Re: Most modern hardware for a standalone XP Pro SP3 x86 machine in 2023?

Posted on 2023-12-03, 17:26

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Cheers for the post, @God Of Gaming! So I'm assuming that you would recommend the Gigabyte Z77X-UP7 over ... say ... the ASRock Z77 Extreme4? If this is true , would you mind elaborating about what sets the two mobos apart for you? Looking forward to it ~ Sigtryggr Nah, i wouldn't recommend the …

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Re: Most modern hardware for a standalone XP Pro SP3 x86 machine in 2023?

Posted on 2023-12-02, 23:42

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I used to use a Gigabyte Z77X-UP7 (gigabyte's top of the line overkill motherboard for that socket) with i7-3770K and 16 gigs of nice ram, for winXP, and it worked absolutely perfectly, full driver support for winXP on official gigabyte page, stable, reliable, compatible. I now use an Asus P9X79 WS …

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Re: 3D games you would like to see in high resolution

Posted on 2023-11-21, 10:30

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dgVoodoo2 upscales anything using DirectDraw or it's extensions, doesn't matter of it's sw or hw accel. Of course you'll need a bilinear filter, or some other filter else the game will just be a zoomed in blocky texture Well thats not rendering it at a native higher resolution, just upscaling the …

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Re: 3D games you would like to see in high resolution

Posted on 2023-11-20, 15:40

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Well the Windows NFSSE can be upscaled to higher resolution using filters+dgVoodoo2 in tandem, but it takes a toll on the game performance. dgvoodoo2 requires at least windows vista to work.... win95 executable of NFSSE is really difficult to get running properly even on XP let alone Vista or newer …

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Re: 3D games you would like to see in high resolution

Posted on 2023-11-20, 10:07

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NFS 1 SE.... the console ports of it can be emulated at high res but they have less content, so its less than perfect.... can anyone elaborate on that? whats to elaborate? original NFS 1 release for 3DO in 1994, 320x240, in 4DO emulator you can double that res to 640x480 DOS port in 1995, can …

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Re: 3D games you would like to see in high resolution

Posted on 2023-11-18, 09:36

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NFS 1 / NFS SE: Maybe that's nostalgia for me. The graphics were astounding for that era, I think that it deserves to be preserved as-is. Also, keep in mind that both games would lose their charm if upgraded. Comanche would lose that unique graphics; NFS wouldn't look as advanced as it was. In the …

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Re: 3D games you would like to see in high resolution

Posted on 2023-11-16, 14:42

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Road&Track Presents: The Need For Speed Special Edition

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Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2023-11-13, 08:22

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Robbbert wrote on 2023-11-12, 04:58: Tried a few, doesn't work. First a box pops up saying you may be a victim of software counterfeiting, followed by another box saying the update is not applicable to this computer. Well in that case just reformat this system and intall a proper win7 ultimate or …

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Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2023-11-10, 00:37

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you should be able to download the update installers separately and install them offline, without ever launching the windows update app, probably even on that eval version

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Re: Tandy 1000 max CF card size?

Posted on 2023-10-21, 09:27

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I found a cheap local deal for two CF cards, 32 and 64 mb, both cisco branded. I hope these will do fine for testing at least. I wanna mount it and set it up now. I see the XT-CF-Lite 4.1 card has dip switches to set up I/O Addr and EEPROM Addr, apparently I should set them to addresses that do not …

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Re: Any modern psu's that have large 5v rails

Posted on 2023-09-29, 09:40

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also you can probably further draw some more on the cpu side with a 2700mhz oc mobile barton of the nicest samples, or perhaps a dual socket A board with two XPs, and I guess with a 9800XT instead of Pro

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Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup with XP Era Hardware ?

Posted on 2023-09-26, 08:02

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yes, on gtx980 launch day drivers for XP were released, probably a few driver updates after that too, but at some point for some reason they decided to delist them from their site and only leave the 750ti/gtx960 with XP drivers, I wonder why

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Re: Tandy 1000 max CF card size?

Posted on 2023-09-19, 12:37

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so no data corruption or anything like that if I use like 2 or 4 gigs card with, say, DOS 2.11, which I think was the version the first tandy 1000s released with? and 32mb partitions is the max that can do too?

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Tandy 1000 max CF card size?

Posted on 2023-09-19, 10:28

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Hello guys, sorry if asking something that has been answered before, but Im not finding anything concrete with my searches. I was able to find a Tandy 1000 in Europe, a very hard task as theres almost none around here, but I found one somehow. It only has two floppy drives and no hard drive. I will …

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Re: Half-Life WON 1.0.1.6 Pause Menu Issue

Posted on 2023-09-04, 22:46

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as good as coders as Valve are, honestly the goldsrc engine source code is a complete and utter mess... likely the reason why they still havent made the engine open source, they are probably too ashamed from people seeing how bad the code is... at this point probably best to just start off fresh and …

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Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup with XP Era Hardware ?

Posted on 2023-08-08, 18:19

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Problem with Haswell is it never officially supported XP so none of the Haswell motherboards have XP drivers listed on their official websites. Besides, Sandy and Ivy Bridge are just as good, ipc somewhat lower but they overclock better to make up for it. Haswell also has notoriously weak memory …

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Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup with XP Era Hardware ?

Posted on 2023-08-03, 08:27

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you can probably always install XP on anything newer including ryzen 7800x3d and i9-13900kf and newer, by just having a linux host os and setting up a winXP VM with real hardware pass-trough for graphics card and sound card and whatever else is needed, so really the main limit for XP would be the …

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Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup with XP Era Hardware ?

Posted on 2023-08-02, 18:57

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however dual cpu motherboards usually cannot overclock, so an overclocked single cpu system can and will be faster than a non-overclocked dual cpu system

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Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup with XP Era Hardware ?

Posted on 2023-08-01, 12:26

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i wanted to experiment with whats newest AMD Radeon that would work on XP somehow. All GCN 1 cards up to and including HD 7970 / 7990 and their rebrands such as the R9 280x work fine, thats well known, so, going further ahead, I bought a R7 260X, which is a GCN 2 card, and that works fine on XP with …

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Re: Half-Life WON 1.0.1.6 Pause Menu Issue

Posted on 2023-07-22, 08:27

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if the cause is a multi-core cpu, a simple fix should be to set affinty for just one core, thats how I prevented nfs underground 2 from randomly crashing while entering stores and events

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