Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-04-15, 20:06

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by swaaye

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I spent about an hour with Turok 2 and DGVoodoo 2. It ran and looked great. Very nice work. Helpful tips - if the retail version of the game won't see the DGVoodoo glide3x.dll, rename Turok2.exe to Turok2english.exe. And to get the CD Audio working there is this MusicEnabler patch (worked for me …

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Re: "Barebones" X-Fi drivers.

Posted on 2014-04-15, 19:24

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by swaaye

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Yeah I dunno. I am using the X-Fi Support Pack 2.5 with a PCIe X-Fi Titanium on a Asrock Z77 motherboard. With Winamp outputting through "Directsound" (meaning it's going thru the Windows software layer), audiodg.exe sees 1-2% CPU. I loaded up Thief 3, a Directsound EAX3 game that I have setup with …

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Re: "Barebones" X-Fi drivers.

Posted on 2014-04-15, 18:33

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm wondering what other software you install. Did you do the gradual step by step reinstall I suggested and observe audiodg behavior along the way? Can you try the card in another system?

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Re: "Barebones" X-Fi drivers.

Posted on 2014-04-15, 18:28

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by swaaye

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Have you tried the onboard audio?

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Re: DX9 GPU prices

Posted on 2014-04-15, 18:17

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by swaaye

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Yeah I'm not aware of any problems with D3D9 games on modern cards. There are a few D3D8 games that are trouble though. I'm sure Radeon 9800 costs more because of people caught up on nostalgia for it. I imagine both demand and pricing are based on that nostalgia. You're usually better off with …

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Re: YT Video: Building a retro gaming PC for Splinter Cell!

Posted on 2014-04-15, 03:21

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by swaaye

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Do any other games use these proprietary NV shadow buffers?

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Re: YT Video: Building a retro gaming PC for Splinter Cell!

Posted on 2014-04-15, 03:11

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by swaaye

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Strange stuff there. That they specify 5700/5900 as having had this bug fixed but it doesn't work.... There are really two generations of GeForce FX GPUs. NV30/31/34 and NV35/36/38. Big differences between the two groups. That would be my guess as to the cause of different results between 5500 (NV34 …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-04-14, 18:27

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by swaaye

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Dege wrote: Just released the new version. Shortly: Turok2 is fixed and possibility of refresh rate overriding is added. I'll give it a go when I find some time. Thanks!

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Re: Anecdotal accounts of Windows 7 on dual Tualatin rigs for everyday computing

Posted on 2014-04-14, 01:06

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by swaaye

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flagship 2xxx cards (2900 Pro and XT) lacked some sort of decoding that was present on the 2400 series and the 2600 series... R600 has the Avivo video hardware of the R500 generation instead of the Avivo HD / UVD engine that the later HD 2xxx cards have. Without UVD it has only partial processing …

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Re: Anecdotal accounts of Windows 7 on dual Tualatin rigs for everyday computing

Posted on 2014-04-13, 18:57

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by swaaye

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Flash has video and 3D acceleration but I'm not sure the 2D graphics are accelerated... Adblock will bog down an old CPU so I suggest Flashblock. That's how I used to set up my old EEEPC and it only had a 900 MHz Celeron M. Not sure what kind of impact a huge HOSTS file has...

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Re: Fastest PCI 3D card ever made

Posted on 2014-04-13, 01:05

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by swaaye

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Yeah I think a GeForce 6200 might be best for PCI. The newer cards can be troublesome. Additionally a Voodoo3/4/5 PCI could also have some value. Those old games that use Glide are often best on Glide. The slowest Voodoo3 is faster than Voodoo2 SLI. Voodoo4/5 have built up some high pricing through …

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Re: is it just me or does SB Live! drivers suck?

Posted on 2014-04-12, 22:42

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by swaaye

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Can you try NFS3 and see if the EAX sounds correct? That was a problem I noticed with WDM drivers.

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Re: Anecdotal accounts of Windows 7 on dual Tualatin rigs for everyday computing

Posted on 2014-04-12, 22:36

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by swaaye

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I think the requirement for Flash "hardware rendering" is D3D9 support. It only engages in full-screen too, AFAIK. Standard Def Steve wrote: Good to know. 😀 So the HD 2000 cards were capable of Flash decode with 9.11 as well? That I don't know. I have never used a HD 2000 series card... 😀

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Re: SATA question

Posted on 2014-04-12, 18:37

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by swaaye

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Optical drives are SATA Gen 1 from what I've seen. It's like how PATA optical drives tended to be at most UDMA 66. They don't need much bandwidth.

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Re: Anecdotal accounts of Windows 7 on dual Tualatin rigs for everyday computing

Posted on 2014-04-11, 21:16

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by swaaye

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I'm not sure which ATI card was the first to support full Flash acceleration, but I do know that NVIDIA cards as early as G84 (GeForce 8600) and G92 (2nd gen 8800 GTS) support hardware decoding and rendering of Flash video. The HD 3000 IGPs officially support it. They have some bit of newness to …

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Re: Fastest PCI 3D card ever made

Posted on 2014-04-11, 19:54

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by swaaye

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That's ICH4 so that likely means Intel 845 chipset.

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Re: "Barebones" X-Fi drivers.

Posted on 2014-04-11, 18:44

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by swaaye

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I'm pretty confident that no Windows Update driver is the issue here. Ive never had trouble with what it downloads. The PCI XFI doesn't even have a driver available on there, nor does it support the HDA standard for the generic HDA driver. PCIe XFi does support generic HDA but I've never had these …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-04-11, 18:38

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by swaaye

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Dege wrote: I couldn't run Turok2 for the sake of God when I wanted to fix that. But now I've just downloaded its demo and it's running fine with all the problems you talked about. I'm going to fix it and release a patch patching version. 😀 That's great to hear!

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2014-04-11, 00:47

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by swaaye

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Windows 8 has that palette corruption bug fixed. I noticed that when Star Wars Rebellion worked fine. Hey have you looked into Turok 2's Glide problem more? Just out of curiosity.

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Re: "Barebones" X-Fi drivers.

Posted on 2014-04-10, 19:51

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by swaaye

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The problem is you are the only one here who has experience with this problem, apparently. I have 2 X-Fi cards and an Audigy 2 in my machines and have been using them forever. I run the Daniel K X-Fi and Audigy packs, but even Creative's own drivers have been ok on Win7-8 for me when I've used them. …

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