Re: Blurry image on fullscreen after switching to geforce (same LCD screen)
Posted on 2007-10-02, 18:20
might also want to try the LCD's scaling instead of the GPU's. You can choose between them in NV's control panel.
Re: Tie Fighter 95 audio tracks don't play when using BIN/CUE image
Posted on 2007-10-01, 21:35
I can't stand the Collectors' Series X-Wing and TIE Fighter. Without the MIDI music the games are almost boring. I really never liked redbook audio; way too non-interactive. The original scores of the games were way more fun, and a break from the overly-used John Williams stuff. If they'd gotten …
Re: (Non-voodoo) video card considerations when building Win9x system?
Posted on 2007-10-01, 21:04
Yeah I've had good luck with GeForce FX and old games. It has palleted texture support, good multisampled anti-aliasing and texture filtering. They do have supersampling support, but it will really drag down performance. GF FX is much better than GeForce2 in every way, really. Even the rather crappy …
Re: Practicality/ logic for old hardware vs. newer hardware
Posted on 2007-09-26, 20:06
Anyone who actually lived thru those days and played the games can tell you that compatibility is a bitch and it's highly unlikely that a certain set of hardware will run everything perfectly. The Tseng Labs and S3 stuff actually got attention from game devs tho so compatibility is more likely. …
Re: Some legacy gaming PC questions (sound cards, mouse movement slowdown)
Posted on 2007-09-04, 19:12
Apparently there were faster 100 MHz Coppermines built: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III 100 MHz FSB: 500, 550, 600, 650, 700, 750, 800, 850, 900, 1000, 1100 MHz (E-Models) And yeah, multiple sound cards will most likely be a headache. But for UT, you'd probably want a PCI card to save CPU …
Re: Best O/S for PII?
Posted on 2007-09-04, 19:05
If you didn't have AGP and USB, go with 95 OSR2.5. But with a P2B, I'd go with 98SE. Win2K won't work well with games of those days, and it really needs more than 256 MB RAM.
Re: Practicality/ logic for old hardware vs. newer hardware
Posted on 2007-09-04, 19:00
I'd just use Quake95 if you really want to play Quake. That game is one that would require a ton of CPU power within DOSBOX. Another argument for just using DOSBOX instead of old hardware is that if you try to play some DOS games on newer hardware, such as a K6 say, they may not be stable. It's …
Re: Sound cards - from best to worst
Posted on 2007-09-04, 18:57
I wouldn't say GUS had good SB emulation. Unless you mean quality and not compatibility. A real SB was just about always the way to go for that.
Re: New Direct-X 10.1 won't be backwards compatible with Direct-X 10.0
Posted on 2007-08-28, 19:49
From what I've read, DX 10.1 is a minor change but adds things current cards can't do. double precision floating point math for example. Considering devs are currently writing mainly for shader model 3 and cheap bastards are up in arms over BioShock's lack of support for shader model 2, I don't …
2 hour 20 minute Wing Commander III movie!
Posted on 2007-08-27, 22:41
http://www.wcnews.com/holovids/ Scroll down a bit to Queeg's WCIII movie! OMG! This is pretty nifty to say the least.
Re: Some legacy gaming PC questions (sound cards, mouse movement slowdown)
Posted on 2007-08-27, 22:24
nah there are definitely coppermines that are 100 MHz chips. If you can get at a photo of the chip, the label on it will say the bus speed it uses. Back in their time, the 550E was popular because it was fairly cheap and had the 100 MHz bus so the 440BX people could overclock them easier. Personally …
Re: Some legacy gaming PC questions (sound cards, mouse movement slowdown)
Posted on 2007-08-21, 18:52
Yeah Windows will spread out a single threaded app across two CPUs in that way. 50% total that looks like 50% on each core. It's a single threaded app if it's doing that. Everything that's not multithreaded and doesn't have specific instructions in its exe to do otherwise will do that. You can force …
Re: Pentium 4 Server motherboard with ISA slots?!
Posted on 2007-08-21, 18:40
And in goes the AWE32 + SCD15 DB combo! LMAO
Re: Some legacy gaming PC questions (sound cards, mouse movement slowdown)
Posted on 2007-08-20, 21:21
Yeah I definitely remember the ZIP drives. I never had one myself, but knew many people who had them. There were the Iomega JAZZ drives too, which were 1 GB and a lot more expensive. I actually was a bit interested in a Syquest EZ135 drive back then, but they had reliability issues. All of these …
Re: Some legacy gaming PC questions (sound cards, mouse movement slowdown)
Posted on 2007-08-17, 19:51
Responses to your points: -Smart Boot Manager. a sweet little app you put on a floppy. With it, you can boot a CD on a 486! :) A P2 should definitely have a BIOS option to boot from CD though. Make sure the BIOS is recognizing your CDROM on boot. Might have to set autodetect on each channel/device. …
Re: Some legacy gaming PC questions (sound cards, mouse movement slowdown)
Posted on 2007-08-16, 19:13
Yeah don't use USB on those old boards. Big CPU hit. I don't remember a PS2 problem tho, but I do remember I always stuck with PS2 back in those days simply because of what USB did to your CPU cycles. I don't know about video encoding on a pair of Mendocinos. They don't even have SSE. I don't think …
Re: Some legacy gaming PC questions (sound cards, mouse movement slowdown)
Posted on 2007-08-15, 19:52
Taking a Celeron 366 to 555 or so is going to be very tough I think. 300A-to-450 wasn't the most popular because it was slower than a 366 to 555, it was popular because it was cheap and nearly always worked.... Even a 333 to 504 is questionable to the 250nm core. Worrying a bunch about cooling may …
Re: Ensoniq Soundscape Elite question
Posted on 2007-08-14, 22:23
Yeah if a game supports it directly it is an excellent card. Great quality audio, both in MIDI and a clean digital audio section. But, if you want to play a game that lacks native support for the card's digital audio or only has FM music, you are much better off with a real sound blaster pro …
Supermicro P6SKE or Megatrends FX83A
Posted on 2007-08-14, 20:28
My first post-486 puter, a major milestone in my life lol, was built on a Megatrends FX83-A II. This board is actually a relabeled Supermicro P6SKE II (which is itself almost identical to plain P6SKE). I've been trying to find one out there, but they are very rare. Does anyone know of a source of …
Re: Some legacy gaming PC questions (sound cards, mouse movement slowdown)
Posted on 2007-08-14, 20:24
A pair of Celeron 300A's at 450 would be nice. Not sure how likely those Mendocinos are to go up to 500 or so tho. You don't want to be stuck at 66 MHz bus tho IMO, so get on that overclocking 🤣. List of Intel Celeron microprocessors
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