Re: MMX/3DNow!/SSE usage
Posted on 2014-02-22, 21:24
Well MMX is integer only itself, isn't it...
Re: my modern pci graphics card's poor performance in P3 rig
Posted on 2014-02-22, 18:29
You said something in the beginning about this card working perfectly in a Core 2 Duo PC, why not use that for your old games then?
Re: MMX/3DNow!/SSE usage
Posted on 2014-02-22, 18:28
Thinking about it I believe 3DMark99 and friends are heavily SSE optimized, and given how those benchmarks have individual CPU tests it would probably have a significant impact on scores? Always an old trick for promoting a new processor generation 😀
Re: my modern pci graphics card's poor performance in P3 rig
Posted on 2014-02-22, 18:15
From my Voodoo5 rig: 2D image processing: 7.75 RM 3D performance: 7.29 RM Overall: 7.69 RM 2D transfer rate: 169.37 MB/s, 5.39 RM 3D transfer rate: 204.51 MB/s, 17.48 RM Overall transfer rate: 9.02 RM AGP test (16 MB): 305.81 images/s
Re: Odd subject - Is it possible for long video\sound card's pcb to warp over time?
Posted on 2014-02-22, 13:06
Old AT cases had special holders for full length ISA cards (LAPC-I, AWE32 etc.) to prevent this. Other than that there is not much you can do except building some own solution...
Re: AWE64 Gold - Best Music Configuration?
Posted on 2014-02-22, 12:44
Short version: Build games have issues with Creative cards in general, all the more if you are running Win9x. If you run the AWE driver from pure DOS the music will come out fine, but still you are limited to effectively 11 kHz sound effects. The MPU-401 emulation is sort of the equivalent of …
Re: GLQuake on retro system with Vooodoo 5 5500
Posted on 2014-02-22, 11:12
Not Glide, I was thinking more in lines of OpenGL. TNT2 has the same stencil buffer. I know that stencil shadows were used prominently in Doom3, but that is a tad later... See here for more info if interested.
Re: GLQuake on retro system with Vooodoo 5 5500
Posted on 2014-02-21, 22:57
Well, the differences don't quite stop here. VSA-100 has an 8-bit stencil buffer for shadow calculations, although I'm not sure how much that was used in actual games. The chip also supports S3TC and does it better than Geforce. I don't remember all the details, but there was some controversy about …
Re: Any experience on using Voodoo cards with modern systems?
Posted on 2014-02-21, 22:50
You don't understand it indeed... The cards send their own signal as soon as a 3D application is started. The 2D card is completely irrelevant at this point. The whole passthrough thing is just for people without two monitors/VGA inputs, so to speak.
Re: my modern pci graphics card's poor performance in P3 rig
Posted on 2014-02-21, 19:32
2D transfer rate: 62.79 MB/s, 2 RM 3D transfer rate: 42.67 MB/s, 3.65 RM Overall: 2.49 RM
Re: Masters of DOOM
Posted on 2014-02-21, 19:10
FWIW, on further research one could specify it as "forced to leave" instead of just saying they fired him. Carmack was more than clear enough on it though: "You're not doing your work! You're not living up to your responsibilities. You're hurting the project. You're hurting the company. You've been …
Re: MMX/3DNow!/SSE usage
Posted on 2014-02-21, 19:03
edit: left out the question.does the absence of sse(pentiumpro) or sse2(p3) really affect the gameplay or the game developers have different paths in their game engine? Individual testing for each game would be needed to make a statement on how they benefit from extra instructions. But let's say …
Re: Why no love for Socket 5?
Posted on 2014-02-21, 18:56
vetz wrote: Havent seen an Intel board without some cache on it. I have a cacheless Socket 7 "Zappa" board. On topic, I don't know one single game that would need exact DX4-100 speed.
Re: "Load more" feature
Posted on 2014-02-21, 11:31
Lol. Well, just hope that it won't come to Vogons as well 🤣
"Load more" feature
Posted on 2014-02-21, 10:12
I'm not sure if this has an actual name, web developers on here will probably correct me, but I'm talking about that "feature" where you have to klick a button each time to get more search results. This is the most stupid design thing ever invented since the dawn of WWW. It's now on youtube too and …
Re: Masters of DOOM
Posted on 2014-02-21, 09:55
Romero didn't "leave" id. They fired him for not working hard enough.
Re: my modern pci graphics card's poor performance in P3 rig
Posted on 2014-02-21, 09:52
Well, I have some old results from my Pentium MMX 200+Voodoo1 PC: 2D image processing: 1.92 RM 3D performance: 2.64 RM Bus transfer rate: 2.61 RM Overall: 2.42 RM
Re: MMX/3DNow!/SSE usage
Posted on 2014-02-20, 20:58
The game has heavy D3D9 shader usage. It's said to require that actually but will run on D3D7 cards, without the effects obviously. I have an X1950 Pro in my main PC and it struggles with the game at 1920x1080. In the video there is a Geforce FX card running the game, but on a CPU 8 years older than …
Re: MMX/3DNow!/SSE usage
Posted on 2014-02-20, 20:38
I'm interested in both. My opinion is just that the list you've given is about neither 😀 Well, certainly you can check every single game on the list and note those that really won't run without MMX. I just have my doubts that anyone is going to do that 🤣
Re: my modern pci graphics card's poor performance in P3 rig
Posted on 2014-02-20, 20:35
AFAIK Nvidia has broken VBE 3.0 compatibility at some point, so you can't get anything higher than 60 Hz in DOS games on those cards. I also recall a topic on palette issues or something like that, all making these cards not desirable for DOS gaming at all. Someone else should be able to elaborate …
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