Re: Adding mouse port to my build

Posted on Yesterday, 08:35

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by Joseph_Joestar

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It has an on-board 4 pin PS/2 header but it seems impossible to find anything to add here and I don't want to start a DIY wiring job. Check if the manual for your motherboard has the pinout for the PS2 header. If it does, it's very easy to rewire a generic PS2 bracket to fit there. You just need a …

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Re: Fastest graphics possible for a p2 400 mhz (Asus P2B mainboard)

Posted on 2023-06-07, 06:17

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by Joseph_Joestar

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What you should be asking is which is the optimal graphics card for that motherboard and CPU. While the GeForce 7950 GT is technically the fastest card that can fit into that AGP slot, it would be a huge waste to install it in that system. Not to mention that it would have terrible compatibility …

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Re: Apparently not all GS-only sc-55s are the same, some are GM

Posted on 2023-06-06, 21:40

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Besides instrument variations, the biggest improvement with the SC-88 is the increased polyphony. This is audible even in popular games like Warcraft 2, but you wouldn't otherwise notice a difference if you didn't know to watch for it. WarCraft 2 can use CD audio for its music, so that particular …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-06, 13:40

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Are there any games that are incompatible with MX440 drivers? Or is this just another myth? It depends. The AGP 8x versions of MX440 cards need 4x.xx drivers, and can't use any earlier ones. In contrast, the AGP 4x versions can use drivers from the 2x.xx and 3x.xx series. As for compatibility …

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-06-06, 06:58

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Deus Ex, which people seem to be singling out in this thread, ran great on my system (admittedly, Unreal games all ran well on the Voodoo 5). I never felt like I needed a faster CPU. I knew plenty of people playing it on lessor hardware. See this thread: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t= …

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-06-06, 06:51

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by Joseph_Joestar

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At least try to keep the discussion on the topic at hand - GeForce 4 vs. FX. Unless your upcoming build has one of those cards, you should talk about it in a different thread.

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Re: Old games that had CD Audio tracks?

Posted on 2023-06-06, 06:46

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I didn't include it and don't plan to make this change, but agree it would be interesting. The challenge is re-integrating the results with the groups' additions, removals, and improvements - all of which is a lot of manual work. Yup, that does seem to be the case. I'm not that good with Linux …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-06-05, 10:25

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by Joseph_Joestar

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What may seem simple to you from your perspective may be a rabbit hole from another perspective. I was a moderator on a phpBB based forum a long time ago (during the mid 2000s) for several years. I'm sure many things have changed on the software side since that time, but I remember deleting …

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-06-05, 10:12

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by Joseph_Joestar

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To get the discussion back on track, I noticed that the FX cards seem to be slightly more efficient than their GeForce 4 counterparts when it comes to Anti Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering. Even when comparing cards with similar specs from these two generations, cranking up AA and AF incurs a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-06-05, 08:16

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by Joseph_Joestar

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It was in storage when it died. I bought it, tested it and put it to storage as I've been using V3 3k. Makes me wonder did it just die or did I buy a baked card. Ouch. Could very well be that someone "baked" the card to reflow it. That never works out in the long run, especially with retro parts. …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-06-05, 07:32

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Seems like I'm currently going through a period of planned obsolescence, all my stuff is breaking. First 6800 GT croaked, then Voodoo3 2000 and now Sound Blaster Z I had in my "modern" PC (that just had its 9th birthday) continued the streak. What's next in line, my apartment burns down and I get …

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Re: Old games that had CD Audio tracks?

Posted on 2023-06-05, 04:04

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Joseph_Joestar, Gmlb256, and Kordanor -- thanks! Not sure if you have this data, but I think it would be beneficial to list the number of CD audio tracks that have been found on a particular disc during your grep search. That way, it would be easier to identify games which simply have 1-2 bonus …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-06-05, 03:37

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I think we're lucky to have mods at all, and a site for that matter. Get over it. I am thankful for Vogons being an invaluable repository of knowledge, and I do know that mods are unpaid volunteers. But I will still call them out when they make objectively bad decisions. Even more so because this …

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-06-04, 19:20

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Idk man it does kinda sound objectively crazy when you consider that when windows 98 came out the fastest thing you could get would have been like a P2-450 It depends on how one wants to play. As an example, back in the day, I didn't mind having 25-30 FPS in Unreal Tournament. Such frame rates were …

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-06-04, 17:14

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Not only elitist it sounds crazy. Way to insult posters who have been helping you with your myriad of questions. Just because some people prefer to play with non-period correct hardware doesn't make them "elitist" or "crazy". For reference, there were always a couple of demanding games which needed …

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-06-04, 16:05

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by Joseph_Joestar

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The part about 800MHz being too slow for Windows 98 strikes me as equally absurd but that's becoming quite tangential to the point here. It depends on when one sets the cutoff point for Win9x. Even if we use the year 2000 for that, there are still some games from that year (e.g. Deus Ex) which …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-06-04, 07:06

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by Joseph_Joestar

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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: Old games that had CD Audio tracks?

Posted on 2023-06-04, 06:55

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by Joseph_Joestar

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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: Old games that had CD Audio tracks?

Posted on 2023-06-04, 04:19

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by Joseph_Joestar

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(Mods: thanks for the purging the noise. If stating facts such as "Duke Nukem 3D didn't use CD audio tracks for in-game music" is considered "noise", then so be it. The thread subject asks for the presence of CDDA tracks as-is, be they in whatever form or use-case they fill. That's what everyone is …

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Re: Guide: Installing Windows 98 and DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS (version 2.1)

Posted on 2023-06-04, 04:00

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Eimer wrote on 2023-06-03, 23:24: I have Audigy 2 SB0400. does it work for this one as well? It should, if it's a retail card manufactured by Creative. On the other hand, if it's an OEM card (from Dell, HP etc.) it might not work. With such cards, it's difficult to say for certain.

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