Re: V2 SLI at 1024 isn't looking too good

Posted on 2019-04-30, 05:09

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The question is why did they disable it? Good question. Because based on the other screenshots I see around the net, other users don't have this problem so at least with the drivers they're using, it probably isn't disabled. FastVoodoo does do some unique things though, in order to get mismatched …

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Re: ATI Truform patches

Posted on 2019-04-30, 05:07

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I thought of that but when I tried it, it caused all sorts of havoc running games. RTCW just froze and I had to reboot the machine. Now it refuses to run so I'm probably going to have to reinstall it.

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Re: ATI Truform patches

Posted on 2019-04-29, 21:56

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thanks for the link, I was looking for the UT patch to try out! After trying everything (and after also finding the Deus Ex version on my own), I can really only get the UT version to work. Even then there's graphical corruption where this big stretch polygon appears in front of your gun randomly. …

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Re: Celeron 700 vs Pentium 400

Posted on 2019-04-29, 16:39

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Re: Fixing drivers I'll try different graphics drivers if you think it will make a difference but honestly it doesn't make sense to me. I ran UT in software emulation, which ignores the video card altogether and it ran like ass. 700 MHz of any kind of garbage should still be enough to keep the …

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Re: Descent won't work in DOS

Posted on 2019-04-29, 14:58

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So, it works under Win98, but not under Win98 pure DOS mode? Did you try to start up Win98 DOS with startup files skipped (F5 at startup), as opposed to creating DOS 6.22 bootdisk? I suppose I could try that (I think it's called DOS Safe Mode or something). I didn't mean that it doesn't work with …

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Re: ATI Truform patches

Posted on 2019-04-29, 08:05

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elianda wrote: ftp://retronn.de/driver/ATI/Radeon/R8500/TruForm found through http://retronn.de/imports/search.html entering: truquake I guess I should have learned German in school. Thanks dude. Should this be in the drivers repository?

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ATI Truform patches

Posted on 2019-04-29, 04:46

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I tried searching for a while for these but they seem to have vanished from the internet. I'm referring to patches that were made for the likes of Quake 1 and Quake 2, to enable Truform support. The patches are called Truquake and Truquake2. There's also TruUt for Unreal Tournament, which I wouldn't …

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Re: V2 SLI at 1024 isn't looking too good

Posted on 2019-04-29, 04:40

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...and yet I fixed the problem by my last post lol. Setting SSTV2_VIDEO_FILTER_DISABLE to 0 was what did it. 1024 must have been toggling it on so by turning it off all the colour banding goes away and it looks good again. I also tried AA, which didn't hurt anything and 24BPP caused artifacts as …

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Re: Descent won't work in DOS

Posted on 2019-04-29, 03:03

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I tried 1.4a and it still didn't work. I also just tried booting from a 6.22 floppy but now I can't access my c drive. Possibly because it's a different version of dos than what I formatted the c drive from? Not sure.

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Re: V2 SLI at 1024 isn't looking too good

Posted on 2019-04-29, 02:25

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Can I get the same effect that 800x600 has by changing one of the environmental variables in the registry? Is it SSTV2_VIDEO_FILTER_DISABLE that needs to be set to 0 or is a different one toggled in 1024 mode?

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Re: Descent won't work in DOS

Posted on 2019-04-27, 21:02

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But this is whatever version of DOS comes with 98. It doesn't even call a mem manager in the config sys.

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Re: Descent won't work in DOS

Posted on 2019-04-27, 19:01

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I believe that DOS4GW is compiled right into the binary, which is probably why I don't see the file in the game directory.

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Descent won't work in DOS

Posted on 2019-04-27, 18:23

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I'm trying to get Descent 1 to run in real DOS (prior to OS boot using GUI = 0 option) on a WIndows 98 rig. However I'm getting a general protection fault 2001 at 0DH with DOS4GW. According to the internet this is not a rare problem or anything but I can't get a clear answer on how to fix it. There …

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Re: Celeron 700 vs Pentium 400

Posted on 2019-04-27, 18:20

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Comparing apples to oranges (in every sense), a raspberry pi 3b on a per-core basis is roughly identical to a Celeron 700 in CPU performance according the multi-threaded HWBot Prime benchmark. - https://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/broadcom_bcm2837 (divide by 4 to get per-core score). - https:// …

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Re: V2 SLI at 1024 isn't looking too good

Posted on 2019-04-27, 16:42

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That's gamma correction bug. Try to set all three gamma sliders to 1.0 intead of default 1.3. This should help. Unfortunately, that didn't change anything except reducing brightness as expected. The fact that it looks just fine in 800 makes me think that this is just some environment variable …

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Re: V2 SLI at 1024 isn't looking too good

Posted on 2019-04-27, 00:34

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"24BPP" is a filter toggle as far as I can tell. The only antialiasing you generally ever see is the edge AA on the 3dfx splash logo. We had the explanation in this thread: (dither) https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=36548&p=318462#p318583 (24bpp) https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46 …

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Re: V2 SLI at 1024 isn't looking too good

Posted on 2019-04-23, 19:24

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Oh... well then. I don't suppose there's a way to at least cheat the colours back to looking ok, is there? I heard FastVoodoo drivers support anti-aliasing. If I have to stay with 800x600 maybe I could just enable this to improve visual quality a bit. How do you enable AA? I didn't see it in the …

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Re: Celeron 700 vs Pentium 400

Posted on 2019-04-23, 19:20

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I agree that the CPU really should not be too slow for UT99 but I can't find any evidence to suggest that it's anything else. I just ran my P400 with V2 SLI and it's nice and fast with UT99. It has even less RAM (128MB) and of course the V2 only has 8MB available for textures, not 64 like the 9500 …

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Re: Best Motherboard for my 90’s pc?

Posted on 2019-04-23, 17:30

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rasz_pl wrote: brostenen wrote: That's funny.... I remember 2003/2008 as dark times in PC gaming. Indeed and 1999 was the "golden age". This is my own personal nomenclature, as all sorts of epic shit came out in '99 +/- 1 yr.

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V2 SLI at 1024 isn't looking too good

Posted on 2019-04-23, 15:40

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I'm not sure if it was always like this or not - can't remember from the last time I ran this machine. I noticed when I was testing UT99 in SLI mode. I set the resolution to 1024x768 initially and noticed how horrible the game looked. On closer inspection it seems there are 2 issues: 1) The colour …

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