Re: AMD Firepro driver for Win9x? (HP Thin Client T5740)

Posted on 2020-05-26, 07:40

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All Win98 drivers are only available for up to T5720. T5730 and T5740 have only WinXP drivers available. This also applies to that GPU, there are no Win98 drivers for those FirePro GPUs.

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Re: My Windows ME Start menu: It does not say Windows ME Millenuim Edition!

Posted on 2020-05-18, 18:06

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Here. Filename WinME.png File size 24.44 KiB Views 348 views

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Re: Old equivalent of GPU-Z

Posted on 2020-05-18, 06:01

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Which cards you tried?

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Re: My Completed Retro XP Build

Posted on 2020-05-17, 15:38

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Hm guess when i read XP Build i usually expect a Pentium 4/Athlon 64/maybe a early Dual Core. I would not consider this even a Retro Build. Its still so modern it could run everything except few games :D Nothing wrong with that, overkill rig is fine too after all. I would use "retro"in quotes, like …

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Re: I wish I had discovered Windows ME sooner!

Posted on 2020-05-17, 14:07

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texterted wrote on 2020-05-14, 04:25: System restore works pretty well, providing you install the date bug patch. Where I can find that patch?

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Re: hdd, floppy, cd images

Posted on 2020-05-15, 13:34

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Wat

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Re: PC Case supply drying up?

Posted on 2020-05-14, 15:12

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An optical drive is not a necessity with GOG/Steam available, but I may get a weird "fetish" and decide to install Crysis off a disc or watch a dvd. Guess I'm just "oldschool" at heart! Yeah, I mean, that is case clearly aimed at retro system in brand new case. For my main modern rig, I have a case …

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Re: PC Case supply drying up?

Posted on 2020-05-14, 10:19

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Part of the issue is me stuck on having a 5.25 bay, guess I need to get with the times! Yeah, this is real problem lately. Especially, if you want at least two of them, and god forbids, it you want also some 3.5" external bay. I bought one such case new few years ago, and it's still available here, …

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Re: Smallest Win9x installation possible to fit a 64Mb Hard Drive

Posted on 2020-05-13, 19:18

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I'd also worry about how to install win95 on this, unless you have somehow a way to connect the 64MB (probably 44 pin DOM?) to another computer and start the installation there On my thin client, I solve this by connecting SATA DVD-ROM via USB, where I got to the command line, and afterwards I was …

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Re: AGP cards for Windows 98 gaming - help!

Posted on 2020-05-13, 08:13

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Nostalgia hasn't hit me hard enough to want to go and relive that setup yet And I don't think it ever will. I'm really glad, that nowadays I can play old games with good frame rate (60+, if I'm not limited to 30 by game engine), and no nostalgia will even get me to play those games with horrible …

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Re: Old equivalent of GPU-Z

Posted on 2020-05-13, 07:09

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Then don't use latest version, simple as that. You can find archive of older GPU-Z versions on TPU site, I would recommend something from 0.x.x line. I personally use 0.7.2 on XP.

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Re: 9800 / X800 (and variants perhaps) DOS compatibility

Posted on 2020-05-13, 07:06

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Radeons are worthless Win98/DOS cards. I guess I'd better take my 8500LE out of my Win98 rig as it's useless, apparently. Well if you tried to play ff7, a win95/98 game, it would be. That's exactly one game. I would assume, that there were more games released under Win98. All of these other games …

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Re: My first "retro" PC - overkill Win 98/XP build

Posted on 2020-05-12, 18:14

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You're comparing single vs dual core in an SMP enabled title. Well, I tried it with just one core active and results are... exactly the same... HL2_WinXP_1core.png So HL2 is clearly optimized to Windows XP somehow. Just FYI, I used this guide to limit system to one core only and verified with CPU-Z …

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Re: Radeon X800 XT vs FireGL X3-256, any concerns for Win9X

Posted on 2020-05-10, 20:43

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darry wrote on 2020-05-10, 20:39: Radeon 9800 chips are much worse than Radeon 9700 chip in my limited experience . I meant whole R300 lineup, but let me rephrase that: "And also, that issue with dying is definitely true for R3x0 chips, because of that stupid shim design..."

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Re: Radeon X800 XT vs FireGL X3-256, any concerns for Win9X

Posted on 2020-05-10, 20:35

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They are too new for 98, and die hard and often. What does that even mean? Are they working under 98? Yes. Are they overkill for 98? Yes. Does it matter? No, why would it... There isn't something like too new part in PC, definitely not in overkill builds... And also, that issue with dying is …

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Re: AGP GPU for windows 98 fe se and windows 2000

Posted on 2020-05-10, 20:24

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I would say, that whole FX lineup is big no-no for DX9 games. Though, for PIII DX9 games should be out if question anyway. And also PIII would bottlenecks those faster FX or 9000 series cards like crazy.

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Re: Running Quake 3 on A3D 2.0

Posted on 2020-05-08, 18:47

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You have to enable it with console command "s_enable_a3d".

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Re: 775i65G AGP beast

Posted on 2020-05-08, 09:36

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Try repair bootloader with Windows XP CD. https://neosmart.net/wiki/no-g2ldr/ Also, for dual boot to work correctly, you need to first install 98 and XP afterwards.

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Re: 775i65G AGP beast

Posted on 2020-05-07, 20:16

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Are you using or used Linux on that machine?

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Re: What NAS are you using ?

Posted on 2020-05-07, 07:12

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almost none use retro for this? i hoped to see a few sub ghz machines... No, but it's used for retro purposes as well. My NAS is set in a way, that all my Win9x and WinXP machines can access my NAS without issues. And it's super comfortable to get everything from network instead of USB/CD/floppy/ …

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