Re: Generic Win98SE Installation & Setup Guide

Posted on 2017-01-23, 23:32

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Disable ACPI If your BIOS has an option for disabling ACPI, then you should disable it. On some systems, it may be referred to as "IPCA" or something else. Additionally, set the BIOS option for "Plug n Play OS" to "NO" unless you have a PCI sound card. If you have a PCI sound card, set the BIOS …

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Re: problem with files

Posted on 2017-01-22, 21:58

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by mrau

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what program even? tried real dos on a vm?

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Re: DOSBox on Windows NT 3.51

Posted on 2017-01-22, 18:05

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by mrau

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this is practically a VM in a VM, are you looking for new ways to slow down enough to run ultima? 😁

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-21, 19:38

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by mrau

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is a virge on agp faster than on pci?

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Re: Need For Speed 3 "You Do Not have a DirectX Capable Graphics Card" Win98

Posted on 2017-01-20, 12:56

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by mrau

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a voodoo wrapper will probably solve all this at once ans with such a card you can have filters set as high as you like

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Re: Oddball graphics modes on 1MB and 2MB vga cards?

Posted on 2017-01-19, 22:05

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elianda wrote: If 24bpp packed pixel mode is actually slower depends on the chipset. This is no generic fact. kinda right, but still i miss 16bit days; even today i switch to 16bit in the office on an intel gpu, just saves a lot of memory nad looks as good as needed;

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Re: Oddball graphics modes on 1MB and 2MB vga cards?

Posted on 2017-01-18, 04:50

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this problem may be similar to 24bit modes on pc that were once advertised with some products; iirc most cards would not even offer a real speedup from going 32->24 bits; others saved memory by packing data and slowed down a lot with this;

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Re: Linux and graphic cards installation

Posted on 2017-01-17, 10:15

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elod wrote: For AMD/Ati you could follow the same route or just go with the opensource one (not sure how it covers current cards). i would worry more about old cards frankly, on an r200 in the past performance went down to hell on software update

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Re: Linux and graphic cards installation

Posted on 2017-01-17, 05:44

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i do wonder a bit what is going on here: drivers now are in kernel space, optimally as .ko modules which are then loaded automagically during boot (firmware required at this point), later xorg just takes over drawing - thats all; xorg.conf is a thing of the past;

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Re: pentium pro 256, 512 and 1024 dos and win98 benchmark lineup

Posted on 2017-01-15, 17:24

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It is no problem :). Just give MTRRLFBE from Rayer a spin when you are chanced. Other then that, I found it is difficult to keep benchmark results comparable. There is often some detail or setting which complicates it. I really wonder why BIOS developers generally did not include LFB write …

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Re: pentium pro 256, 512 and 1024 dos and win98 benchmark lineup

Posted on 2017-01-15, 17:08

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gerwin wrote: I don't know. For starters, where are these other people's results? on this forum, but don't force me to search, i kinda cannot do this effectively; i'm telling this from memory, so don't crucify me either

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Re: pentium pro 256, 512 and 1024 dos and win98 benchmark lineup

Posted on 2017-01-15, 16:59

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gerwin wrote: 100%, seemingly it goes that far: Benchmarks write combining. noice, however ive seen many people do not reach that much of an increase; is this similar/complementary/whatever to uncacheable speculative write combining?

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Re: pentium pro 256, 512 and 1024 dos and win98 benchmark lineup

Posted on 2017-01-15, 16:37

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Well, then the last sentence of my previous post applies: 640 resolution in Quake uses a VESA mode, which preferably uses a Linear Frame Buffer (LFB). Write combining greatly speeds up the LFB memory access -> more FPS. Does not matter which graphics chipset, it is a CPU feature. no no, write …

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Re: pentium pro 256, 512 and 1024 dos and win98 benchmark lineup

Posted on 2017-01-15, 16:07

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isnt that somewhat low for quake? Regarding Quake 1 in VGA mode; Swaaye's pentium pro 1MB does 42,7 FPS when underclocked to 133MHz (2x66). source But it is not really fair because i think he enabled write combining for the VGA range, which is not a reliable setting IMO. Contrary to VESA video …

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Re: Will a GeForce FX 5900xt have a bottleneck with a 1.6 GHz Pentium 4 or vice-versa?

Posted on 2017-01-15, 14:41

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mr_bigmouth_502 wrote: Pentium 4s are basically useless below 2.4GHz or so. not true, i have seen an egg cooked on one of them

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Re: pentium pro 256, 512 and 1024 dos and win98 benchmark lineup

Posted on 2017-01-15, 13:40

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isnt that somewhat low for quake?

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Re: win98 machine, best singlecore socket775 cpu.

Posted on 2017-01-14, 23:55

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E5800 is the best CPU you can put onto it. Make sure it's the R3.0 version of the motherboard you have. It has to have a black PCB. It's the best CPU with official 98SE support. Don't go with Q6600, even though it is supported, the 1066 FSB causes severe boot times increase, and lower DDR memory …

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Re: Will a GeForce FX 5900xt have a bottleneck with a 1.6 GHz Pentium 4 or vice-versa?

Posted on 2017-01-14, 22:47

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the gpu is powerful, but the rest of the system lags behind

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Re: AMD Athlon WinXP Upgrade Advice

Posted on 2017-01-14, 21:26

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whats that? even wiki does not tell too much...

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Re: IDT Orion CPUs in vintage systems

Posted on 2017-01-14, 16:13

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why were they used so often for graphics workstations and high performance routers?

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