Re: Where are the WinXP SATA/AHCI drivers for VIA chipsets, primarily K8M800?
Posted on 2023-09-18, 13:07
You can use nlite. A floppy drive is handy to have though. Sometimes USB floppy drives show up at thrift stores.
Re: Retro XP Gaming Build OS Advice: 32bit or 64bit XP?
Posted on 2023-09-18, 03:13
Crysis, UT2004 and Far Cry had builds. It was rather academic for the latter two though. I played around with XP x64 a bit during its run. It's fine for most things but sometimes you might run into problems with games. I remember Oblivion doing something weird at some point. The testing just wasn't …
Re: Matrox Roundup G200, G400, G400 MAX, G450 and G550
Posted on 2023-09-15, 21:16
It's possible TurboGL is faster because of reduced image quality. People didn't really look closely back then. Also, G400 had some early variations that weren't capable of 4X. Maybe that could trip up a 1.5v motherboard. http://www.murc.ws/showthread.php?22558-What- … 0-MAX-Revisions
Re: GPU recommendations for Pentium 3 600mhz
Posted on 2023-09-10, 16:41
Any GeForce is a super fast card for a P3 600. For TNT gen, I would look for a TNT2. A Radeon will have better image quality than the NV cards, including 2D sharpness in most cases. Nvidia cards of that time sometimes have terrible vga output quality. Game compatibility will be somewhat more …
Re: Crimes Against Silicon: Scuffed CPU/GPU cores
Posted on 2023-09-09, 18:01
It's interesting how the Socket A K7s can handle some chips off the sides. I guess they designed it with, shall we call it, ablative armor hehe. A delidded K6 is very easy to kill.
Re: Agp 4x doesn't turn on
Posted on 2023-09-07, 12:54
Nvidia drivers often force 2X on chipsets not made by Intel. On AGP 4x chipsets other than Intel's, 4x is usually unreliable. I think you are right. I found on asus.com a reg file to enable agp 4x with nVidia GPU but it doesn't work... :-( Maybe I have to change the graphics card or the motherboard …
Re: Agp 4x doesn't turn on
Posted on 2023-09-06, 22:42
Nvidia drivers often force 2X on chipsets not made by Intel. On AGP 4x chipsets other than Intel's, 4x is usually unreliable.
Re: need help with incomplete soundscape opus win9x installation
Posted on 2023-08-17, 18:47
i'm giving up on this card. i've tried every conceivable (and incompatible) driver to no avail. the error originates with configmg.vxd so i even restored the 4.10.2222 version from the win98se cab files over the updated 4.10.2225 and nothing. i also found out the missing entries in system.ini from …
Re: Best gpu for maxing out a athlon 1400 ?
Posted on 2023-08-15, 20:59
Thanks for your reply. That is good to know that there are some games that may need some tinkering to make them run nice. This info helps me a lot to narrow down which card to purchase. I will also look into the different glide wrappers. For Glide games itself a real voodoo card would be the best …
Re: Best gpu for maxing out a athlon 1400 ?
Posted on 2023-08-15, 20:28
at a quick glance D2 seemed to look correct with a ti 4200, using the 1.13d patch, but the CPU overhead was absolutely ridiculous. in glide on a V3, a pii 400 is enough to almost always hit 25 FPS save for very intensive areas, but with the ti 4200 in D3D it was a stuttery mess even on a piii 1100. …
Re: Best gpu for maxing out a athlon 1400 ?
Posted on 2023-08-14, 19:01
-Diablo 2 is a quirky one. It runs perfectly on a Voodoo3 with Glide, better than almost any card trying to use the D3D mode. It's D3D 6-based and that just isn't efficient for how Diablo 2 works. You need to look into Glide wrappers. Sven Labusch's Glide wrapper was the best for a long time, but my …
Re: Quake 2 Remastered has been released!
Posted on 2023-08-13, 15:08
But, I find nothing impressive. Saw lighting and shadow enhancements, but not much that make the mind go 'wow'. Have you tried the RTX Quake 2? That one is definitely a bit more visually interesting. Maybe visually "curious" is more appropriate. Surreal. But I hear you on the been there done that …
Re: Quake 2 Remastered has been released!
Posted on 2023-08-13, 03:54
The N64 game is one of my favs on the console. Mostly original maps and curious hybrid Quake / Quake 2 tech. It is quite challenging and slow paced because of the control limitations and performance. Actually that also reminds me of the Perfect Dark port on Xbox 360. It's so insanely easier to play …
Re: 64 vs 128-bit video cards, worth the upgrade?
Posted on 2023-08-05, 15:52
A Voodoo3 is quite a bit faster with 3DNow patched Quake II (+60fps) , but yields a similar result in Unreal Tournament (around 30/32 fps), although the Voodoo3 feels smoother. There are slowdowns when I use a Radeon card, I don't know where they come from. Perhaps the explosions, I'm not sure. …
Re: 64 vs 128-bit video cards, worth the upgrade?
Posted on 2023-08-02, 23:09
Your CPU is the bottleneck. Those are very fast cards for a K6. You'd see more difference between the cards at 1600x1200. That would significantly shift the load towards fillrate and memory bandwidth.
Re: Rendition Verite Thread
Posted on 2023-07-15, 17:41
That was an interesting read. Apparently even Michael Abrash was involved in vquake. Lately I read his graphics programming black book, very recommended for pre-3d programming. Everyone always talks about Carmack and tends to forget him for some reason. Michael Abrash was involved with Quake in …
Re: Rendition Verite Thread
Posted on 2023-07-14, 19:15
Yeah the V1000 wasn't designed to be used with z-buffering. It's not all that surprising for the time though. Voodoo was just an exception to these sorts of limitations. V2000 is a very large improvement of their architecture and much faster, but the competition was moving too fast. Voodoo2 launched …
Re: Rendition Verite Thread
Posted on 2023-07-14, 16:43
Let's see. At the time, it was the only 2D/3D combo that was particularly useful, and they were touting exclusive 3D accelerated Quake (vQuake). id Software said the V1000 was great. It took maybe a year before it became clear that it was actually nowhere near Voodoo1's capability. There were some …
Re: Holy Grail Slot A machine
Posted on 2023-07-10, 16:13
I worked on one of these back in 1999 or 2000. It was unstable for some reason but yeah don't remember the details. Slot A is some of the most interesting hardware. Such exciting times those were. The AGP is a bit quirky however.
Re: Intel HD 4000 GFX Compatibility
Posted on 2023-06-15, 20:05
Yeah but well that solution defeats the purpose of XP gaming: EAX, incompatible disk check DRM, water reflections in aforementioned Far Cry, etc. Someone did try it though: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=85094 I suppose. But most of that isn't a big problem. Audigy and X-Fi work up to …
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