Re: Help - Voodoo 2 SLI performance

Posted on 2024-04-08, 21:54

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by kahuna

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My thinking on the Software T&L is that it can hurt performance because it's one more thing that the CPU needs to do. i.e. "software render vs. hardware render" type of thing. With a Coppermine there is some sort of optimization, or at least it looks that way as in 3DMark they have "using Intel …

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Re: Help - Voodoo 2 SLI performance

Posted on 2024-04-08, 18:45

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by kahuna

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I just tried with Unreal Tournament. Is it possible that 3Dmark2000 is not disabling v-sync or something like that? The thing is in UT I get 60 fps on the first 1-on-1 death match when I set the config to 60Hz, and 72-75fps when I move the slider to 75Hz.

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Help - Voodoo 2 SLI performance

Posted on 2024-04-08, 18:36

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by kahuna

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Hello Vogons! In short, I'm not seeing a great performance improvement on 3DMark2000 comparing a single Voodoo2 versus two Voodoo2 in SLI. My system is a VIA C3 Nehemiah 1.2GHz, 392MB RAM, Geforce3 as primary display. The Voodoo2 are a matched pair of Creative CT6670 with 12MB each. With this CPU …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2024-03-19, 04:44

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by kahuna

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I have been testing different things, and folks this is awesome! 😎 cpuspd is amazing!! 😁 RayeR's SMB also helps too! 😀 Here is the final table I came up with for my VIA C3 Nehemiah 1200MHz. Filename nehemiah-cpuspd_final.png File size 49.41 KiB Views 488 views Enjoy!

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2024-03-17, 15:37

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by kahuna

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It works! 😀 Disabling L2 first and then disabling D-Cache does the trick. I thought I tried that but maybe not in that order, not sure. Anyway, I’ll test more later tonight and update the table accordingly. Thank you so much!

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2024-03-17, 00:49

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by kahuna

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I just found a quirk. Not sure if it has been reported yet. If I disable D-Cache (ecd), the CPU runs at such new speed. However, I cannot run cpuspd again, otherwise my system freezes :( Edit to say that is not a quirk, it's an important issue. I thought it was fine because I could run 3dbench …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2024-03-16, 19:35

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by kahuna

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Dear all, I have been playing around with cpuspd 2.1 on my new build based on a VIA C3 Nehemiah 1200MHz (9x 133 MHz) processor. Below these lines you could find the speed sweet spots I consider the best ones. nehemiah-cpuspd.png I do not like using "throttle" as I believe it makes things sound or …

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Re: Throttle CD-ROM drive speed in DOS?

Posted on 2024-03-14, 18:35

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by kahuna

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Is there a way of resetting this? I’m just thinking to run a simple command before trying to play the next game, to make sure is going to clean up whatever was there, so it will just work with the next one. Are you using smartdrive or some other caching tool? smartdrive /c should flush the cache, …

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Re: Clonezilla - Motivation and quick tutorial

Posted on 2024-03-07, 19:03

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by kahuna

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ldeveraux wrote on 2024-03-07, 16:11: You do you, I'm not trying to dissuade you [...] But of course! kahuna wrote on 2024-03-06, 05:21: [...] Hope this is useful for someone, it is definitely for me 😀 Having fun, enjoy what you build! That's the point, anyway.

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Re: Clonezilla - Motivation and quick tutorial

Posted on 2024-03-06, 23:10

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by kahuna

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Just whatever capacity is used for both the backup and restore operations. The preferred way to create those disk images is 'partclone', it will only use 'dd' as the last resort if it doesn't understand the filesystem that is on that drive. This is what Clonezilla wrote to my network file server: …

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Re: Clonezilla - Motivation and quick tutorial

Posted on 2024-03-06, 19:47

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by kahuna

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The same Clonezilla CD you burn to create an image / backup of your disk drive(s) can be used to restore such backup. I just did that by the way, I restored the image you see on the last 'screenshot' to a different drive. So, I now have all my DOS games exactly the same in both the K6 machine and …

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Clonezilla - Motivation and quick tutorial

Posted on 2024-03-06, 05:21

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by kahuna

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Hello Vogons, During my free time over the past few months, I've been building my own DOS retro games collection. Basically, installing all games I love, making sure they work and so on. As you can imagine, it takes time! Of course I'm not done, I'm planning to do the same for Windows 95/98 games, …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***

Posted on 2024-03-05, 23:02

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by kahuna

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Thanks for checking. I have tabled this matter for the moment, I will focus on getting the most out of the Orpheus and enjoying the GUS output 😀

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***

Posted on 2024-03-05, 08:42

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by kahuna

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First of all and just to be clear, it is not my intention to trash this great card or anything despicable like that. I don't know what is going on, I don't like what I'm hearing, that's why I'm asking. I have captured three samples in Budokan configured to output sound over PC Speaker, they are …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***

Posted on 2024-03-04, 22:22

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by kahuna

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Hello everyone, I recently got my Orpheus II. I'm building another machine (VIA C3 based) where I can enjoy it. I also have a PC MIDI card in a K6-based system, I really love it. Thank you so much to the team for making these awesome cards! I didn't have much time to play around with the Orpheus yet …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2024-02-16, 17:50

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by kahuna

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Just wanted to say, thank you so much kalohimal for creating such a great tool, really appreciate the effort! I'm using it on my K6-III+ build and soon enough I will give it a go in a new C3 Nehemiah set up I'm working on. Thanks!

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VIA C3 Nehemiah identification on boot

Posted on 2024-02-16, 07:50

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by kahuna

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Hello Vogons! I'm working in a new build. These are the specs: - Gigabyte GA-6BXC v2 - PowerLeap BIOS (powleap3.bin) - Thanks Stingray & Gerwin!! - MS-6905 Master v2.3 "slocket" - VIA C3 1.2GHz Nehemiah The CPU has a 133MHz FSB with a multiplier of 9.0. On boot the BIOS identifies it as VIA C3 1. …

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Re: Throttle CD-ROM drive speed in DOS?

Posted on 2024-01-28, 07:50

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by kahuna

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Hi there, I’m afraid I have a couple of issues to report. These are with an LG GSA-4167B (IDE/33) drive and shsucdx. First of all if I open the tray and insert another cd, it goes back to full speed. Not a big issue as I can run cd be quiet again and problem solved. The important one: There is some …

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Re: AT-Mainboard: Matsonic MS6260S BIOS with Patch possible?

Posted on 2024-01-10, 07:20

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by kahuna

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Well, tried a Voodoo 3 PCI. Gets into windows and as soon as you touch the keyboard the pc restarts. Could it be the keyboard, lol? Will try another power supply when I find one. Not sure what's going on there. Nvidia cards are somewhat picky with Super Socket 7 motherboards. I had a Voodoo3 AGP …

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2024-01-09, 05:08

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by kahuna

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I received recently my PCMIDI ISA card and I cannot be happier :) It's an MPU card that supports both intelligent and UART mode. Legend of Hoboken works as expected with it as you can hear in the attached mp3 rough capture. The PCMIDI is configured by jumpers on IRQ 2 and address 330H. Here is my …

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