Re: PCem v17

Posted on 2021-06-13, 16:05

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by Garrett W

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Unfortunately, it seems like its creator and main contributor, Sarah Walker, decided to nuke the website and forums after a barrage of transphobic bile against her. The message on the forum is especially bleak "I'm done. This isn't fun anymore." I admit, I have not been following the project very …

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Re: voodoo 5 5500 run very very slow on 2000s games

Posted on 2021-06-07, 20:10

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by Garrett W

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What's the rest of your system like? What games are you trying to play exactly?

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Re: Half-Life : Blue Shift with voodoo 2 on 3dfx.

Posted on 2021-06-01, 22:28

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by Garrett W

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Seeing as we are talking about the system in your signature, have you tried running the game using OpenGL with the Voodoo5 instead of Voodoo2?

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Re: I have a 486SX to play some games and I'm lost about drivers and other things

Posted on 2021-06-01, 22:25

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by Garrett W

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Not to be odd man out but the 486sx25 is literally the only cpu that requires an overclock no one built an SX25 in the day and didn’t overclock. If you have a cache less 486 motherboard and want a small speed boost overclock the FSB to 33mhz, if your not worried about loosing data? Try 40mhz or …

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Re: Half-Life : Blue Shift with voodoo 2 on 3dfx.

Posted on 2021-06-01, 20:05

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by Garrett W

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There is no 3Dfx mode, what you are trying to run is the OpenGL renderer using the 3Dfx miniGL driver. I'm not really sure you need the MiniGL for Voodoo2 SLI, but just in case, try updating it using either version 1.47 or the latest one, 1.49. If using the MiniGL driver keeps producing the same …

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Re: I have a 486SX to play some games and I'm lost about drivers and other things

Posted on 2021-06-01, 13:28

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by Garrett W

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With respect to the CL 5428, it's a really good Dos gaming chip - I don't know if your board has it connected via ISA or local bus; if it's ISA and you have a VLB/PCI slot free, then a VLB/PCI card would be a good upgrade (the ISA bus is a big bottleneck for games like Doom that push a lot of pixel …

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Re: I have a 486SX to play some games and I'm lost about drivers and other things

Posted on 2021-06-01, 10:38

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by Garrett W

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I'd also recommend the CPU upgrade your SX lacks a FPU this is what's killing Dooms performance. Why did you want to upgrade the Video card? I don't see much potential for upgrading performance by doing this? Dos doesn't require drivers for video, And even Win3x doesn't benefit much over using the …

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Re: The worst motherboards you have had to work with

Posted on 2021-05-29, 20:08

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by Garrett W

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Can't think of many major duds, thankfully. I do have one in particular though. I bought a Gigabyte GA-P35DS3L (rev. 1.0) that was a bit flaky. Coming off of socket 478, going to 775 and C2D was a major step, but this board gave me all sorts of headaches for a while there and it was not easy to …

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Re: Half life + Pentium II = Stutter ?

Posted on 2021-05-27, 16:04

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by Garrett W

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128MB is probably alright for Half-Life , although it wouldn't hurt to have more seeing as stuff like Creative's drivers for the Live! can install a bunch of crap that takes up resources. I missed the whole PIO/DMA thing, I guess that stutter at 7:12 might just be because of that. OP perhaps you …

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Re: Half life + Pentium II = Stutter ?

Posted on 2021-05-27, 08:48

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by Garrett W

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https://files.fm/f/8er88u89z It looks like z-fighting, is there any solution ? is it normal using a voodoo2 and glide ? A few questions: a) How did you achieve 450MHz on this CPU? What mainboard are you using and what FSB? b) Perusing the video I didn't notice anything too out of the ordinary, is …

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Re: New cache modules in 2021 and where to find them

Posted on 2021-05-06, 18:01

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by Garrett W

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I grabbed some chips off of Electromyne a few days ago, but I imagine their stock to be somewhat limited (not to mention expensive on some of these chips!).

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Re: ATI Xpert 98 refuses to work in Win98

Posted on 2021-05-06, 15:36

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by Garrett W

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There's always DirectX Buster . It's been some time since I last used it, although it seemed to work well enough at the time. If you do indeed downgrade, I suggest installing DX7.0a (I must sound like a broken record by now!) along with one of the drivers suggested above, either the one from the …

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Re: ATI Xpert 98 refuses to work in Win98

Posted on 2021-05-06, 13:16

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by Garrett W

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Nope, it is just like I said. Card have only Dx5-6 features, but newer drivers are compatibile with newer DirectX and require it. DirectX is causing probem. That does make some sense, the wording on the original post made it a bit difficult for me to understand what you were going for, good call! …

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Re: ATI Xpert 98 refuses to work in Win98

Posted on 2021-05-06, 07:59

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by Garrett W

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There's no need to install a higher version of DirectX. The card is DX5 and DX6 compliant, I'd install DirectX 7.0, although games released during that era will struggle greatly with this card. In any case, DirectX is not what's causing issues in this case. Have you tried the following drivers from …

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Re: Gigabyte single-slot PCIe SLI 6800 GT

Posted on 2021-05-01, 09:03

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by Garrett W

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Heh, I'm not sure I've seen that particular one, but as mentioned in the article there was a dual 6600GT by Gigabyte which I believe required a mainboard with SLI to function and was very picky as well. Certainly cool tech for the time though.

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Re: 486DLC cache coherency blues and headaches

Posted on 2021-04-29, 18:37

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by Garrett W

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Yeah, I pulled some 15ns chips from my 5x86 120 system and tried them, system seemed very stable. I've now put them back on the board they came from and have ordered 9 chips to get up to 256K on this board. If that fails, I'll just drop 4 of them and go back to 128k which I know works. As for the …

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Re: 486DLC cache coherency blues and headaches

Posted on 2021-04-28, 23:57

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douglar wrote on 2021-04-28, 23:49: Garrett W wrote on 2021-03-26, 09:53: UMC 82C481BF + 82C482AF based mainboard with Mr.BIOS EEPROM and 128K 20NS cache Looking at the list of MrBios images, looks like there is a v1.44 for your chipset. UMC_UM82C481BF Have you considered upgrading? Did wonders for …

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Re: 486DLC cache coherency blues and headaches

Posted on 2021-04-28, 23:46

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by Garrett W

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Nice work!

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Re: 486DLC cache coherency blues and headaches

Posted on 2021-04-28, 13:21

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by Garrett W

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Can't really comment on most of this, but regarding the heat I too did not feel comfortable with it. It was unbearable to touch. I initially added a heatsink, which I felt was getting a bit too hot as well, so I stuck a fan as well. It's a bit noisy, but the 1GB HDD already takes care of covering …

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Re: 486DLC cache coherency blues and headaches

Posted on 2021-04-25, 01:14

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by Garrett W

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Well, what do you know. I pulled off some 15ns cache from my 5x86 system and replaced the one on the 386 board. It seems to run mostly fine now, able to complete benchmarks such as Quake which it couldn't before (or could but with graphical errors). I've had an odd hiccup once , but I'd say that's …

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