Re: Found my white buffalo...
Posted on 2018-12-05, 06:42
Wow that thing is Sa-WEET. I haven't seen a case in such gloriously new condition in a very long time. Very very nice machine, take care of her.
Re: ICQ revival
Posted on 2018-12-05, 06:40
I wouldn't worry about what everyone is using (because that's facebook messanger) and use what you want. Most of my friends have migrated over to Discord. The only thing that sucks for me is that besides IRC, I can't really connect to anything my friends use anymore via pidgin/xmpp, so it's becoming …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-12-04, 06:45
Do cameras count? I just bought a Sony Mavica FD87. Couldn't resist because I need floppies and the seller seems to be including a 40 pack of sealed 1.44mb disks with it and they are so pricey to get new on ebay. Won the auction for $14.65 after shipping so I'm pleased enough. Looking forward to …
Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019
Posted on 2018-12-04, 02:40
Also there have been issues in the past with people running Steam for a long time in Offline mode and games not working (Supposedly fixed) and also games that are using 3rd party DRM. I don't believe the XP POS updates have discontinued yet but yeah definetly don't browse the Internet with it. I've …
Re: Half-Life Performance Issues
Posted on 2018-12-04, 01:29
I would update Unreal to 2.26f, the early versions did not run well on non 3dfx cards. I haven't run Unreal on a Geforce4 in a while but I know this version works fine with my TNT1/2 and Geforce 1/2. I actually own a few different copies of half life and they are different versions, I think the …
Re: Half-Life Performance Issues
Posted on 2018-12-04, 00:48
From my testing (my 1998 video card comparison) Half life really isn't very demanding on the GPU at all. The game runs fine even on cards like the i740 as long as you have a fast enough CPU. Unreal is much more playable on period correct hardware than half life. With a P2 450 and a voodoo2 you can …
Re: Merry x-mas 2018 everyone....
Posted on 2018-12-03, 23:39
I'm immune to retro-hand, I've been playing these same games over and over for the past 30 years as I don't enjoy many modern games (besides some Borderlands or CS:GO and a few others), so they aren't retro to me. Just another day of good ole pc gamin 😉
Re: AMD or Intel CPU on 486 PC ?
Posted on 2018-12-03, 22:54
Did many people really enjoy playing Quake in DOS at 320x200? Looks pretty miserable to me. Then when you shoot up to 640x480, the framerate on a P133 is only 13 fps. For this to play well in DOS at 640x486, seems to me that you really need to use a CPU that is not quite period correct, at which …
Re: Half-Life Performance Issues
Posted on 2018-12-03, 22:40
game.zip -- Demo recorded from Game version 1.1.0.8, zip contains one file "game.dem". This file goes in c:\sierra\half-life\valve\ I've uploaded a demo from one of the scenes I find to be quite demanding for the early game. When I replay the demo (playdemo game) with the fps showing (cl_showfps …
Re: Half-Life Performance Issues
Posted on 2018-12-03, 22:15
Garrett W wrote: BeginnerGuy wrote: This game was most certainly the "Crysis" of 1998. Unreal would like to have a word with you. oh hell yeah, gotta bench that one too. I have a feeling that one may be a bit more demanding on the GPU end of the spectrum though, Half-life seems to clobber the CPU.
Re: Half-Life Performance Issues
Posted on 2018-12-03, 21:34
Yep running at a stuttery 70FPS with the freeze and instant drop sounds just like my machine as well. It sounds to me like you have to start getting into 1.8GHz and beyond Pentium 4 systems before this game will lock in at 71FPS and not experience drops or microstuttering. I do have a P4 1.5ghz …
Re: Half-Life Performance Issues
Posted on 2018-12-03, 08:16
Also, I just remembered if you launch the game with the -console flag you can put in net_graph 1 or cl_showfps 1 in the console and see your FPS that way. Right click on your game shortcut and go to properties, where you see target put that in quotes so it's "C:\path\to\hl.exe" -console (just in …
Re: Half-Life Performance Issues
Posted on 2018-12-03, 08:02
I played some half-life on my p3, see below. I don't believe anybody just builds and then they're off to the races. Sure, some people get lucky, and others don't stop and pay attention to frame rates, and others I've seen go as far as buying all factory sealed boxes for the e-peen. I've been …
Re: AMD or Intel CPU on 486 PC ?
Posted on 2018-12-03, 00:04
POD 86 will run games like quake the best (due to it's FPU performance), but not at frame rates that I would consider enjoyable enough to bother anymore. Do you not consider a POD83 at 34 fps, or a POD100 at 41 fps playable in GLQuake? https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=697548#p697548 It was …
Re: Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 pro 32MB: Any good?
Posted on 2018-12-02, 22:44
Avoid anything ATI related before the original Radeon. Eh? No. Rage had driver issues at its time, but they have been fairly ironed out later on. Latest drivers for Rage cards are mostly trouble free and Rage 128 PRO is a fairly fast chipset, fairly comparable to a TNT2 or V3-2000. https://www. …
Re: 3DFX cards - too expensive
Posted on 2018-12-02, 22:28
I'd also like to add that it's very obvious that we're in a nostalgia wave and have been for some years now. Makes me really wonder why nvidia refuses to revive the 3dfx brand. I wouldn't even mind a stupid entry level GeForce rebranded as 3dfx card with a Glide wrapper builtin the driver. But …
Re: Asus MEB (So370 motherboard) - worth saving?
Posted on 2018-12-02, 22:19
I've read tales of coppermines smoking these ppga boards but couldn't say for sure. Like dionb said though, I'd recap that sucker and drop in the legendary Celeron 300A just for the nostalgia. Usually at stock or very tiny vcore bump it will do 450mhz, and the cache runs at the cpu frequency on the …
Re: Half-Life Performance Issues
Posted on 2018-12-02, 22:04
Yeah I got a bum board I guess. It works totally fine everywhere else but F1 will make it go insane with smiley face characters in DOS mode so I can't open help menus in any program unless I launch it in Win98. I wasted a good deal of time trying to diagnose that with no luck, but I digress lol. …
Re: 3DFX cards - too expensive
Posted on 2018-12-02, 21:51
I'd also like to add that it's very obvious that we're in a nostalgia wave and have been for some years now. Look at youtube channels like LGR reaching 1 million viewers now. I've experimented by browsing items on ebay the moment LGR puts up a video and over the next few days and I watch those items …
Re: Half-Life Performance Issues
Posted on 2018-12-02, 21:22
Just a curiosity because I bought a new se440bx-2 a year or two ago from ebay. When you hit F1 on your keyboard in dos mode does everything go haywire and crash ? :P You should definitely be getting acceptable performance in HL, here you can see it running on a k6-iii+ 550 / voodoo banshee: https:// …
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