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Re: EAX support on Windows 7 laptop?

Posted on 2024-02-23, 16:23

Thanks for the info - it sounds like it might not be worth bothering with. I recall EAX not working that great at times even back in old Windows XP days & I guess the marginal improvement of sound won't be worth the hassle. Yeah. I would go with the software options. It's possible the XP sound …

Re: EAX support on Windows 7 laptop?

Posted on 2024-02-19, 19:35

You can try using DSOAL. It is an open source interface for DirectSound/DS3D games to OpenAL Soft. https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1363-dsoal/ If the game is natively OpenAL, then you can get OpenAL Soft and use it directly. If you want to look for hardware, there was an Audigy 2 …

Re: Matrox G400 mod to G400 Max

Posted on 2024-01-22, 19:05

Try MGATweak. I used it for years to overclock my G400. https://alt.3dcenter.org/downloads/mgatweak.php You can fairly easily do a BIOS overclock as well. These cards use text-based variable configuration called "pins" that you flash to the card to set various things including the clock speeds. I …

Re: Voodoo Banshee vs. ATi Rage Pro Turbo AGP

Posted on 2024-01-13, 20:02

Rage Pro is a 1997 chip that isn't even at feature parity with a 1996 Voodoo1. It has problems with Unreal and Quake 2 for example. It does support ATI's proprietary 3D CIF API and there were a few games that used that so that could be interesting but it's not remotely as useful to have as Glide …

Re: Radeon 8500LE vs 8500

Posted on 2024-01-11, 18:13

The Radeon HD 2000-4000 cards also have non standardized tesellation hardware. I think it was only seen in tech demos? And so does the ATI GPU in Xbox 360 but some games probably used that because it's a known quantity closed platform. https://youtube.com/watch?v=lU_lB8MPwPY

Re: Radeon 8500LE vs 8500

Posted on 2024-01-10, 17:43

I have fond memories of how my HD 6950 couldn't run Rage properly for about 3 months after release. AMD emergency dropped about 3 hotfixes to incrementally make it run right. You have to wonder what was going on internally at AMD to cause that to happen. And I had watched a pre-release interview …

Re: True Roland MT-32 music in X-Wing CD... possible?

Posted on 2024-01-02, 22:35

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It wasn't dynamic at all - the Special Edition that we used was built on the Xwing vs. TIE Fighter engine, so we were locked into streaming Redbook audio, and even that was kinda stupid at times. The Intro cutscene music, for example, caused the video to run at double speed unless we cut the …

Re: Check out what I got for Christmas

Posted on 2023-12-26, 22:49

Yeah I'm thinking it's designed for 1024x768 75 Hz. Whatever the cut off for refresh rates above 60 Hz is. It might be new enough to have an EDID that you could read with a Windows utility like Everest or HWINFO. One of my greatest regrets in life is letting my dad give away the Tandy 1000 TX. 😁

Re: Quadro FX 1000 gibberish text + artifacts

Posted on 2023-12-21, 18:17

If it goes away when you move the card around it's a cracked solder joint. This is a common problem from this timeframe. I have one of these cards doing this as well. It's a frequent point of failure for cards with early BGA DDR2 memory that was hot, they didn't cool it properly, and the solder …

Re: Proactive Measures for Radeon 9800 XT

Posted on 2023-12-19, 21:06

Yeah it's usually the RAM that dies on these cards. Or the solder joints fail because of a zillion thermal cycles over the years. This is a problem to varying degrees with most GPUs from that decade. Pulling the cooling apart might actually be risky because you will put extra physical stress on the …

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