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Re: Let's talk about R100 Radeon's

Posted on 2024-12-25, 06:31

Full DVD acceleration works from Rage 128/128Pro and even one of the older Rage Mobility as i remember. I have played DVD with AMD K6-266MHz (not K6-II) + Rage128Pro and it worked well with older ATi DVD. That's true. The first with DVD acceleration was actually the Rage II+DVD. But this was a …

Re: Let's talk about R100 Radeon's

Posted on 2024-12-24, 22:54

It's just that early 3rd party chipset AGP compliance was not great. The motherboards themselves were also sometimes cheaply made and had power regulation problems with AGP. It seemed to finally be sorted out by the AGP 8x era. You can certainly run a Radeon on Super 7 and it might work ok. You can …

Re: Let's talk about R100 Radeon's

Posted on 2024-12-23, 19:53

I can't speak for the R100 as I don't have that card, but on R200 and R300 cards, that registry tweak isn't a perfect solution. In some games like Shadows of the Empire, table fog doesn't work even with the tweak enabled. And in others like Thief 2, the tweak induced table fog rendering doesn't …

Re: Let's talk about R100 Radeon's

Posted on 2024-12-23, 19:42

For me, Radeon was the only sensible upgrade from the Matrox G400. Radeons have better image quality than GeForce 1 & 2 and usually much better VGA output quality. They have fast anisotropic filtering, even if it is not exactly per spec and not so hot compared to what you see today. They have EMBM …

Re: Directsound compatible sound card list?

Posted on 2024-12-16, 15:24

Most sound cards produced in 1998 and later would have hardware mixing. The first I remember is the Diamond Monster Sound MX200/M80 with the Analog Devices chipset with DSP based Aureal A3D. That is actually a 1997 card. Aureal then built their Vortex ASICs. I don't think Vortex Advantage is …

Re: PCI graphics card for a strong 1997 build

Posted on 2024-12-15, 15:38

There's a memory address conflict between S3 868/968 and Voodoo. I think there is a patch of some sort though. Those are 1995's hot chips anyway and times were a changing! As above, Riva 128 is a great 2D card. Its 3D is also kind of interesting to look at. Matrox Millennium 2 / Mystique 220 or a S3 …

Re: A notebook Ryzen 7 7435HS graphics acceleration

Posted on 2024-12-08, 04:45

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There were laptops with no IGPs? I didn't know, which era is that, the earliest I know was when they were soldiered on the mobo. Some apps will do fine on the IGP, but afaik MUX just disables the IGP to save some power but never the GPU? That could've saved a lot of energy An IGP is a graphics …

Re: Matrox G200 crashing with Direct3D on Win 98 SE?

Posted on 2024-12-07, 20:00

Is this system Intel or AMD based? Be sure you've installed any chipset drivers. Try an older driver. One of the older Powerdesk 6 series. The 5 series is fine too but prior to about 5.52 there won't be OpenGL support yet. Some drivers don't work well with AMD boards. http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/ …

Re: A notebook Ryzen 7 7435HS graphics acceleration

Posted on 2024-12-07, 19:36

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Laptops without an IGP might seem strange now days, but prior to Optimus you couldn't run both discrete and IGP. And prior to IGPs, laptops only had discrete. Now they have MUX chips to control which GPU has direct display access because IGPs just cause complications with gaming. The only downside …

Re: Best driver for riva tnt2 32 mb

Posted on 2024-12-05, 19:50

With Quake 3 and a TNT2, to get near 60 fps, you will need to run "normal" quality 16-bit color 640x480 or perhaps 800x600. 32-bit color has a large performance hit. At high resolution (above 1024x768) you will want at least a GeForce 3. It is a huge boost in efficiency for high resolutions.

Re: EXTREMELY slow flash drive READ speeds...

Posted on 2024-12-04, 19:28

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Rekrul wrote on 2024-12-04, 19:26: 8MB/s??? Oh I WISH I was getting 8MB/s! What I wouldn't give for 8MB/s! 😉 I haven't tried to write anything to the flash drive. I didn't want to risk making things worse. Heh heh. Yeah don't write anything to it. Just get your data off it and then get rid of it.

Re: EXTREMELY slow flash drive READ speeds...

Posted on 2024-12-04, 19:20

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I have a terrible external ONN brand SSD that I got cheap at Walmart that does this. If data is on it for about a week, it slows to about 8MB/s on read. Put fresh data on it and it's back at 200-300 MB/s. I've even filled it to capacity and verified the files without issue. I figure the flash chips …

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