Re: Is Deus Ex supposed to be so slow in Glide?

Posted on 2015-02-22, 20:18

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Deus Ex is pretty demanding indeed, although when I tried it on a Voodoo3 , the game was playable high detail/1024X768, and that was with a 700Mhz Pentium3 , the framerate usually stayed in the 30s . with some slowdown. Thankfully the game is fairly slow paces so it doesn't need a blazing fast frame …

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Re: Best video card for Pentium III 450Mhz

Posted on 2015-01-27, 23:10

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if youre not going for a 3DFX card , a Geforce2 GTS or Pro (64MB version if you can) is a good card to have, you can even add in a Voodoo2 board for some of the earlier Glide games. a Geforce4 is a good card too , and the picture quality might be better (some Geforce 1/2 card had inferior 2D picture …

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Re: Building a 90s Gaming PC

Posted on 2015-01-24, 13:29

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thats true, its quite possible to get an OEM machine and modify it as you see fit .

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Re: Building a 90s Gaming PC

Posted on 2015-01-23, 15:34

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486 systems might be a bit tough for a first PC, even a socket 7 machine with a P75/90 would be easier, and should be easy enough to slow down for speed sensitive games. Didn't catch the "first PC" part. :blush: Good call. :happy: another option would be an SS7 board with a K6 based CPU at 400Mhz+ …

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Re: Building a 90s Gaming PC

Posted on 2015-01-23, 14:05

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I think "90s games" is too broad. You should better define what exactly you need to run, or you're likely going to end up with two systems. Games that fit into the "early 90s" criteria I would absolutely agree with brostenen - a 486 or similarly older machine would probably be the best idea (you …

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Re: Lets see if Anything Is good.

Posted on 2015-01-23, 10:28

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stick with Win98 and the DOS that comes with it , try to make sure its Win98SE and youre good to go , WinME has its issues and won't do anything Windows 98SE won't do as far as games go. heck with some unofficial service packs you can make Win98SE look just like WinME if you like the look of it ( …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-01-22, 23:39

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setting up a 750GB Hitachi Ultrastar SATA HDD in the HP XW4400 machine , to replace the 320GB IDE drive it was using, considering the rest of the machine , using an IDE hard drive was a bit archaic , and the extra space is welcome.

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Re: Lets see if Anything Is good.

Posted on 2015-01-22, 23:36

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On a whim I bought a sata to ide bidirectional adapter, think ill try it out this evening after work. I also think ill keep the voodoo5 in the sd11 board since it seems to work with no issues. The other ECS system maybe win9x gaming only. Still not sure. Hell, I may even turn the old Pavilion into …

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Re: How many PC compatibles do you guys own?

Posted on 2015-01-20, 11:04

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My collection is rather modest, both due to a lack of space and practicality Pentium 133 machine with an S3 Virge DX , Voodoo 1 and 64Mb , for games up to 1996 or so. Athlon 1400 machine with a Voodoo 5500 , 300GB SCSI HDD and 1GB of DDR RAM , for games from late 1996 to 2001. A customized HP XW4400 …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-01-12, 22:42

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Managed to get an HP XW4400 workstation , and modified it for DX8/9 gaming by replacing the existing GPU (seems like a 128Mb X600) with an X1900XT 512Mb, as well as add in an SB X-fi. The machine will be replacing my existing A64 X2 4400, and the comparison between them is interesting. first off , …

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Re: Pentium Pro Socket 8 computers?

Posted on 2014-12-30, 20:14

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Pentium Pro CPUs & systems are worth quite a bit from what Ive seen, They weren't too popular with consumers obviously, so you are less likely to find one sitting in someone's basement. I considered getting a Pentium Pro system at one point but opted for a normal Pentium just due to the Pro not …

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Re: Merry X-Mas 2014 and Happy New Year 2015

Posted on 2014-12-28, 15:50

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Happy holidays and a new year for all those celebrating.

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Re: Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow

Posted on 2014-12-19, 16:58

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Just tried the game on my rebuilt WinXP machine using an X1900XT and the 10.2 drivers , the lighting seems to display correctly the frame rate isn't the highest but it is running in 1600X1200 , so that doesn't help it. Also i had EAX HD enabled while using an SBLive card (at least for now, I will …

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Re: Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow

Posted on 2014-12-19, 10:38

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I would have liked to test it on the 7950GX2 , but sadly its broken (it still doesn't work properly, while the board I thought was broken , was fine, it just needed be new PSU which is on its way) , I would imagine that might run the game somewhat better but honestly Ive found that in most games the …

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Re: Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow

Posted on 2014-12-18, 23:45

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Just tried the game on my rebuilt WinXP machine using an X1900XT and the 10.2 drivers , the lighting seems to display correctly http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/darkman_019/SplinterCell22014-12-1823-30-51-42_zps72391992.png http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/darkman_019/SplinterCell22014 …

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Re: Has anyone tried UT2004 on a Voodoo 5 5500...and a AMD k6 cpu?

Posted on 2014-12-11, 16:54

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

did I just see a K6 climb out of someone's window with a look of fear on it? 😜

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Re: Acer mini tower! Finally got my childhood computer back!

Posted on 2014-12-10, 20:06

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by Darkman

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

wish I could find the PC I had back in 1997 , sadly it was broken down years ago , with some parts given to other people, some parts thrown away (no I didn't have control over that)

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Re: Which is better for old games? fuzzy 90's crts or 2000's sharp looking crt.

Posted on 2014-12-10, 12:03

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

sadly the camera I have is actually pretty bad at taking photos of screens (and thats any screen CRT , LCD , LED) , to the point where the camera on my phone does a better job , albeit still highly imperfect. these are about as good as I could get for the Apple monitor Zak Mckracken (low res version …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2014-12-09, 15:08

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there are actually some online right now, but the game is mysteriously more expensive than the rest of the series, quite annoying because its apparently quite good. the thing I wonder about the DVD quality movies is how well will they run on a P133 machine. if the game runs well enough on Windows98 …

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Re: Which is better for old games? fuzzy 90's crts or 2000's sharp looking crt.

Posted on 2014-12-09, 14:36

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the colour saturation (at least to my eyes) on that Samsung is actually quite nice on the low colour games where sharpness isn't an issue. btw what camera are you using to film the screen? any camera Ive tried makes it look worse than it is.

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