Re: My top-build, a parts-surplus proof-of-concept

Posted on 2022-09-10, 09:49

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I had a similar rig back in the early 2000s, except my GPU was a GeForce 2 MX400. You would probably get slightly better performance with such a period correct Nvidia card and early drivers like 7.76 since they don't have that much CPU overhead.

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Re: Better video card options for this Super Socket 7 build

Posted on 2022-09-10, 04:23

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Yeah I figured that the earlier ones might give better performance, though I wasn't sure quite how far back I could go for the TNT2. On Vogonsdrivers, the supported cards are usually listed in the description, but you can also check manually by looking at the relevant .inf file after downloading …

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Re: Better video card options for this Super Socket 7 build

Posted on 2022-09-10, 03:40

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I tried three or four drivers, 6.18, 8.05, 12.41, 45.23 and the official Asus drivers from Asus website. With a TNT2, you might get slightly more performance with even older drivers. Try 3.68 . Of course, this may depend on which games you're playing. Newer drivers might be better optimized for …

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Re: Duke 3d awe32 mode why sounds like this?.

Posted on 2022-09-09, 12:28

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I have noticed this as well with the Duke3D intro song (Grabbag) on my AWE64, but not with any other tracks. Here are a few songs that I recorded via SPDIF out, including Stalker (first level track in Duke3D) and that one sounds pretty good to my ears.

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2022-09-09, 10:16

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I had a go with my Intel GPU with Thief 2 in Mission 1, to check if the starts render (8 bit pallettized textures). The Thief 2 stars are not paletted textures. This was our initial assumption, but it was proven wrong through further testing and cross-referencing the findings with old posts on the …

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Re: List of Win9x games with surround sound support

Posted on 2022-09-09, 05:46

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Likewise, I have the same model of Vortex 2 as well, so I can’t check native A3D surround sound either. I should have done more research… I just snapped up the first cheap Vortex 2 card I found, and the only ones I can find these days with both speaker jacks are $150+. Have you ever seen the …

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Re: List of Win9x games with surround sound support

Posted on 2022-09-08, 04:59

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I wish I had a 7.1 set up... oh well. Heh, me too! :D Who would have thought that so many Win9x titles actually support that. Some of those 7.0 games were even made at the tail end of the '90s. A few more for the list: Cheers, added all of those. I once again cross-checked with the PC Gaming Wiki …

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Re: Your favorite 4:3 1600x1200 @ 70Hz+ LCD?

Posted on 2022-09-07, 11:45

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by Joseph_Joestar

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While I don't have a suggestion for the monitor, I will say that you actually want 60 Hz for playing games from the early to mid 2000s. The reason is that most of them are multi platform titles which were designed for running on consoles connected to 60 Hz TVs. If you set your refresh rate higher …

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Re: The Graphics card of the year 1997

Posted on 2022-09-06, 14:29

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Probably an S3 Virge DX manufactured by either Diamond, STB, Elsa or Hercules. Generic ones often have image quality issues. Pair it with a Voodoo1 if you want to play Carmageddon at a somewhat reasonable frame rate on that system.

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Re: AthlonXP 1700+ / Abit KT7A / Voodoo3 / Audigy1 / Vortex2

Posted on 2022-09-06, 11:57

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by Joseph_Joestar

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A slight upgrade: I have replaced the SBLive 5.1 with an Audigy Platinum. The main reason was that the SBLive automatically expanded stereo inputs (e.g. CD Audio, DOS games etc.) to surround when connected to 5.1 speakers. I couldn't find any way to disable this, other than manually forcing the …

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Re: List of Win9x games with surround sound support

Posted on 2022-09-06, 03:47

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Desomondo wrote on 2022-09-06, 03:21: Tested a few more: Added, thanks! The PC Gaming Wiki lists BloodRayne and Soldier of Fortune as supporting up to 7.0 so I've deferred to their tests in those two cases. Everything else was added as per your findings.

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2022-09-06, 03:38

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Can you try this game with a Table Fog compatible chip and see how the game reacts to distance (and and relevant screenshots for proper visible fog which I didn't find in vertex one). Not sure if this was addressed at me or others in general, but I don't own that game and I'm not familiar with it. …

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Re: Why VIA chipset vs. Intel for PII/III?

Posted on 2022-09-05, 15:49

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Not to be disputatious, but that's not what I found at all. I found that once L1 was disabled, performance was always equally slow, regardless of CPU speed (with Barton at least). Granted, it's been a while since I last tested this, so it's entirely possible that I could be wrong. But I do seem to …

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Re: VIA KT133 - Windows hangs for a long time during restart/shutdown

Posted on 2022-09-05, 12:03

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by Joseph_Joestar

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leonardo wrote on 2022-09-05, 11:43: OK, this looks like it could actually be due to a resource conflict: If you're using two sound cards at the same time, you need to either disable one of the joystick ports or assign it to a different address.

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Re: Quake 1, low fps on P266. What should i expect?

Posted on 2022-09-05, 09:38

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by Joseph_Joestar

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So here is the thing, I'm tryinv to play Quake 1 in pure dos in 640x480. On a laptop with Pentium 266mhz MMX. I'm getting 10 fps: That's normal performance for a Pentium MMX at 640x480 using software rendering. There's a reason people were using Voodoo cards back in the day. Take a look at my …

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Re: Why VIA chipset vs. Intel for PII/III?

Posted on 2022-09-05, 06:12

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Titus also surprisingly runs perfectly fine (at least at the level start) with just SETMUL L1D. CPU spec is Barton running at 16x100. Sound is perfect (ALS100 ISA), speed is correct. -update: For Jazz, I set the FSB in the BIOS back to 133 (133x16 = 2.13Ghz), ran SETMUL 3 which brought it down to …

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Re: Why VIA chipset vs. Intel for PII/III?

Posted on 2022-09-04, 20:52

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by Joseph_Joestar

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With a multiplier of 3 and throttle set pretty low, I can get to a 486 DX2/50 (according to Speedsys), but the game runs too slow. With an AthlonXP, you don't need to get the multiplier all the way down to effectively use Throttle. Try it at 500 MHz (or higher) and then use different Throttle …

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Re: List of Win9x games with surround sound support

Posted on 2022-09-04, 09:54

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I just tested Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. Normally, it defaults to stereo, but it's possible to enable surround support by setting the following in the game's config.cfg: snd_surround "1" However, this appears to only deliver 4.0 surround. The front center speaker remains silent, even when …

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Re: OpenGL or Direct3D discontinued functionality (Specific OpenGL extension games)

Posted on 2022-09-04, 08:52

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by Joseph_Joestar

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For palleted textures support, the relevant GL extensions are: Copy code to clipboard 1 GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette 2 GL_EXT_paletted_texture They are supported up to (and including) the GeForce FX line on Nvidia cards. GeForce 6 and later dropped support for those.

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Re: List of Win9x games with surround sound support

Posted on 2022-09-04, 08:46

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by Joseph_Joestar

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id Tech 3 games licensing Ritual's UberTools should have Miles sound with them (FAKK2, Alice, MOHAA, EF2) Cheers! Added all of those. CMSS 2 should be able to extract the hidden audio and upmix to 5.1 I just tried this and the sound did expand to all speakers (as expected of CMSS) but the results …

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