Re: 1994-1996 OPL3 software emulations?

Posted on 2015-08-02, 01:44

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Soundscape and AudioPCI don't really do FM at all. They try to use the MIDI synth for the FM output. It's horrible. SBLive and the rebranded AudioPCI cards like SBPCI64/128 have an upgraded version of the AudioPCI's DOS driver that does have FM. It's a bit less terrible but you don't really want to …

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Re: My new favorite DirectX 7.0 video card

Posted on 2015-08-01, 15:59

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by swaaye

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With Unreal D3D you sometimes needed to swap in a different d3ddrv.dll file for better performance. Wheel of Time has this issue too and there is even a patch specifically to improve GeForce/TNT performance. It took Epic a long time to get that engine working acceptably with D3D. https://web.archive …

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Re: new ATX PSU for old Socket A system

Posted on 2015-07-31, 20:47

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by swaaye

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nemail wrote: nice - but it might have been a little hotter than usual 😉 It did get warm but it wasn't exactly hot. I couldn't tell if the fan had changed speed either.

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Re: new ATX PSU for old Socket A system

Posted on 2015-07-31, 20:42

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by swaaye

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Last night I set up an ECS K7VTA3 v6 motherboard (KT333) with an Athlon XP 2000+ (Palomino). I used a GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and also a 6800 Ultra. I powered this with a Seasonic SS-300ES PSU that has 120W total on 3.3v and 5v (20A). It's the weakest PSU that I have around. I ran 3DMark2001SE looping …

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nForce3 AGP and NT6

Posted on 2015-07-31, 20:37

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by swaaye

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Does anyone know the technical details of the issue of the nForce3 AGP GART being broken with NT6 and a dual core CPU? Was it not reasonably possible to work around the problem? I have seen some info around the web that people got it working to some degree by using the XP driver on Vista...

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Re: Chaintech 5AGM2 (MVP3) + VT6421a SATA: boot?

Posted on 2015-07-30, 03:19

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by swaaye

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Usually a PCI SATA card's BIOS should appear during POST and detect attached drives. Do you see this? That SATA chip is designed for PCI 2.2, whereas MVP3 is PCI 2.1. That could be a problem. I've seen this with VIA USB 2.0 PCI cards on 440BX, though in that case the motherboard doesn't detect the …

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Re: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA Notebook card with pure Dos?

Posted on 2015-07-29, 20:58

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by swaaye

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I've never tried it but since it's on a Cardbus bridge, I doubt it. I'm not sure there is driver support for Win9x either.

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Re: Video problem with A7N8X-E Socket A Build

Posted on 2015-07-29, 19:58

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would experiment with another PSU if possible. No idea if that is the problem though.

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Re: Socket A or Pentium 4 for Voodoo 5500?

Posted on 2015-07-29, 02:39

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

AMD 760 and SiS 645 should be good to go for 3.3v AGP.

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Re: Socket A or Pentium 4 for Voodoo 5500?

Posted on 2015-07-29, 02:29

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by swaaye

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I have not tried P4 with Voodoo5 but I don't think either config is especially better or worse. It's just nice in general to get up to that 2002 level of CPU perfomance for especially Unreal Engine games which can get quite demanding if a lot of action is on screen. Does your 8KHA+ have bad caps? …

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Re: List of 3D accelerated games that make direct hardware calls

Posted on 2015-07-29, 01:25

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by swaaye

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There are a few other games with AA on V1000. Grand Prix Legends and VQuake/VHexen come to mind.

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Re: 1.1Ghz Coppermine Cubx-E versus 1.4Ghz Tualatin TUSL2-C

Posted on 2015-07-28, 19:51

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by swaaye

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I'd think it's hard to say with certainty that BX@133 with AGP is ever 100% stable but it can be pretty solid.

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Re: Antec PSU. Good or bad?

Posted on 2015-07-28, 18:43

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by swaaye

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The PSUs that I'm using lately are a 2008 420W PCP&C PPCS420X (Seasonic) with 5v/20A and a somewhat controversial 2006 OCZ OCZGXS600 (FSP) with 5v/30A. The smaller unit has never caused me problems on any 5v Athlon build. Even Slot A 1000 and KT333/Palomino2000+ with 6800 Ultra. I do have a smaller …

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Re: Will GeForce 7600GT work with 440BX?

Posted on 2015-07-28, 15:07

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by swaaye

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It's always "fun" to run Oblivion on a FX 5900 Ultra. You can literally feel the pain as the inductor whine surges with each frame. 🤣

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Re: Antec PSU. Good or bad?

Posted on 2015-07-28, 05:33

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by swaaye

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That's easier said than done. I had to wait almost 4 months before I finally found NOS Soyo SY-KT600 boards, which come with horrible Evercon capacitors. You very seldom find high-end nForce 2 Ultra 400 boards on eBay and the ones you do find have been overclocked to hell and suffer from capacitor …

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Re: Antec PSU. Good or bad?

Posted on 2015-07-28, 05:16

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by swaaye

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I have two boards with KT600, and unfortunately neither of them have the 12V additional power connector :( I wasn't aware of the issue, but with a XP 3200+ it's quite noticeable, that CPU draws almost 80W I believe. Sounds like they went exceptionally cheap with those boards. Maybe the voltage regs …

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Re: My new favorite DirectX 7.0 video card

Posted on 2015-07-28, 01:28

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by swaaye

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philscomputerlab wrote: I guess Aureal A3D is one reason to stick with Windows 98. That's the conclusion I came to as well 🤣 Maybe ZanQuance will eventually eliminate this too.

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Re: Antec PSU. Good or bad?

Posted on 2015-07-27, 21:01

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by swaaye

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P4 systems introduced the 12v aux CPU power connection so you can guess where it draws from. Athlon systems implemented this new ATX standard in 2002. KT400/nforce2. Prior systems were using 5v for the CPU. When you get into 6th generation and older, these are such low power CPUs that it can be …

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Re: My new favorite DirectX 7.0 video card

Posted on 2015-07-27, 14:13

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The problem is those late games were designed with both 9x and XP compatibility in mind.

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Re: BIOS Setting: "Write Cache Pipeline"

Posted on 2015-07-27, 03:50

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by swaaye

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Yeah there's no doubt that Super 7 can make you crazy at times. Voodoo3 does work very well by keeping fancy AGP features out of the equation. Though some of the Super 7 motherboards actually have problems with Voodoo3's power requirements. And indeed Voodoo3 isn't exactly exceptionally power …

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