Re: One year anniversary of NVIDIA "cancelling" their old tech demos
Posted on 2021-10-06, 03:51
Don't forget to preserve special patches for Dawn and A New Dawn *wink-wink nudge nudge*
Re: Windows 11 has been released
Posted on 2021-10-06, 03:29
I don't think installing a modern windows from today will even be possible in 10-15 years due to online services not being available anymore. You can legitimately activate Windows Vista online to this day. So already almost 15 years. I see no problem activating WIndows 10 or 11 in that time period …
Re: Windows 11 has been released
Posted on 2021-10-05, 17:24
I hope I can add a TPM 2.0 chip to upgrade to Windows 11. It looks like TPM 2.0 is not all sunshine, rainbows and improved security though. Valorant is a fresh example of DRM enforcing via TPM, which should rise some concerns. For German Windows 7 You can unofficially switch Windows 7 Pro language …
Re: Windows 11 has been released
Posted on 2021-10-05, 17:07
I haven't set up WSUS offline to do this for Windows 7 yet... You don't need that for Windows 7. There's a separate project which can patch existing Windows 7 SP1 or image with all updates, excluding telemetry bloat - UpdatePack7R2
Re: One year anniversary of NVIDIA "cancelling" their old tech demos
Posted on 2021-10-05, 11:19
Isle of Morg is third party demo. Same goes for early CryTek island demo with dinos, which also use many features of GeForce family. Just a daily reminder of the crazy world we live in... Wait until they'll have to remove all demos with humans, because it offends reptiloid overlords.
Re: Windows 11 has been released
Posted on 2021-10-05, 09:03
that PC will no longer be supported and won't be entitled to receive updates Finally! Now we can install windows updates offline in peace.
Re: One year anniversary of NVIDIA "cancelling" their old tech demos
Posted on 2021-10-05, 08:58
The demos from before Jan. 1 2000 were also removed at some date Which though? I think demos like Grass, Bubble and Grove were made before 2000. Although both present and archived pages are missing сathedral demo for GeForce 2 GTS and "Grace" physics demo for GeForce 4 Ti.
Re: What am I missing with the 6800 GT?
Posted on 2021-10-03, 03:45
These problems are also the main reason I never bought any second hand. I think it won't help. Longevity of particular chip is very random, due to nature of "bumbgate" failure, so used card could live much longer than new old stock one. From subjective observation, 110nm chips (GeForce 6600, 6800GS …
Re: What am I missing with the 6800 GT?
Posted on 2021-10-02, 18:18
The 7600GS was one of those passive ones with very large heatsink to which I also added case fans. 7600GS use 90nm lithography which is presumably doomed to catastrophic failure sooner or later. Regardless of how efficiently you can cool it.
Re: Does this card exist? Interesting Conundrum....
Posted on 2021-10-02, 02:56
X300 and X600 are identical chips. Latter had better memory and chip default clock. Although only X600Pro/XT with mild overclocking can play shader games of Xbox era somewhat decently. That said, X600XT should be faster than GeForce 4 Ti 4600 in most cases - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= …
Re: What am I missing with the 6800 GT?
Posted on 2021-10-01, 19:40
AGP 7x series had 7600, 7800GS but no gtx's Actually, there were Gainward GeForce 7800GS+ and some GeForce 7950GT cards, which are on par with GeForce 7800GTX 512 Mb. Fully unlocked G71 chips, 512 Mb with decent clocks. Galaxy also made universal AGP version of 7950GT. Probably for perverted needs …
Re: What am I missing with the 6800 GT?
Posted on 2021-10-01, 14:07
Not to mention GeForce PCX 5750/5900 cards, which are flawed, but still better than 6xxx series. But you can relatively easy pair AGP GeForce 6800GT with a motherboard which still has good DOS compatibility with various PCI sound cards.
Re: What am I missing with the 6800 GT?
Posted on 2021-09-30, 16:57
They are primarily used for builds like "Ultimate Windows 98/XP gamings system" or similar jazz. Overall it's a commodity, but not as valuable as 7800/7900/7950 AGP cards. But latter are harder to find, so most settle with the next best thing, which is more commonly available.
Re: Graphics card for Pentium III 1ghz
Posted on 2021-09-28, 08:02
While yes, most variants of the MX440-SE are 64bit memory bus and TERRIBAD Still faster than GeForce 2 MX 400.
Re: Graphics card for Pentium III 1ghz
Posted on 2021-09-27, 13:46
FX5200 aren't interesting in any capacity. GeForce FX 5600/5600 Ultra - sure, good cards. If motherboard has AGP4x - Radeon 9600 Pro/XT cards are also solid choices.
Re: What is minimum VRAM size for 1600x1200 mode in truecolor under WinNT/2k/XP?
Posted on 2021-09-27, 01:11
I did 2 experiments with Matrox Millennium II 8MB PCI that can choose only 1600x1200/16bpp or 1280x1024/24bpp a Millennium II 8 Mb is capable to display 1920x1080 in 24-bit color, according to PDF. Upgrading to 16 Mb does not improve it, so most likely RAMDAC limitation. Although both Millennium II …
Re: Graphics card for Pentium III 1ghz
Posted on 2021-09-26, 16:30
Preferably solid in dos and win9x/Me games but no slouch at later releases either. GeForce 4 Ti
Re: Does anyone have a GeForce 6600 AGP card to help test for a graphical glitch?
Posted on 2021-09-26, 13:34
From observation: All Nvidia card with HSI bridge (PCIe-to-AGP) have some problems with Intel 440BX and VIA chipsets (except really late ones). With 440BX it's almost certain and with VIA it's more random.
Re: Overclocking PC133 SDR RAM: What is the best SDR memory?
Posted on 2021-09-26, 09:27
Personally for me the money is on the stuff that can keep cl2 at the highest fsb FSB overclock is more important for PIII.
Re: Can it be done?! Should it be done?!
Posted on 2021-09-24, 07:59
Why not ask for a pony too? Everything listed mounted on a pony! On a monorail!
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