Re: Old Win9x games on WinXP - is it just early DirectX games that can be problematic?

Posted on 2011-03-06, 00:09

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by leileilol

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Jorpho wrote: That's interesting. Does any particular example come to mind? Every Unreal engine game ever (there's only fixes for the more popular ones like Unreal, UT, Rune and Deus Ex), and Republic Commando (UE2) are just a few

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Re: PHANTASMAGORIA 2 PUZZLE OF FLESH DOS BOX VIDEO CHOPPINESS

Posted on 2011-03-05, 04:53

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by leileilol

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Does it occur in windowed mode? If not, then change your output= to something other than surface like, ddraw or opengl

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Re: Same, yet different, what's the deal? - Video card comparison

Posted on 2011-03-05, 04:03

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by leileilol

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i know powerstrip can do it

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Re: Geforce FX Super Thread

Posted on 2011-03-05, 01:28

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by leileilol

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Tetrium wrote: And about K6, I suppose they have MANY downsides compared to Slot 1, but once running, for me they seem about as fast as a P2 or a Celeron of equal speed. Ever played Serious Sam or Red Alert 2 on both? P2 crushes K6 in those. 😀

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Re: Geforce FX Super Thread

Posted on 2011-03-04, 23:53

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by leileilol

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For your K6 system I second the Voodoo3 suggestion, for drivers alone 3dfx focused on speed, so if you want fast Quake2 on K6 go for them. They actually use 3dnow! optimizations :) also, quake2 supports 3dfx's gamma path so you can real gamma on 3dfx BTW the worst possible choice for a k6 system is …

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Re: Geforce FX Super Thread

Posted on 2011-03-04, 23:16

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by leileilol

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Quake2 doesn't even have proper gamma control. Also its gl output is crap, and it'll look crap no matter what card it's running on. Quake2 will run on almost anything - including PowerVR PCX1 and even overpriced tower Amigas with staggering 13mb per second pci bridge buses going to a bottlenecked-to …

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Re: Old Win9x games on WinXP - is it just early DirectX games that can be problematic?

Posted on 2011-03-04, 23:00

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by leileilol

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It's not just early games. Once you get another core there's another layer of issues, even DX9 games can get problematic. 'Upgrading' FF7's 'graphics' would be the last thing i'd want to do to get a game working. I gave up and play it on a Win9x machine with the ficedultra patch installed though ( …

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Re: Chronologistic PC emulation

Posted on 2011-03-04, 13:28

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by leileilol

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you know what i mean with the scaling and aspect and

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Re: A gallery of strange sound devices

Posted on 2011-03-04, 05:10

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by leileilol

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TheMAN wrote: so who has a real WSS? nobody really bought those things! I have 3 WSS-compliant cards if CS4248, CS4232 and CS4231 count (okay, cs4232 isn't a card)

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Re: Sim City 2000 on Windows Vista 64 bit

Posted on 2011-03-04, 05:06

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by leileilol

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install the game through dosbox first

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Re: Star Trek Klingon Academy fixes

Posted on 2011-03-04, 04:02

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Pretty strange for a 334mb 'fix' that functions as a playable, ripped version of the full game all by itself. technically this is illegal (oh the warezanity!) and it's amazing he hasn't been stomped to hell by Viacom/Paramount/Interplay yet, probably because the site calls it a 'patch', no different …

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Re: Chronologistic PC emulation

Posted on 2011-03-04, 00:01

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by leileilol

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it'd be better for dosbox's video output and opl3 emulation core shoved into qemu or pcem for a more equivelant effect also don't carry that 'life is short' crap into the marvin forum :) I find simulating era-specific machines useful for debugging and testing software. (i.e. a 1995 case wouldn't …

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Re: Best video chips or boards that failed in the marketplace?

Posted on 2011-03-03, 04:15

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by leileilol

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yeah well, a powervr product never had a 'best' quality stuck to it. that parhelia is more fitting than anything else Matrox has ever done

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Re: Best video chips or boards that failed in the marketplace?

Posted on 2011-03-03, 02:53

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by leileilol

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Matrox Parhelia Anyone got one of those? I wonder how it holds up on legacy stuff

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Re: Best video chips or boards that failed in the marketplace?

Posted on 2011-03-03, 01:26

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by leileilol

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I think it had enough success to muddle down the graphics quality of most games in 1998-99, so it did have an impact as much as Rage Pro did. A superfixed driver wouldn't do crap and its opengl was a limited minigl only functional for id tech2 stuff, and plus when Voodoo2 came out, it got frickin …

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Re: Best video chips or boards that failed in the marketplace?

Posted on 2011-03-03, 00:58

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by leileilol

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Geforce256 😜

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Re: Reference Retro Benchmark Database - Discussion

Posted on 2011-03-02, 15:20

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by leileilol

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i'm almost inspired to strip a DOS quake engine to the minimals just for running some dynamic lights on a textured bsp to benchmark with. cant get around the fpu requirement though

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Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?

Posted on 2011-03-02, 06:27

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by leileilol

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All MAME has is a lazy aperture pattern overlay - no CRT wackiness like oddities like flicker and color bleed. A virtual monitor emulator could lead into a render-to-texture overlay on a 3d monitor in a virtual computing environment (running at a VERY HIGH refresh rate w/ vsync) where there's a …

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Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?

Posted on 2011-03-02, 06:13

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by leileilol

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I didn't think Stella's CRT emulating was all that accurate IMO. I mean, it wasn't like the NTSC filter in some recent SNES/NES emulators. I've always wanted a 'virtual monitor' too. I remember some replies along the lines of 'thats impossible', but..... how the hell is this screensaver for X being …

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Re: Chronologistic PC emulation

Posted on 2011-03-02, 06:08

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Bochs and PCem are sort of like that, though personally I never got Bochs to work, and by default, it wants to be a Pentium 4. Ew! PCem can do from IBM PC to AMI-based 486 40... and emulates the AMI bios for the latter. Now if only it supported the high-end 486 stuff and the funny WinBIOS 😁

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