Re: Geforce FX Super Thread

Posted on 2011-03-03, 21:22

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by swaaye

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They are both probably going to be quite slow. You don't really want to do DX9 anything on any FX card. Half Life 2 in DX9 mode is something like 60% slower than DX8.1 mode on my 5900 Ultra. It's slower than a Radeon 9600 Pro.

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Re: Chronologistic PC emulation

Posted on 2011-03-03, 19:55

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by swaaye

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DOSBOX would have to simulate so many things. You'd have instruction latencies, quirks, accurate memory/cache bandwidth, buses, etc. Eeek. Massive amount of effort for something of dubious value. I'd rather have the effort put into that Voodoo emulation, personally. 😁

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Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline info and pics

Posted on 2011-03-02, 21:22

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by swaaye

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V1000 is really only well suited for Rendition's Speedy3D and RRedline APIs. VQuake uses Speedy3D in addition to being designed to render in a way that works well with V1000. V1000 performs poorly with both D3D and OpenGL for various reasons. D3D runs much better than OpenGL though. If you'd like to …

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Re: Crap AGP performance

Posted on 2011-02-28, 17:50

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by swaaye

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That 3850 will deflate the excitement of a 6800 GS for sure 🤣

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Re: 3D Labs Permedia 2

Posted on 2011-02-27, 20:08

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by swaaye

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Yup Permedia has capable OpenGL support. It was the entry level pro graphics chip and that's why it was onboard Diamond's FireGL Pro 1000 workstation card. I wouldn't be surprised if a NVIDIA TNT became a better choice for even professional apps though. TNT is several times faster than Permedia 2 …

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-02-27, 18:49

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by swaaye

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Let me rephrase what I said :D - by classy I meant he was a clown for selling a modified CPU on ebay without stating that it was modified. At least that's how I took it. Now, if I had to choose a mod, I would mod the board because it would be unlikely I would ever downgrade it again. I do sometimes …

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Re: 3D Labs Permedia 2

Posted on 2011-02-27, 18:42

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by swaaye

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A Virge can play S3D games (ie Terminal Velocity) and Rage Pro can play a unique version of Mechwarrior 2 so don't discount the others there too quickly. Permedia isn't really useful for more than 2D IMO... My FireGL 1000 is a pretty clean 2D card, I'll give it that. Laguna 3D is pure garbage though …

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-02-27, 16:49

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by swaaye

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RogueTrip2012 wrote: I had bought a 1.3GHz Tualeron off ebay and the seller actually removes some pins and soldered in some resistors across others. Oh that's classy of him. Probably a permanent pin mod instead of a socket mod. Dumb.

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Re: 3D Labs Permedia 2

Posted on 2011-02-27, 16:42

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by swaaye

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I ran one in my 3D Accelerator thread, screenshots and benchmarks included. Pretty lame little chip if you ask me. It's just another chip that got steamrolled by competitors. It is missing a number of important features. One interesting thing about it though is that id Software kinda liked it and …

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Re: 387 Co-Processor, where can I find one?

Posted on 2011-02-27, 00:01

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by swaaye

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I think he just wants to fill in the socket. 😉

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Re: Yamaha DB50XG CD ROM Drivers

Posted on 2011-02-26, 18:14

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by swaaye

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I think all that it came with was some MIDI sequencer app. Like Ratfink says, no drivers are needed just an MPU-401 interface and software that uses it.

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Re: Geforce4 MX 440 Datasheet/reference/specifications

Posted on 2011-02-26, 18:11

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by swaaye

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If you want to know A LOT about ATI hardware, look here. They released docs for X.org driver development. http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ It appears that hardware from before DX9 has been left behind though.

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-02-26, 02:47

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by swaaye

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I imagine that it's similar to a KT133A motherboard in a lot of ways.\

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-02-25, 22:25

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by swaaye

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DDR barely does anything for Socket 370 because the CPU bus is already saturated by SDRAM. You know, the bus runs in sync with the RAM and they are both 64-bits wide.

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-02-25, 21:39

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by swaaye

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The way I see it, though, what're you realistically going to do on a PIII that requires more than 512MB RAM? Or, more to the point, given the wide availability of much newer hardware for similar prices, why would you choose to use a PIII for things that would be better suited to a more modern …

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-02-25, 19:41

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by swaaye

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ASUS TUSL2-C comes to mind, of course. There really are quite a few boards with Tualatin support if you do some Google searching... The problem with 815 boards is that 512MB limit which quite frankly sucks to a very high degree. I can load my 440BX board up with more RAM than that. The VIA mobos …

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Re: My Ultimate 486

Posted on 2011-02-24, 19:41

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by swaaye

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I really just don't get why they made Quake and other Pentium-era apps so FPU heavy in the first place. Were they in bed with Intel and wanted to help them sell more Pentium boxes? The reasoning was that the Pentium was going to be the mass market leader, and obviously it was. id wanted to make a …

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Re: My Ultimate 486

Posted on 2011-02-24, 19:36

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by swaaye

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What would be cool is if someone found a way to emulate FPU instructions on a Voodoo GPU. XD Heh unfortunately there's no hardware in a Voodoo that is going to execute x87 code. ;) Use a Voodoo 2 or later instead of Voodoo1 because Voodoo1 only has partial triangle setup offload. Might give a …

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Re: Vortex 2 soundcard manual and DB60XG questions

Posted on 2011-02-24, 19:23

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by swaaye

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The "wavetable" term was apparently used incorrectly back then. I think our little fun DOS cards tend to be more simplistic than wavetable lets on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavetable_synthesis MPU-401 is a Roland interface. That's why nobody else really wanted to support it directly in their …

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Re: Vortex 2 soundcard manual and DB60XG questions

Posted on 2011-02-24, 05:43

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by swaaye

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MPU-401 is the DB header. The other setting uses the Vortex MIDI synth. Might want to check in Multimedia settings to make sure that the correct MIDI device is chosen there as well. This is how a DB mounts on a MX300. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Roland_SCD-15_on_Diamond_MX300. …

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