Re: P III vs P4

Posted on 2020-09-07, 02:30

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by darry

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I've been looking into building an XP system and I'm trying to decide on a Pentium III or a Pentium 4. I used to have a Pentium 4 1 Ghz system that I sued from 2002 to 2009. It had 4 GB ram and an AGP Geforce 4 Ti something (4200 or 4400) graphics card. But when the motherboard died, I regrettably …

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Re: I tested several pci video cards for picture quality in dos games.

Posted on 2020-09-07, 01:45

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by darry

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I wonder if instead of messing around with edid spoofing you could just hack the cards bios to disable scaling and output native resolution always That would be oh so wonderful . AFAIK, the only options in Nibitor allow disabling scaling, but not changing output resolution (i.e. you end up with a …

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Re: Sound Cards Benchmark: I tested differents sound cards.

Posted on 2020-09-07, 01:33

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by darry

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I succeed to configure correctly the SB16 ct2770. Its sounds better and even more clean than ct4180. I use recommend mixerset settings by James. I dont hear any noise or distortion. I think this Sound Blaster 16 value ct2700 should sounds good like the ct2230 or ct2290. But i never tested them. The …

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Re: I tested several pci video cards for picture quality in dos games.

Posted on 2020-09-07, 01:03

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by darry

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All my tests were done on a Samsung tv 32" 720p that have wonderful scaling options and look great on any resolution. i used like 20 differents 32" tv or monitors in the past , this one is impressive. Right now i have 7 others 32" 720p tv and all of them look bad in dos. So for my tests you can …

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Re: I tested several pci video cards for picture quality in dos games.

Posted on 2020-09-07, 00:37

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by darry

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darry, many thanks for your testing. Do you think you could take a close up (macro) picture of your 252B9 in the Voodoo 3 -> OSSC -> 1600x1200 configuration? For example the amount of munitions in the right bottom corner of DOOM. In theory your setup should be very close to being pixel perfect, so …

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Re: I tested several pci video cards for picture quality in dos games.

Posted on 2020-09-07, 00:27

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by darry

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amadeus777999 wrote on 2020-09-06, 11:16: Great comparison Darry! Thank you. Time allowing, I will try to add some more examples from my video card collection .

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Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread

Posted on 2020-09-07, 00:23

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by darry

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I found out an interesting behaviour of the GeForce GTX 960: when the VGA output is directly connected to the monitor, it outputs 1920x1080@60 which is not helpful. However when connected to the OSSC instead, it produces a correct picture without doubled pixels when 320x200 (such as DOOM) is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-07, 00:09

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by darry

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Warlord wrote on 2020-09-06, 23:27: looks like a unicomp keyboard Unless the paint can be removed cleanly, it's more like Unicrap . EDIT: It sure looks painted, with uneven finish and paint chipped off .

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Re: A OpenGL wrapper?

Posted on 2020-09-07, 00:07

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There's two reasons why there's this Glide-wrapper-over-3dfx-MiniGL situation for GLQuake: - The 3dfx MiniGL provides gamma correction (at a time where there was no standardized way for desktop color control for everyone else) - Paletted textures (3dfx was one of the few with support for that) …

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Re: A OpenGL wrapper?

Posted on 2020-09-06, 20:53

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Yes the game wont run in Open GL mode without GLQuake. I think it needs a newer version. AFAIK, the issue a wrapper solves is the too big number of gl extensions presented by modern graphics card drivers. There are other ways around that . https://amp.reddit.com/r/quake/comments/4k8eso/help_getting …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-06, 20:21

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by darry

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Turpentine time ?

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Re: A OpenGL wrapper?

Posted on 2020-09-06, 18:59

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by darry

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What video card and OS are you running this on ?

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Re: A OpenGL wrapper?

Posted on 2020-09-06, 17:51

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Recently I was playing CD release of Quake and just noticed that they had OpenGL as an option. The Bethesda.net version has. As a result I used the CD version but when I tried to increase resolution with the parameters it didn't work. Similarly if I used nGlide or dgVoodoo to use 3Dfx Mini Driver …

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Re: A OpenGL wrapper?

Posted on 2020-09-06, 17:37

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by darry

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Recently I was playing CD release of Quake and just noticed that they had OpenGL as an option. The Bethesda.net version has. As a result I used the CD version but when I tried to increase resolution with the parameters it didn't work. Similarly if I used nGlide or dgVoodoo to use 3Dfx Mini Driver …

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Re: S3 Savage Xtreme with burnt agp pin

Posted on 2020-09-06, 06:45

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by darry

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The component side is b and numbering starts on the left. The burnt pin is B7, which is a clock pin. AFAIK, that should not carry much current, so no idea why it burned. I strongly suggest you avoid testing potentially damaged and/or damaging hardware on anything other than a sacrificial board . …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-09-06, 06:10

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by darry

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Looking at text capture at 720x400 in post https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=890528#p890528, and having read some stuff on videogameperfection.com forums, I am starting to wonder if the Cam Link 4K is actually capturing 4:2:2, as it says it is or whether it might actually be capturing 4:2:0 and …

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Re: EMM386 - What am I doing wrong here?

Posted on 2020-09-06, 04:31

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by darry

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... Do you have a dos=high,umb at the beginning of your config.sys ? If not, add it and reboot . I saw a separate dos=umb and later on dos=high in there. Probably not at the beginning, I guess! Will check tomorrow, spent way too much time on this tonight (again), and if I wake up either her or our …

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Re: e-nForcer (My Q9550, GTX 280 SLI Windows XP/Windows Vista Gaming Rig)

Posted on 2020-09-06, 04:04

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by darry

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Why did you choose windows vista as well? And Both 32-versions installed or 32 bit XP and 64 bit vista. I would like to know too . My guesses would be either nostalgia or masochism, possibly a mixture of both . ;) Seriously, I don't really know of anything that works under Vista, but not under …

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Re: I tested several pci video cards for picture quality in dos games.

Posted on 2020-09-06, 03:59

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by darry

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Do other cards work? Are you using 1.07/1.08 without a sound card? There's a nasty initialization-related crash if so (-nosound bypasses it) I only have one spare PCI Express card and it is another Geforce GTX750 Ti and am pretty sure both are Zotac brand . I have seen this crash (or a very similar …

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Re: I tested several pci video cards for picture quality in dos games.

Posted on 2020-09-06, 03:36

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by darry

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leileilol wrote on 2020-09-06, 03:25: looks like the GTX is squishing to squeeze in the backporch border Why Nvidia chose to do that is what I wonder, when much older cards had practically perfect framing . Anyway, it's not like this card is much use for retro purposes as Quake crashes on it at …

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