Re: nVidia fixed huge fps drop in Windows XP

Posted on 2010-05-27, 17:41

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by swaaye

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Project IGI was working in Vista on my ATI DX10 cards but not my NV 8800. Maybe it works now though with these new drivers. Even on the Radeons though it has speed issues which is of course crazy at this point in time. It looked like there was something goofy going on with geometry culling.

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Re: Real MIDI emulation?

Posted on 2010-05-26, 23:56

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by swaaye

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in DOSBox Development

jez wrote: What's so different about MIDI? Every MIDI card sounds unique and you will never find a MIDI card that everyone prefers. It would also likely be illegal to include a sound ROM image from any card.

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Re: Retrobright? Can the yellow decoloration be removed or reversed?

Posted on 2010-05-26, 16:51

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are some interesting ATX Socket 7 mobos out there. ATX is such a more organized form factor, and you can usually use any 'ol ATX PSU. I wonder if Retr0bright has too much hydrogen peroxide to be easily sold to the general populace.

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Re: Old CD Magazines / Magazine CDs for download

Posted on 2010-05-26, 16:44

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I put all of them up on Underground Gamer. But you need an invite so PM me for one.

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Re: Hard-lock on Certain "The Learning Company" games

Posted on 2010-05-26, 16:38

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by swaaye

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in DOS

Do the games support SB16 specifically? SB16 has problems with backwards compatibility with older SB models. You could dig up a Sound Blaster Pro and that would run just about anything.

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Re: SoundBlaster AWE32

Posted on 2010-05-26, 01:38

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by swaaye

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Yup the General MIDI spec has nothing to do with the actual sound of the instruments. Every company had their own sounds. AWE32 has a crappy 1MB patch set ROM from E-Mu that I think is one of the worst out there. ;) If you want to use this in DOSBOX you need a way to load Soundfonts into a MIDI …

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Re: SoundBlaster AWE32

Posted on 2010-05-24, 01:41

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by swaaye

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

More precisely, AWE32/64 = SB16 + E-Mu MIDI hardware The SB16 half works like an SB16. The E-Mu hardware is not General MIDI / MPU-401 compatible unless a TSR called AWEUTIL was used. The games that have music options specifically for AWE32 are probably protected mode games. AWEUTIL isn't compatible …

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Re: Adding a PC/PCI (a.k.a. SB-Link) Connector on the BX

Posted on 2010-05-23, 17:00

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by swaaye

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The only Creative card that used it AFAIK was the Dell-only AWE64D (a PCI version of AWE64). That was a mysterious card that lived a very short life. See pic http://www.yjfy.com/Museum/sound/Creative_AWE64.htm Once they bought Ensoniq, they started using Ensoniq's DOS driver for DOS support with all …

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Re: Trying to choose an ISA video card...

Posted on 2010-05-22, 18:52

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

These articles were my references back in the day for video cards for games. They cover 1994-1995 era ISA, VLB and PCI cards. (links from my mag post in sig) http://thumbnails12.imagebam.com/3082/ac608530810999.gif http://thumbnails14.imagebam.com/3081/5574cc30806847.gif I picked up a Speedstar Pro …

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Re: Trying to choose an ISA video card...

Posted on 2010-05-21, 18:31

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yup I remember the WD/Paradise and Trident cards primarily. Just slow DOS VGA hardware with essentially nothing for GUI functions. I was actually on a 286 until 1992. 😁

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Re: Trying to choose an ISA video card...

Posted on 2010-05-20, 02:22

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a Diamond Speedstar Pro back in the day. The Cirrus Logic chips were very popular back then and they are about as fast as ISA can go.

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Re: Help Needed with new 486 Build

Posted on 2010-05-19, 00:32

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why are you so hell bent on defragging? :D It doesn't help much at all in practice, especially if you have a semi-modern HDD waiting on that 486. Any drive from like 1998 onward is faster than that CPU can feed. If you want mad HDD speed and have PCI, put in a UDMA card. I run a Promise Ultra66 in …

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Re: DOOM framerates differences AGP vs. PCI - *Updated*

Posted on 2010-05-18, 19:12

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I remember 3DBench being inaccurate on fast 486s and above.

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Re: VIDEO CARDS: VIRGE versus VIRGE DX ... improved for DOS Games?

Posted on 2010-05-17, 22:13

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by swaaye

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External DACs were used because the manufacturing would cost more to have it integrated. As manufacturing capabilities improved the integration increased and it allowed for ever cheaper boards. I doubt that the integrated vs. external DAC aspect affects quality much. It's all about how well they …

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Re: Howto: Installing Sound Blaster 16 drivers for Windows 3.1 in Virtual PC

Posted on 2010-05-17, 20:52

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by swaaye

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It's not like the Real Thing (TM) didn't crash every other hour. ;) One thing that implodes that OS nicely is web browsing. For some reason it will crash the display driver. I don't think it's specifically caused by IE. It may be shitty S3 drivers in action. Win3.x was the early times of GUI …

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Re: VIDEO CARDS: VIRGE versus VIRGE DX ... improved for DOS Games?

Posted on 2010-05-16, 23:36

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by swaaye

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Analog signal quality is primarily determined by board design quality. Or should I say that if it's blurry, blame the board? The specs sheet won't tell you if it's gonna be a blur fest or not. Virge DX/GX are similar and offered a considerable (relative to original Virge) increase in D3D performance …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2010-05-16, 21:28

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by swaaye

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It's a lot better with a mid P2 or a P3 than any K6, even K6-III+. At the same clock speed the K6 will be blown away. I just thought of this because you mentioned the old PowerVR PCX2 was running as fast as his Voodoo3. That would be a CPU bottleneck. Brings back memories how much Duron blew some of …

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Re: Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro

Posted on 2010-05-16, 21:24

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by swaaye

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That's the usual VESA feature connector. Lots of cards had it. It disappeared once AGP had been around for a year or two. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_connector BTW, Diamond's "manuals" were usually just guides on how to install the card and install drivers. Maybe a table of supported …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2010-05-16, 18:58

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by swaaye

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Quake 3 runs horrible on even the fastest K6 CPUs.

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Re: DOOM framerates differences AGP vs. PCI - *Updated*

Posted on 2010-05-15, 17:55

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by swaaye

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Also may need Fastvid to get the most VGA speed out of that P6.

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