Re: Is anyone excited for Big Navi?

Posted on 2020-11-19, 10:20

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by Almoststew1990

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I've decided I don't have the energy to join the bumfight for a new card come launch time. [sarcasm] What are you? a socialist? The whole point is the bumfight! How else do we proclaim the virtues of unregulated capitalism? Fighting like a dog to spend money is the cornerstone of the American way! …

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Re: Is anyone excited for Big Navi?

Posted on 2020-11-17, 15:40

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With AMD not listing worldwide prices 2 days before launch, I have zero faith AMD will handle launching a new card now better than Nvidia. This is my concern. I think the supply issues are reasonable or at least not unexpected given the pandemic it's just how AMD handle it. I've decided I don't …

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Re: Computer Chronicles on YouTube - How far we have come since the early 1980s

Posted on 2020-11-13, 17:35

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I've been watching select episodes of this for a while now. I have always wondered about how.... Biased it could have been. The episode about how great the Pentium was being sponsored by Intel etc. They're also pretty interesting as a non-US person seeing 80s and 90s US TV shows. Perhaps the last …

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Hard drive size showing up wrong

Posted on 2020-11-09, 09:42

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by Almoststew1990

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I have an 81GB IDE drive. My BIOS sees it as 81GB and I enabled LBA mode, and POST confirms that. If I installed XP it works fine. But I want to use Windows 98. I use fdisk that comes with the Windows 98 set up disk to create the partition and it only partitions 12GB. I try to create a extended …

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Re: Is anyone excited for Big Navi?

Posted on 2020-11-08, 17:19

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I am waiting for reviews, or even retailers to show the cards on their websites before I get excited. Getting a bit bored of waiting now though.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-11-08, 15:05

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This weekend I've been playing Tomb Raider Legend, Goldeneye Reloaded (on PS3) and AC: Origins. I've been trying to play some Medal of Honour Allied Assault but it doesn't seem to agree with my PC.

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-06, 17:05

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I am tempted to swap out my 3700X for a 5900X but I have no need until I upgrade my 1070ti to be honest. I also can't do it until ASUS release a BIOS update for the X470 boards which is around January time apparently. But in the mean time I'll be trying to track down a 3080 or 6800XT (or maybe even …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-06, 16:36

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I'm really not that into 3DFX cards, ones later than the Voodoo 2 anyway. My first Windows 98 PC (that I built as a retro PC) had a TNT2 Pro in it and I never once ran into an issue where a game would not support Direct X or OpenGL. I have a Voodoo 3 PCI that I fortunately picked up for £15 in an …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-06, 14:18

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Thanks. I'm actually looking at it's bigger brother now, the Core V21 which takes M-ATX boards as that will unlock a whole load more of my old-but-not-old parts I could put it it. It will only leave about 1cm of clearance top and bottom, and thats with removing the large 3cm feet and putting 1.5cm …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-06, 10:18

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I made an ITX PC to live under my TV in my office for playing games leisurely whilst lounging in comfy chair. It's got an RM OEM 1155 motherboard and it had an i3 3240 (or something) 3.4GHz and 4GB RAM with a 1GB GTX645. It's completely fine with PS360 era games but can't really play anything well …

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Recommend me an XP-friendly gamepad

Posted on 2020-11-03, 21:06

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by Almoststew1990

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My long lived wired 360 controller has now died and whilst looking for a replacement online noticed that new old stock of it has dried up or is now "expensive". What alternative gamepad do you recommend that will plug and play with games that use a 360 controller e.g. Fallout 3, bioshock, etc. I'll …

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Re: Floppy Disk DISK.ID

Posted on 2020-10-26, 13:40

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by Almoststew1990

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I've realised the SB2.0 disks are 720k DD disks and I was formatting my gotek floppies as 1.44HD. Doh. I've also now learned (don't laugh) about diskcopy command. So I diskcopy B to A with both disks being formatted as 720k. Now when I run install from my new A: disk I immediately get Script Error …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-26, 13:05

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by Almoststew1990

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No I've been sizing up my power supplies. I think my best PSU should handle it. VGA1 and VGA2 12v has 30a each and it's a 650watt PSU. The reviews state a need for 50a and a total PC power draw of 450 or so (with an overclocked 1366 i7)

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Re: [SOLVED] VIA UniChrome Pro IGP vs Windows 98SE

Posted on 2020-10-26, 12:59

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Not sure if this will help but I have a different VIA board EPIA-SP (800MHz) and I was having lots of problems until I disabled the USB ports and removed the USB folder from the chipset driver, and used a specific chipset driver and video driver. (I can then later reactive the USB and install those …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-26, 12:30

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by Almoststew1990

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Not sure if this is universally accepted as retro but I picked up a GTX 295 today for £25 Looking forward to putting it with my i7 860 also from 2009!

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Floppy Disk DISK.ID

Posted on 2020-10-26, 11:12

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I am trying to install drivers for my SB 2.0. I have downloaded these from the VOGONS library and they're an exact match for my card. I know this because my card came with the proper driver disks I just don't want to wear them out! It's these drivers https://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid= …

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Re: Recommendations for Pentium 4 3GHz HT?

Posted on 2020-10-25, 16:59

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by Almoststew1990

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Well it'll keep you warm with winter coming! It's pretty redundant from a gaming perspective. The only reason to use is it because you want to (which is a perfectly valid reason). Maybe stick Windows 2000 on it or something. Or make an Intel + Nvidia Windows XP PC to go along side your AMD + AMD PC …

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Re: Which PCI Sound card is least terrible in DOS (shortlist)

Posted on 2020-10-25, 09:22

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by Almoststew1990

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Thanks for the suggestions. I have two P4 motherboards: Gigabyte 8S648FXP-RZ (SIS 964 southbridge) but it does have a header than looks a lot like a SB Link except it is labelled SUR_CENTRE. QDI Superb 4LE v2. Googling it brings up an ATX version but mine is MATX. The SBL! works fine on this board …

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Which PCI Sound card is least terrible in DOS (shortlist)

Posted on 2020-10-24, 22:36

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by Almoststew1990

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I had a look for a general PCI sound card thread (and I am sure there is one) but I couldn't find it sorry. First off, I have an AWE32 and SB2.0 but I still want a PCI sound card for faffing around on a Windows 98 Pentium 4 system and I find them weirdly interesting. Secondly, I have a Sound Blaster …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-10-24, 16:53

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by Almoststew1990

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My partner has stolen my "good" LCD monitor that has both DVI and VGA in - i.e. I can use two systems on the one screen. She needs it for "work" pfft. So I am back with my VGA only monitor and with my XP PC downloading The Witcher 2 from GOG on that screen I didn't want to disconnect it when setting …

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