Re: Diablo II + Glide wrapper: first impressions

Posted on 2025-02-23, 17:52

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Sven's Glide wrapper documents the details. The game was built for Glide. It generates lots of textures and streams to your card as you run around the world. D3D was awful at this. OpenGL (via wrapper) can do it better if your card supports the needed extensions. The best 3dfx cards for it are the …

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Re: Sourcing thermal interface pads - laptop processors

Posted on 2025-02-08, 13:47

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Electronics suppliers like mouser and digikey sell them. That crusty thing might be phase change material and still fine.

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Re: How long have you been flying Falcon 3.0?

Posted on 2025-02-05, 12:08

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I believe Falcon 3.0 falls into the "other key business applications" category. 😁 I first learned of Falcon 3.0 from a 286 owner who also told me how great the Cyrix FasMath was.

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Re: Unreal 1 - What is your opinion about it?

Posted on 2025-02-02, 17:12

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Did Doom clones ever die? Modern Doom is similar to old Doom. There's an indie scene still making simplistic shooters, and a mod scene making crazy things like Ashes 2063 and Aliens Eradication.

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Re: Unreal 1 - What is your opinion about it?

Posted on 2025-02-02, 16:59

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Oh ok. I guess that means using a controller for a FPS. Something I never got used to. Lemme tell ya, Quake 2 on the N64 controller is extremely challenging. But it's fun. The strangest thing about that game is while it looks like Quake 2, it actually runs on an improved Quake64 engine and feels …

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Re: Unreal 1 - What is your opinion about it?

Posted on 2025-02-02, 16:48

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Quake 2 RTX looks pretty nice. It's very short though. I think the most unfortunate thing about Unreal and Unreal Engine is that Epic doesn't open source it. I could go for some VR ports of UE1 games. I still have the Unreal soundtrack CD from Straylight.

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Re: Unreal 1 - What is your opinion about it?

Posted on 2025-02-02, 13:44

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mombarak wrote on 2025-02-02, 07:33: Are these PC versions for Win98x or Roms for an emulator? Sounds interesting because I liked both games you mentioned. They are N64 (Nintendo 64) games. You could play them in an emulator.

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Re: Unreal 1 - What is your opinion about it?

Posted on 2025-02-01, 20:04

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I wish the PS1 and N64 versions of Unreal had been completed so there would be more Unreal 1 to play. Like Daikatana and Quake 2 on N64 which are rebuilt from the ground up and almost entirely different games.

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Re: Vintage Athlon XP 'gaming' laptops

Posted on 2025-01-27, 23:59

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My guess is the slowness is mostly the hard drive. What drive are you running? I used to run the Hitachi 7200RPM drives like the 7K60. Notebook drives were awful back then. If you want to upgrade the CPU, you could just look for a Mobile Athlon 64 3200+. That should drop in and work. You'd go to 1MB …

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Re: Killed my Voodoo 1?

Posted on 2025-01-19, 04:15

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AppleSauce wrote on 2025-01-18, 20:06: The system has a pentium 233 MMX so should be within spec. The card might have a broken solder joint somewhere. Changes in temp often exposes those. Also look very closely at the chips for any pins that are bent and possibly touching or nearly touching a …

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Re: Killed my Voodoo 1?

Posted on 2025-01-18, 19:42

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If you're running the V1 with a CPU faster than about a P2 400, some people say this can cause problems. It's likely that this would maintain full utilization of the card and produce more heat. Voodoo1 would have been used with 1996-1997 CPUs. So like Pentium II 300 and slower. You could experiment …

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Re: Remove Pentium 1 heatsink

Posted on 2025-01-15, 21:06

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Some of these materials aren't epoxies but are a phase change material that softens to fill gaps when heated. That's what's on the XBox for example. Phase change materials work better than paste long term because they don't pump out.

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Re: Forcing Voodoo1 over Matrox Millennium in D3D

Posted on 2025-01-15, 18:47

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I preferred to use 3DCC aka 3D Control Center. It's a little program that sits in the tray and lets you choose the D3D accelerator. It's on FalconFly.

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Re: Any late era Win9x AGP GPUs with good backward compatibility?

Posted on 2025-01-01, 22:40

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I think the NVidia drivers also force AGP 1x depending on the motherboard chipset. Most of the 3rd party AGP 4x chipsets had problems. Or most of the motherboards were just junk. There were problems with chipsets, motherboard construction, and BIOS configurations.

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Re: Question about 128MB/128-bit GeForce FX 5200 performance issues

Posted on 2024-12-28, 23:03

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I may have missed it but have you checked the clock speeds your 5200 runs at? Everest Home Edition is my go to for that.

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Re: Any late era Win9x AGP GPUs with good backward compatibility?

Posted on 2024-12-28, 18:17

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RTCW should be very playable on a GF2. An 800 MHz CPU might be a problem.

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Re: Any late era Win9x AGP GPUs with good backward compatibility?

Posted on 2024-12-28, 18:08

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If you want to play games from like 1999 and older, a Voodoo 3 is really nice. Most of those games were developed with a Voodoo card as the primary concern. Some of them render more effects with Glide. 2000 was the turning point. 3dfx was way behind the competition in features. D3D 7 and Quake3 …

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Re: Any late era Win9x AGP GPUs with good backward compatibility?

Posted on 2024-12-28, 05:50

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A Radeon 9600 won't have any problems with DirectX 7 and 8 games. It would be more things like DirectX 5 or 6 games that use table fog or palletized textures (pretty rare). On the OpenGL side, games from Bioware are problematic with a Radeon. Specifically NWN and the KOTORs. Quake based games are no …

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Re: Question about 128MB/128-bit GeForce FX 5200 performance issues

Posted on 2024-12-27, 21:18

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Sorry, I meant 93.71. 45.23 is liked around here because drivers 5x.xx and later break some old games. The cheating was real, but I think it was mostly 3DMark03 and some Shader Model 2 games where they replaced shader code with hand tuned lower precision code that looked worse. You don't want to run …

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Re: Question about 128MB/128-bit GeForce FX 5200 performance issues

Posted on 2024-12-27, 20:18

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by swaaye

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A drop to 20 fps sounds like vsync being annoying. With driver 93.76 you can turn on OpenGL triple buffering. It might also be a good idea to try everyone's favorite driver, 45.23, and see what happens. FX 5200 is a pretty weak chip though. I think the MX 440 might be faster in some cases.

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