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Re: Your favourite 3DMark?

Posted on 2017-07-21, 20:51

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97 (if Final Reality counts) and 2001 Final Reality was really good too but was already old when I had the change to try it. :) 3DMark2001 was great but quiet heavy imho. I liked a lot the Nature demo and its pixel shader water even if the only way to see it with my video card was to run it without …

Your favourite 3DMark?

Posted on 2017-07-21, 20:45

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Hi which is your best 3DMark and one specific scene moment? Personally my favourite will always be 3DMark2000 cause it was released in some of the best PC years for hardware and gaming imho and I always remember its music. But one specific moment in 3DMark demos probably is the FireFly of 3Dmark2005 …

Re: Fastest ISA video card for Doom

Posted on 2017-06-29, 11:00

I'm not sure, but I think the GD5429 and 5434 will be very similar in performance. This is the biggest group of ISA cards I've seen in one benchmark chart: http://vgamuseum.info/images/vlask/bench/quake320.png the 5428 is at the top of the list, but the 5429 and 5434 are not tested, so no …

Fastest ISA video card for Doom

Posted on 2017-06-29, 10:12

Hi, so which is the fastest ever ISA card for the Doom engine? I have a GD5429 ISA 1MB card that runs really well but I was thinking if the GD5434 chip or any others would be even faster (for example on the Cyrix 486DLC cpu). Thank 😀

Re: 486 VLB UMC-Chipset, what is it?

Posted on 2017-06-25, 11:50

Sorry to update the thread but I got the same mainboard and I can't find an award flasher version that works. All the one tells me that "it's not the new award bios version, please update bios version first (???)" or "the file part doesn't match the system ....". Are there any specific version for …

Understanding old sound cards

Posted on 2017-06-23, 13:29

Hi, I've never been an audio card expert so I don't always understand the differences beetwen the old sound cards specifications in Dos games where some sound in a way or another, with the different chips on board, wavetables, midi, external modules, etc... Can you explain me why some cards were …

Re: Best Doom 1 & 2 config?

Posted on 2017-06-22, 15:01

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For me the Doom PC is a DX4-100 with an SB16 because that's how I experienced it.. But the optimal way to play would probably be a Pentium 100+ and an AWE64 Gold. I'm playing it on the quiet high end DX2-66, GD5429 VLB, 16MB 50ns and 256Kbyte L2 but in some episodes frame rate begin to be quiet low …

Re: Best Doom 1 & 2 config?

Posted on 2017-06-21, 19:15

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Believe or not i played Doom on a 386sx-20 with only 3 mb of ram using windows 3.1 virtual memory. It was slow but mostly "playable" with low detail and almost minimum screen size. But i played it first on a friend's 486dx-33. Impressive. I had problems running Wolf3D on that cpu mostly cause the …

Re: Best Doom 1 & 2 config?

Posted on 2017-06-21, 15:45

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DX2 66, 8MB RAM, VLB ATI Mach64, SB16.... This PC! https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=42212 I got the shareware version off my mate who had it pre installed on his DX4 100 that he got few months after we got our PC so would have been 1995 some time? I don't remember playing/seeing it for …

Re: Best Doom 1 & 2 config?

Posted on 2017-06-21, 11:13

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486SX 33, 4MB RAM, PC speaker. I was in high school, late '93 I'd say. A friend of my older sister showed up one day and plonked himself in front of my PC as he often did, usually to my disgust. But that day he had a stack of disks and started to install something - I'd never heard of it. One of …

Re: SNES and SuperFX-2 chip

Posted on 2017-06-20, 16:03

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For the video chips differences I'd look these Master System games for example, Mortal Kombat 1 and Street Fighter 2 for this console. ;) Thanks for the recommendation! I've just watched them at youtube. :) The SMS / NES versions of SF II are like day and night. I had no clue the SMS could do PCM, …

Re: Best Doom 1 & 2 config?

Posted on 2017-06-20, 15:50

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What config did you have the first time you played Doom? And do you remember the day it was released? Too bad I lost that moment, I was still learning the 386SX with its Dos games and the few games I had was already amazing for me, being used to the older consoles. By the way I am playing the …

Re: Best Doom 1 & 2 config?

Posted on 2017-06-19, 17:26

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For me, the original DOOM was the reason I upgraded from a 386SX-16 (my 'Wolf3d' machine) to a 486DX2-66 VLB. Pentiums weren't a 'thing' yet for consumers. 486 just became affordable. I got a Diamond Speedstar PRO VLB card, powered by a CL5426 chip. One of the finest VLB cards you could have for …

Re: Best Doom 1 & 2 config?

Posted on 2017-06-19, 12:20

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PhilsComputerLab wrote: I agree, a Pentium is my preferred Doom weapon. A Sound Canvas is a must for me as well 😊 Why is a must? Probably I'm not audio expert but does it sound much different?

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