Re: Confirm a question about this forum
Posted on 2024-01-31, 09:00
Europeans are a pretty solid presence and I gotta say we Italians roam all kinds of retro pc themed website, there's a bunch of us active here on vogons.
Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?
Posted on 2024-01-31, 08:56
Gotta be honest I didn't read any reply nut I can tell you one thing that doesn't need any prior context. No it's not the end of anything, there's a ton of smaller YouTubers that produce waaaaay better content for retro hardware enthusiasts than the ones you mentioned OP, I know because I got bored …
Re: Which graphics card for Pentium Pro build?
Posted on 2024-01-31, 08:51
A matrox g200, voodoo 2, rage 128. Why win 2000 though? Personally I think a Pentium pro is a good home for win95\98\me but win 2000 sounds too heavy to me for a Ppro.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-01-30, 12:04
After years i'm redoing the electrical work and cooling system in my 9800 XXL pc, i took the occasion to add a hole for a frontal intake fan and also to make the system look cooler i went for an ATI color look but instead of white and red i went for red and gray.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-01-27, 11:15
Voodoo 3 1000 conversion to 2000. heatsink, voltmod (2.2v->2.7v. However, 2.5v must be enough) , bios. Did you solder the extra mem yourself? i thought a velocity with more than 8mb of ram was never officially released. EDIT: Are V3 1000 another thing unrelated to velocity cards? damn 3dfx what a …
Re: Is Deus Ex supposed to be so slow in Glide?
Posted on 2024-01-27, 00:07
I'm really curious as to what your findings will show us. I enjoy playing games through the Glide API. It's generally good times. First time I played Deus Ex was on a PS2 back in 2001. I'm starting another playthrough using the V3 and i am happy with the performance. I've played Deus Ex using Metal …
Re: Is Deus Ex supposed to be so slow in Glide?
Posted on 2024-01-26, 23:23
OK, so I'm running Deus Ex, latest official patch and getting around 34-49 fps on liberty Island. On average it hovers at 44. I use a Voodoo 3 3000 on a Coppermine PIII 1ghz, 512mb of RAM With Win98se. Runs really well in Glide although I can only use 16 bit colour depth. Does anyone have a Voodoo …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-01-26, 14:55
Sounds like I will try going up to 3000 levels, by reading around it seems like every 2000 with my ram can go up to that with no issue whatsoever, then they start artifacting at around 183hz
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-01-26, 14:24
What are the specs written on your RAM chips, so we can see what their theoretical maximum speed is? Here's the ram and also the final result. looks like 7 nano second ram so 143Mhz, 6ns is 166Mhz this is of course their rated speed but in theory with good cooling should be able to run a bit higher …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-01-26, 14:17
Minutemanqvs wrote on 2024-01-26, 12:49: What are the specs written on your RAM chips, so we can see what their theoretical maximum speed is? Here's the ram and also the final result.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-01-26, 01:38
"Voodoo Silencer" lol I also got the HSF off mine (the TV out variant) but just cleaned up and repasted it back. I don't know how to get it cooled off without taking up a mobo header for any active heatsink fan combo. No kidding i'm half thinking of printing a new graphic voodoo related 🤔 but i …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-01-26, 00:56
I started modding yet another old cooler to be used on a GPU that was not meant for it. I got a V3 just 3 days ago (i was always regretful of selling my V3) and since i became good at taking off glued heatsinks i did it for the V3, the only issue is that i thought i had no cooler for it, i tried …
Re: Merry Christmas everyone! :)
Posted on 2023-12-24, 18:38
Re: Voodoo 1 4mb and win95
Posted on 2023-12-22, 11:58
I bought another V1 this one works perfectly and I noticed one thing, dungeon keeper 1 in d3d blood and works perfectly on the new V1 while on the previous one it gives me an error of insufficient memory. I guess the memory is the culprit.
Re: I can't believe it - a retro computing magazine in the newsstands and digital form is happening!
Posted on 2023-12-20, 15:57
I think it's neat, too. 😃 The price isn't so unusual, either. Retro magazines like GO64! went for similar prices (ca. 5€), about twenty years ago. That was when printed media was still common, though. Now it's more of a luxury. One thing that comes to mind to reduce the price tag is to use lower …
Re: Proactive Measures for Radeon 9800 XT
Posted on 2023-12-18, 10:10
radeon 9800 xxl user here (same as 9800xt just clocked 30hz lower in mem and core frequency) i use a Zalman VF700-CU copper cooler and ram heatsinks, besides that i also modded my case to have an excellent airflow, a really cool case is gonna save most cards from that era, especially with an open …
Re: Voodoo 1 4mb and win95
Posted on 2023-12-17, 15:38
If there's a way to diagnose i'm happy to try. You've already used MOJO and other software diagnostics, now check for broken solder joints on the chips pins. I did multiple times, I'm 99% sure that every single trace and solder is perfect, the card is structurally ok. What pisses me off is the fact …
Re: Voodoo 1 4mb and win95
Posted on 2023-12-17, 14:25
analog_programmer wrote on 2023-12-17, 14:11: iraito wrote on 2023-12-17, 12:41: I tried them all, i can't get the textures to work correctly, it's either the TMU or the ram of the TMU, if anybody wants to chime in you are welcome. Or none of these, but connections from TMU to VRAM or FBI. If …
Re: Voodoo 1 4mb and win95
Posted on 2023-12-17, 12:41
I tried them all, i can't get the textures to work correctly, it's either the TMU or the ram of the TMU, if anybody wants to chime in you are welcome.
Re: Voodoo 1 4mb and win95
Posted on 2023-12-16, 22:31
Damn it, by disabling texture mapping the problem isn't present anymore. Messed up tmus?
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