You are mixing up things here... "early" 3D games are not XP territory. Did any 3D game since 2001 depend on 16-bit color depth? Running most Windows native games (not as early as Quake) is one reason to prefer XP over a more recent OS. They will also benefit from a video card of the 2001-2005. I …

Unlike the 2k/XP version, this Win98 softsynth actually exposes the master volume through the Windows sndvol32 mixer. The level can be turned down to remove hard clipping. But the poor bit depth remains, so the loudness can't be decreased too much. Many Yamaha's own demo songs clip too.

The other challenge is matching driver versions with video cards and games. That is true. Many early 3D games no longer work on modern cards or look bad without 16-bit dithering. But most PCi-E cards should be compatible with current motherboards no? The video card in my system did have some issues …

Nice to meet another Yamaha fan. XG does sound pretty amazing. The soft synths, however, have disappointing quality (13-bit dynamic range, clipping and noise). I fully uninstalled the program, and reinstalled it with the 4 MB waveset. This set has some distictly brighter, fuller samples. I noticed a …

Last month I built a budget computer around the Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H. It runs perfectly, with everything having drivers, and the PC being able to go to sleep mode and wake. It's also pretty fast and quiet for the price. There don't seem to be much reason to look at used 775 boards, unless you want …

I am trying to install the YAMAHA S-YXG100 with the PVL plugin. The problem is that the plugin does not install, and parts for the VL are quiet or played with the wrong patch. (I am comparing with DS-XG drivers which have mono VL capability.) Screenshot after installation. If I look at the …

I've never been bothered by screen tearing in games. If a game couldn't be played at smooth smooth framerate above 40-ish fps with V-sync, that's a game that was out of reach for me at the moment. I scanned the article for movie playback but didn't see it mentioned. Stuttering and/or tearing of "old …

VanBasco's player is very intelligent as MIDI players come. I got it to decode and display XG patches that were set by sysex instead of program changes. It also handles sysex on device change well. But I got disable running status and skipping of "redundant data" for it to work properly.

I have not heard of computers being destroyed in volumes. This terrible news has escaped me. I've stumbled upon some instructional videos on the web, but thought those were isolated nutcases. I've been pissed watching office PCs, which I wasn't allowed to take, being mistreated, and pirated discs …

How about creating the title card (still frame) in a graphics editor of choice, and then using AviSynth in combination with VirtualDub to do preview and encoding? Unless I misunderstand what a title card is, this should work like a charm. What this isn't suited for is to overlay logos or text, even …

Hi. I'm new to this board. I have a fine win9x soundcard based on YMF724F-V. It has a "legacy" section providing OPL3 FM synthesis and a Soundblaster Pro. It's available both from pure DOS and from Win98, where many games work ok. The problem is that under Windows the volume of the legacy section is …