Re: Geforce4 Ti4200 - Black screen

Posted on 2024-04-27, 19:17

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by Gmlb256

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I'm also thinking that perhaps the Geforce4 doesn't like the bus speed. The CPU I have uses a 133MHz FSB, which in this mobo means that the AGP is bus overclocked. I suspect that the VBIOS of your GeForce4 Ti card supports sideband addressing and it is being enabled. That could be the cause of the …

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Re: Wolf3d left shift

Posted on 2024-04-26, 18:15

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by Gmlb256

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I simply use the Z key for the Run action to get around this when using the oldschool controls in the DOS version of Wolf3D.

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Re: Nvidia TNT2 Ultra driver

Posted on 2024-04-26, 13:55

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by Gmlb256

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Don't bother with later nVidia drivers, stick with the earlier pre-Release 10 Detonators (such 6.31 as TheMLGladiator said or 8.05) if you play early Windows 9x games with that TNT2 card.

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Re: Throttle Blaster

Posted on 2024-04-26, 13:37

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by Gmlb256

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With that information, Throttle Blaster may potentially have the same issues as with the other methods (stuttering and/or slow music playback in some situations) but the granularity it offers could mitigate it.

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Re: Throttle Blaster

Posted on 2024-04-26, 00:30

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by Gmlb256

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Throttle Blaster seems interesting. I wonder how well it compares to ACPI and ODCM throttling which aren't a universal solution to slowing down the CPU as some people tout it.

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Re: Multichannel DOS mixer for DOS sound builds v0.49 for Live, v1.01 for Audigy

Posted on 2024-04-26, 00:04

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by Gmlb256

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I tried this and it seems to work (my issue was more the lack of EMS, not freezing), but the problem for me is that I'm trying to use my Live! for General MIDI to bypass the hanging-note bug that my SB16 model has, and with the MPXPLAY solution, the Live!'s MIDI synth (or MIDI Out) isn't …

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Re: Looking for source code of the 3dnow patch for Quake 2.

Posted on 2024-02-08, 21:15

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by Gmlb256

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VS2005 works with windows98 Indeed, executables built with Visual Studio 2005 runs on Windows 98. However, there are some minor inconveniences where the IDE can only be run starting from Windows 2000 SP4 and the built executables requires the Visual C++ 2005 Redist unless the runtime library is …

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Re: Voodoo 2 Artifacting?

Posted on 2024-02-08, 13:19

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by Gmlb256

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AppleSauce wrote on 2024-02-08, 08:47: So something interesting happened , I turned off palleted textures and the problem went away , is this a clue of what's going on to anyone? Perhaps the 3dfx MiniGL driver shipped with the game is older than the one from Quake II.

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Re: Voodoo 2 Artifacting?

Posted on 2024-02-07, 15:34

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by Gmlb256

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Adding heatsinks and/or any other cooling system to the FBI and TMU chips on the Voodoo2 cards helps as they tend to heat up a bit after some time. Apart from that, does any other game besides Quake II aren't affected?

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Re: Generic/uninteresting yet rare video cards?

Posted on 2024-02-03, 17:13

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by Gmlb256

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Some rare video cards that I know: PCI versions of the S3 ViRGE/GX2, Trio3D and Trio3D/2X. The AGP ones are very common to find. Cirrus Logic GD-5480. Of these, I managed to get the S3 Trio3D/2X, which are usually uninteresting for Windows but comes with VBE 2.0 onboard and has an insane amount of …

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Re: S3 Trio 3D AGP 320x240 73hz problem

Posted on 2024-01-31, 00:19

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by Gmlb256

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All S3 cards have "fixed" screen refresh rates for VESA video modes with resolutions lower than 640x480. The best you could do is to load UniVBE 6.7 (which supports the vanilla Trio3D without any patches or hacks) in DOS then use UniRefresh or VBEHz to set the refresh rate for 320x240.

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Re: What does "1066 FSB supported with overclocking" mean?

Posted on 2024-01-29, 13:33

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by Gmlb256

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It's what exactly says on the tin: Overclocking the i865G chipset as 1066 MT/s FSB isn't officially supported. The integrated video device won't be able to work at that overclocked FSB speed.

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Re: GLQuake not able to switch resolutions: No RGB fullscreen modes available

Posted on 2024-01-22, 00:24

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by Gmlb256

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The command line switches for the GLQuake shortcut are all correct. As for the statement about unsupported resolutions by the primary card, I don't have experience with ARK Logic video cards but perhaps in your case it is a driver issue where the 16-bit color modes aren't being exposed when the …

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Re: Multiple computers, one set of speakers.

Posted on 2024-01-21, 15:14

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by Gmlb256

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Sphere478 wrote on 2024-01-11, 02:31: There’s been a few threads asking about this, I got this 3.5mm jack mixer. It works pretty good! Heads up. 😀 Got one of these passive mixers for my retro computer and I'm impressed, it can handle all four inputs from multiple sound cards quite well. 😁

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Re: GLQuake not able to switch resolutions: No RGB fullscreen modes available

Posted on 2024-01-21, 15:07

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by Gmlb256

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The primary card is attempting to switch to a resolution that the driver isn't supporting. Since you're using a Voodoo2, add the -window command line switch (I recommend adding +_windowed_mouse 1 as well) as a workaround. Because of the nature of these cards, the output will be displayed in …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-01-13, 18:38

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by Gmlb256

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ViTi95 wrote on 2024-01-09, 16:28: Some FastDoom news! Doug Johnson has added VESA support for resolutions higher than 320x200 (both direct rendering and backbuffered rendering). Nice! Looking forward to trying it.

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Re: Midi sounds different in DOS and Windows?

Posted on 2024-01-13, 18:32

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by Gmlb256

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As Tiido mentioned, DOS games have their own MIDI implementations for the OPL2/3 FM synth while Windows uses a generic one that it may not be ideal for everything. It is also likely that the device used for listening MIDI files with WMP or any other Windows software isn't using the FM synth. P.S. …

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Re: Battle Arena Toshinden running too fast on retro rig

Posted on 2023-12-27, 16:52

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by Gmlb256

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Try adding SET FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL=2 environment variable to see if it does the trick. What will do is that the screen will be swapped every two vsyncs, meaning that the framerate will be capped to the half of the screen refresh rate (30 FPS if it is 60 Hz).

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Re: Tomb Raider 1 - Voodoo 2

Posted on 2023-12-27, 16:46

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by Gmlb256

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This is kind of an old thread, but I got Tomb Raider running on a P3 1Ghz system with 2 Voodoo 2s in SLI. I used the 3_03_00_beta_w9x_dx7 drivers and then put the Glide2x.dll and the Glide2x.ovl files in the game folder. The game was patched using the 3dfx patch, the Rush patch will lead to instant …

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Re: 2D Acceleration - first chipsets

Posted on 2023-12-26, 14:13

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by Gmlb256

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och wrote on 2023-12-26, 13:59: Understood, thank you. Reading through this thread, it seems that even the FPU had to be explicitly supported by software to be utilized? Yes, even though the MMX instructions are only for integer operations, the registers are aliased with the x87 FPU ones.

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