Re: Non Creative Sound Cards for WinXP

Posted on 2019-11-15, 15:37

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by God Of Gaming

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Personally the only 2 non-X-Fi sound cards that Im interested in for win2k/XP, are the nvidia soundstorm audio built onto nforce2 chipset motherboards, since its the same as what the og xbox has, and the other being sound cards with the Crystal CS4630 chip like the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz or …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-15, 14:28

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Is it AGP? PCI versions of the 7500 were ised in Alpha hardware for many years I believe. I have a 7500 PCI from an Alpha workstation, it's also a late manufacture. OTOH I never heard of a purple 7500, can you post photos? Well, 2 photos are attached to my post, aren't they showing up? It is AGP, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-15, 13:24

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Got this purple ati 7500 for the price of the delivery (2 euros) and, I'm a bit stumped after looking at it more closely.... seems to be made in 2005, but its a 2001 model, why were they still making them in 2005? Also, heatsink seems to be oem and is glued to the gpu chip, but pcb has mounting …

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Re: Installing win98 games on NAS?

Posted on 2019-11-09, 22:19

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I already keep everything on my main PC and external hard drives and only installing games and nothing else to my retro PCs to make the most out of those tiny retro hard drives, but still, even though the games are small, when there's like 100 000 of them, even stuffing a case with 6 hard drives and …

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Re: Ati Radeon - 128X Anisotropic Filtering

Posted on 2019-11-09, 07:50

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by God Of Gaming

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Found this forum post from 2001 that might shed some light into how this works and why it doesnt look as impressive as I hoped it would: I don't know if the 128 Tap Anistropic filtering is such a good thing. I read an article on a forum by Wumpus from http://www.gamebasement.com and noticed he was …

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Re: Fastest rig you have running winxp 32bit

Posted on 2019-11-09, 07:40

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^there's no need to trick anything, winXP installs and works fine out of the box on my Gigabyte Z77X-UP7 with i7-3770K and GTX 980 (formerly GTX 780 but that one died) and Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater HD. Only had to do a light modification of the nvidia driver to add a string for gtx 980 so it could …

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Re: Why does PhilsComputerLab disables all but 1 core on his XP gaming builds?

Posted on 2019-11-08, 13:05

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by God Of Gaming

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There's actually a way to set up your game shortcut to automatically launch it with 1 core affinity, so that you don't have to manually do it each time you start it, but I agree having only 1 core enabled is one less thing to worry about.

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Re: Ati Radeon - 128X Anisotropic Filtering

Posted on 2019-11-07, 13:44

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by God Of Gaming

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data9791 wrote: Any idea if this works on the 9600? Nope, final driver that seems to support the feature will only work on R100 and some R200 series cards, so radeon 7000 (VE), 7200, 7500 and 8500. It could be possible to force-install it on a newer card, I haven't tried.

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Ati Radeon - 128X Anisotropic Filtering

Posted on 2019-11-07, 09:43

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Fairly obsure fact that its hard to find anything about on the internet, is that the original Radeons had a hidden feature to raise the anisotropic filtering all the way to 128X in OpenGL games. Screenshot comparison links seem to have all been posted in 2001 and all are dead. I was curious, and I …

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Re: Installing win98 games on NAS?

Posted on 2019-11-06, 17:11

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by God Of Gaming

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Nobody mentioned yet that for many (if not most) windows games you can't just point a shortcut to the installation folder and play. Installation does additional things like registry keys, try to copy an installation folder from a computer to another and see for yourself. Some games will work, many …

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Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC

Posted on 2019-11-04, 11:35

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even Rage 128 Ultra are easy actually, you can find them for 5 bucks and are common enough. It's what I'd go for if it has to be a 99 ati, it has higher clocks than the fury maxx, and no dual gpu AFR issues to deal with. But yeah, Nvidia TNT2 Ultra or 3dfx Voodoo3 would be better, even Matrox G400 …

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Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC

Posted on 2019-11-04, 07:17

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by God Of Gaming

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yes, which is why I personally go with a specific month, not a specific year, when considering period correct builds

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Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC

Posted on 2019-11-03, 21:18

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by God Of Gaming

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I think radeon 7500 is a 2001 card, in 1999 he'd be stuck with ati rage 128 ultra or ati rage fury maxx. Also correct me if I'm wrong but didn't 120gb HDDs come out late 2001 too?

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Re: Installing win98 games on NAS?

Posted on 2019-10-31, 16:37

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by God Of Gaming

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some programs might not mind, but others will want to read from a physical CD, unless you have no cd patches, you can try just normal file sharing between XP and 9x mapping drives and see if your games work like that. yes, I tend to use no-cd patches or disc images with daemon tools 3.47 to try to …

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Re: Installing win98 games on NAS?

Posted on 2019-10-31, 16:30

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Yes, I have gigabit networking on basically all my PCs and my router, and afaik gigabit should allow sustained speeds up to 125 mb/s, which I think should be plenty for any game to work fine, most older hard drives cant go that fast even. What can be inconsistent between each PC tho, other than the …

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Re: Installing win98 games on NAS?

Posted on 2019-10-31, 16:24

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by God Of Gaming

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well, idk, as I said I don't own a NAS, but I mean those NAS servers you can buy, load up with hard drives, and let them run 24/7 in a corner somewhere, I've never worked with one of those so idk how they work, but I thought you access them with FTP, like FilleZIlla or something, so I didnt know you …

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Installing win98 games on NAS?

Posted on 2019-10-31, 16:13

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by God Of Gaming

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I recently learned it is possible to set up a NAS to show up as a local drive on your PC, and install your games on it, and run the games through the network, assuming 1gbps+ LAN speed is available. (I have an intel pro 1000gt pci network card that works with win9x btw). I don't own a NAS (yet) but …

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Re: The Need For Speed: Special Edition can't install on Windows 98

Posted on 2019-10-22, 00:05

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I need to disable directdraw acceleration on my voodoo3 with dx7.0a installed too, so thats probably still too new

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Re: What 9x Software is Essential

Posted on 2019-09-19, 09:18

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I would also install diagnostic stuff like aida64 and hd sentinel pro, I think latest versions of both still work on win98 too... on my winXP+ PCs I also install diskeeper 2013 which solves all fragmentation issues, but for win98 seems like diskeeper 9 is the last version and I cant find it …

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Re: What 9x Software is Essential

Posted on 2019-09-18, 23:09

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by God Of Gaming

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I'd stay away from DX9 because it breaks some compatibility with older games and only makes games well into the XP era compatible, so it kinda defeats the propose of having a Windows 9x installed. Any particular older games that break with dx8-9 installed? Because everyone keeps mentioning that but …

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