Re: Lithtech game performance

Posted on 2014-05-04, 22:15

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http://www.actiontrip.com/previews/no-one-lives-forever-2_i.phtml Kevin Stephens, Director of Engineering : The new Jupiter engine includes quite a few improvements. First, the rendering pipeline has been completely rewritten allowing the designers to create levels with 30 times the detail of NOLF …

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Re: Kmart Blue-light PC

Posted on 2014-05-04, 20:55

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I've seen that case before. Nice shade of blue for Kmart though. 😀

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Re: Lithtech game performance

Posted on 2014-05-04, 20:44

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by swaaye

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I'm using NV's 43.45 driver. They seem to work well with old games on cards up to the FX series. Searching around I find people saying they like 41.09. Whatever works.

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Re: 16Gb SSD HD in VX Motherboard

Posted on 2014-05-04, 04:06

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It's a BIOS limitation. 8GB is common for that time. You could use drive overlay software or a PCI IDE card (one with its own BIOS). Or just use the 8GB the board can see.

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Re: Windows 3.x specific games

Posted on 2014-05-04, 02:29

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Jorpho wrote: Were there any of them exclusive to Windows 3.x, though? SimTower is Win3.x and no DOS version.

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Re: Lithtech game performance

Posted on 2014-05-04, 00:28

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by swaaye

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There's a NOLF2 demo. I decided to play around with NOLF and NOLF2 demos myself with my PIII 1050 and a GF2 Ti. I loaded FRAPS and ran NOLF with max details 1024x768x16 and it holds 60fps most of the time. The ship level is more demanding though. NOLF2 is quite playable on max settings 800x600x32 …

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Re: Ultimate PowerVR SGL card/rig/games?

Posted on 2014-05-04, 00:24

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Ooooh! Interesting to see some Neon 250 experimentation!

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Re: CD Audio digital playback grayed out in 98SE

Posted on 2014-05-03, 15:22

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by swaaye

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Seems like there must be another INF somewhere....

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Re: CD Audio digital playback grayed out in 98SE

Posted on 2014-05-03, 06:22

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by swaaye

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Did you clean Creative out of c:\windows\inf\other ? Maybe get Driver Cleaner and run that too. http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/drive … ofessional.html

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Re: Windows 3.x specific games

Posted on 2014-05-03, 03:30

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What games use WinG in 3.1? I just remember a few screensavers.

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Re: Power requirements for Socket 462 XP-m system

Posted on 2014-05-03, 00:20

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I looked up the NF7-S manual and Abit recommends a 350W PSU with 20A 5v and 2A 5vsb in a top end configuration.

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Re: Windows 3.x specific games

Posted on 2014-05-03, 00:03

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Iron Helix ! Star Wars Chess A bunch of Sim* games Klik n Play 🤣

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Re: Power requirements for Socket 462 XP-m system

Posted on 2014-05-02, 19:49

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by swaaye

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Not all Athlon boards are designed around 5v. They started to switch over to 12v in 2000-2001. What is the motherboard?

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Re: Lithtech game performance

Posted on 2014-05-02, 18:24

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I wouldn't be surprised if NOLF and AVP2 have somewhat similar performance characteristics because the engine is pretty similar really. You ought to try NOLF2 and see if it runs worse or similarly on the GF2. Lithtech Jupiter was a big efficiency boost. But of course they also pumped up the scene …

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Re: CD Audio digital playback grayed out in 98SE

Posted on 2014-05-02, 03:52

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by swaaye

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Another approach to this digital CD audio thing is to just make some CUE/BIN images and mount them with Daemon Tools.

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Re: Lithtech game performance

Posted on 2014-05-02, 02:20

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I loaded AVP2 and Shogo onto my little bench setup. It is running 440BX + Slot T Tualatin (100MHz FSB) + 98SE + DirectX 7a + Vortex 2. PIII 1050 + Kyro 2 64MB (GF2GTS-like) Shogo 1600x1200x16 is around 60 fps but stutters some with explosions. Explosions probably hit fill rate hard (alpha texture …

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Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2014-05-01, 18:36

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Since 98SE introduced ACPI, I bet that is a possible problem. You can Google how to disable ACPI in 98SE and see if it helps. Why would ACPI cause a problem? Some motherboards had flawed ACPI implementations that caused strange problems and instability. It has been awhile since I've run into it …

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Re: Lithtech game performance

Posted on 2014-05-01, 18:14

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I was playing Blood 2 on my P3 @ 1050 with a Matrox G200 last night. It ran well enough at 800x600. What I expected from G200 anyway. Probably 20-30 FPS. Blood 2 and Shogo are the oldest Lithtech. NOLF is Lithtech 2.0. AVP2 is newest of them with Lithtech Talon. Progressively more advanced. Lithtech …

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Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2014-05-01, 15:46

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by swaaye

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Got this Belkin card with a NEC chip and it works great on both 440BX and AMD 750.

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Re: CD Audio digital playback grayed out in 98SE

Posted on 2014-05-01, 02:35

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by swaaye

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These WDM drivers maybe? How to get Sound Blaster Emulation in Win9X/ME via live!5.1 with newer-current mobo's (no nmi-ddma) I really have not messed around much with 98SE digital CD audio.

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