Re: Native AGP 8X card

Posted on 2016-01-19, 17:38

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The fastest/most recent AGP card I have that works in Win98 is the Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB. It is quite fast even with 6x AA and 16x AF (as high as the card goes). In Unreal, it is nearly as fast with 6X/16X as with no AA/AF. I also have a 6800GS AGP but sadly no official driver support for Win98. …

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Re: Free Win98 gaming benchmarks?

Posted on 2016-01-19, 17:17

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MDK2's demo has a decent basic benchmark facility which is exactly the same as the full version, and also gets the same version updates (to use display lists and to disable sound). It's OpenGL and works in every hardware generation i've tried it in, and scales very forward (supports hor+ widescreen …

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Free Win98 gaming benchmarks?

Posted on 2016-01-19, 14:31

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Are there any demo/shareware/free versions of games with built in benchmarking utilities? The only games I have with built-in benchmarking are UT and Unreal. I've already got 3dMark99, 2000, 2001 as well. edit: I also have Quake which I'm running on the quakespasm engine. Seems to make for a decent …

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Re: Best Win98 drivers for 9800 Pro and FX 5200

Posted on 2016-01-19, 14:16

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Thanks for the feedback on the FX 5200. What about the ATI 9800 Pro? Catalyst 6.2 fine?

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Best Win98 drivers for 9800 Pro and FX 5200

Posted on 2016-01-18, 21:52

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I have a Radeon 9800 Pro and GeForce FX 5200 that I'd like to benchmark in Win98. Out of habit, I grabbed the latest drivers for each (Catalyst 6.2 and 81.98 respectively). If you've had experience with these cards under Win98, is there a different driver version you would recommend for speed and …

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Re: When did you first get acces to the Internet and what sites did you visit at your first time ?

Posted on 2016-01-18, 21:04

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I can't remember all the details, but it seemed like I started on Compuserve (~1990), then Prodigy, then AOL. I know I used AOL until at least 1999, starting with dial-up and eventually moving up to low-speed DSL. My first broadband was in the very early 2000s. Usage was almost entirely gaming …

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Re: Fastest Windows XP System

Posted on 2016-01-18, 17:15

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If you don't mind my asking, what was the reason for 8GB on WinXP? I suppose if that's all you had, or if you'd be dual-booting into an OS that could use all that, that would make sense.

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Re: Native AGP 8X card

Posted on 2016-01-18, 17:06

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the fx series is known for having crap performance .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_FX_series I use an FX5200 in my Pentium 3 933Mhz Win98SE build and it is about as fast as a GF3 Ti200 with no AA/AF, and *faster* than the GF3 when using AA/AF. It is quite fast for games like Jedi Knight 2, …

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Re: Native AGP 8X card

Posted on 2016-01-18, 02:20

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the fx series is known for having crap performance .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_FX_series I use an FX5200 in my Pentium 3 933Mhz Win98SE build and it is about as fast as a GF3 Ti200 with no AA/AF, and *faster* than the GF3 when using AA/AF. It is quite fast for games like Jedi Knight 2, …

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Re: Most memorable games you've played

Posted on 2016-01-14, 22:01

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On the Apple II: -Aztec (the graphics seemed so incredible at the time!) -Lode Runner (Lodes of fun) -Dino Eggs (probably the single most fun game I ever played. i still play it to this day on AppleWin emulation) -Ultima 2 (the sheer size and immersiveness of the world blew me away) -Ultima 4 (made …

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Re: Unpowered speakers/using PC speaker for audio

Posted on 2016-01-14, 00:16

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As for sound quality, it's identical whether they are powered or not, just powered ones can go louder. Well, it depends.... I've seen my share of powered PC speakers that downmix stuff to mono (even though it is a 2-speaker set), but those are bottom of the barrel. Also, many old sound cards become …

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Re: Native DOS games with framerate display built in

Posted on 2016-01-13, 19:18

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leileilol wrote: Terminal Velocity has a little benchmark thing by pressing Z at the main menu. This also exists in Fury3 Cool, I'll have to check if it works in the shareware version.

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Re: Unpowered speakers/using PC speaker for audio

Posted on 2016-01-13, 17:44

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I was in a similar situation when I started my retro journey a few months ago. I ended up looking/asking around until I found someone with an old set they never threw out. They were happy to give them away rather than toss them. Have you considered headphones? They will sound much better than …

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Native DOS games with framerate display built in

Posted on 2016-01-13, 15:58

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I don't know if there are many DOS games out there with framerate displays, so I wanted to start this thread to see if we can pool together our collective knowledge into one list. If there's already such a list somewhere, link to it and we'll call it good. ;) I suppose we can do separate lists for …

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Re: 10 Way DOS Graphic Card Benchmarks on Celeron 333

Posted on 2016-01-12, 22:52

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gerwin wrote: How do you guys bench Duke 3D? AFAIK it does not do a timedemo, just a nervous -DNRATE display at the bottom right. I think that's all that can be done with Duke. It's not ideal, but it is rare for a DOS game to have a built in frame counter, so I threw it in for fun.

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Re: Voodoo3 won't POST on S7 AMDK6 III, other cards fine

Posted on 2016-01-12, 22:38

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AaronAsh wrote: Unfortunately no, although a switch to a different LCD shows me a little more; it occasionally gets past the black screen, loads the windows background pattern and then immediately freezes with a few box shaped areas of random noise corruption on the background. I don't like the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-01-12, 22:33

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If the person I'm getting the HDD from requests it, I will run Darik's Boot and Nuke (it can take a long time to run, so I don't do this if I don't have to). Otherwise, I use Gparted to blow away all partitions, then run SpinRite on the drive to determine (and hopefully improve) it's health. If it's …

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Re: Voodoo3 won't POST on S7 AMDK6 III, other cards fine

Posted on 2016-01-12, 21:44

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Do you have a CRT you can test with to confirm your theory?

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Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2016-01-12, 19:17

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Back when multiplayer started becoming big, I was disappointed in the lost art of the single-player story-driven game. Someone mentioned Quake 3 earlier. There seemed to be a whole generation of games that jumped on the multiplayer bandwagon, either replacing the story mode with "bots" or completely …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-01-12, 19:09

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keropi wrote: Nice 386 Skyscraper 😀 No kidding. It looks brand new! That is so cool...😀

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