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm Since it appears to be Award BIOS, this seems to be a CPU error of some kind. It could be entirely the motherboard causing it. Do the CPU edge connector and slot contacts appear clean? Does reseating the CPU change anything? I have a Slot 1 P3 …
Re: Pentium PRO?
Posted on 2024-04-19, 19:08
They run memory bandwidth and FPU intense games really well, usually faster than a similarly clocked Pentium Classic or MMX. SVGA simulations come to mind. Quake. DOS, Win9x, whatever. PPro had some weak early chipsets though. Even 440FX should have Fastvid loaded if possible to massively speed up …
Re: Norton Utilities 4.0 for Windows vs 2001 for Windows
Posted on 2024-04-17, 19:42
I think it depends on if you are going to run an older MSDOS like 5.0. Norton Utils was useful before Microsoft did their thing and brought out equivalents. I used Disk Doctor and Defrag before DOS 6. I think it had a system info tool that was ok too but there are better options. The Norton stuff …
Re: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi
Posted on 2024-04-06, 17:54
On the compatibility issues in general, KOTOR was mainly an Xbox game and Bioware was Nvidia-centric with their older games too. It was built for that GeForce 3/4. So it's a bit like Splinter Cell in that way. If you play it on a GeForce 3 - 7 it should run without any compatibility problems but I …
Re: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi
Posted on 2024-04-06, 17:36
Quincunx AA looks too blurry to my eyes, and it tends to also affect the game's UI, which is a big turn off for me. Granted, I only tried it a few times on a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 card, and quickly gave up after seeing the initial results. I really liked it with Voyager Elite Force at 1600x1200 or …
Re: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi
Posted on 2024-04-05, 21:41
Yeah but a 6800 Ultra should be able to do that too. I wonder what your GPU core and memory controller utilization is. That shouldn't be much of a load for a GTX 970. Driver hang ups with OpenGL 1.4 could be a problem though. I don't remember if you can force SGSSAA with OpenGL games but that might …
Re: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi
Posted on 2024-04-05, 19:20
Have you tried running it with the oldest drivers possible for the 970? I don't know if I've tried the game on anything newer than a Radeon HD 2900. Also, I think I usually set this game up for single core affinity. VBO are a performance optimization. It's interesting that this would cause problems …
Re: Old PSU Fan Direction
Posted on 2024-03-27, 19:35
It may not really matter. Just see how it works out. Typically the PSU does blow out of the PC. It ingests the PC's heated air and blows it out with its own heated air. Modern cases with bottom mount PSUs have changed this so the PSU gets cool external air and the dedicated case fans deal with the …
Re: Best AGP card for PeniumMMX 233 ?
Posted on 2024-03-25, 16:08
laios67 wrote on 2024-03-25, 12:49: Vanta is in abundance . 16 mb card is it worth to test ? Sure. It's essentially the same product as a TNT2 M64 but with somewhat lower clock speeds. They should be cooler / lower power than a TNT2 M64. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_ … its#Pre- …
Re: Best AGP card for PeniumMMX 233 ?
Posted on 2024-03-25, 04:00
Hey there's also the NV Vanta (TNT2 M64 like) and the original TNT.
Re: Best AGP card for PeniumMMX 233 ?
Posted on 2024-03-24, 16:54
Banshee or any of the Voodoo3 cards (including V3 1000 8MB) would be great too. Of course prices are nuts these days. The issues with NVidia cards are many have blurry VGA, if they have a fan it probably needs to be replaced, and they don't get you Glide and that is unfortunate for early 3D games.
Re: Texture filtering - yay or nay?
Posted on 2024-03-14, 17:55
Back in the days of antiquity, I ran a Matrox Mystique alongside a Voodoo1. I would sometimes run games (like Jedi Knight) on the Mystique instead of the Voodoo. The lack of bilinear filtering creates a perception of greater detail. It reminds me of how a noisy audio resampler / filter can make …
Re: Asrock 775i65G R2.0 or 4CoreDual-VSTA
Posted on 2024-03-14, 17:44
I used to have a 775i65G (R2.0 I think). It worked well. I preferred to use a 800 MT/s CPU in it though because with a 1066 MT/s processor the POST initialization time was dramatically longer. I never tried a quad.
Re: Poll. How did you handle AGP to PCI Express stepover?
Posted on 2024-03-02, 17:50
At some point in 2005, I upgraded from nForce 2 / Radeon 9700 to nForce 4 / Radeon X800 GTO2. I was excited about overclocking dual core Opteron 165 and X800 GTO2.
Re: Why choose a Mach64 or Rage 2 over Rage 3?
Posted on 2024-02-29, 18:25
The original Radeon is codenamed Rage 6. So I suppose Rage 3 could be Rage Pro and Rage 4 could be Rage 128. I'm not sure what 5 would be. Rage Fury Maxx or Rage XL perhaps.
Re: EAX support on Windows 7 laptop?
Posted on 2024-02-23, 16:23
Thanks for the info - it sounds like it might not be worth bothering with. I recall EAX not working that great at times even back in old Windows XP days & I guess the marginal improvement of sound won't be worth the hassle. Yeah. I would go with the software options. It's possible the XP sound …
Re: Nostalgia for old Graphics Programs?
Posted on 2024-02-21, 16:10
I like PSP 7. It's so fast on modern machines. But I also own 2022 and it certainly has a lot of useful additions. I barely did anything graphics related in DOS. In Windows 3.1 I remember using Aldus Photostyler occasionally.
Re: Tie Fighter - Black screen when starting mission
Posted on 2024-02-21, 16:04
It could be a VESA VBE issue. You could look for a Tseng VBE TSR or try UniVBE. TIE Fighter might already be loading a version of UniVBE. The game may also have compatibility options for VGA modes. Maybe command line options. Check the readme. And you could look for the DOS CD version of TIE Fighter …
Re: EAX support on Windows 7 laptop?
Posted on 2024-02-19, 19:35
You can try using DSOAL. It is an open source interface for DirectSound/DS3D games to OpenAL Soft. https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1363-dsoal/ If the game is natively OpenAL, then you can get OpenAL Soft and use it directly. If you want to look for hardware, there was an Audigy 2 …
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