Quake3 colorMipLevels LOD curiosity

Posted on 2024-04-14, 15:03

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by leileilol

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I've wanted to make a thread on this for a long time. I know I used to demand a shot of this in a few threads before but I procrastinated on making a whole thread about it. I know it's not a professional image quality/mipmap test but it's the one I know with consistent results in OpenGL. This should …

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Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L

Posted on 2024-04-14, 04:22

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by leileilol

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Ozzuneoj wrote on 2024-04-14, 03:18: How did this thing end up SO competitive coming from a company that hadn't previously made 3D graphics chips? ArtX, much like 3dfx, had similar ex-SGI nepotism

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Re: Outrageous Installers

Posted on 2024-04-14, 01:45

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by leileilol

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Bad Mojo also had a paddle game of some sort

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Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards

Posted on 2024-04-14, 01:23

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by leileilol

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Viper Racing has no software renderer, it's accelerated or nothing. I expect the smoke to be unblended (assuming it gets past caps checks, I never got a PCX2 through to Viper in the day)

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Re: Outrageous Installers

Posted on 2024-04-14, 01:16

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There's a couple activision-developed games with special effort into their installshields to set the backdrop and atmosphere and they're Interstate 76 and Battlezone. I76 goes through a slideshow of concept art. (NOTE: Battlezone's later rereleases nerfed the installer. I76 Gold remains the same)

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Re: Outrageous Installers

Posted on 2024-04-13, 16:22

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I think all the westwoods are obvious choices, as are Microsoft Games ~1996-2003, HOWEVER Install Witchaven II You won't be disappointed

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Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L

Posted on 2024-04-13, 16:16

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Was this really the case or just one of those random claims people posted on the internet throughout the years? I can see 3dfx engineers having some input but to give the entire or main designing responsibility to them doesn't seem plausible to me. The original announcement did mention engineers in …

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Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L

Posted on 2024-04-13, 04:40

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Never released? Could've sworn the last Kyro2 drivers had the SW T&L in there. Giants recognized a HW T&L D3D rendering device after and bumpmapping worked. However it wasn't a stable feature and some games that required it crashed instead and the drivers did have registry keys to disable it on a …

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Re: Upgrade to AWE64, or keep SB16 + Wavetable board?

Posted on 2024-04-13, 04:16

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by leileilol

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The only 'heavy' part of the AWE64 driver is just the optional WaveGuide software synth that feels there to meet a bulletpoint, but isn't the fault of the hardware and is not required. You could even install that for a SB32...

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Re: Upgrade to AWE64, or keep SB16 + Wavetable board?

Posted on 2024-04-13, 04:06

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Awe64 is not worth it for dos. Sb32 was about the tops for dos gaming, as concerns real SB cards. AWE64 was mostly a windows only card, as i recall. AWE64 is functionally the same in DOS as the SB32 was, just sounds cleaner, and isn't as easily memory expandable (value's stuck at 512kb of extra …

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Re: Help creating my Windows 98 SE perfect clean installation

Posted on 2024-04-13, 03:23

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by leileilol

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the best win98se build is called windows me. fans just like to deny this and make 'service packs' to just paste me's goodness in and credit themselves for the great things me does while they gaslight me for being a chronic bsoder because apparently everyone wants to vxd it up to death

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-12, 07:24

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by leileilol

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The Pi5 test was to debunk the current practicality of Nuked-SC55 on the pi by trying the most powerful/current model. I have no personal desire to use it piped through one. Since a Pi 5 struggles (even against my initial guestpectations), I'd find it fruitless on anything lower. (also honest props …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-04-11, 04:34

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enshittification is when something's gradually degraded into a paywall. This is just google killing off useful things as they're too big to give a shit. who knows how long the "before:" feature will last in this AI crapulisted cyberspace...

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Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-10, 17:34

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by leileilol

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at idle (no playback) a Pi5 gets 24.5% execution with the current tree and that's a whole core and it appears visually choppy. Hadn't played a MIDI yet (no dev/sequencer on bookworm). I don't expect it to sound good at this stage.

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Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-10, 08:06

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I'm fine with it as a port-reading device as other MIDI emulators had been in the past. Any more convenience desired would be a Windows MIDI driver. No need for game/emu integration As for Pis, I can only imagine the Pi 5 handling it

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Re: dosdash - Graphical menu dashboard for MS-DOS

Posted on 2024-04-09, 05:03

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by leileilol

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I know nVidia Geforce cards are slow with palette changes so I hope you're not doing that for every frame.

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Re: Help - Voodoo 2 SLI performance

Posted on 2024-04-08, 20:55

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I guess it's the test I'm running that is not very representative? Perhaps those Software T&L optimizations are hurting? That wouldn't matter. There's not a single Voodoo in the world with hardware T&L. Another thing to keep in mind about SLI is that the texture thrashing penalties are worse, so …

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Re: System Requirements Database?

Posted on 2024-04-08, 03:00

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by leileilol

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There was the pcgaming wiki but they often list anachronisitc requirements of later budget/digital releases and then there's the download pages having dangerous ads so I can't link that place in good conscience anymore.

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Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-08, 02:55

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Dunno why many expect this thread to explode. Some developers aren't clout-driven and it's at an early stage anyway...

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Re: Fastest emulators period

Posted on 2024-04-07, 13:26

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Probably SSF. Yabause (and everything else before SSF) never felt like it could emulate, so I didn't bother. My primary focus were hand assembly'd emulators for 4th-6th gen systems

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