Re: Half-Life Performance Issues

Posted on 2018-12-02, 09:04

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by athlon-power

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I can only think of a performance expectation issue. Don't expect a solid constant 60 in Half-Life with 1999 parts ( especially on a M64). It's going to be slow in single player. I don't want a constant 60fps experience- I just don't want frame drops every 30 seconds to a minute or so. I'm not …

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Half-Life Performance Issues

Posted on 2018-12-02, 04:20

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I've been having odd performance issues in Half-Life (WON GOTY Version). For some reason, it's been performing quite a bit under what I expect of it, here's the specs of the machine: Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard, BIOS P17 Intel Pentium III Coppermine 600E (SL43E) 192MB PC100 SDRAM ASUS AGP V3800M ( …

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Re: 3DMark 2000 Results for late '90s era Machines

Posted on 2018-11-29, 03:07

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I agree, that DVI likely means something else in this context. While DVI (the interface) was introduced in 1999, I find it highly unlikely for a budget card to be equipped with one at that point in time. I'm surprised that DVI is that old. It's funny how long some innovations in the PC industry …

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Re: 3DMark 2000 Results for late '90s era Machines

Posted on 2018-11-29, 03:03

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So now the benchmarks on the Dell Latitude C600 are done. It comes in as a somewhat close second, but the desktop pretty much outperforms it most ways. Still, that's a surprisingly large amount of graphical power in a laptop meant for the business/corporate market. Here's the specs of it: Mobile …

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Re: 3DMark 2000 Results for late '90s era Machines

Posted on 2018-11-29, 00:04

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"DVI" implies your card has a DVI video output. No, that's the weird part. There's only a VGA output on this thing. I thought that at first, but the lack of a DVI interface makes me think that it means otherwise. I don't think DVI really existed in 1999, though I may be wrong. Also, the laptop has …

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Re: 3DMark 2000 Results for late '90s era Machines

Posted on 2018-11-28, 23:28

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I don't think it is a proper TNT2, but rather a TNT 2 "Vanta" or M64. The regular TNT2 should have a significantly lower performance drop when using 32 color depth. I don't know which one it is, to be honest. The model number is AGP V3800M (DVI) SDRAM. I don't know what the significance of the "( …

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3DMark 2000 Results for late '90s era Machines

Posted on 2018-11-28, 22:23

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So, I thought I'd start a thread to see the results other users of hardware released in similar time-frame as my very late '90s build. The only rules are that you have to use hardware released when or before 3DMark 2000 came out (December 6, 1999). Here's a link that 3DMark has to download the …

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Re: Weird ASUS AGP-V3800M Graphics Issues

Posted on 2018-11-28, 21:24

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I've never overclocked/underclocked anything before, but I think I would underclock it just to be safe and prevent damage to the card. I'm not sure as to how I would overclock it though, as no overclocking software made in the late 90's/very early 2000's comes to mind at the moment. Again, it might …

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Weird ASUS AGP-V3800M Graphics Issues

Posted on 2018-11-28, 02:09

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I got an ASUS AGP-3800M GPU for my 1999 rig so that I could actually play games- something the Intel i740 couldn't really do. It's done fine for me, up until now. For some reason, it will randomly glitch out on drawing 2D imagery (like what Windows 98 SE uses to render the GUI). It's glitched out on …

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Re: Pentium III Katmai 500 Build

Posted on 2018-11-27, 21:56

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The heatsink was secured over the Coppermine properly, so I think it was just doing an alright job. Should I put the active-cooling heatsink on the PIII 500? [EDIT] Just got done cleaning the heatsink and CPU, had a bunch of old, dry thermal grease on it. I sweated bullets the entire time because I …

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Re: Pentium III Katmai 500 Build

Posted on 2018-11-27, 21:06

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Eureka! I removed the PIII without damage to those clips. You just have to pull them back slightly. Actually reading the motherboard manual generally helps, so that was more of a messup on my part. Also, I have several larger fans similar to that so I might look into it. I think I even have one with …

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Re: Pentium III Katmai 500 Build

Posted on 2018-11-27, 20:55

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Removing that heatsink will be difficult. It's also easy to break the black plastic frame that holds it in place. I would just leave it. I do plan on getting a 600mhz upgrade eventually, though, one with active cooling. If I can't remove the thing, I can't do all that much. The worst part is that I …

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Re: Pentium III Katmai 500 Build

Posted on 2018-11-27, 20:30

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Problem: I want to change the thermal paste on that Katmai as I am now somewhat paranoid. I can't take the CPU out of the socket, there was some clips that it said to install if the CPU used a passive cooler, to help support the slot. It seems to be doing its job- a little too well. There seems to …

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Re: Pentium III Katmai 500 Build

Posted on 2018-11-27, 02:43

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Those PIII Katmais run hot IIRC. You may want to point a fan at that heat sink. O w. I've not had problems with it so far, to be honest, and that rear fan moves a lot more air than you'd think. That heat sink honestly seems to do a decent job, though I should probably replace the thermal paste …

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Pentium III Katmai 500 Build

Posted on 2018-11-27, 02:23

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So, I've finally came to a point to where I feel comfortable posting this as a sold build. Right now, it's formatting the HDD in FAT32 in preparation to run Windows 98, so I figured it would be a good time to showcase this build some. Here's the specs to those who are interested: - Intel SE440BX-2 …

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Re: HDD Issues with New Motherboard

Posted on 2018-11-27, 01:58

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So I've got a WD400 Caviar in there right now, and it seems to be working alright. Maybe it was because the 80GB was on Master instead of Cable Select or something, I don't know. I don't see a reason to change the drives anytime soon though, unless the WD400 dies on me. Thanks for the help, though! …

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Re: HDD Issues with New Motherboard

Posted on 2018-11-27, 01:41

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I do have an external IDE controller, though it's a newer one and it's also had issues with conflicting with the onboard IDE and stuff before on the old motherboard. I don't want to use it unless I absolutely have to as a result. It's too new to really properly work well with the kinds of …

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Re: HDD Issues with New Motherboard

Posted on 2018-11-26, 23:58

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I tried two different IDE cables with it to no avail, I also tried the other IDE port. The problem with changing it out is that it is an absolute pain to try and change HDDs out of that caddy because it's not got the right sort of railing for standard 3.5" drives, for some reason it's gauged to take …

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HDD Issues with New Motherboard

Posted on 2018-11-26, 23:37

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I recently got a new motherboard (an Intel SE440BX-2), and so far everything has worked, though I've not yet tested the CD drive functionality. For some reason, every time the motherboard tries to access the HDD, the system hangs and the HDD indicator lights up solidly. If this is when the HDD is …

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Re: AOPEN AW744L II Sound Card Issues

Posted on 2018-11-04, 19:27

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I removed an ethernet card that was installed, and it seems to like me now. I'm content with running DOOM under Windows, as it works now, and I don't want to mess with it any more and risk developing new problems. And it does have actual MIDI synthesis, which is what I wanted in the first place.

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