Re: Voodoo4 vs Matrox G400max

Posted on 2015-08-08, 16:40

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by swaaye

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Here's what I saw when I tested cards on a P3 1400 a few years ago. G400 is looking a bit suspicious in its performance. Filename graph_3dmark99.png File size 4.92 KiB Views 1099 views And Quake2 Filename graph_quake2.png File size 5.69 KiB Views 1099 views

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Re: Voodoo4 vs Matrox G400max

Posted on 2015-08-08, 05:07

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I wouldn't put much stock in 3DMark99. Test games. Matrox seems to have optimized for 3DMark99.

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Re: S3 AGP Cards (and possibly others) Too Bright

Posted on 2015-08-08, 04:59

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by swaaye

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I still wonder if it's related to TV output somehow. If you output TV levels to a monitor, black becomes grey.

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Re: Voodoo4 vs Matrox G400max

Posted on 2015-08-07, 18:56

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

32 bit color has a significant speed impact with these cards so I see nothing wrong with using 16 bit. The old games don't benefit all that much from more color depth anyway.

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Re: S3 AGP Cards (and possibly others) Too Bright

Posted on 2015-08-07, 17:42

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by swaaye

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S3 Vision 968 cards with VRAM cost similar to a Matrox card so it should be good quality. The Trio, Virge, and Savage chips tend to be on cheaply-built cards.

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Re: Voodoo4 vs Matrox G400max

Posted on 2015-08-07, 17:31

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Scali wrote: The GeForce256 did not support EMBM, and I'm not sure if any GeForce card ever did, to be honest. Radeons from that era supported botw EMBM and DOT3 if I recall correctly. Radeon, Kyro, and GeForce 3.

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Re: Retrotunes as your cellphone ringtone

Posted on 2015-08-05, 21:30

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by swaaye

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For notifications I have the translator chirp from Unreal and the futuristic toilet flush from Deus Ex Invisible War.

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Re: Creative Voodoo Banshee AGP freezes in Direct3D Apps...

Posted on 2015-08-04, 19:26

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have used DirectX Buster with 98SE many times. I don't think it caused the problem.

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Re: Creative Voodoo Banshee AGP freezes in Direct3D Apps...

Posted on 2015-08-04, 18:44

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

DirectX Buster is what you want to uninstall DirectX.

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Re: Descent II Hardware-Accelerated

Posted on 2015-08-04, 17:56

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by swaaye

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in DOS

As for Descent 1, the unofficial 3dfx patch can run 800x600 even on Voodoo Graphics. That's what the readme file states and it actually works :) The game doesn't use z-buffering then. Mechwarrior 2 and a few other games could do 800x600 on Voodoo1 because they took this approach. I can't seem to …

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Re: Creative Voodoo Banshee AGP freezes in Direct3D Apps...

Posted on 2015-08-04, 17:52

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've had weird problems like this but I can't remember what the deal was anymore. Are you using a number of other PCI cards? I'd remove everything except the video card and try that way. What chipset BIOS settings are you using? Some MVP3 BIOS settings cause problems.

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Re: 1994-1996 OPL3 software emulations?

Posted on 2015-08-02, 01:44

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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

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