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Re: Give me good system idea's

Posted on 2021-05-27, 03:43

It might help if you noted any particular nostalgia you have for specific hardware, and how important you feel it is to be period-correct. Maybe another thing to consider is how much money you really want to make... the Voodoo3 and the Radeon 9700 Pro could probably net you more than the other cards …

Re: Far Cry poor performance WinXP SP3

Posted on 2021-05-18, 15:27

I agree with you Gerry, probably there is something.... unconventional... going on in Far Cry that both ATI and nVidia seemed to have given up on supporting at some point. I find it mildly amusing that bloodem had a similar issue with a new-ish (for XP) GeForce card. It seems like GOG sometimes puts …

Re: Far Cry poor performance WinXP SP3

Posted on 2021-05-18, 03:41

Thanks for the replies everyone. I uninstalled Catalyst 14.4 and tried Catalyst 12.8. Totally fixed. Runs great at 1600x1200 with everything maxed out (including anti-aliasing). TBH I was sort of surprised that the driver was TOO NEW, since I expected the GOG version of the game to be playable on …

Far Cry poor performance WinXP SP3

Posted on 2021-05-17, 04:08

Hi everyone, Despite using what I think is a fairly overpowered WinXP machine, I'm getting very poor performance in Far Cry 1 [GOG version, no mods] and maybe someone here can inform me on what I might be doing wrong. I tried searching the forum and despite cruising through this thread and a couple …

Re: My first retro project

Posted on 2021-05-02, 17:00

1) Is there a setting in your BIOS to set your SATA ports to compatibility mode (disable AHCI)? I've had success using SATA hard drives straight up connected to the motherboard's SATA ports in Windows 98. You might not need to use the adapter at all. https://www.top-password.com/blog/wp-content/ …

Re: My first retro project

Posted on 2021-04-27, 01:17

Nice build! This will be a great system for Windows XP. I remember always wanting a floppy / card reader combo drive just like that one. I never got a chance to own one though. You will probably need an unofficial patch to run with 2GB of memory in Windows 98. From what I've read, Windows 98 is …

Re: My first dedicated XP build

Posted on 2021-04-25, 22:27

Watch out for the 5V rail on your power supply. I expect your choice of CPU could be a problem: the Athlon XP (and the vast majority of Socket A motherboards) usually uses 5V to power the CPU. Modern computers primarily use the 12V rail, and thus modern power supplies deliver most of the power …

Re: Audigy 2 ZS under Windows 95?

Posted on 2021-04-25, 19:16

I tried googling "audigy 2 zs PCMCIA driver" for you... The first hit was the official Creative support page which lists drivers, the oldest OS being Windows XP. No driver for Win 9x. The third hit happened to be an existing thread in Vogons where the it seems the conclusion was that it doesn't work …

Re: vintage budget cards instead of 'good' cards

Posted on 2021-04-05, 23:25

Nothing wrong with using budget cards.... maybe in some cases you might feel reluctant to put hours on expensive stuff (and maybe risk them dying). Some of the collectors hardware also has terrible reliability. As you described, using lower end hardware that's a generation or two newer than your …

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