Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-05-06, 08:52

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by Joseph_Joestar

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However, one thing I've noticed when overclocking the Ti 4200, is that somewhere between Ti 4400 and 4600 speeds, most Win 98 games will run at 60+ FPS at 1600 x 1200 x 32, while at Ti 4200 speeds some games fall below the magic 60 FPS mark (NFS Porsche is such an example). Even 1920 x 1440 x 32 …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-05-06, 05:55

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Typically you wouldn't really need to play with IRQ assignments, you might just need to move each sound card to a specific PCI slot. Well, this board only has 3 PCI slots, with the first one being kinda blocked off by the GPU cooler. So not a lot of room for maneuvering there. OTOH, here's what I …

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Re: Weird texture issues in Half Life (WON) on Windows 98SE with Geforce cards

Posted on 2022-05-06, 03:32

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I wanted to try the earlier 45.23 drivers that I've seen recommended, but something about the download (from PhilsComputerLab's site) didn't let Windows 98SE see them as drivers at all. That's because your FX5700 is too new for 45.23. Try using 56.64 instead. And I've seen mentions that they're not …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-05-05, 19:47

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Great build! Cheers! I took your advice on the CPU and GPU coolers. ;) You can see a better picture of that GeForce4 and its cooler here . Throw in a Yamaha YMF7x4 sound card for DOS, and you've got yourself a system that can pretty much run 15 - 20 years worth of games. I did consider that, but …

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Re: AthlonXP 1700+ / Abit KT7A / GeForce4 / SBLive / ALS100

Posted on 2022-05-05, 19:23

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by Joseph_Joestar

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My system (KT7 + Thunderbird) is able to boot with 5,5x only as lowest setting. I don't really know the reason behind...? Not sure, maybe your CPU doesn't support multipliers lower than 5.5x. Or this could have something to do with the motherboard revision or the BIOS version that you're using. My …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-05-05, 17:46

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Yes, but only when I selected the Audigy MPU 401 as the DOS MIDI device in the Aureal drivers, my understanding is that the same MIDI signals are output to both the game port and Live Drive at the same time. Hmm, it could be that something specific to the Aureal drivers makes this work then. In the …

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Re: Were there any proprietary sound card features for 3rd and 4th generation Sound Blaster cards?

Posted on 2022-05-05, 17:38

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Can you remember me of a game using this? I swear I tried one, but now I forgot as it was long time ago. Eradicator maybe? That game did use some more advanced features of the AWE cards, but I'm not entirely sure about the 3DSE thing. Here's a gameplay video of Eradicator on an AWE64, courtesy of …

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Re: Were there any proprietary sound card features for 3rd and 4th generation Sound Blaster cards?

Posted on 2022-05-05, 16:42

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AWE64 cards also have something called "Creative 3D Stereo Enhancement Effect". The Creative 3D Stereo Enhancement (3DSE) effect allows you to eliminate speaker crosstalk which occurs when two speakers are placed close together. With this effect enabled, mono and stereo sounds produced by your …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-05-05, 14:41

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I believe it's a Windows setting but I'm not sure how to change it. The only place where I can change the MIDI output settings of the Audigy is the Multimedia Properties screen under Control Panel: Multimedia_Properties.jpg However, no matter what I select here, DOS games (like Duke3D) always use …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-05-05, 12:58

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Remote_and_Bracket.jpg My Audigy was missing a gameport bracket so I got a spare. Using that, both my CH Flightstick and my SC-155 worked fine in native Windows games. The joystick also functions properly in DOS games, but the Sound Canvas does not. I played around with the Multimedia settings …

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Re: What scary games require booze to take the edge off?

Posted on 2022-05-04, 17:51

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chiveicrook wrote on 2022-05-04, 16:39: Not a whole game but "Robbing the Cradle" mission in Thief: Deadly Shadows is awesome, it even has its own wiki article 😀 Yup, that level is pure nightmare fuel. For maximum effect, play it in a dark room, using headphones, with an EAX4 capable sound card and …

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Re: Glide wrapper for Win98?

Posted on 2022-05-04, 17:12

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by Joseph_Joestar

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nGlide works under Win98 but you need a DX9 capable card and DirectX 9.0c installed.

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Re: A "broad spectrum" 90s build?

Posted on 2022-05-04, 13:25

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Not worth getting it just for games supporting S3TC. I agree with this. And just to add, not every object in Unreal Tournament uses High-Res Compressed Textures. It varies from map to map. Certain maps only have 1-2 of these, usually on the floor and a few specific walls. You can see some …

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Re: Is Pentium 1 too fast for early 90s DOS games?

Posted on 2022-05-04, 07:59

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Setmul tells you, but branch prediction and instruction caching are others. You need to be using a mmx cpu. I think it should be possible to go down to 386 speeds on a normal Pentium too. Go to the BIOS and disable both L1 and L2 caches. If the L2 option (sometimes called External Cache) is not …

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Re: SC-55 Japanese import vs Dreamblaster X2GS

Posted on 2022-05-03, 09:34

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Has anyone imported a sound canvas fromJapan to Europe and how did you power it? any issues? My SC-155 came with a third party adapter which seemed to cause some buzzing. I replaced it with a PSA-230S which you can buy directly from Boss/Roland today. It's the modern equivalent of the SC-155 …

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Re: [Help]An acceptable Windows XP Gaming System

Posted on 2022-05-02, 17:16

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by Joseph_Joestar

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A lot of that does not use DirectSound3D and instead works with OpenAL, which is perfectly fine in Vista+ environment. Case and point - original Bioshock. Not everything though, most games from 2005 and 2006 use EAX proper. Vista didn't arrive until late 2006, early 2007. But yes, if a game …

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Re: [Help]An acceptable Windows XP Gaming System

Posted on 2022-05-02, 17:04

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Windows 98 for Games up to around 98 using 99/00 hardware. Directx 7 system. Voodoo cards do best here. There are a few games made in 1999 and 2000 which use table fog and paletted textures though. Not many of course, so they are more like an exception than the norm. Notable examples include Thief …

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Re: Performance issues with Geforce Ti 4200 on win 98SE

Posted on 2022-05-02, 12:05

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by Joseph_Joestar

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bassix6 wrote on 2022-05-02, 11:49: I installed the latest drivers for the GPU That's your issue right there. Try using 45.23 or lower for a GeForce4 under Win98SE.

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Re: Digital game collection addiction

Posted on 2022-05-02, 10:17

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Q3's 1.17 was one of the many patches fired out before the full release of Q3 I don't think that's correct. Quake 3 was released on December 2nd 1999. Patch 1.17 came out on May 3rd 2000. Source . The next patch version was 1.25 which came out on September 22nd 2000. It was this patch that removed …

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Re: [Help]An acceptable Windows XP Gaming System

Posted on 2022-05-02, 08:18

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Or even use 2.0 speakers or headphones and still benefit from EAX and A3D beyond normal stereo sound. In some cases, it might even be more beneficial to use headphones. For one, A3D 2.0 will give you much better positional audio over headphones. And later EAX capable cards (such as the Audigy and …

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