Re: Freespace 2 - no 3d acceleration detected (Voodoo3)

Posted on 2022-02-09, 11:30

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by leonardo

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ketma wrote on 2022-02-02, 22:05: ...Went into the registry and amended the video card string to 1024x768 and the game is now running ok.... Can you point me in the direction of the video card string in the registry? I may be able to use your solution to put an end to my own FreeSpace 2 woes...

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Re: Hello! I am new. Here is my Retro PC story

Posted on 2022-02-01, 20:36

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by leonardo

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Hehe Ati rage fury, don't you love those exaggerated 90s names. It might run tomb raider 1 better than a voodoo though. I have a system that came the ATI rage @work but it was very slow. I had an ATi Graphics Pro Turbo PCI Mach64 VT+. It was an absolute POS, couldn't even run Commander Keen. :D …

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Re: Best GPUs for games from 1995 to 2002

Posted on 2022-01-18, 22:02

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by leonardo

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I think I just forgot the good old days where gaming was an adventure where it already started with the installation :D That's right... real 90's gaming was 80% trying to get it to work, 10% arguing with your friends about how/what to play, 5% loading, and 5% actual game time. ;) Congrats on your …

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Re: Best GPUs for games from 1995 to 2002

Posted on 2022-01-18, 20:17

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by leonardo

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What does dxdiag tell you? ...and which version of DirectX are you running anyway?

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Re: 2D card performance under Windows 9X

Posted on 2022-01-18, 18:30

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by leonardo

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I'm surprised nobody has told you to rummage through your BIOS in search of settings that might affect your PCI video card performance. There are some options that definitely can affect compatibility as well. PCI/VGA Palette Snooping etc. etc.

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Re: How do you keep old machine Windows 95/98 stable and no crash?

Posted on 2022-01-18, 11:17

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by leonardo

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Don't install Internet Explorer. If you've installed Windows 98, uninstall it and install Windows 95 (this is a joke, sort of). You must make the most careful choice in hardware components and the drivers for those components. Newer isn't always the best, you just have to know which versions are. …

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Re: The dark side of playing computer games?

Posted on 2022-01-18, 00:22

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by leonardo

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You fail to get laid?

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Re: How do you keep old machine Windows 95/98 stable and no crash?

Posted on 2022-01-17, 23:02

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by leonardo

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Don't install Internet Explorer. If you've installed Windows 98, uninstall it and install Windows 95 (this is a joke, sort of). You must make the most careful choice in hardware components and the drivers for those components. Newer isn't always the best, you just have to know which versions are. …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2022-01-16, 21:31

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by leonardo

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Here are the report files for my older systems: Methuselah system thread / Methuselah.zip Longbottom system thread / Longbottom.zip I would also like to note that HWiNFO 7.12 does not start on Windows 95. There is no error, it just fails to load. Dependency Walker doesn't find any issues with 7.12, …

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Re: Best GPUs for games frim 1995 to 2002

Posted on 2022-01-16, 01:22

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by leonardo

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Ok. My point is thst most games run also on my windows 10 pc. I think the more interesting timeframe for me is until 99. With those games im getting most problems. I think for that period a TNT2 would be a good choice? Voodoo is not sn option. The prices are too high only for casual gaming and …

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Re: Best GPUs for games frim 1995 to 2002

Posted on 2022-01-13, 00:18

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by leonardo

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colin mc raue 1 and H.E.D.Z. , started with them both and...well not a good start ;). colin does not start, crashes 4 out of 5 to the desktop after intro, or when it starts the menus are blurred. HEDZ runs in software mode, but performance is really poor, with 3D the PC freezes short before the …

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Re: Best GPUs for games frim 1995 to 2002

Posted on 2022-01-12, 00:48

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by leonardo

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Hi I have found an older pc with a p4 and gf3 ti200 to fiddle around with win 98 and play older games without compatibilty issues. But all the games around 1995to 2000 are still having issues and this is not what i was hoping for. As i read here in some posts the biggest troubles seem to come from …

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Re: Matrox Mystique MGA-1164SG with K6-2/450 (Games, Demos, etc.)

Posted on 2022-01-10, 11:26

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by leonardo

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Here is how I activate write-combining. Very simple, but if it's 100% correct...I don't know, but it seems to work. ... I can't tell from the output if you've got it properly configured or not. The last screenie does show two PCI framebuffer ranges (these would have to be checked against what is …

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Re: Tell us which videogame sounds or voice-clips are the most burned into your brain for life

Posted on 2022-01-09, 22:47

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by leonardo

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EVA: Building EVA: Unit ready Man... they should have gotten the voice of EVA to do Siri/Google Assistant/Alexa... etc. I could listen to her notify me about anything. :D Totally disappointed that they got some dude to do the lines for Red Alert. I know it was supposed to be WWII, but come on. She …

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Re: Retrolan - Sad experience

Posted on 2022-01-06, 00:11

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by leonardo

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I salute a fellow LAN-gamer and partake in the sorrow for the loss of this once greatest gaming option. The best multiplayer experiences I ever had were hotseat or getting the crew together for something like this. If you weren't all the way in Argentina, I'd join you. At least for UT, StarCraft and …

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Re: Matrox Mystique MGA-1164SG with K6-2/450 (Games, Demos, etc.)

Posted on 2022-01-05, 23:59

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by leonardo

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While not directly about the Mystique, have you tried to speed up performance with the K6-2 and -3 write allocation and write combining tweaks for the video memory? I found out I could squeeze even more frames out of my old setup by doing that, than by actually overclocking. I've explained the …

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Re: Use Win95 instead of DOS

Posted on 2022-01-04, 18:16

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by leonardo

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ok, now the question? why choose 98 instead of 95c? There is no usb-isa card... Win95 RTM or Win 95 OSR2 without IE will be nicer on this rig. Win 98 and later will choke it, because IE4 and later will eat all your free RAM. Trust me, 32MB of RAM with Win9x+IE will be terrible. See here for how to …

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Re: Old scratched cd backup help

Posted on 2021-12-31, 23:50

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by leonardo

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Sadly not all CD- / DVD-drives are made equal. My benchmark is an old, fairly banged up CD that has the game music as regular audio tracks. I've noticed a particular track will skip or elicit other weirdness when a weaker CD-drive is used. A better quality drive will play the audio without issues. …

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Re: YOUR favorate game era.

Posted on 2021-12-19, 22:40

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by leonardo

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Early to late 90's. What an amazing stretch in all possible metrics. After that, suddenly, you had to have a matching version of DirectX and video card, and all the hardware became cheap black plastic with neon lights in it, and your regular office chair is now called a gaming chair for some reason …

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Re: Favorite forgotten games

Posted on 2021-12-19, 20:48

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by leonardo

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Everyone I knew who played strategy games played Civ. We played Conquest of The New World. It was quite a fun turn-based strategy game that even had a hot-seat option (playing multiplayer on the same computer). Wasted hours years on this.

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