Re: Why some video cards refuse to work in some systems even when paired period correct hardware?

Posted on 2021-09-23, 17:58

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ Video

I think the root of the problem in your case is how fast the card can be initialized by BIOS. Some of these cards just fail the timing and thus motherboard can't see them on boot. You can test it with two video cards, one of which you know is working. If both are recognized successfully in Windows, …

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Re: Bum Simulator

Posted on 2021-09-23, 17:20

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by The Serpent Rider

in Milliways

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All bums go to Rapture.

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Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2021-09-22, 16:24

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

RivaTuner is not designed to work with RIva 128 or early pre-detonator drivers for TNT.

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Re: Bum Simulator

Posted on 2021-09-22, 12:49

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by The Serpent Rider

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Ah yes, "Let them eat cake" at its finest. Aaaaand... Spoiler THREAD CLOSED!

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Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2021-09-22, 12:43

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

with a 3D accelerator other than Voodoo 1 such as the Rage Pro, Riva128 or i740? Terribly, if you can't disable Vsync, which is mostly double buffered, so performance will drop in big increments.

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Re: Games to play on a socket 7 machine with SiS 6326 graphics.

Posted on 2021-09-22, 11:06

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ Video

Rage 128 Pro - TNT2/TNT2 Pro Rage 128 - TNT2 M64 or overclocked TNT.

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Re: Bum Simulator

Posted on 2021-09-22, 08:31

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by The Serpent Rider

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Well, what is next "Bum Fights the video game" ? Actually, we have one. It's called Condemned: Criminal Origins. And Condemned 2 notoriously had a multiplayer mode called "Bum Rush". Can't play it now though, because GameSpy is dead for years.

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Re: Windows 98 PCI Card

Posted on 2021-09-22, 07:55

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

darry you get with an onboard BIOS chip that is flashable (best to use non-RAID BIOS, most cards come with the RAID version) That's hardly a concern for Win 9x environment. You can boot with RAID BIOS in PIO mode just fine and install drivers. In some cases you can even boot RAID array in PIO. …

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Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2021-09-19, 12:20

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by The Serpent Rider

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The 64-bit memory bus GeForce 256 in all its glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwyh3JsKyU

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Re: Gigabyte GA-5AA motherboard owners - need help!

Posted on 2021-09-18, 21:45

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by The Serpent Rider

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Same as RN24.

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Re: Win98SE best PCI sound card?

Posted on 2021-09-18, 18:39

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by The Serpent Rider

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I am a bit curious what the Advantage of an Audigy 4 Pro would have over the Audigy 2 ZS in Windows 98. No real advantage. Audigy 4 Pro is Audigy 2 ZS with better DAC. If you have Audigy 2 ZS with external IO module and use headphones jack, then the difference is ZERO. Modules between 4 Pro and 2 …

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Re: Overclocking PC133 SDR RAM: What is the best SDR memory?

Posted on 2021-09-17, 16:30

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by The Serpent Rider

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Quite a lot of late SDRAM PC133 memory modules are 166 Mhz capable. This also includes some PC100 memory.

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Re: Matrox Parhelia P650/750 and Retro Gaming?

Posted on 2021-09-17, 16:14

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by The Serpent Rider

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190 and 250 Mhz on paper (who knows how they fluctuate on real cards), half of Parhelia-512 pixel pipes, 128-bit bus.

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Re: Matrox Parhelia P650/750 and Retro Gaming?

Posted on 2021-09-15, 15:12

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by The Serpent Rider

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to try in 3D without expecting great results In terms of peformance, P650/P750 should be hovering around GeForce 2 GTS-Ti performance, but with DX 8.1 capabilities.

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Re: Asus CUV4X-C + GeForce 4 TI 4200 AGP 8x = issues?

Posted on 2021-09-15, 09:27

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Use RivaTuner to enable 4x and FastWrites.

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Re: ATI TruForm - all games, software that use that technology

Posted on 2021-09-15, 00:07

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by The Serpent Rider

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Someone knows what is "Net Quake" is? Probably QuakeWorld client.

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Re: Still no CD drive emulators?

Posted on 2021-09-14, 22:39

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by The Serpent Rider

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What price do you expect to pay for something like that that has been developed by a single person and has taken up a huge amount of time to develop? As a potential customer, that's really not my concern. From my POV this emulator isn't that useful or special to justify such price.

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Re: Matrox Parhelia P650/750 and Retro Gaming?

Posted on 2021-09-14, 21:01

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ Video

There's one caveat with these old MMS cards - they are not designed to render 3D on multiple monitors, unless it's separate instance for each chip.

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Re: Still no CD drive emulators?

Posted on 2021-09-14, 20:45

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by The Serpent Rider

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This topic comes up quite often. Here is an IDE emulator with audio support: "Unit price $200.00" Big NOPE.

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Re: Windows 98 PCI Card

Posted on 2021-09-14, 19:00

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

VIA based mobos are quite finicky to use with external RAID PATA/SATA , especially on 596B south bridge.

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