Re: How big is the custom video mode gap before VESA VBE 1.0?

Posted on 2023-09-02, 01:53

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by Gmlb256

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So I found one game that uses SVGA < december 1990. Wonderland has a 800x600x16 mode. The readme says 800x600 only on PVGA1A and V7 VEGA cards. Yet I can still run it in 800x600 in real dos on a much newer modern nvidia gf4ti. How is that working, surely the 800x600 mode registers are different …

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Re: which s3 virge dx driver to use under windows 98SE

Posted on 2023-09-01, 14:53

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by Gmlb256

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Try these: https://archive.org/details/s3-virge-dx-gx-gx2-win9x-driver. Drivers written for Windows 95 should work fine in Windows 98 and the ones that you're currently using aren't necessarily "newer" despite the date. BTW, just use the Voodoo2 for 3D stuff. All S3 ViRGE cards aren't ideal for …

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Re: Struggling with EMM and Ram (Win 98SE)

Posted on 2023-08-31, 13:29

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by Gmlb256

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The only exception is if UMB is desired, otherwise don't mess with EMM when running a Windows 9x environment as intended. If problem arises with certain DOS applications, create a PIF shortcut with custom CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT settings. This is the most beginner-friendly way to get around …

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Re: VIDEO BENCHMARKS (Original title: Settling the VIA C3 performance debate once and for all)

Posted on 2023-08-31, 13:18

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by Gmlb256

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Also, while 133Mhz is stable, I don't like the heat that's coming out of the northbridge so I'm going to keep it at 1Ghz afterall. This is one of the reasons why I set the FSB/PCI to 124/31 MHz on mine instead of 133/33 MHz. With 133 MHz FSB (aside from the issue with the AGP @ 89 MHz), I had to …

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Re: VIDEO BENCHMARKS (Original title: Settling the VIA C3 performance debate once and for all)

Posted on 2023-08-31, 02:32

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by Gmlb256

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I have been recently tinkering with a Nehemiah 1.2A GHz on an ASUS P2-99 rev 1.12 motherboard, and I'm finding it way more versatile than my Socket 7 setup equipped with a K6-2+/450 overall despite lacking flexibility of the Ezra-T when it comes to 486 speeds. The motherboard has the ICS9248DF-39 …

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Re: Struggling with EMM and Ram (Win 98SE)

Posted on 2023-08-30, 17:01

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by Gmlb256

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Im trying to setup my win 98se pc to play dos games and before I would get an error saying EMM wasn't setup or something like that. So I did some reading here and found QEMM 97. When I install it though it only shows 256 megs of RAM when I have 700+. If I click on my computer and do properties it …

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2023-08-30, 16:41

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by Gmlb256

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The first game in the series, Comanche: Maximum Overkill , did support MT-32, so it would be kind of a downgrade if the successor to that game did not support either MT-32 or General MIDI. That specific game has a patch that adds support for General MIDI and makes the MT-32 option to work with any …

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Re: DOS/Windows 3.11 (WFW) CDROM Sound Issues

Posted on 2023-08-29, 13:25

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by Gmlb256

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Yes, as long as you remove any changes in both CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT after installing the official drivers. I suggest keeping the changes done to environment variables (except BLASTER because of UNISOUND) for compatibility purposes.

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Re: DOS/Windows 3.11 (WFW) CDROM Sound Issues

Posted on 2023-08-28, 21:58

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by Gmlb256

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I do get Windows 3.11 system sounds however - does that mean it is finding something somewhere? Or there is some sort of driver on there but it is the wrong one? Seems that you have a sound driver installed beforehand, likely the PC Speaker one unless I'm wrong. Which one of those drivers do I need …

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Re: DOS/Windows 3.11 (WFW) CDROM Sound Issues

Posted on 2023-08-28, 21:00

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by Gmlb256

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The card in question. Vibra 16? As chinny22 mentioned, Windows requires drivers on it's own to get sound. The official drivers for the SB16 comes with those. UNISOUND will only initialize the sound card for DOS usage. Why is the card missing its components? Those components were intended for …

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Re: The Soundblaster DSP project

Posted on 2023-08-28, 19:30

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by Gmlb256

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Cloudschatze wrote on 2023-08-28, 19:07: Which games support stereo PCM playback with an SBPro but not with an SB16? AFAIK, two obscure games called Galactix and Switch. The latter has buggy SBPro support and GUS is the best option for it anyway.

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Re: What can I do with a Pentium 2 400 mhz?

Posted on 2023-08-28, 13:58

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by Gmlb256

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Throttle is another option that uses ACPI throttling to slow down things, but YMMV in experience. I recommend using -C command line switch because it disables the L1 cache by default in DOS. Even dos games will be fine on P3. Dos games stopped being cpu speed dependent around 286 to 386 transition. …

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Re: Tomb Raider - Brown rectangles around bushes and plants in lost valley

Posted on 2023-08-27, 18:08

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by Gmlb256

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Another thing that you could do is to disable anti-aliasing, which is done by pressing the F3 key. This would remove outlines on certain polygons.

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Re: Win98 SE Trouble Formatting? Read this

Posted on 2023-08-27, 16:31

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by Gmlb256

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There is an updated FDISK that should work properly with HDD that has more than 64GB in capacity, search for 263044usa8.exe or the equivalent depending on the language. Any FAT32 partition equal or smaller than 64GB should work without issues with the FDISK included with the Windows 98 SE CD-ROM or …

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Re: Tomb Raider - Brown rectangles around bushes and plants in lost valley

Posted on 2023-08-27, 16:17

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by Gmlb256

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Hello. For the brown rectangles and lines, have you disabled mipmapping in the menu options? It has issues with the 3dfx version when it is enabled.

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Re: DOS Games on Voodoo 3

Posted on 2023-08-27, 15:53

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by Gmlb256

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UMBPCI isn't an EMM and is dependent on the motherboard chipset, relying on shadow RAM to obtain UMB while maintaining real mode. The Audigy's DOS driver will never work with it since a real EMM is required. Do you have a non-Creative PCI sound card that has DOS drivers around? I see. Unfortunately …

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Re: DOS Games on Voodoo 3

Posted on 2023-08-27, 15:33

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by Gmlb256

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I'm not sure if there's a specific configuration of EMM386 to work with dos glide games or if I need to use another memory manager, but my Audigy 2 ZS won't work under dos without one. I've tried UMBPCI before and it wasn't recognized, but I could try it again with a different configuration if need …

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Re: Getting the most out of a K6-2 machine

Posted on 2023-08-26, 18:57

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by Gmlb256

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2023-08-26, 18:27: Nvidia drivers from the 4x.xx series are at least aware of SSE and SSE2. Most earlier Detonator drivers have support for these instructions as well but prior the 4x.xx series (or Release 40 as older nVidia driver release notes mention), it was restricted …

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Re: Getting the most out of a K6-2 machine

Posted on 2023-08-26, 17:06

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by Gmlb256

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There is one tweak that the OP could do without swapping hardware: Enabling write combining on that K6-2 CPU (which is CXT), it should improve performance in certain scenarios. Still, it isn't going to a smooth experience considering the non-pipelined FPU.

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2023-08-26, 02:07

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by Gmlb256

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In earlier 3D games, the fog was largely used to disguise the smaller draw distances they actually had for performance reasons.

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