Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2014-10-11, 15:31
Yes that's what v-sync does! Always have it disabled for benchmarking. But video capturing turn it on as tearing is awful to watch.
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2014-10-11, 15:29
What is the challenge with uploading videos to YT? What Internet do you have? Mine is quite poor, living in the middle of nowhere, but at least it's reliable. My biggest upload so far was 9 GB and that took days. The YT rules about gaming footage seem to be indeed very weak. I just mentioned it …
Re: Post your 'current' PC
Posted on 2014-10-11, 14:08
Hardware in general is very affordable I find. I don't save money on the processor for example, got to be an i7, because it will save me a LOT of hours, weeks likely, time that I can use to do other fun things 😀
Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project
Posted on 2014-10-11, 14:06
PS Why you not summ 3D Bench in to "SUMM of FPS"? 3D Bench is highly sensitivity to ram and cache speed, so it better show any difference in tuning. 3dbench craps out on fast machines. Uploaded few results to Stock and Overclocked pages. Please validate and sort. Done! I can some Cyrix chips and …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2014-10-11, 13:24
Installed my Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 on my modern PC (4770K CPU, GTX 780 x2 )and downloaded/played a heap of midi's from various console games. Installed a Roland MPU-IPC-T card in my 486SX-33/Sound Blaster Pro 2. Hit the Turbo button and connected my Thrustmaster Fighter X joystick and finally …
Re: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and Warrior Within Strange Lag On Modern System
Posted on 2014-10-11, 13:14
Is this the version you're using? http://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/28-creative-alchemy-universal/ They must have hacked the Creative version :) Is there a way to skip the introduction, it takes forever! Or load a game? I think the effects are working but there isn't much of surround …
Re: Far Cry
Posted on 2014-10-11, 12:34
I made an extensive video covering Far Cry and how you can get it to run on modern machines, what to watch out for. For those who just want to get on with it, I highly recommend using either the Far Cry Community Patch 1.6: http://www.farcrypatch16.de/ or Far Cry Adoon Mod 1.99: http://www.moddb.com …
Re: YT Video: Building a retro gaming PC for Splinter Cell!
Posted on 2014-10-11, 11:03
I had no knowledge that Shadow Buffers actually work on modern systems and only produce the same glitches that the FX cards do And that's simply incorrect. I don't want to discuss this any further That's cool, but I still like to respond to your lengthy outburst. You made a claim, didn't back it up …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2014-10-11, 10:43
Some comments: - The intro bit is very long at around 2:30 minutes before the review actually starts. Might put off some potential new viewers. - Image quality is excellent as always - LOTS of information which many viewers will apreciate - Not on YouTube :( Subscribers will lose interest if there …
Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)
Posted on 2014-10-11, 09:47
Lots of new videos! Starting with this one, not quite retro, but I always run out of USB ports! In this video I am reviewing a USB 2.0 and 3.0 front bay device I ordered from eBay. It only cost A$ 13.99 including postage and offers 2 USB 2.0 and 2 USB 3.0 ports. It comes with two leads that connect …
Re: YT Video: Building a retro gaming PC for Splinter Cell!
Posted on 2014-10-11, 09:13
No that would be adding bias. Thing is you came here, claiming to have done something that nobody has ever achieved, that the developers say doesn't work, having modified nothing, it "just works". You looked at the first level, saw some shadows: OMGZ%$# I'm so awesome I have fixed this issue, let's …
Re: Voodoo 2 tests?
Posted on 2014-10-11, 06:29
Having worked a LOT with 3dfx hardware recently (basically all cards) I can recommend the AOpen AX6BC and likely any other Intel BX440 chipset board. I use a Intel Pentium III 1100 MHz and all cards have ran many benchmarks at every supported resolution. The ONLY speed related issue are the two Rage …
Re: YT Video: Building a retro gaming PC for Splinter Cell!
Posted on 2014-10-11, 02:35
Let me know when you get to the level with the search lights and guards that have flash lights. What your're doing you can do on any current graphics card! It's no different than grabbing the Steam and GOG version, using Windows 8.1 and a modern GPU, set ForceShadowMode =1 EDIT: Just had a quick …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2014-10-10, 23:38
^^ Cool :) Produced another Doom music video, this time with the might Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 :) But now stuck in Internet traffic. In the region of Australia that I live in, ADSL2+ is the fastest Internet option but especially the upload speed is very slow. I have a few big videos uploading that …
Re: Best DOS compatible PCI soundcard for less than 20 dollars?
Posted on 2014-10-10, 23:34
There are also cheap OEM X-Fi cards on eBay. But not all of them work with the stock Creative drivers from their website. I have one, which works, so look out for model number 670. It has this metal bit near the headphone ports.
Re: Problems with my Pentium 4 rig (warning, big images)
Posted on 2014-10-10, 23:16
7600 AGP hey? Cool I shall keep an eye out for one 😀
Re: Pinball Fantasies no-scroll patch for dosbox 0.65
Posted on 2014-10-10, 23:14
It also addresses the CD Audio volume. The game manipulates the CD Audio volume to mix between Sound Card and CD Audio. In the normal DOSBox this doesn't work.
Re: Just put together a Win 98SE Rig but sound issues
Posted on 2014-10-10, 23:10
SoundMAX is a big clue. One of the less popular audio chips. To find the exact model you can search the motherboard for a little chip with SoundMAX written on it. Usually it is close to the audio ports. You can also run a Linux Live CD and it should tell you what chip / model number it is. Drivers …
Re: My vote for best DOS video card
Posted on 2014-10-10, 15:53
True, I guess it' would be nice to know what card is the fastest, just in case.
Re: YT Video: Building a retro gaming PC for Splinter Cell!
Posted on 2014-10-10, 15:43
Don't take this the wrong way, but I sunk months into this game / project and I really have other things to do 😒
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