Re: MechCommander Gold freezes before main menu in 98SE

Posted on 2022-08-18, 23:36

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Thanks Peter.Mengel. Good to know. Which driver version are you using? Mine was locking up with 45.23 but finally worked with 77.72. I like Zotac's cards :) My FX5200 is PCI and a PNY Verto. 43.45 and 45.23, weird part is the 128 Bit does weird stuff always on older games. But Imroves Speed in …

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Re: With prices down, are you buying a new GPU, waiting for the next generation, or staying on the sidelines?

Posted on 2022-08-17, 23:02

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On a similar note - greetings from Estonia... we just had the legendary electricity spike of 4EUR per KWH.🙇‍♂️ Greetings from Romania! But... damn, man! And to think that I was complaining about paying now 0.62 lei (~ 0.13EUR)/kWh, when a year ago I was paying 0.24 lei (~0.04EUR)/kWh. I promise I …

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Re: Does Win98se need SB16 Drivers

Posted on 2022-08-17, 19:05

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Installed sbw9xup.exe dated [4 November 1998] SDR-95UPD-1-US (Revision 16) These appear to be the latest from creative but are older than the drivers in Win98. It fixes a full duplex issue recording and playing music. I tried it recording from line in when playing sound on a game and it is working …

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Re: Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis no speech

Posted on 2022-08-17, 18:05

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To get Lucasarts talkies to work with sound on some PCs, I often have to do all three of : Install the game updates Disable L1/L2 cache (+underclock if possible) Use precisely version 2.04 of Cutemouse (nothing else works (even MS mouse) - I think because of buggy BIOS, 2.04 bypasses the BIOS). …

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Re: Building an Emulation Station.

Posted on 2022-08-16, 23:52

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leileilol wrote on 2022-08-16, 23:45: a HD4550 ain't gonna RPCS3. Iam not that far in my retro emu project but n64 and psx works great.

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Re: Building an Emulation Station.

Posted on 2022-08-16, 23:52

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I've got most of the parts of my last build just laying around so I've decided to take them and make an emulation station for my living room. It will consist of : i9 9900k RTX 2080ti Maximus Hero XI wifi 500GB WD Black M.2 3 either 3 or 4 TB HDDs (No Soundcard, I think for emulation into a stereo …

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Re: Building an Emulation Station.

Posted on 2022-08-16, 23:39

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I've got most of the parts of my last build just laying around so I've decided to take them and make an emulation station for my living room. It will consist of : i9 9900k RTX 2080ti Maximus Hero XI wifi 500GB WD Black M.2 3 either 3 or 4 TB HDDs (No Soundcard, I think for emulation into a stereo …

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Re: What version of Mechwarrior 2?

Posted on 2022-08-16, 22:31

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The Pentium editions and such should all have 3DFX support out of the box. Not sure if it'll work on a V3, MW2 was one of the original Glide games. Never tried. It doesn't. "Pentium edition" predates 3dfx releases by quite a while (1995), and the 3dfx OEM version that came with some V1 cards are …

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Re: Intel arc and d3d9

Posted on 2022-08-16, 22:29

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........native D3D9 driver support was still a thing? I guess its more about backwards compatiblity...most 32bit games will run on newer systems out of the box... Understandable, I guess. It's hard to imagine for casual users that a simple game using Direct Draw or Direct 3D 3 won't run out of box. …

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Re: Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis no speech

Posted on 2022-08-16, 22:25

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Yeah CD is in and it is the first CD drive. I guess maybe it is fast CPU problem it being Pii 300mhz like leileilol suggested? This game has issues with anything faster than a low end 486. Unfortunately, that PII300 is not a very flexible CPU. If you slow it down by disabling the L1 cache, it will …

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Re: Intel arc and d3d9

Posted on 2022-08-16, 06:19

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leileilol wrote on 2022-08-16, 06:09: ........native D3D9 driver support was still a thing? I guess its more about backwards compatiblity...most 32bit games will run on newer systems out of the box...

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Re: With prices down, are you buying a new GPU, waiting for the next generation, or staying on the sidelines?

Posted on 2022-08-16, 03:20

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When you grow up with higher mains voltages you learn to be pretty dang respectful of it so we dont have any more electrical fires here than you would normally expect, our codes here are also pretty stringent and most if not all newer homes have RCD based breakers. And our Ovens are 400v up to 8000 …

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Re: With prices down, are you buying a new GPU, waiting for the next generation, or staying on the sidelines?

Posted on 2022-08-16, 02:27

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We don't have many here either afaik. A few years back I heard of a lady who had a house full of animals, all trapped imside, fire said to be on account of old wiring. Horrific tragedy. I always leave a window cracked if cats are left in. Gives them a fighting chance anyway. The only time I was …

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Re: With prices down, are you buying a new GPU, waiting for the next generation, or staying on the sidelines?

Posted on 2022-08-16, 02:26

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I can't help but wonder if there are more electrical fires in Australia and Germany. Maybe not. Maybe the electrical codes are more stringent. When you grow up with higher mains voltages you learn to be pretty dang respectful of it so we dont have any more electrical fires here than you would …

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Re: With prices down, are you buying a new GPU, waiting for the next generation, or staying on the sidelines?

Posted on 2022-08-16, 01:52

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I can't help but wonder if there are more electrical fires in Australia and Germany. Maybe not. Maybe the electrical codes are more stringent. I hear rarely from any electrical fires. Our Fuses are normed too, you can check the fuse box and if its a after 1990 you cant even kill yourself. proofed …

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Re: Intel Ark drops native Direct3D 9 support.

Posted on 2022-08-15, 23:53

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Hi everyone. It has begun, it seems. There will be graphics cards that don't support older D3D anymore (natively). A wrapper must be used, so that a newer (supported) Direct3D API can be used with DirectX 1-9 titles. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-xe-arc-swap-to-dx9-emulation Until now, …

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Re: Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis no speech

Posted on 2022-08-15, 23:45

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shmel wrote on 2022-08-15, 23:24: Trying to run the game on PII 300mhz, Soundblaster 5.1Live and running it via Win98SE. I have CDrom version of the game, monster.sou filesize is 142MB. I tried every configuration for SB ports, and no luck. Music plays just fine though. Is the Cd in the Drive? Is …

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Re: Does Win98se need SB16 Drivers

Posted on 2022-08-15, 18:58

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Installed sbw9xup.exe dated [4 November 1998] SDR-95UPD-1-US (Revision 16) These appear to be the latest from creative but are older than the drivers in Win98. It fixes a full duplex issue recording and playing music. I tried it recording from line in when playing sound on a game and it is working …

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Re: With prices down, are you buying a new GPU, waiting for the next generation, or staying on the sidelines?

Posted on 2022-08-15, 18:55

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Nothing like a GPU that costs $876+ a year of power off the wall 1200 watts is near the practical continuous limit of a U.S. facing power outlets Beyond that you need a hospital or HD outlet, the rear stab in outlets in most homes flame up above 1200 watts, the really good (hospital grade / …

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Re: What version of Mechwarrior 2?

Posted on 2022-08-15, 18:51

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buckeye wrote on 2022-08-15, 18:13: Is mercenaries an "add-on" or does it come bundled with the original? And the Pentium Edition

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