Recommended PCI sound cards for Win98?

Posted on 2024-04-30, 06:10

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by arizonapalms

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Currently building an Athlon XP based Win98 system, and want some expert opinions on what PCI sound card to choose. I do enjoy 3D audio tech like A3D and EAX, but not essential. Here are the cards I have from the top of my head: Aureal Vortex 1 Aureal Vortex 2 - What I am using now, but SB emulation …

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Re: Unreal 1 questions

Posted on 2024-03-05, 21:06

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Hey, running the same card as you with the same drivers from http://falconfly.3dfx.pl/voodoo3.htm Does the same thing occur in other Glide games? What about another Unreal engine game like Unreal Tournament or Nerf Arena?

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Re: Win98SE - MBR Corruption?

Posted on 2024-03-05, 21:03

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I've been dealing with a weird issue on my Win98SE installs over the last two years or so.. Not sure exactly what causes it but have been pulling my hair out. Curious if anyone else has seen this before. Happens with all forms of hardware, no SSD or SATA bull either, just IDE spinning rust with DMA …

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Re: Win98SE - MBR Corruption?

Posted on 2024-03-05, 20:42

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When you find the time, plz try again with a fresh, bare bones install - untouched disc straight from Microsoft, no network at all, no USB mass storage driver, only on disc drivers unless you absolutely need them to get storage working (if you do, make a note of that) (and no, at this point it …

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Re: Win98SE - MBR Corruption?

Posted on 2024-03-05, 06:46

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A common denominator is that they are connected to my network - It's pretty locked down (running a Fortigate firewall, have seperate VLAN's for retro network, etc) and have not seen any weird packets floating around. One thing I usually do is adjust MTU for faster and more reliable network speed - …

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Re: Win98SE - MBR Corruption?

Posted on 2024-03-05, 06:29

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BitWrangler wrote on 2024-03-05, 03:48: Is it happening on stuff between 600MB and 2GB or are you blowing the normal file size limit? Nah not blowing the fat32 filesize limit

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Re: Win98SE - MBR Corruption?

Posted on 2024-03-05, 06:22

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across differnt systems Alrighty then. It's getting weirder. Any shared (reused) components between those at all? No matter how unlikely they are to be the cause of this. Also, what's the software side look like? Any third party "service" packs or other shit like that installed (protip: don't.)? …

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Re: Win98SE - MBR Corruption?

Posted on 2024-03-05, 02:54

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No - If stick to playing games it will run forever. It occurs after reinstalls, hence why i started making images (reinstalling each time it happened was killing me) Def not the HDD, since it happens across differnt systems and using real IDE spinning rust, CF cards, SD to IDE adapters, etc. so i …

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Re: Win98SE - MBR Corruption?

Posted on 2024-03-04, 21:57

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- Memtest comes back OK - No overclock - Cables I doubt (only since i've seen this happen on my Dell C600 laptop)

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Win98SE - MBR Corruption?

Posted on 2024-03-04, 06:09

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by arizonapalms

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I've been dealing with a weird issue on my Win98SE installs over the last two years or so.. Not sure exactly what causes it but have been pulling my hair out. Curious if anyone else has seen this before. Happens with all forms of hardware, no SSD or SATA bull either, just IDE spinning rust with DMA …

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Re: Voodoo Banshee as '2d card' for V2 SLI

Posted on 2023-10-30, 11:08

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by arizonapalms

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Whatever order you'll install the video driver, that'll replace the Glide DLLs and take the preference for that API (and the MiniGLs that link them). Other than that it should be fine (still individual devices to Direct3D). I'd prefer to install the Banshee drivers twice and toss in V2 specific …

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Voodoo Banshee as '2d card' for V2 SLI

Posted on 2023-10-30, 01:18

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by arizonapalms

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Has any tried running a Voodoo Banshee AGP as their "2d" card, and use voodoo2 sli for everything else? I have a couple of AGP cards I can use like the S3 Trio3d or SiS 6326 but curious as my Banshee cards don't get much love, they might be useful for something at least!

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PCI Mpeg-2 decoder card - Wired Digital Media press

Posted on 2023-09-18, 07:07

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Anyone heard of this card before? Wired Inc. Digital Media Press Apparently, they were some kind of an MPEG-2 card for Mac OS 9. Software is long lost to time, Archive.org archives of the site point to a very dead FTP server. I know it would be practically useless, but I thought y'all would get a …

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Re: Futuremark ResultBrowsers for Download (Legal)

Posted on 2023-09-08, 01:40

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Thank you so much! Nice to have them all in one place.

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Re: Windows 98 SE QuickInstall

Posted on 2023-06-02, 06:24

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Tested this on a real IBM Aptiva with a K6 550Mhz to a 32gb SD -> IDE adapter. Took about 3-4 minutes from no OS to a Windows 98 desktop. That's record time for me. Top work, I'll be following this project closely as I really like automating as much as I can with my builds, from group policy via AD …

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Re: Half-Life : Blue Shift with voodoo 2 on 3dfx.

Posted on 2023-03-31, 05:36

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lost77 wrote on 2021-06-02, 02:07: Try this: […] Show full quote Try this: Copy 3dfxgl.dll from the /gldrv directory to the main game directory. Rename it opengl32.dll. Select default OpenGL driver in setup. This worked great for me. Blue Shift with Voodoo3 2000 kept giving me this error until i …

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Re: Need a good driver for an ASUS V3200 rev 2 Banshee

Posted on 2022-09-21, 03:23

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by arizonapalms

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Hey, did you end up resolving this? I have a banshee of this model as well which performs OK can stutter sometimes

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Voodoo 1 Cooling

Posted on 2022-07-05, 03:05

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by arizonapalms

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I have a nice working 3dfx Voodoo 1 that i'd like to keep cool as the chips get fairly hot - anyone else cooling their 1st gen Voodoo cards?

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Re: Help please. Win98SE Radeon 8500

Posted on 2022-07-03, 23:40

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by arizonapalms

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in Marvin \ Video

If you have the tools, I'd try a recap for sure.

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Re: Help please. Win98SE Radeon 8500

Posted on 2022-07-02, 07:21

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by arizonapalms

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Basically anything from like 96 until 2003 *should* run OK It's just tracking them down (and for a reasonable price) which is kind of hard Depending on what games you play you can find something like an ATI 9600 or nVidia fx 5500, or something along those lines.

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