Re: Promise Sata 150tx2 speeds windows 98

Posted on 2022-05-25, 03:57

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

~70MB/s isn't all that bad. I don't recall whether I've seen more than that from 440BX. The best you can practically get out of PCI is 90-100MB/s. That is also all the bandwidth available to the southbridge with 440BX.

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Re: amd 751 irongate motherboard questions

Posted on 2022-05-23, 19:07

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah AMD 750 does have some AGP issues. All GeForce cards will likely run at AGP 1x and may still be unstable for example. There are a few steppings of the northbridge as well. I wasn't even aware of Socket A AMD 750 motherboards until now. I'm not sure when the AMD platform finally had rock solid …

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Re: What thermal paste stays wet the longest?

Posted on 2022-05-20, 18:05

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

AS5 isn't conductive. It is said to be very slightly capacitive. If you stick multimeter probes in it you will not get any continuity. However it has the potential to cause undesired behavior in a circuit because it is capacitive so you should try not to make a mess. I slathered it all over the top …

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Re: Downgrading Dx Versions

Posted on 2022-05-19, 18:56

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ Software

The only time I've seen it be useful is for some Aureal Vortex 2 VXD-based sound drivers (> version 2015) that can BSOD the system on any DirectX after 7.0a for some reason after playing a game. However that alone makes me prefer not to run a newer DirectX than necessary for the games and hardware. …

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Re: What thermal paste stays wet the longest?

Posted on 2022-05-19, 18:36

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think they will all separate to some degree. They will also pump out of the gap over time due to thermal cycles causing expansion and contraction. This is something the wax-like phase change materials try to prevent. The pastes that I've seen dry up are only the cheapest most generic white goop. …

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Re: GPU 7970 vs 9800 gtx

Posted on 2022-05-17, 22:00

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ Video

I wonder what the frame time microstutter looks like with 3-4 card SLI. 2 cards are already not great.

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Re: Voodoo2 + USB 2.0 Card = Crash!

Posted on 2022-05-17, 20:30

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It may also be Win9x causing the problems. Sometimes 2K/XP work fine on a configuration that blows up 9x. I shudder at the thought of whether it could be ACPI, PCI PNP, or VXDs causing that. I usually just disable USB 2.0 with it.

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Re: What are the different versions of MechWarrior 2 ever released for DOS and Windows?

Posted on 2022-05-16, 18:40

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by swaaye

in Milliways

in Milliways

I have an ancient site bookmarked that thoroughly covered most of the releases. https://web.archive.org/web/20040611024931/ht … com/k_lupinsky/ I actually didn't know they ever supported RRedline. But yeah apparently Titanium does.

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Re: Someone's selling their nice collection of sound cards

Posted on 2022-05-13, 18:25

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Meh. Needs a Soundscape Elite. 😁 Yeah a Yamaha XG product of some sort is a great thing to have. Though these days I might prefer just hearing FM synth.

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Re: Duke Nukem Forever 2001, the version that did seem good, might be released!!!!

Posted on 2022-05-12, 20:36

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by swaaye

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in Milliways

Interesting resultts swaaye, my geforce 4 mx win98 system had no problems with the game, zero graphics errors without having to use wrappers like on modern systems. Did your download include a few different wrappers? I had to delete their D3D8.dll to even run it on XP. But I see a lot of texture …

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Re: Duke Nukem Forever 2001, the version that did seem good, might be released!!!!

Posted on 2022-05-11, 18:33

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by swaaye

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in Milliways

Interactive in-game terminals go back to at least Duke Nukem 3D and are seen in other build-engine games too. I can't remember if any older games have them. Sin (1998) does have them all over. I played a little on both my modern machine and on a XP machine with Radeon X1900. Their D3D8 renderer sure …

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Re: Matrox Mystique 220 crash

Posted on 2022-05-10, 02:07

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

These cards are actually somewhat problematic. There was some controversy back then with video drivers doing evil things with the PCI bus in order to win benchmarks. Matrox was partaking in this. It can cause problems like sound skips, text and mouse pointer corruption. http://cdn.preterhuman.net/ …

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Re: C&C on a 233MMX runs poorly

Posted on 2022-05-09, 21:04

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And to think, one is supposed to be able to play and enjoy C&C Tiberium Sun on a P233MMX. The horror. 😀

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Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI problems

Posted on 2022-05-08, 16:48

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

What is the motherboard? You need a chipset from around those times to get the hardware support needed for the ISA emulation the driver does for DOS sound. It's a complex topic but has been discussed thoroughly on here. And yeah definitely need EMM386 for it to work in pure DOS.

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Re: What scary games require booze to take the edge off?

Posted on 2022-05-06, 19:56

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by swaaye

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VR horror is indeed the next level. But I do enjoy my TV horror gaming as well and there is a lot of stuff. If you want to be frightened some suggestions are any Amnesia, any Outlast, Soma, Visage, and RE7. Alien Isolation is good if you like the Alien franchise (nightmare mode is an...interesting …

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Re: Recurring BSOD on my system

Posted on 2022-05-03, 19:27

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ Video

Might be related to the PCIe bridge chip on the card. The GPU is actually natively PCIe so they use a chip called Rialto that converts AGP to PCIe. Try some older drivers. Especially any that mention AGP / PCIe bridge chips. Search the forum too because these bridge cards have been thoroughly …

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Re: HELP! - GeForce FX5600 in win98se

Posted on 2022-04-18, 20:10

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ Video

Keep in mind that Nvidia was aggressively tweaking their driver at the time to get more speed at reduced quality, and 3DMark is their first stop because it sells cards. Trying to beat Radeon 9800 with Geforce FX must have been stressful over at Nvidia HQ.

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Re: ESD and you

Posted on 2022-04-18, 14:04

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by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cotton instead of polyester, and paper instead of plastic. And optical isolators for serial ports. Oh and also wireless keyboard & mouse can be helpful too. 😉

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Re: How to run Star trek ds9 dominion wars at all?

Posted on 2022-04-15, 02:45

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by swaaye

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I think DGVoodoo2 might work with it. There have been posts about the game in that subforum.

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Re: Multi-Monitor support for Supreme Commander

Posted on 2022-04-15, 02:39

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by swaaye

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in dgVoodoo General

I play lots of Forged Alliance. If I remember right, there's another approach to this with the game. You can set it to windowed, stretch it across the monitors, and then run split screen (Home key). You might prefer windowed mode anyway since you can easily do other things in Windows while playing. …

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