Re: How much of an issue is "early Windows XP" for a 'fastest XP build"

Posted on 2021-01-20, 18:32

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by mothergoose729

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Very, very minor. The only game made at or around 2000 that I know of that uses legacy features is Thief 1 for a sky texture that you barely see (palletized textures). Serious Sam can have issues with distant textures in some levels but only on some cards, and I think I have only seen it reported …

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Re: GPU for pentium 4 win 98SE/XP gaming machine: MX 440 or Radeon 9250?

Posted on 2021-01-20, 02:42

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by mothergoose729

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Windows 98 can have trouble with 1gb of RAM without a patch. Downgrading to 512mb would be better.

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Re: Compaq OEM Voodoo 3 3500 AGP with only VGA and TV-Out... lets put this to rest.

Posted on 2021-01-19, 19:58

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Tangentially related to this topic - a lot of people aren't aware that you can get a stock standard voodoo 3500 to work just fine with a VGA monitor without the octopus. The compaq voodoo 3500 cards are a kind of halo retro enthusiast product which drives up the price - a bit unnecessarily. All you …

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Re: Best and most cost-effective graphics card for Win98SE?

Posted on 2021-01-19, 07:52

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by mothergoose729

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The MX440 or the slightly faster MX460 are great value. Another good option is an FX5200 or FX5500 if you can find them for a good price and in AGP (PCI will work too but you lose a lot of performance). It used to be the case that you could find quadro equivalents to FX and geforce 4 GPUs for a lot …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-19, 02:48

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The AMD CPU was NOT much less expensive abut about 75% of the Intel equivalent. And so this trend has continued. AMD has always been the Budget CPU when compared to Intel equivalent. How can you call them the Budget CPU when Zen 3 is beating Intel whatever-the-hell-Lake across the board , including …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-18, 03:13

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jmarsh wrote on 2021-01-18, 02:33: Do any AMD chips have AVX-512? No, the rumor is not until zen 4. Probably 2022.

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Re: Ruined memory of an old game by playing it!

Posted on 2021-01-15, 23:36

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I actually like old, bad games :P. So even when I revisit something from my childhood that is terrible, that is part of the fun. There is one I can remember though. My son is going through a Star Wars faze so I booted up the Force Unleashed. I had played it twice before and remember rather liking it …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2021-01-15, 19:13

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by mothergoose729

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Good question. I am not sure if using ALchemy will restore EAX if you do not have the compatible sound card. Probably not though. But check this out: https://github.com/kcat/dsoal About ===== This project is for a DirectSound DLL replacement. It implements the DirectSound interfaces by translating …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2021-01-15, 18:54

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Do they work with all games that expect EAX support in hardware? Good question. I am not sure if using ALchemy will restore EAX if you do not have the compatible sound card. Probably not though. But check this out: https://github.com/kcat/dsoal About ===== This project is for a DirectSound DLL …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2021-01-15, 18:49

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Whats the difference between OpenAL and ALChemy? Do they need specific sound cards to work with? Do they work with all games that expect EAX support in hardware? I think openAL is an extension of ALchemy. I installed it recently and it required OpenAL from creative and then I had to install a dll …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2021-01-15, 18:39

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God Of Gaming wrote on 2021-01-15, 17:53: isn't it that begining with Vista they removed hardware acceleration trough directsound, but hardware acceleration is still working trough openal? openAL is all software I'm pretty sure. I don't know how it wouldn't be.

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2021-01-15, 17:06

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by mothergoose729

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The only difference between sound cards using OpenAL and ALchemy will be in the EQ. All of them emulate EAX entirely in software. Beginning in windows vista Microsoft removed the ability for software to talk directly to the sound card so none of them are hardware accelerated.

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-14, 02:49

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Some new rumours regarding the 11900k. Looks like a Taiwenese or Chinese person may have their hands on a review sample and have leaked benchmarks (take with a truck load of salt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvQyzLfFnoY&feature=emb_logo https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50832523747_54cf6b0775 …

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Re: What is faster in games? Celeron tualatin 1300@1733 (133FSB) or Pentium 3-S 1400 (133FSB) ?

Posted on 2021-01-13, 23:13

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by mothergoose729

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I actually tried this with a Celeron-1400 back in the day. Had it running at 1866/133, and at that speed it could match the stock-clocked PIII-S 1400 in some benchmarks. In others, the PIII was ahead. The Celeron also required some enormous voltage to get to 1866, and actually quit working after a …

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Re: What is faster in games? Celeron tualatin 1300@1733 (133FSB) or Pentium 3-S 1400 (133FSB) ?

Posted on 2021-01-13, 22:58

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by mothergoose729

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Would you be willing to benchmark both? I would be curious to see how they fair. I am not sure the question is totally settled just yet. EDIT: Both CPUs benched at 100mhz FSB in addition to 133mhz FSB would also be interesting to see.

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Re: What is faster in games? Celeron tualatin 1300@1733 (133FSB) or Pentium 3-S 1400 (133FSB) ?

Posted on 2021-01-13, 20:13

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by mothergoose729

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Definitely interesting. You can make up for a lot of cache misses with 333mhz of additional clock speed.

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Re: Can you help me find the right power supply for my Win98SE build?

Posted on 2021-01-13, 16:34

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by mothergoose729

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Corsair, EVGA, Seasonic, and many, many more. Just about all power supplies are made by seasonic or FSP and rebranded under different names. The only thing you have to worry about it not getting a lemon. Anything with 20amps on the 5v rails that will fit ok in your case is likely to work. Adapter …

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Re: Can you help me find the right power supply for my Win98SE build?

Posted on 2021-01-13, 06:06

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by mothergoose729

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If the power supply is standard ATX form factor than you can replace it with any new power supply. I use an EVGA 450 watt for most of my retro builds. Depending on your setup, you might need an adapter or two. SATA->molex or 4 pin floppy, that kind of thing. Another thing to watch out for, make sure …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-13, 04:09

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I have a Ryzen 3600 processor. I have had no issues with the SATA controller. I couldn't figure out how to get the built in RAID controller to work but otherwise I have had no issues. I have definitely read about unsupported or poorly implemented features with AMD platforms. Mostly niche stuff, but …

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Re: Are there any more aspect ratio ultratolerant people?

Posted on 2021-01-13, 01:04

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For example, in his opinion, two best "friends" should not be allowed holding hands in the public.. He thinks they should do that secretly only, where no one can see that (holding hands). When we watched a documentary about Russia, in which a mob was chasing after two "friends" who did that in the …

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