Re: Games / period when gamers switched from Voodoo to ATI/Nvidia

Posted on 2014-03-29, 15:43

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by F2bnp

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Quake 2 does not support 3Dfx cards natively, it merely looks for a MiniGL or just uses standard OpenGL if you have a Full OGL ICD. Well in the video menu you can select software, openGL and 3dfx or something like that. So with native I meant without having to patch it like with the first Quake :) …

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Re: Voodoo5 issue, hi-res+Glide/UE1 only

Posted on 2014-03-29, 15:23

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by F2bnp

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Quite weird! You're saying Deus Ex produces the same result? How about trying different drivers or patches for the games?

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Re: Games / period when gamers switched from Voodoo to ATI/Nvidia

Posted on 2014-03-29, 15:20

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Quake 2 does not support 3Dfx cards natively, it merely looks for a MiniGL or just uses standard OpenGL if you have a Full OGL ICD.

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Re: Who else is pumped for VR?

Posted on 2014-03-28, 02:37

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Carmack had to say this during the first few hours of the buyout: "For the record, I am coding right now, just like I was last week.I expect the FB deal will avoid several embarrassing scaling crisis for VR." Then he tweeted this: "“I have a deep respect for the technical scale that FB operates at. …

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Re: Good board for P3 866 w/ ISA and ideally AGP?

Posted on 2014-03-27, 21:25

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I'd like to give my opinion on the 440BX and 133MHz FSB. I liked to use a P3 1GHz (133MHz) with a Gigabyte BX2000 I think. I must have been using a GeForce 2 Ti at the time and I always got some random blue screens or system hangs. I didn't give it much thought until later, when I used a 100MHZ FSB …

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Re: Best setup for running demanding DOS SVGA games

Posted on 2014-03-26, 11:22

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by F2bnp

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I don't think going P4 is a good idea. Generally speaking, a P3 1GHz is more than good enough for most of those games. A 1.4GHz Tualatin is even better. I guess you could go the Athlon way, a lot of people have talked about the Athlon XP-M and how it can scale thanks to its unlocked multiplier from …

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Re: Q3V - a Q3A hack-up, just for Vogons!

Posted on 2014-03-26, 11:19

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I will give this a try in the coming weeks 😀

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Re: Improving music Quality in Master Of Orion 2.

Posted on 2014-03-26, 02:42

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What a fantastic game. The hours my brother has sank in it, the ones I'd just sit there and watch. The hours I myself sank into it, reading the manual page to page... I do agree with you, it's music hasn't aged particularly well, although I love the music tracks themselves. How did you get higher …

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Re: Sharing my benchmark results on a AMD k6-2 with various AGP cards

Posted on 2014-03-25, 15:10

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Don't go over 2.4V. 500 vs 550 on a K6-2 CPU is negligible.

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Re: Sharing my benchmark results on a AMD k6-2 with various AGP cards

Posted on 2014-03-25, 04:38

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Somethings definitely wrong there LunarG! Also, like leileilol said, K6-2 and K6-3 CPUs love 3Dfx, due to 3DNow! optimizations done in the driver. K6-400 + Voodoo 2 was a good combo back then :). Not to mention, the Via MVP3 and Ali Aladdin V have a lot of issues with AGP cards, 3Dfx only manage to …

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Re: Voodoo 1 Causes Screen "Static"?

Posted on 2014-03-23, 21:41

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Welcome to the world of Voodoo 1! Use a Voodoo 2 instead or live with it unfortunately 🙁

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Re: FX5200 vs 9800

Posted on 2014-03-22, 12:07

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The 6800LE is slower than a 6600GT by default. Thing is, you can unlock the pipelines (this is just a binned 6800GT) with a high success rate and also overclock it quite a bit. Doing so, will get the card to almost 6800GT levels of performance. Only thing driving it down is the DDR1 memory instead …

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Re: All your Windows 7 are belong to us.

Posted on 2014-03-19, 21:47

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I just want to load a soundfont to use for DOSBox. A generally use either the 4MB or 8MB GM soundfont. But anyway, that's besides the point.

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Re: All your Windows 7 are belong to us.

Posted on 2014-03-19, 20:45

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XMPlay can load sound fonts for playback. Have you tried http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth ? Haven't given it a shot. If it does things like pretty much every other program, which means looking up the Windows registry and changing some values then it's going to have the exact same …

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Re: All your Windows 7 are belong to us.

Posted on 2014-03-19, 18:50

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I can give you an example. MIDI support is more broken than ever. In Windows 7 I had a great setup with BASSMIDI, MUNT and my trusty Roland SC-7. I've had to give this all up unfortunately, as it only works when it feels like it. Thankfully, I haven't played a ton of DOS games with MIDI support …

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Re: Pentium 166MMX Box Performance problems

Posted on 2014-03-18, 20:37

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Yeah, go with reference and why use DX9c? I wouldn't use anything newer than DirectX 7.0 on V1/V2/V3.

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Re: Pentium 166MMX Box Performance problems

Posted on 2014-03-18, 12:27

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To enable DMA just download the Intel INF and then go to the Device Manager on your Control Panel, find the Disk Controllers and enable DMA on them. It should work :). Much like d1stortion said, the 430TX can only cache up to 64MB and installing any more than that will make the system feel sluggish. …

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Re: P3 1ghz + FX5950 + 512mb SDRam Games Limit!

Posted on 2014-03-17, 13:11

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Half-Life 2 was somewhat playable on a Tualatin 1.4 and 6600GT on Medium Details and 1024x768. It was mostly 25-30fps. UT2003 should be quite playable actually 😀

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Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 2 Super Socket 7 CPU Scaling @ 640 x 480

Posted on 2014-03-16, 11:43

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by F2bnp

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Ubercool! The jump from the MMX233 to the K6-2 300 is quite big. Very impressive mau, what else do you have in store ? 😀

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Re: Matrox VGA PCI performance benchmarks (Impression, Millennium, Mystique, G200)

Posted on 2014-03-16, 11:38

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This is a good idea. A lot of people use the G200 PCI for benchmarks on non 3D stuff and I don't have one of these. But it seems that the Millennium II and Mystique cards are either pretty close or exactly as fast, meaning that we don't have to use just the G200. Good idea vetz 😀

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