Re: Wavy horizontal lines with Geforce2 Ultra

Posted on 2014-01-14, 01:35

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by swaaye

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Geforce 256 through GeForce 3 often had quite poor signal quality on VGA. There was a page with some suggestions to fix them. The Hercules GF2 GTS is listed and it is probably similar. https://web.archive.org/web/20021211224501/http://www.geocities.com/porotuner/imagequality.html The Radeon 9700 …

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Re: Matrox Parnella?

Posted on 2014-01-13, 21:22

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by swaaye

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It's a Direct3D 8.1 chip that performs about like a GeForce 4 Ti. The drivers are not very good though and so I would steer clear for anything other than simple desktop usage.

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Re: Beware Strangers Bearing Gifts

Posted on 2014-01-13, 21:00

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by swaaye

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There was another dual SDRAM / DDR board, the Asus A7A266 using an Acer Labs chipset but it was supposed to be a little slower. I think that would have been a better choice. I've used the IWILL XP333-R, which uses the ALi Magik 1. It was perfectly functional and reliable, but again it isn't as fast …

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Re: Beware Strangers Bearing Gifts

Posted on 2014-01-13, 19:04

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by swaaye

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A friend of mine had 1 as new and it worked without any problems,not sure what revision of the mb he had,i also remeber the sis 735 chipset receiving praises for having good performance and options for less money. People (and reviewers) fixated on the single chip chipset design and its magical …

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Re: Beware Strangers Bearing Gifts

Posted on 2014-01-13, 01:01

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by swaaye

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Half-Saint wrote: The bottom board looks like an ASUS nForce 2 something... Yup it's an ASUS A7N8X.

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Re: Beware Strangers Bearing Gifts

Posted on 2014-01-12, 21:25

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by swaaye

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Maybe a wonderful case of someone who put broken stuff into storage instead of garbage, forgot it was broken, dug it out as special gift 10 years later!!!!

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Re: 430NX CPU support

Posted on 2014-01-12, 01:56

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by swaaye

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There were some Socket 5 overdrives....up to 200MHz. Whether you can find one (or two!) is another matter.

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Re: DirectX compatibility problems: fact or fiction?

Posted on 2014-01-10, 20:33

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by swaaye

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my rig has win98 with dx9c newest update(for win98), and i havn't encountered any problems except the savage3, which crashs at anything involving any 3d features, including just checking opengl driver info. i tried two savage3 cards and they showed the same problem, so its unlikely that both cards …

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Banshee palette corruption

Posted on 2014-01-10, 19:17

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by swaaye

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Can someone try StarCraft's intro video on a Banshee on 98SE?

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Re: DirectX compatibility problems: fact or fiction?

Posted on 2014-01-10, 06:16

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by swaaye

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Hmm... I had something like that once, but in my case, it was a result of having >512 MB RAM. I so far have had zero issues with DirectX 9.0c under Windows 98 SE, even with older Nvidia drivers. (Again, that's as far as I know. Also, I use the April 2006 redistributable, but researching it again, I …

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Re: DirectX compatibility problems: fact or fiction?

Posted on 2014-01-09, 19:37

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by swaaye

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The only time I've had trouble is with Win9x. DirectX versions after 7.0a can cause instability particularly after quitting a game. Games may refuse to launch again until the system is rebooted. Also it seems NVIDIA drivers contribute to this instability. But stay with 7.0a or older and no trouble. …

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Re: Wing Commander 3 GOG.com version and CD-ROM driver

Posted on 2014-01-09, 06:53

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by swaaye

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What is on the DVD? I wonder how they joined the CDs.

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Re: Decent PCI Video Card for AMD K6?

Posted on 2014-01-07, 19:00

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by swaaye

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The GUI performance of G400, Rage128, Voodoo3 and TNT2 are similar anyway. Newer cards will beat Matrox unless you get a Parhelia perhaps, which has no Win9x driver. GeForce 4 MX 128bit should really stomp a Matrox G400/450/550. However a K6 is a significant bottleneck so none of this matters much. …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live!: a tale of woe... sort of

Posted on 2014-01-05, 21:19

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by swaaye

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Does any of these cards have a clear advantage over the others? Also, would you agree with swaaye's recommendation of the 2041 drivers? I guessed I skipped over the original Live! cards, thinking (perhaps foolishly) that the later Live! 5.1 cards would be better. Any particular reason why the …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live!: a tale of woe... sort of

Posted on 2014-01-05, 06:38

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by swaaye

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You really want to have a Live or Audigy in addition to a Vortex 2. EAX was used to good effect in some games and Vortex isn't useful for EAX. And of course A3D is unique and cool too, when it works right.

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Re: Sound Blaster Live!: a tale of woe... sort of

Posted on 2014-01-04, 22:41

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by swaaye

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kx drivers are no doubt the go-to choice when you aren't going to game on the Live!. But the lack of EAX and questionable DS3D support kill it for gaming. That and I think the main quandary here is Windows 98 support which kx doesn't do at all.

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Re: Sound Blaster Live!: a tale of woe... sort of

Posted on 2014-01-04, 19:42

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by swaaye

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The Live! cards to have for 98 and DOS are the original releases like CT4670 and CT4620. These work with Liveware. If you don't care much for EAX, then Aureal is great. Unbeknownst to most people though, the Aureal drivers are quite unstable and buggy. They can crash Windows with some games that use …

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Re: awesome performance of ati's opengl driver (as we already know)

Posted on 2013-12-30, 19:53

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by swaaye

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You can massively speed 7500 up with Doom3 by disabling vertex buffers. 7500 will use the game's generic ARB render path. It isn't great but it is playable I guess. 'r_usevertexbuffers 0' GF256 will run a optimized NV1x rendering path. GF4MX was far too popular to ignore. There is also a NV20 path …

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Re: Ensoniq SoundScape S-2000 - Installing in DOS

Posted on 2013-12-24, 00:56

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by swaaye

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Yup it's me! Good luck.

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Re: Ensoniq SoundScape S-2000 - Installing in DOS

Posted on 2013-12-24, 00:41

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by swaaye

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You don't need Windows if you have backed up the SNDSCAPE directory and a few files normally installed in the Windows directory. This archive should work. SNDSCAPE.INI and INITSS.BAT may need tweaking. http://www.mediafire.com/download/sf89kihj8yzi45j/SNDSCAPE.zip These are the DOS driver files …

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