Re: Diamond Edge 3D 3240

Posted on 2012-07-24, 07:21

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by F2bnp

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Crap. Perhaps Jedi Knight will run though, it was less hardware demanding that Shadows of the Empire which was released a year earlier. For example, I'm fairly certain SotE not only required 3D Hardware, but would refuse to run on an S3 Virge and Matrox Millennium II/Mystique. In contrast, these …

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Re: Dual 1.4ghz Pentium 3

Posted on 2012-07-24, 06:52

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by F2bnp

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ΜΧ300 = Vortex 2 However, the Vortex 2 has caused me a ton of problems in the past, I only keep it nowdays to host my DB60XG on a Windows 7 machine (32bit only 🙁 ). The Live! has never caused me any problems however, it is one of the most compatible cards around!

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Re: Dual 1.4ghz Pentium 3

Posted on 2012-07-23, 11:39

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by F2bnp

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I'd say stay with the Live! 3Dfx cards ain't all that great either, the passthrough cable needed for V1 and V2 ruins the video quality. Your best bet would be to find a PCI version of a Voodoo 3,4,5 (last two are very expensive though) and use them for games that will not run otherwise. The GeForce …

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Re: 133 MHz Challenge - 5th/6th gen CPU per clock performance

Posted on 2012-07-22, 17:57

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by F2bnp

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Indeed. The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison was insanely thorough, great job on that feipoa, can't wait to see the 686 Benchmark Comparison!

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Re: Diamond Edge 3D 3240

Posted on 2012-07-22, 17:51

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by F2bnp

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How is this even possible!? Can you capture a couple of videos? Shadows of the Empire and Jedi Knight would be awesome to try out 😜

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Re: My DOS/Windows 98SE PC

Posted on 2012-07-21, 15:04

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by F2bnp

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That's pretty slick!

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Re: AWEstruck...

Posted on 2012-07-21, 14:19

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by F2bnp

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Eh, who the hell cares, it works! 😜

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Re: AWEstruck...

Posted on 2012-07-21, 12:34

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by F2bnp

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I love the sound of the AWE. It's different enough from Roland and Yamaha to make it worth listening to. It's also the first GM compatible card I got (AWE 64 GOLD) after having to listen to SB16 FM music (nothing wrong with it, but sometimes it sounds god awful) for years. The AWE synth is not GM …

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Re: AWEstruck...

Posted on 2012-07-21, 10:42

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by F2bnp

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I love the sound of the AWE. It's different enough from Roland and Yamaha to make it worth listening to. It's also the first GM compatible card I got (AWE 64 GOLD) after having to listen to SB16 FM music (nothing wrong with it, but sometimes it sounds god awful) for years.

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Re: Very demanding 3D games to run on a 486

Posted on 2012-07-18, 11:11

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by F2bnp

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feipoa wrote: One user had to run his AMD X5-180 outside in the winter cold for operation. Haha, I remember that guy. Probably one of the coolest (no pun intended!) threads ever. Does anybody have the link to that?

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Re: Very demanding 3D games to run on a 486

Posted on 2012-07-17, 00:37

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by F2bnp

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Well, unfortunately we had to postpone the experiment due to health complications (nothing too serious though) ! We'll definitely report back with the final results once we get together again to do it 😜

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Re: YouTube Video - Roland vs Yamaha General MIDI DOS Games Music Comparison

Posted on 2012-07-17, 00:35

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by F2bnp

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Great video, favorited!

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Re: Hardware issue or just the games?

Posted on 2012-07-15, 10:24

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by F2bnp

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That makes little sense. Something's wrong with the drivers probably, I'd try using the latest official Voodoo 3 drivers!

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Re: NEC XR385

Posted on 2012-07-14, 17:26

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by F2bnp

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First and foremost, I wanna say that AWE64 Gold and it's AWEUTIL [GM emulation] nor it's built in 4mb ROM sountfont absolutely does NOT and CAN NOT compare to a real GM card. The ROM soundfont is 1MB on all AWE cards, the soundfont RAM is 4MB on the Gold. Unfortunately, you cannot expect to load a …

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Re: NEC XR385

Posted on 2012-07-14, 02:05

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by F2bnp

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I love the sound of AWE cards. Sure, it's sounds very artificial, but some games actually benefit from this (System Shock for example!). I totally dig it, it's a great alternative to Sound Canvas and Yamaha XG. It sounds different enough!

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Re: Very demanding 3D games to run on a 486

Posted on 2012-07-09, 22:59

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by F2bnp

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Guys, you don't get this. This is an experiment, to see how much a 486 cripples the Voodoo 2 SLI and other similar video cards. The idea is to go as fast as possible with a 486, just for shits. This is never going to be a permanent system, it is just an experiment! I would be mad to go play 3D games …

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Re: Very demanding 3D games to run on a 486

Posted on 2012-07-09, 21:31

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by F2bnp

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By the way, anyone ever run Dark Forces 2 on a fast 486? How does it play? I'd guess it'd be half playable, Dark Forces 2 was pretty light on system requirements compared to Quake and Quake 2!

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Re: Very demanding 3D games to run on a 486

Posted on 2012-07-09, 16:52

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by F2bnp

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Voodoo 3 and Voodoo 2 SLI should be pretty equal on a 486 I think and since we've already set it up (Markk actually :P) I see no point in swapping the Voodoo 2 SLI for a Voodoo 3. Time is running short unfortunately as we only have a few days to commence the experiment (:P), so another CPU is …

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Re: Very demanding 3D games to run on a 486

Posted on 2012-07-09, 15:31

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by F2bnp

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Yes, Unreal (not UT) and Half-Life are already on the list 😜. Half-Life skeletal animation will probably absolutely KILL performance though!

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Re: Very demanding 3D games to run on a 486

Posted on 2012-07-09, 12:42

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by F2bnp

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Well, the point is to see how a 486 performs, so no Pentium Overdrive. The Cyrix 5x86 also doesn't clock as high AFAIK so it should be pretty equal in performance to a faster clocked AMD 5x86.

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