Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-19, 10:51

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philscomputerlab wrote: It seems that a very fast processor is required at this stage 😀 100 fps seems so close, yet so far... Crysis uses only up to 2 cores, so I'm guessing someone with a well OC'd G3258 could pull it off.

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Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-16, 16:32

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philscomputerlab wrote: 🤣 Don't think I've ever seen such a difference in performance between min. and max. Pretty common in more modern(ish) PC exclusives. I know STALKER games also have a huge min-max difference. EDIT: well, here is my little Asus EEE 🤣 Filename 01.png File size 1.12 MiB Views …

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Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 19:46

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maverick85 wrote: @munx you have AA enabled That I am. Not much of an improvement though. Seems like my CPU is a bit of a bottleneck here. Filename 02.png File size 1.76 MiB Views 4668 views Also planning on completing a radeon 9800 pro/Athlon xp machine this month which just barely matches the …

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Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 19:32

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Running on my main machine. Its been 8 years and still not able to max it @1080p and AA with 60 fps 😵 Running the full patched retail version, seems to crash whenever I try 32-bit mode. Filename 01.png File size 1.69 MiB Views 4679 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-14, 16:39

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Just arrived. Biostar M7VIT BRAVO (socket 462). Gonna use this to build an early Win XP/DX9 machine with an Athlon xp 2600+ (333Mhz fsb) and a Radeon 9800 pro. CAM00225[1].jpg Not in the least bit retro (But a required tool for researching, disc burning and other stuff for retros) I got one of these …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-07, 14:47

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Just arrived today. Gonna have to remove some rust, but not too bad considering this cost me 7 Euros total. Filename CAM00223[1].jpg File size 2.42 MiB Views 5861 views File comment Voodoo3 3000

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-28, 05:52

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This arrived a few days ago for my K5/Voodoo machine, I plan on adding some more memory on this. Would this be the correct memory? Also seems to be damn expensive for what it is. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALLIANCE-AS4C256K16E0-50JC-SOJ-40-5V-256Kx16-CMOS-DRAM-EDO-/400870499868?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0& …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-24, 19:26

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Cool :D - time to whip out my K6 rig and do some tests :D I'll post results in a new thread entitled "Pentium MMX vs K6-2 FPU performance Benchmarks". Can you guys recommend any other software to use for these tests? I was thinking I'd also try 3D Mark 99 alongside Quake 2. Would the Voodoo Banshee …

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Re: Advice for a video card

Posted on 2015-05-21, 16:29

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IQ of Matrox and Voodoo 3 are very good. Get something newer, especially from Nvidia or ATI, and you got DVI options on many cards. Late Matrox cards also come with DVI which is nice. Thing is, the setup is using a k5 and a mobo w/o any AGP slots. I'd like to keep it at least somewhat era correct …

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Re: Advice for a video card

Posted on 2015-05-20, 05:26

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I'm using this machine for late DOS (486 era) to early windows stuff. It mostly comes down to the price for me and both Millennium and S3 Virge seem to be good for the job, so I'll just snag the one I spot on e-bay for cheap first. Though I would prefer S3 for better compatibility.

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Re: Advice for a video card

Posted on 2015-05-19, 18:07

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I'm looking to replace an Ati Mach64 vt2 in my w95 machine as the 2D card and was wondering, what would be a good substitute? What would be a common video card for around 1996 that is PCI, had at least decent video output quality (I want to pair it with a Voodoo) and is cheap to obtain today. Any …

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Advice for a video card

Posted on 2015-05-19, 15:38

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I'm looking to replace an Ati Mach64 vt2 in my w95 machine as the 2D card and was wondering, what would be a good substitute? What would be a common video card for around 1996 that is PCI, had at least decent video output quality (I want to pair it with a Voodoo) and is cheap to obtain today. Any …

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Re: Quake crashes in 640x480

Posted on 2015-05-16, 18:34

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At vintage3D is original ati driver - http://www.vintage3d.org/driver.php . Use 3D Rage driver. Its the same version as was on ati site - http://web.archive.org/web/19980128132748/http://support.atitech.ca/drivers/3drageI-VT.html Installed it, same stuff. I'm too tired to keep wrestling this card. …

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Re: Quake crashes in 640x480

Posted on 2015-05-16, 07:47

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Well the drivers I used were for the mach64 VT(1) chip, for a dell OEM machine, might have to try something else. Would this be the correct driver? http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=540&menustate=6,1 EDIT: nope. The specific card is 264vt2 and I cant find it on vogonsdrivers. Googling …

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Quake crashes in 640x480

Posted on 2015-05-15, 19:19

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I've been trying to get WinQuake to work on my P100 machine for a couple days now, however every time I set the resolution to 640x480 or even 512x384 it crashes. Its seems to run fine in 640x480 windowed, but not full-screen. I tried forcing it through config.cfg and autoexec.cfg but the game seems …

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Re: Voodoo 2 Passthrough cable?

Posted on 2015-05-11, 17:46

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16812200792 Using this one atm, quality is pretty good. Only problem is you have to remove those screw-in pins and the metal part is going to get bent a bit.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-05-09, 17:39

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just got this today. Intel pba 689512 201t (socket 7) + 32MB ram + P100. Dusty and overall messy, but it works just fine and will look great after some cleaning and general maintenance. Gonna put a K5 PR133, Ati Mach64 VT2, Voodoo 1 and SB Awe64 in it later. Filename CAM00176.jpg File size 1.9 MiB …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-05-04, 15:27

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Filename CAM00173[1].jpg File size 1.59 MiB Views 6307 views Just got a SB Live to go in my Voodoo rig. The AWE64 its replacing will go into my K5 machine.

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Re: Default CPU speed is low

Posted on 2015-04-27, 09:38

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Thats good to know 😀 Guess I'll just have to remember to make some multiplier changes after cpu switches. Not planning to make any fow now anyway. Thaks for the info.

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Default CPU speed is low

Posted on 2015-04-26, 16:40

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While it's not a big problem, something just keeps bugging me. I have an AOpen AX6BC mobo in my vintage rig, and it underclocks all the CPUs I put in it by default. My Klamath P2 300 got UC'd to 233MHz, P3 550 to 350 MHz, also my P2 350 (just don't remember how much for this one). Every time I …

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