Re: LFB bug in CL-GD5428
Posted on 2020-02-10, 03:54
What real world games/programs does this affect? With typical CPU for such card - practically none.
Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story
Posted on 2020-02-09, 18:43
Well, the end for all those sound cards oriented companies would be the same really. AC97 standard was the first warning bell and the Windows 7 was the last nail in the coffin lid for hardware accelerated sound.
Re: Do Core 2 Quad Q6600 normally run hot
Posted on 2020-02-09, 04:06
CPU stepping? You can use CPU-Z to identify your stepping. If it's B3, that's how it should be. Although, you probably also disabled power saving features.
Re: Pentium 66 MHz vs 75 MHz shoot out (on a level field)
Posted on 2020-02-08, 11:16
It's because DOOM is quite inefficient when finalising the framebuffer to VGA Yes, that's probably related to Doom Mode X shenanigans. They are not present in other Doom engine games, maybe except Hacx: Twitch 'n Kill.
Re: AGPx4 AGPx8 what really takes advantage of it?
Posted on 2020-02-08, 11:03
Interesting the difference between PCI and AGP2x/4x. That's not real PCI though. More like PCI-X with exclusive and fast access to RAM. The real PCI bus would be even worse.
Re: Which Voodoo with Matrox Millenium II and PPro 200 ?
Posted on 2020-02-07, 23:25
Not massively, but given its cache runs at 1/3 of CPU speed vs full speed cache in PPro, that's an indication things are not good. That doesn't indicate anything. Both PPro and PII don't show significant boost in DOS games, compared to equally clocked PMMX.
Re: Differences in Millennium, Millennium II and Mystique 22o?
Posted on 2020-02-07, 18:22
In-depth review: http://vintage3d.org/mga1.php#sthash.xqn0gt7l.dpbs Millennium has no 3D Millennium had 3D features. It was designed for CAD, so it can do Gouraud shading without texturing.
Re: Pentium 66 MHz vs 75 MHz shoot out (on a level field)
Posted on 2020-02-07, 17:09
Doom, Blood and Duke3D score will scale with overclocked PCI bus. In fact, Doom has huge bus speed dependency, but the Build engine dependency is less pronounced.
Re: Wht's the fastest unlocked PII?
Posted on 2020-02-07, 17:04
Last time I checked, certain multiplier can somehow force some sort of "throttling". All utilities report 5x multiplier with 20-26 Mhz bus and the system overall feels very slow.
Re: Wht's the fastest unlocked PII?
Posted on 2020-02-07, 14:19
That's infamous bug/feature of multiplier unlocked Pentium II.
Re: 2D speed of graphic card ?
Posted on 2020-02-07, 14:05
http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/benchmarks
Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story
Posted on 2020-02-07, 12:36
To me, this implies that if they knew of such cards being sold for profit, especially as a business, they might take issue with it They technically can, but it's practically pointless. Such cards are made with off-the-shelf and scrapped parts in very low quantities. There's nothing they can do …
Re: Pci cards roundup on dos
Posted on 2020-02-07, 12:15
Also Chris3D and 3DBench are totally synthetic and does not represent anything useful.
Re: What is the fps Mortal Kombat Trilogy naturally runs at: 63 or 70?
Posted on 2020-02-07, 10:36
Arcade cabinets were running MK3 at 53Hz, so that weird 63Hz refresh rate probably stem from there.
Re: Windows 98, Matrox G450 and OpenGL
Posted on 2020-02-06, 19:33
6.83 should work.
Re: Pentium 66 MHz vs 75 MHz shoot out (on a level field)
Posted on 2020-02-06, 16:47
My point is that the Quake runs at relatively slow framerates on this gen of CPUs (about 20fps) even at 320x200. About 5% of what PCI video card theoretically can achieve with much more powerful CPU.
Re: Which one should I get? The 849bs or the 4CoreDual-VSTA
Posted on 2020-02-06, 16:41
I hope, you don't mind, if i'm buying it anyways. You might as well do full photo session and documentation (tests, overclocking, etc) of that board.
Re: MFM, IDE, EIDE, SCSI, SCSI2 - Grand media comparison
Posted on 2020-02-06, 07:59
Interesting. I'm surprised SCSI was the winner. That's mostly because 430VX chipset was used.
Re: Asus P5A / P5A-B Undocumented jumper settings
Posted on 2020-02-05, 18:42
I doubt it's possible to achieve 120+ reliably, at least on most motherboard. Some lucky board might have lucky chipset though.
Re: Which Voodoo with Matrox Millenium II and PPro 200 ?
Posted on 2020-02-05, 15:49
In many cases, Voodoo 1 would be too weak for Pentium Pro. Voodoo 1 fall short in Quake 2, Incoming, Shogo, etc. And yes, Pentium Pro 256Kb = equally clocked Pentium II with PCI 3D accelerator.
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