Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2024-05-02, 21:43
Fantastic! Crystal CS4624/CS4630 support in plans?
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-05-01, 12:37
spiroyster wrote on 2024-04-24, 09:43: decided to take all hardware manufacturing 'in-house' via the STB acquisition In mid-2000 when it was a sinking ship already they rolled back on this (out of desperation probably) and let PowerColor make retail VSA-100 cards with non reference design.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-30, 13:41
Trident 9440AGI VESA Card received and installed 1MB of ram extra on it. It seems pretty fast card. I use the same card in this 486 and admittedly in Win95 changing driver for Scitech display doctor did make a difference. For example Duke3D runs faster and there is no more framebuffer flicker in …
Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread
Posted on 2024-04-28, 20:26
Use 512 RAM and smaller (120gb) storage the problem will go away.
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-04-22, 15:43
Hoping wrote on 2024-04-22, 15:18: Geforce 2 would be above the Voodoo 4 Under the same conditions True. It is a superior product and even the GF2MX beats V4 by a small margin let alone DDR versions.
Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?
Posted on 2024-04-22, 14:41
Hoping wrote on 2024-04-22, 14:03: Anyway; Someone who has a Voodoo 4 or 5 should look at this thread 3DMark99 on V4 in period correct system. You are right it's DX6 test so no TnL. Filename 3dm99-3698pts-v4-4500-2xAA-p3-866eb.jpg File size 206.33 KiB Views 399 views File comment Voodoo 4 3DMark99 …
Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread
Posted on 2024-04-22, 14:13
45.23 and lower do not work! Only 50 series and up work! It works totally fine and exclamation mark doesn't add anything meaningful to identifying the problem you are running into. Post your entire config and elaborate on how exactly it "not work" Why does it only show 3.18 GB (3264 MB) of RAM …
Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread
Posted on 2024-04-22, 07:13
Sephiroth, The Great wrote on 2024-04-21, 22:25: nvidia drivers 40 series and lower 45.23 works on this board in Win98. The board however has via zero bytes agp memory bug.
Re: NEC Powermate Socket A Athlon XP Low Profile PC
Posted on 2024-04-20, 12:59
You likely have this board because at that time PB equals NEC. It’s currently missing photos and bios dumps which you could contribute. Having P4 PSU connector on 462 is very nice however it’s too crammed inside so don’t go overboard with higher clocked Athlons. Aside from LP versions of 9250, …
Re: My water cooled Windows XP machine.
Posted on 2024-04-20, 12:42
If the front panel stays on, how big is the impact on thermals?
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-17, 15:40
Nexxen wrote on 2024-04-17, 15:06: if I remove a DDR2 chip from a VGA card, it will display anyway but with artifacts or it won't at all? https://youtu.be/sWdpb5mw_zQ?si=JrwvbyRnTBy-X3bQ&t=403 here you can see card displaying with texture memory physically removed but it's a very specific case.
Re: Weird Issues with HP Vectra VL400 & GF4 Ti 4200
Posted on 2024-04-16, 20:21
VL400 ships with a crappy psu and the board itself has cheap caps. Given that 4Ti has more power draw than the Matrox that was originally in there it could be that reboot (in combination with some APM/ACPI quirk) triggers some problem of electrical nature hence reseating card solves it. I suggest to …
Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L
Posted on 2024-04-13, 13:07
Dolenc wrote on 2024-04-13, 09:24: like a core2duo at 3ghz+ This is pointless Filename IMG_8352.jpeg File size 96.03 KiB Views 790 views File comment Anandtech
Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L
Posted on 2024-04-13, 07:26
leileilol wrote on 2024-04-13, 04:40: DXTC Marketed as supported by VSA-100
Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L
Posted on 2024-04-12, 19:55
Scalability thing applied to older rendering technique had little practical use back then with TnL around and DX8 programmable shaders looming later in the year. It is now more than 20 years later that we can enjoy antialiased Glide because we can target (cherry-pick) very specific titles …
Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L
Posted on 2024-04-11, 17:48
The final VSA-100 products from PowerColor were marketed as compatible solutions with good value, as opposed to fast GeForces with newest features.
Re: Windows XP/98 Gaming PC Build Log
Posted on 2024-04-04, 10:30
FX5700LE is not a great choice neither in compatibility nor in speed and it’s definitely not worth what you paid.
Re: RetroBox for late 90's to early 2000's games
Posted on 2024-04-04, 09:58
FX5500 PCI does not have “excellent” 98 support because it is not in 45.23 forceware, not to mention performance and prices. Even if you install custom inf file, ICH6 and newer would have DMA troubles when it comes to pci sound in dos games. Shortsaid it will mostly work fine with the tricks you …
Re: RetroBox for late 90's to early 2000's games
Posted on 2024-04-03, 16:50
Intel 945 chipsets do not support 98. Of your list, NFS3-4, Unreal and TR1 benefit from Glide rendering. If you absolutely must fit into ITX, your available option with driver support is VIA Epia series. If you don’t, any mATX 865G board will do. Lack of ISA is not dramatic if you go with compatible …
Re: Windows XP/98 Gaming PC Build Log
Posted on 2024-04-01, 17:32
sgdude wrote on 2024-03-18, 17:01: I am trying to build a Windows XP gaming machine that also will be able to dual boot with Windows 98SE. I'm trying to use somewhat era appropriate hardware The non-miserable XP gaming experience begins with Intel 865 or via kt400. Meanwhile 98 has official drivers …
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