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Re: MTRRLFBE and AGP/PCIe cards in DOS

Posted on 2018-04-17, 23:49

it is possible to create a TSR which will enable WC on VESA banked mode set and disable it for VGA modes, but there is one caveat: RDMSR and WRMSR instructions, which are privilegied under protected\VM86 mode, so you need to mess up with EMM386/QEMM/other VM86 memory managers. Moreover, you should …

Re: MTRRLFBE and AGP/PCIe cards in DOS

Posted on 2018-04-17, 12:24

Same here indeed, write combining is mostly useful for VESA modes only Yep, and 'VGA write combining' affects all VESA modes that do not use linear frame buffer but banked one. As I have written before the standard VGA framebuffer is used in all VESA modes in real mode programs or in protected mode …

Re: MTRRLFBE and AGP/PCIe cards in DOS

Posted on 2018-04-16, 11:18

AFAIK Contrary to the VESA LFB, VGA range Write Combining is practically useless. Since the systems that support Write Combining can already run VGA 320x200 at 60 FPS anyways. That and VGA WC can cause some compatibility issues with a few games (Commander Keen IIRC). Hi, AFAIK it does not work this …

Re: Old games at high-res/60 fps

Posted on 2018-04-15, 21:12

Unfortunately Catalyst 7.11 lacks aspect ratio scaling for DVI. That option appeas during the Catalyst 8.x run. I'm using a 1440p LCD and for some reason it doesn't have 1600x1200 as a supported resolution in its EDID. It works fine with a 1600x1200 signal but since it's not in the EDID, problems …

Re: MTRRLFBE and AGP/PCIe cards in DOS

Posted on 2018-04-15, 09:03

On AMD CPUs I used MTRRLFBE to enable write combining for the LFB (vs. fastvid on intel CPUs). However it fails to enable WC for the VGA buffer. Without WC for the VGA buffer, the Athlon XP also fails to beat the Pentium III DOOM bench, and the Phenom II narrowly beats it with 802 realtics. Anyone …

Re: WinG

Posted on 2018-04-13, 09:41

Wing is originated from the late 16-bit Win3x era. The 32-bit version of WinG (Wing32.dll) is actually only a wrapper around native Win32 API calls since the (at the time) new Win32 API supports all the functionality that required special drivers on 16-bit Win3x. WinG is nothing more than a DIB …

Re: WinG

Posted on 2018-04-13, 01:59

WinG is a completely different library so software that use WinG use completely different API calls than software that use DirectX/Glide. DgVoodoo has wrappers only for DirectX/Glide. So it simply will not work.

Re: Opinions on VM Testing Success

Posted on 2018-04-13, 01:52

Adding files/folders even to system folders cannot do any harm if existing files are not overwritten. The same also holds for the registry. Just make sure the registry files you import only contain entries that belong to the particular software you want to migrate. Do not overwrite system settings ( …

Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2018-04-07, 21:55

A little off topic: https://youtu.be/by4xdMoBa_c Lee Jackson’s GrabbagOriginalVer_GS1.mid with SC-88 Pro+ insertion effects on SC-VA. Earlier I had tried an XG enhanced version but some said it was not authentic… So now I tried to preserve most aspects of the original even the ones I do not really …

Re: Missing WING32.DLL in Windows 10

Posted on 2018-04-06, 06:35

in Windows
WinG DLLs were sometimes distributed with an application, at which point it merely became a matter of copying the files wing.dll, wing32.dll, wingde.dll, wingdib.drv and wngpal.wnd to the system32 directory (for 32 bit Windows) or SysWOW64 directory (for 64 bit Windows) to regain system-wide …

Re: Missing WING32.DLL in Windows 10

Posted on 2018-04-05, 09:09

in Windows
By 'application folder' I mean the folder where the main executable file is. If your program copied the dlls on your XP to system folder instead of system32, it simply means it never expected to run on an NT based OS, but only on Win9x. It does not necessarily mean it has a 16 bit installer. But …

Re: Missing WING32.DLL in Windows 10

Posted on 2018-04-05, 02:37

in Windows
WinG is a pre-DirectX era graphics library from about 1994 so it's no more native/official system library on Win XP than it would be on your Win 10. Some application must have copied it to your XP's system32 folder, it is not distributed with XP either. But if you are afraid of a very unlikely …

Re: Paint.NET alternative for Windows 98?

Posted on 2018-04-04, 18:31

I'm still using Paint Shop Pro 5 -7 with great satisfaction under Win98. It's much faster and more intuitive for me than contemporary Photoshop versions but feature rich enough to handle more than basic tasks. Actually it's also portable. After installing it first you can simply copy its folder to …

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