Re: What do you use UNIVBE for?

Posted on 2016-12-11, 16:31

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Usually for video cards with pre-VESA2 bioses, like the millions of S3 Trio 32/64s out there - but also for many, many many pre-VESA SVGA video cards before 1994. Many games provide it out of convenience of assurance that they can run their (SVGA) game. Not doing this, would mean packing a crapload …

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Re: Guess the track

Posted on 2016-12-11, 02:41

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by leileilol

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Street Fighter II

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Re: Thanks for making me feel old...

Posted on 2016-12-10, 17:29

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by leileilol

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Sapphire Ntiro+? You mean like a NitroPlus Blasterz?

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Re: What are the most demanding Win98 exclusive games?

Posted on 2016-12-10, 15:25

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Win98 was still supported by most mainstream games until around 2005 so you'll have plenty to answer for that. UT2004 with mods can get a bit heavy.

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Re: Guess the track

Posted on 2016-12-10, 14:40

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by leileilol

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Gradius

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Re: Why no much attention to mac/amiga on this site ?

Posted on 2016-12-10, 14:39

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by leileilol

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Because it would end up on debates of which Turrican / Escape Velocity was best 😀

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Re: Trinity

Posted on 2016-12-09, 15:50

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by leileilol

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FWIW Trinity is the internal name for Quake3's renderer module and it was coined as early as 1997 in JohnC's .plan. Any matrix references are entirely coincidential (though Doom3 is internally named Neo so... 😀 )

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Re: Denuvo supposedly removed from Doom (2016)

Posted on 2016-12-08, 05:56

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by leileilol

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It's something new with a crapload of FUD, that's for sure. but it's not starforce-tier

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Re: Geforce GT 210, GT 730, or GTX 750 for 3D modeling

Posted on 2016-12-08, 02:53

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by leileilol

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Uh.......my 3d modeling didn't really demand anything more than OpenGL complaince and big 24/32-bit texture support on the various hardware between 2000-2016. Input hardware was a lot more important than video for me Blender 😀

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Re: I'm not crazy? TELL ME I'M NOT CRAZY!

Posted on 2016-12-07, 20:19

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by leileilol

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Don't forget to pair these specs with a dream car signature image, and then from that on continue your posting history to be entirely of arguing over synthetic benchmark results on newer hardware and which paste is best.

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Re: Is Aliens vs. Predator 2 any good when using the Voodoo 2 SLI mode?

Posted on 2016-12-07, 01:26

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You still continue to fail understanding how Direct3D works.

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Re: Is Aliens vs. Predator 2 any good when using the Voodoo 2 SLI mode?

Posted on 2016-12-06, 20:58

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by leileilol

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Those LithTech Talon games are CPU hogs. It won't do you much good to SLI 2 V2s. Not even a Geforce4 will save AVP2 performance on a P2. Also SLI'ing Voodoo2s will not give you a 24MB card to run games that require more than 8MB.

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Re: How would I have Windows 95 and Software preinstalled on PCem and 86box

Posted on 2016-12-04, 14:13

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by leileilol

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DOSfan1994 wrote: give my friends PCem preinstalled with Windows 95 you don't

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Re: Do you prefer "Objectively fast" over "Properly dated"?

Posted on 2016-12-04, 05:47

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by leileilol

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Properly dated. It smells better.

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Re: Suggest some graphics cards for these 2 PCs

Posted on 2016-12-03, 13:19

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by leileilol

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Though if you have a Geforce256/2/4MX there's no real point in having a TNT/TNT2 instead. It just matters which is the more conveniently available one and the TNTs offer nothing unique to the table that an early Geforce can't do. I'd pick Geforce over TNT though. In those system's specs i'd ignore …

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Re: 1994 build- Pentium, S3 Trio.

Posted on 2016-12-02, 23:53

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by leileilol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

COASt (Cache on a Stick) modules Also note that years on chips don't always indicate their release year. They can be put there over years of R&D without an update. Perhaps the 1994 system you want to build will have "1992" marked all over the '94 parts 😉

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Re: Suggest some graphics cards for these 2 PCs

Posted on 2016-12-02, 15:45

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by leileilol

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Voodoo3 3000 for both 😜

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Re: How much vram was needed to display a desktop at maximum crt resolution, e.g 2048x1536?

Posted on 2016-11-30, 12:26

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by leileilol

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The Riva TNT should even be able to pull that off Here's an old 1998 q3 screenshot at 2048x1152

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Re: Period Correct 2D Card

Posted on 2016-11-29, 02:52

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by leileilol

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Everything before TNT, i740, Voodoo Banshee, Matrox G100 and Savage3D will do (save these cards for cranked Celeron 300A period builds of the following year 😉 ) .

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Re: Old Valve Games

Posted on 2016-11-28, 16:44

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by leileilol

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There was also a LOT of bugs in the original HL2 as well. The ATI fog bug is a huge one

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