Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2022-08-10, 15:26

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What else can I try to do? Maybe something needs to be corrected through PCISET.EXE? Maybe some setting is not enabled on the ITE PCIe-PCI bridge? On the other hand, why does XP use 17 interrupts, while 98 only uses 15 as the maximum possible? Could it be that the card can only work on interrupt 17? …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2022-08-10, 15:21

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Windows XP uses the following resources: F7340000-F7347FFF C000-C03F C0E0-C0E3 IRQ 17 and the card works. Whereas in Windows 98 they are: F7340000-F7347FFF C000-C03F C0E0-C0E3 IRQ 5 and the card is not working. I tried to change the interrupt, however, IRQ 17 does not allow me to choose. With the …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2022-08-08, 15:12

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I tried it on my old PC (Intel Core2Duo x6800 + Conroe865PE based) and no problem, the card works flawlessly (With the same VxD driver). One might think that the H81 and/or ITE PCIe-PCI bridge is not compatible, but that's how it works in XP! What can be wrong in Windows 98?

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2022-08-08, 15:03

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Windows 98+XP native are not problem, problems are with Dos. I tried a Yamaha 754 on an Intel H81 with an ITE PCIe-PCI Bridge and indeed the card is fully functional under Windows XP, which is good. What drivers should I install under Windows 98 for this card, under these conditions? Are there any …

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Re: Using SBpro and SB16 ISA on WinXP and Win7, possible?

Posted on 2022-08-02, 14:14

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For SoundBlaster 16, there are drivers for Windows XP and are even included in the delivery. Windows 7 does not contain such a driver. Moreover, ISA PNP in Windows 7 is disabled by default (and as a result, the device is not recognized on the bus). However, Microsoft provides a solution to enable …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2022-08-02, 09:24

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Windows 98+XP native are not problem, problems are with Dos. I tried a Yamaha 754 on an Intel H81 with an ITE PCIe-PCI Bridge and indeed the card is fully functional under Windows XP, which is good. What drivers should I install under Windows 98 for this card, under these conditions? Are there any …

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Re: CRT and wrong colours

Posted on 2022-07-20, 22:54

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For me, like (Seeing the first screenshot), the picture on the CRT looks somehow more natural and deeper (Except for color problems). I had the same problem on a Diamondtron based Iiyama. Also with too much green. I solved the problem only by entering the engineering menu and setting the colors …

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Re: PCIe devices on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2022-07-20, 21:57

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The problem of low D2 execution speed under Windows 98 with nVidia PCI-e video cards (GeForce PCX\6\7 ), as it turned out later, was due to not enabled WC (Write Combining) for certain memory addresses. On an old AGP machine, WC is enabled by default (Usually, no user action is required). And on …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2022-07-20, 20:30

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Hello. I read this thread, but I did not find a clear answer to the question. Can anyone suggest? Will the Yamaha 754 be like this: https://www.ferra.ru/thumb/150x0/filters:quality(75):no_upscale()/imgs/2018/11/26/11/2559189/17ec89f30d4db38b0cb1657ba33941d26090fc30.jpg https://www.ferra.ru/thumb/ …

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Re: PCIe devices on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-12-30, 04:21

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The "Stretching" results in your last screenshot are fine (Unlike the previous one). Even better than 9x with AGP. The rest of the results are also quite acceptable for comfortable work. Therefore, it doesn't seem like they've devalued 2D features. Тhey just implemented support differently, most …

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Re: PCIe devices on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-12-30, 02:04

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Yeah. This means that an AGP bus is still needed for full 2D speed in Windows 98? Nothing good will come of PCI-E? I first noticed this problem when I saw the jerks while stretching the photo. I remembered exactly that on the old AGP system the stretching was perfectly smooth under 9x. And it looked …

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Re: PCIe devices on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-12-29, 05:25

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I couldn't find an active link to Tom2D, but I ran 3DMark99 at 800x600x16 z16 TB. I got a GPU score of 27,959 3DMarks with the x800 XL at stock speed. Not too shabby for Windows 98. For fun, I also ran it at 1920x1080x32 z24 TB. I got a score of 19,407 3DMarks. I think it's running properly. The …

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Re: PCIe devices on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-12-28, 21:49

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I made a screen capture of the display properties of my Radeon X800 XL in Windows 98 SE. The AGP Texture entry in the DXDIAG.EXE shows "Enabled", but I don't know if that has any significance for the PCI-E drivers. The X800 is a native PCI-E device, so I suppose ATI wrote the driver with the …

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Re: PCIe devices on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-12-28, 21:16

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Probably because PCI-E is running in PCI mode -133 MB/s share for all device include discs, although some very modern MB has multiple parallel PCI buses to improve that.. AGP is up to 2048 MB/s (AGP 8x) and there even some better AGP specific code which give you than more much more brute force. …

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Re: PCIe devices on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-12-28, 16:19

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What results of the Tom2D benchmark are the norm for PCI-E video cards under Win9x? With AGP video cards, I get 15000 byls, and with PCI-E cards (I tried different nVidia cards with different drivers) about 5000, that is, three times less! I thought, maybe I'm just missing something in the system, …

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Re: PCIe devices on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-12-28, 15:55

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PCI-E works in Windows 98 without any special OS drivers because the OS thinks the device is on a 32-bit PCI bus. You will need drivers for the device (video card, USB, etc.) to get it working. As well as AGP video cards by default, without a chipset of the GART driver (For Intel, this is PCIMP.PCI …

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Re: PCIe devices on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-12-28, 01:06

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What set of drivers and OS updates should be used with PCI-E cards under Windows 98 for best results? What results do you get for example in the Tom2D benchmark? Do I need to forcibly enable PCIMP.PCI (For AGP cards, for example, it is used, significantly increasing performance.) Or maybe there is …

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Re: Half-Life Performance Issues

Posted on 2021-01-24, 02:13

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D3D in Half-Life is not that bad, but OpenGL is faster and more stable, I guess owing to the engine's roots in id tech 2. Not sure what was going on with that G400 there. With OpenGL you don't get overbright lighting on textures (a type of early bloom lighting effect). I would rather play it in D3D …

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Re: Connecting old machines to the internet: dispelling the superstition

Posted on 2020-01-21, 21:04

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Somehow, purely out of sporting interest, I launched one popular virus on my home machine running Windows 98 [4.10.1998] and here is what came of it: https://c.radikal.ru/c40/2001/02/e3a331a6198e.png For comparison, this is what happened when the same virus was launched, but under different systems: …

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Re: Customize Windows XP to look like 95

Posted on 2020-01-21, 20:29

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NT 2D performance is much much better than any 9x What tools and on what did you test it? On all former and currently existing dual-boot machines (9x \ XP), rendering the interface for 9x is much faster.

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