Re: Need a sanity check on Blood 2: The Chosen's performance

Posted on 2021-10-05, 13:05

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You will get different opinions on this. Phil's tests show that they do care but very, very little. Myself I have a SiS5598 chipset and 512k of cache and I find that 128MB performs slightly better on my setup for whatever reason. It is minimal however. YMMV Good to know, thanks. I also own a …

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Re: Need a sanity check on Blood 2: The Chosen's performance

Posted on 2021-10-05, 13:04

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Alright, despite saying I didn't have the motivation to install Win98SE again, I backed up my old install and started from scratch. Install Win98, Via drivers, Via pci latency patch, SBLive drivers, DirectX6, and... things were weird. I though I had installed the drivers for the CT4780 off the …

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Re: Need a sanity check on Blood 2: The Chosen's performance

Posted on 2021-10-04, 20:45

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K6-2+ and k6-3 dont care about “Cacheable RAM Size”, do they? Because if they do, MVP3 chipset prefers 128MB to 256MB (when the onboard L2 cache is 512Kb). If Blood II is the only game you are experiencing weird performance, then the above makes even less sense. You will get different opinions on …

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Re: Need a sanity check on Blood 2: The Chosen's performance

Posted on 2021-10-04, 18:45

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K6-2+ and k6-3 dont care about “Cacheable RAM Size”, do they? Because if they do, MVP3 chipset prefers 128MB to 256MB (when the onboard L2 cache is 512Kb). If Blood II is the only game you are experiencing weird performance, then the above makes even less sense.

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Re: Need a sanity check on Blood 2: The Chosen's performance

Posted on 2021-10-04, 16:12

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Hmm...no. I don´t see how the CPU is to blame. I recently tried Blood II in my Presario 7476. Its CPU (regular K6-2 500, not the plus version) is weaker than yours. I get adequate performance with both PCI cards (the TNTm64 and Voodoo2, the latter giving better performance). I am not at home now, …

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Re: What am I missing with the 6800 GT?

Posted on 2021-09-30, 15:26

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I believe, in one hand it has to do with the satisfaction of owning the best model of a series, like having the top CPU a certain socket can offer. As"Uncle Awesome" said, it is like "revenge with my past". There is also the compatibility side of it, as you already know. GeForce 7000 series, for …

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Re: Would you like a custom version of win98

Posted on 2021-09-28, 13:03

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It's always going to be a discussion what software you find essential and what someone else finds essential. For example I find 7ZIP much more vital than WinRAR. 7ZIP supports more compression types including RAR. If I were you, I'd make it a menu where you can toggle options. Stuff like USB (stick …

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Re: Would you like a custom version of win98

Posted on 2021-09-27, 17:02

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Nice work! What about the performance, does it feel as light as regular W98SE + unofficial SP3? Have you done any comparative in that regard when it comes to gaming? What version of DirectX does it include?

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Re: Nirvana

Posted on 2021-09-25, 17:42

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1991... Dont forget the album Arise from Sepultura and the album Slow Deep And Hard from Type O Negative. Although not 1991, I would pick Chaos AD instead, it put them in the map. They were just another death metal band till Chaos AD. Similar to what happened to Opeth, when they did pure death …

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Re: Nirvana

Posted on 2021-09-25, 16:54

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1991... Dont forget the album Arise from Sepultura and the album Slow Deep And Hard from Type O Negative. Although not 1991, I would pick Chaos AD instead, it put them in the map. They were just another death metal band till Chaos AD. Similar to what happened to Opeth, when they did pure death …

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Re: C&C Red Alert Screen Size/Aspect Ratio

Posted on 2021-09-24, 20:14

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Yes, that happens to me too. There´s a "RA setup.exe" or something like that (inside the game installation directory), that lets you choose between 640x400 (it starts like this when you first run it) and 640x480. The latter makes it look a little more accurate (but still it doesn´t fill the whole …

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Re: Nirvana

Posted on 2021-09-24, 19:16

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I was 12. Good album, I prefer Ten (September 1991) and Badmotorfinger (October 1991) though.

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Re: SiS 6326 AGP great card!

Posted on 2021-09-22, 13:50

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appiah4 wrote on 2021-09-22, 13:23: Con 2 botones wrote on 2021-09-22, 12:50: I tend to think there is no bad hardware but bad uses of it. Find me a good use for a dedicated PhysX add on card. 😀 hehe

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Re: SiS 6326 AGP great card!

Posted on 2021-09-22, 12:50

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I tend to think there is no bad hardware but bad uses of it.

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Re: Good MP3 player for Windows 9x and Xp

Posted on 2021-09-22, 12:37

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Do you mean skinnable? If so sonique was the other big player in the 9x days (winamps rival at the time). Far more skinnable than winamp. Usually had the same visualisations such as whitecap etc. In terms of playback quality, I personally never really noticed a difference? Those days I used Sonique …

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Re: Graphic cards - opinions

Posted on 2021-09-21, 15:34

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To keep it period correct, there is also Geforce 2MX (not MX 200), generally cheaper than both GF2 GTS and GF4 MX440. Slower than GF2 GTS but not by that much. On the Ati side, you´ve got the original Radeon (R6), both SDR and DDR versions (the latter being superior, of course but also harder to …

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Re: Problem with Pod...

Posted on 2021-09-21, 13:56

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Have you tried podhacks? it fixes a lot of issues with sound, thing is I don't know if it works on 98SE. I don't know if it is sound card related, I was using AWE64 value with my K6-2 and have no issues after I disabled vsync. I haven´t tried Podhacks, I believe it applies to GOG .exe (WindowsXP) …

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Re: This video card is corrupting my BIOS??

Posted on 2021-09-20, 20:49

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Quite recently I bought a s462 motherboard from eBay advertised as "tested and working". Well, it didn´t. I contacted the seller about it and he offered a refund. Before leaving negative feedback, try contacting him, If the seller is decent he should act the same way. Altough that won´t bring back …

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Re: This video card is corrupting my BIOS??

Posted on 2021-09-20, 18:46

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You lost two boards due to that card? Scary and upsetting! Was it advertised as "tested and working"?

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Re: Favorite forgotten games

Posted on 2021-09-20, 18:12

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Terrific game, great atmosphere and gameplay. Played it when it launched. Finished it with each character. I kept hoping for a sequeal and searching for something similar to play after finishing it (several times). "Enclave" came to the rescue, although it is not the same... Another game I love …

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