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Re: Voodoo3 Cooling

Posted on 2021-07-19, 16:13

I find it's a lot easier to leave the cards as they are and just add good case cooling. This was pretty easy... I already had the fan and this took less than 5 minutes and lowered temps much further than any of my indirect case fans. Couldn't you risk this "lifting off" the heatsink, when it gets …

Re: Help spec my P4 Win98 Retro Rig

Posted on 2021-07-01, 22:33

The Socket 7 machine is coming together... For video, I ended up using my PCI Voodoo3 3000 for the sake of simplicity. For audio, I picked up an Orpheus w/ PCMIDI. I also switched gears and decided to swap the Pentium MMX out for a K6-III+ running at 500MHz (6x83) and 256MB of PC133 (with L3 cache …

Re: Windows 98 Color Calibration

Posted on 2021-06-30, 19:13

AFAIK, you would need a LUT (look-up table) loader that works in Windows 98 . An old Windows 9x compatible version of Adobe Gamma (which was bundled with Photoshop) might do the trick . Would that work for games too? I imagine that it would . I have never tried it . Adobe Gamma did a great job with …

Re: Windows 98 Color Calibration

Posted on 2021-06-30, 06:25

I have a few different computers hooked up to my CRT Monitor and would like to profile all of them. Is there any color calibration software for Windows 98? Is it possible to generate an ICCv2 profile as an ICM file in Windows 10 and then load it on Windows 98? I tried this, but am not seeing the …

Windows 98 Volume Levels

Posted on 2021-06-30, 01:27

I have a Yamaha YMF724F, Aureal 8830, and Audigy 2 ZS daisy-chained on my Windows 98 computer, but am struggling with volume levels. The cards are all daisy-chained YMF724 Out > 8830 In > 8830 Out > Audigy In > Audigy Out > Speakers. I also have the internal S/PDIF connection from my DVD drive going …

Windows 98 Color Calibration

Posted on 2021-06-30, 01:21

I have a few different computers hooked up to my CRT Monitor and would like to profile all of them. Is there any color calibration software for Windows 98? Is it possible to generate an ICCv2 profile as an ICM file in Windows 10 and then load it on Windows 98? I tried this, but am not seeing the …

Re: Help spec my P4 Win98 Retro Rig

Posted on 2021-06-28, 16:07

yep thas is one full case! Will be interesting to see how you find 9x gaming on this vs the MMX once it's up and running. Do make sure you turn on anti aliasing, and all the other options in the graphics card drivers, it's one of the big benefits of going with this overkill hardware It was easy to …

Re: Help spec my P4 Win98 Retro Rig

Posted on 2021-06-24, 18:39

For a pentium MMX there really isn't any reason to go faster than a single voodoo 2. From what I remember the Voodoo 2 is fully featured for DirectX 6 and compatible with directx 7, which is well beyond anything you would want to play on a socket 7 PC anyway. I would pair it with a S3 virge DX or …

Re: Help spec my P4 Win98 Retro Rig

Posted on 2021-06-24, 06:04

Can you think of any problems with using the FX 55000 aside from it obviously not being period appropriate? For pure DOS gaming, it should be fine. However, if you want to play Win9x 3D accelerated titles on that card (without the Voodoo), performance would be suboptimal on that system. In short, …

Re: Help spec my P4 Win98 Retro Rig

Posted on 2021-06-24, 05:39

That looks great to me. You'll be able to play pretty much everything from early DOS titles up to moderately demanding 3D accelerated games such as Quake 2 on that rig. Some Windows games released in 1998 and onward (e.g. Half-Life and Unreal) might be CPU bottlenecked though. As for getting a 2D …

Re: Help spec my P4 Win98 Retro Rig

Posted on 2021-06-19, 23:26

hrottle slowdown utility is used. OTOH, I didn't encounter any such issues when I slowed down my Pentium MMX rig using only SetMul. I just went through my parts and here are some components I'm thinking about using for a Socket 7 build: - Pentium 233 MMX (So7) - ASUS TX97-X (So7 Intel 440TX) - 64MB …

Re: Help spec my P4 Win98 Retro Rig

Posted on 2021-06-17, 16:29

If you already have the making of a Pentium MMX I wouldn't worry about OPL on this. For my P4 Win98 rig I kept it simple and just have the Audigy 2 ZS. I'm not saying the Audigy's implementation sounds great but it does the job. But something as fast as a P4 your probably going to be mainly playing …

Re: Help spec my P4 Win98 Retro Rig

Posted on 2021-06-16, 22:15

I'm planning on using this rig for late-80s DOS games to early 2000s Windows games. That's an excellent Windows 9x rig, but it won't be so good for DOS gaming due to a couple of reasons. First, some DOS games are speed sensitive and the slowdown capabilities of a Pentium 4 are limited. You might be …

Help spec my P4 Win98 Retro Rig

Posted on 2021-06-16, 06:00

I finally have room for my retro PC again, so I'm taking some of my favorite (hopefully) compatible parts out of storage to assemble my (ultimate) Windows 98 machine. I'm planning on using this rig for late-80s DOS games to early 2000s Windows games. I have a number of options to choose from and I'm …

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