Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-05-27, 10:49

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I dont understand that AVX reports / support.. my AVX regarding of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions , should support it but.. SoftGPU reporting AVX: NO, just SSE on. AC97 sound works fine for Win9x game, question is why.. Is Virtualbox SB16 so bad.. or its just some …

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Re: MS-Dos 6.22 / 7.1 DR-DOS 7.01+ /Win98 /XP on modern=not officialy supported HW helping thread.

Posted on 2023-05-27, 10:17

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Better later than never.. If memory servers, no way to make USB3 controller in Win9x at any speed.. This message seems to be quite clear regardless of my bad Moldovan English (i never was in Moldova).. USB3 controller are backward compatible with USB2/USB1.1 but only when USB3 drivers are installed …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-05-27, 09:30

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I think than is unclear what is performance goal of this project. Well its nice technology demo so far.. Its aimed to run 640x480 early Win9x games at 30 FPS or something higher? Would it need faster CPU is other of magnitude to run some higher resolutions? Or there is real room to make it faster? …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-05-27, 01:18

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I have tried Virtualbox 7- with SB16 emulation, hard part is not forget to set Linux OS as OS type.. and run that command line command to adjust vm settings, because some hint what to change by text editor would be better.. Glchecker.. reporting proper SVGA3D driver.. HW is still the same Core i9 …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-05-26, 22:39

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Censored, but i dont follow it for long time.. but last what i heard is that someone here.. created here some thread with some builds without original not nice author.. maybe it was removed too.. BTW its mentioned in 3rd post and other too..

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-05-26, 20:47

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Game testing, affter virtual disk rollback- Work in progress: GlQuake - start crash.. Quake 2 demo - start crash Daikatana demo - running, but 8-15 FPS.. Hexen2 demo - start crash, i tried to remove opengl32.dll from game directory it does not helped.. Quake 3 demo - 640x480, 30 -50 FPS, small map …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-05-26, 20:07

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Games testing: - im using Fraps for FPS monitoring.. Conan - Cauldron Demo - Running - graphics fine - 640x480 - 8 FPS - unplayble.. After game exit.. everything broke.. i saw only 640x480 part of 1280x960 desktop so i tried to adjust Vmware window size.. picture fell apart and its broken even after …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-05-26, 19:54

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I have tried with Vmware Workstation 17... Win98 SE - I enabled Accelerate 3D in Vm settings and used existing Vmware installation ... i tried it without it its the same.. All HW virtualization checkboxes enabled.. Sound card default so its using SB PCI WDM driver. Preferences - Input optimalized …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-05-24, 00:59

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We waited long time for something like this.. Someone had to drive whole graphics drivers are there are zillions of MDs in Nvidia or ATI drivers.. so even when you do it right by all standards, some games which are using some Nvidia and ATI shortcut could be and would be broken.. and make it more …

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Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards

Posted on 2023-05-07, 19:33

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I think that someone as DREAMBLASTER should start to making this and sell it. Otherwise it would stay like nice dead on arrival great product.

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Re: "Madness", One retro PC to rule them all :)

Posted on 2022-08-13, 11:58

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Its working without chipset drivers, for some newer chipsets there are inf files, to just get right device names for Device manager, but it actually not doing anything else afaik..

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2022-08-09, 15:48

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Can switch IRQ and card address in Device manager?, if yes try it and reboot, maybe you will win also try other driver version..

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2022-07-21, 18:01

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Windows 98+XP native are not problem, problems are with Dos.

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Re: PCIe devices on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2022-05-30, 17:32

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Thanks, but its still not benchmark but info from diagnostic program, it would not be first time when HWinfo is wrong..

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Re: PCIe devices on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2022-05-29, 10:23

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Hardware specs means nothing without proper software support or drivers.. If im not work PCI-E is backwards compatible with PCI and if pci.vxd is in play for such operations, i doubt that is running with PCI-E speed, there is nothing like pci-e.vxd You could say the same with Sata in Dos, its Sata1 …

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Re: games that are better on a Macintosh

Posted on 2022-05-15, 04:59

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I think that sense of this thread is actually point out that there are some Mac versions of games with some additional features or improvements.. but its not realistic to expect some complete of analysis and comparison of multiple version of games per by frame or something like that. In general …

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Re: PCIe devices on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2022-05-07, 17:10

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PCIe doesn't have a PCI 133 MB/s mode, the speed is negotiated between the motherboard and PCIe card during POST to see what the highest common speed is and then uses that. From a compatibility perspective, Win98 doesn't care what speed it's running at as it only deals with the card at the software …

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Re: X58/i865/V880 - Yamaha7x4/AurealV1/2 pure Dos7.1- compatibility list/research/ultim. drivers configs, WIP- gurus ne

Posted on 2022-04-28, 19:28

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As i wrote my memory.. but when i was checking it, i found difference between X79 and Z97. There is X79 Block diagram.. PCI Bus connected directly into chipset, like in case of old working board, that was that important thing.. https://download1.gigabyte.com/Files/Manual/mb_manual_ga-x79-up4_e.pdf …

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Re: X58/i865/V880 - Yamaha7x4/AurealV1/2 pure Dos7.1- compatibility list/research/ultim. drivers configs, WIP- gurus ne

Posted on 2022-04-28, 15:43

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In this thread is maybe someone how would be able say something more about it: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=24769 or here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=63773 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=63274 If my memory serves, which i looked at all chipset diagrams, …

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Re: Best (Super) Socket 7 motherboard?

Posted on 2022-04-26, 18:12

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There are IDE controller cards with their own CPUs (ie. Intel's i960RM like on this SuperTrax SX6000) to offload main CPU for most of I/O related work so 66MB/s is achievable. Earlier 486-era cards often used regular 286 CPUs for the same purpose. As for the integrated components, well, that would …

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