Re: Incoming - HUD details missing - Card or driver?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 18:27

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by PhilsComputerLab

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WineD3D works. No AA that way though. Cool! Never played around with it. Didn't have much luck with a Radeon 9700 pro. In 2D the card works, but as soon as you launch a game the machine locks up :lol: Matrox works great though and has decent enough performance. A good candidate, but no DVI, is the …

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Re: Advice on building an Windows XP 32-bit system

Posted on 2015-07-15, 17:39

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by PhilsComputerLab

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Solid advice tayyare! AFAIK Intel goes up to S1155, AMD FX990 gear also still supported.

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Re: Exceeding LBA 137GB HDD size limit via RAID 0

Posted on 2015-07-15, 17:35

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by PhilsComputerLab

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for your reply. Yes, that volume is where Windows 98 is installed. The PC has no other drives other than the two on RAID 0. Ok I see. Well, everything I read about Windows 98 and drive limits told me that you're asking for trouble. But unless you fill it past 128 MB, it will be hard to tell. …

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Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 17:17

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by PhilsComputerLab

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Very similar! Same ram speed and GPU 😀 Hoping for someone to bring out some big GPU guns for this game... And finding the slowest system than can run it 🤣

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Re: My KT133A DOS / Win98SE Build

Posted on 2015-07-15, 17:13

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by PhilsComputerLab

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Very nice! Packing lots of CPU power that;s for sure. This machine begs to receive a V5 🤣

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Re: Exceeding LBA 137GB HDD size limit via RAID 0

Posted on 2015-07-15, 17:11

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by PhilsComputerLab

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That raid volume, is this where you have Windows 98 installed, or is that on another drive? I've never tried to go beyond 120 GB :lol: So not sure what happens. One workaround however is networking. I've got a 2 TB Raid 1 volume that I can access from all my machines. Great for mounting games in …

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

Posted on 2015-07-15, 17:05

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by PhilsComputerLab

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PeterLI wrote: I do not have a DIN/AT keyboard What? 😲 Instant ban from Vogons 🤣

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Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 15:42

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by PhilsComputerLab

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sutekh94 wrote: Seems like an interesting benchmark. I'll definitely post results from a couple of my rigs here! Cool 😀 Done a run on a XP machine. I had no idea the benchmark would take that long to complete 😵

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Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 14:10

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by PhilsComputerLab

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Skyscraper wrote: My test bench is full or Slot-1 CPUs at the moment so I will let others show their cards first 😉 Hehe awesome 😀 I will quickly put it on one of my XP machines.

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Re: Great PC! But does it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 13:56

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by PhilsComputerLab

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Third post reserved.

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Re: Great PC! But does it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 13:56

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by PhilsComputerLab

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll go first with my main desktop:

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Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 13:55

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by PhilsComputerLab

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Well, let's find out! :lol: 1. Download and install Crysis SP demo There are lots of mirrors for the Crysis SP demo. Here are just a few: http://www.gamershell.com/news_42876.html http://www.4players.de/4players.php/download_info/PC-CDROM/Download/46497.html http://www.gamefront.com/files/Crysis+SP+ …

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Re: Far Cry

Posted on 2015-07-15, 13:23

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by PhilsComputerLab

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You know, if you had a good socket 7 like a k6-iii+, a tualatin 1400S, and a good 1155 chip, say 2500k (which I predict will be useful for gaming for another 5 years at least). 3 machines would cover at least 1990-2020. That's a decade a machine on average. The reality would be more like 1990-1997 …

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

Posted on 2015-07-15, 13:20

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by PhilsComputerLab

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

blank001 wrote: Rebuilt my legacy XP machine, a.k.a. the splinter cell computer (for playing 1 & 2 in peace) Nice! Love that game. Well worth building a computer for 🤣

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Re: Video Game University

Posted on 2015-07-15, 11:58

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by PhilsComputerLab

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Yeah, ok I give up. Another one of my "brilliant" ideas turns out to be something that's already done, only differently. Next time, Yasashii, write a goddamn memo. Already giving up? Maaaaan. That's lame :lol: You got to have a vision and passion. I really like the idea. Doesn't have to me a …

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Re: Incoming - HUD details missing - Card or driver?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 11:28

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by PhilsComputerLab

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According to Dege it's because of Nvidia's colorkeying method. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=34931&start=660#p417090 Thanks, I'll read up on it. Noticed that GOG's screenshots have the same issue: http://static.gog.com/upload/images/2009/09/f80e4638958cae9b76d71c9f3c35e792b425439b.jpg …

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Incoming - HUD details missing - Card or driver?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 08:15

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by PhilsComputerLab

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in Windows

This is on a Windows 98 machine. On a V3, everything looks nice. But no 32 bit colour mode: http://i.imgur.com/BxaWJMG.png Tried a FX5500 card and latest 80 something driver and getting this. The gog version on Windows 8.1 64 also looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/FADFPlo.png The smoke from the …

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Re: Might & Magic III audio issues

Posted on 2015-07-15, 06:16

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by PhilsComputerLab

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in DOS

Quite a few games reset the mixer, but because I don't use the line-in, I haven't noticed games that mute the line-in. This might not help you right now, but it might be worth investing into an external mixer? I don't know how "good" the SB Pro mixer is to be honest.

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Re: Games for 233MHz vs 1000MHz PII/PIII

Posted on 2015-07-15, 03:49

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by PhilsComputerLab

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You pretty much nailed it :) Games that run on a 233, usually run happily on a 1.4 GHz :) Games that are speed sensitive, usually don't run well on either of those machines. Now you can turn off the L1 cache, that will give you a slow 386SX. But still with fast graphics and memory, which can also …

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Re: NV bumpgate lead-free solder debacle

Posted on 2015-07-15, 02:43

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by PhilsComputerLab

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What coolers are you using on those cards? I'm a fan of these cheap eBay coolers, but I believe a 8800GT will be too much for them.

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