Re: Earliest Direct3D Immediate mode and retained mode games

Posted on 2022-04-13, 12:51

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by leileilol

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i'd think Monster Truck Madness and Hellbender (Oct '96) which would be for DirectX 3. A little later on the early third-party D3D game side is Die Hard Trilogy (Jan '97)

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Re: Vogons Ranks

Posted on 2022-04-11, 12:02

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by leileilol

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l33t++'s after 5000, and that is it. Postcount/ranks don't really matter, unless you want to PM someone. I'm in no race to find out, and a posting rate isn't exactly a thing one should be proud of.

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2022-04-11, 00:57

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by leileilol

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It's the same GLHexen II but... - it's ONLY GLHexen II. No software Hexen II provided. - it's named "pvrh2" instead - still an OpenGL game It doesn't do anything special or out of the ordinary that a stock Hexen II with the PowerVR GLQuake MiniGL can't do. It is 1.10 though, while retail was 1.03, …

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Re: What is a 3D accelerator?

Posted on 2022-04-10, 22:37

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by leileilol

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Driver overhead. nVidia began bloating the hell out of it in 2002+

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Re: Recommended 2D/3D card for a 233MMX PC

Posted on 2022-04-10, 05:30

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by leileilol

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You should be getting a whole new motherboard and processor if you expect better performance for SOF, Midtown and Sims (especially if you plan on installing any expansions). A Voodoo's not going to do miracles here, and for 2000's games, a Voodoo1/2 would be the last thing you'd want. 2000's seen …

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Re: Twisted Metal 2 crashing

Posted on 2022-04-10, 00:39

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by leileilol

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I'd install a newer DirectX TBH. Intel Extreme Graphics 82xxx falls in the post-DX8 era as the popular GPU for the Dell Dudes. Forcing DX5 on as blindly suggested above would just mean more trouble

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Re: Whats't the "gaming range" of this computer?

Posted on 2022-04-09, 23:30

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by leileilol

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Probably 1998-2002 stuff - at best. I'd settle for 2000 minimum for true period gaming though, p4 1.5's indicative of someone duped by the big marketing, ignoring the big disappointment, and going to play the can't-possibly-be-disappointing Tribes 2, Red Faction, Black & White, everything on …

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Re: Why is Voodoo2 D3D in NT/2000/XP not possible?

Posted on 2022-04-08, 22:49

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by leileilol

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Something about how Windows NT treats secondary video devices gave them trouble (which was mutual with ATI Rage Fury Maxx). The initial Voodoo2 beta driver for Windows 2000 RCs tried to use it like a secondary video card that requires a second monitor.

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Re: SB16 and AWE64 crackling digitized sound

Posted on 2022-04-08, 07:55

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by leileilol

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Probably a WSS/MAD16 variant with a CS4231/4248. There's more than just those Aztechs doing it, and they were in relative budget obtanium *in* 1994.

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Re: What is a 3D accelerator?

Posted on 2022-04-08, 00:57

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by leileilol

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even PowerVR calls their early 3d accelerator cards GPUs now. thanks nVidia (and before OP gets an idea, don't, p133's too weak for PCX2 and Kao certainly won't look good on it (assuming if it works at all))

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Re: Quake equivalent of Hammer of Thyrion

Posted on 2022-04-07, 22:40

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by leileilol

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It's Quakespasm...sort of. At least one programmer from Hammer does the bulk of Quakespasm, but quakespasm doesn't have any legacy/software/DOS build direction that Hammer's had

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Re: What is a 3D accelerator?

Posted on 2022-04-07, 22:38

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LightStruk wrote on 2022-04-07, 16:13: Speaking from experience, I had a Virge/VX (not the fastest Virge, I know) on a Pentium 200 MMX, and not only was it always slower than software rendering when that was available, the output was just weirdly ugly. IIRC VX's got a different ramdac than the …

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Re: Is Pentium 1 too fast for early 90s DOS games?

Posted on 2022-04-07, 10:51

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by leileilol

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Keen4's absolutely fine with fast CPUs (a Pentium 4 can play it without any need for throttling or emulation), it's the post-2D video cards that often break it. There's a chart about that.

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Re: What is a 3D accelerator?

Posted on 2022-04-07, 05:42

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by leileilol

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I think what I want might not be possible in a PCI graphics card. That is Direct X 7. Plenty of DX7 PCI cards abound: Geforce2/4 MX Though, DX7 games would be out of class for a P133 rig. And then there's driver support for just a backend (like Voodoo2/3's "DX7 driver") being different from having …

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Re: is it worth getting a 1600x1200@160Hz 19" CRT?

Posted on 2022-04-07, 04:12

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by leileilol

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sli's interlaced though and you're better off with vb/v3 at least if you desire for hi-res glide on big monitors. Banshee can do 1600x1200

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Re: What is a 3D accelerator?

Posted on 2022-04-07, 03:36

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by leileilol

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an LCD monitor was also mentioned in another thread, and Voodoo cards don't look too good on them with the more realized signal interference, or have other weird problems (like Commander Keen 4 turning yellow on V3)

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Re: is it worth getting a 1600x1200@160Hz 19" CRT?

Posted on 2022-04-07, 03:30

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by leileilol

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If you wanted a big capable 1600x1200 monitor... you'd better: - have a Matrox video card that can drive a good dac to it (if the 90s) - have interest in CAD, because 1600x1200 gaming was novel in the 90s (only Total Annihilation was ever bothered with on that res then) - be strong, and have a desk …

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Re: Is Pentium 1 too fast for early 90s DOS games?

Posted on 2022-04-06, 23:05

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by leileilol

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keenerb wrote on 2022-04-06, 14:37: My understanding is that Dosbox can run on a Pentium 1/Windows 95 install Not well. It would have trouble playing 320x200 CGA games (nevermind early 90s games that wouldn't be that) and that's after setting all the rates and cycles low. Don't get your hopes up.

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2022-04-06, 07:24

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by leileilol

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16-bit dithering got dropped after Geforce8xxx (and RadeonHD as well) as DX10 hardware signified a huge refresh on pipelines and a lot of older fixed function stuff put through shaders instead.

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Re: Voodoo 3 problem with 3D Mark 2000

Posted on 2022-04-06, 02:54

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by leileilol

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FWIW, a Voodoo3 can handle 3DMark2001. It'll just skip nature and DOT3/EMBM/Pixel shader tests and default to 1024x768x16 (as 32bpp is the default). Third-party drivers shouldn't be neccessary (they can't do anything about the HAL core anyway).

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