Re: PCI Diamond Viper v550 16mb VS PCI Monster3D II 3Dfx Voodoo 8MB

Posted on 2020-05-27, 06:51

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by Mentalbass

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Thanks for all info on this. I've been reading other posts on this subsject and they all having one thing in common: agree to disagree :-) My questions would be: 1. Do i leave the viper next to the monster 3d 2 card with a passcable. If so, do i need to uninstall the viper first...... install wise …

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Re: PCI Diamond Viper v550 16mb VS PCI Monster3D II 3Dfx Voodoo 8MB

Posted on 2020-05-27, 01:32

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by Mentalbass

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UE1 and especially Unreal and UT are notoriously bad when using the original D3D and OpenGL renderers. Weird performance hiccups, apparently some features missing. Overall, on period correct hardware, Glide performs a lot better as the engine was written with that in mind alongside software …

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Re: PCI Diamond Viper v550 16mb VS PCI Monster3D II 3Dfx Voodoo 8MB

Posted on 2020-05-27, 01:25

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by Mentalbass

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Why not try it and see? The whole point of the Voodoo2 is you can run it alongside other 2d/3d cards. So i can leave the viper in, connect it to the voodoo? How do you do this driver-wise, installing it? Replace *can* with *must* and you are getting closer. Do you have a pass through cable? As you …

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Re: PCI Diamond Viper v550 16mb VS PCI Monster3D II 3Dfx Voodoo 8MB

Posted on 2020-05-26, 21:33

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by Mentalbass

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kolderman wrote on 2020-05-26, 21:21: Why not try it and see? The whole point of the Voodoo2 is you can run it alongside other 2d/3d cards. So i can leave the viper in, connect it to the voodoo? How do you do this driver-wise, installing it?

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PCI Diamond Viper v550 16mb VS PCI Monster3D II 3Dfx Voodoo 8MB

Posted on 2020-05-26, 21:13

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by Mentalbass

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Hello, I'm playing Unreal tournament GOTY edition. Using a hp vectra vei8, p3 500mhz, 256mb ram and win98SE. And runs farely good on 1024x768 owith a Diamond viper v550 PCI graphics card. It has no AGP Slot. I did expect it to run great but at these settings framerate is still sort-a-fluid. Even …

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Re: Compaq deskpro EXD p3 1ghz 256mb

Posted on 2020-05-17, 22:48

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by Mentalbass

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brian105 wrote on 2020-05-17, 22:35: Try this one. Thanks! Will try 😀 P.s. i thought these systems were sold by millions so why is any software like recovery discs or system discs so hard to find 🤔?

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Compaq deskpro EXD p3 1ghz 256mb

Posted on 2020-05-17, 21:40

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by Mentalbass

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Hello, I reinstalled win98 on a deskpro exd p3 1ghz 256mb ram. Does anyone know wich drivers i need for the integrated sound. Or has an idea where to locate an (archived iso) possible restore cd? Thanks.

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Re: Win98 SE, Nvidia quadro nvs280 and Hexen2

Posted on 2020-05-14, 08:51

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by Mentalbass

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-dibonly The reason is that nvidia's drivers suck with fullscreened paletted stuff with DirectDraw. It's not just specific to your card here. The viper 16mb did it perfectly. I just removed it from the rig because of slow performance in unreal tournament. The nvs 280 was a cheap pci option so went …

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Re: Win98 SE, Nvidia quadro nvs280 and Hexen2

Posted on 2020-05-13, 18:25

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by Mentalbass

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With the gl2h2.exe everything works nicely! Why not with hl2.exe?

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Re: Win98 SE, Nvidia quadro nvs280 and Hexen2

Posted on 2020-05-13, 18:19

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by Mentalbass

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Few notes on Hexen 2 and high res, the text doesn't scale so the higher resolution you go the harder it is to read, Hexen II runs opengl so replacing the opengl32.dll one may help. it's the same graphics chip as the FX5500 and FX5200 so forcing the non quadro drivers may work. not tried as i don't …

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Re: Win98 SE, Nvidia quadro nvs280 and Hexen2

Posted on 2020-05-13, 17:15

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by Mentalbass

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Few notes on Hexen 2 and high res, the text doesn't scale so the higher resolution you go the harder it is to read, Hexen II runs opengl so replacing the opengl32.dll one may help. it's the same graphics chip as the FX5500 and FX5200 so forcing the non quadro drivers may work. not tried as i don't …

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Re: Win98 SE, Nvidia quadro nvs280 and Hexen2

Posted on 2020-05-13, 16:38

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by Mentalbass

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Few notes on Hexen 2 and high res, the text doesn't scale so the higher resolution you go the harder it is to read, Hexen II runs opengl so replacing the opengl32.dll one may help. it's the same graphics chip as the FX5500 and FX5200 so forcing the non quadro drivers may work. not tried as i don't …

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Win98 SE, Nvidia quadro nvs280 and Hexen2

Posted on 2020-05-13, 14:28

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by Mentalbass

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Dear readers, I'm trying to play Hexen2 on an HP Vectra viE8: Pentium 3 500mhz 128mb RAM Nvidia Quadro NVS 280 64MB Terratec ESS-Solo soundcard. I had an Diamond Stealth Viper v550 GPU card before the quadro and it ran fine. I changed it out for the quadro NVS280 and games like Quake2, Unreal …

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Re: teratec ess 1938s solo-1 pci card

Posted on 2020-04-29, 18:29

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by Mentalbass

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Never mind. Got the ess solo working under 98.

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teratec ess 1938s solo-1 pci card

Posted on 2020-04-28, 19:59

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by Mentalbass

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hello, I'm owning a great HP Vectra vei 8. I've installed an teratec ess 1938s solo-1 pci card. In post bios it got IRQ 5. But even loading ess.sys in config.sys and essolo.com file in autoexec.bat nothing worked. Even the SET BLASTER=A220 D1 I5 T4 command didn't work neither. A game like Rise Of …

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Re: HP Vectra VE p3 500mhz CD-rom/Burner trouble

Posted on 2020-04-27, 13:48

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by Mentalbass

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Probably means that it's only a CD-ROM reader, so burned CD-R's won't work. A bit odd, considering my 1998 Compaq supports DVD-ROMs and CD-R's as well. Hi, Removed the drives. Burner dates from 98 and the cd from 99. Possible theyre worn out. I bought replacements, an hp dvd burner and hp dvd …

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HP Vectra VE p3 500mhz CD-rom/Burner trouble

Posted on 2020-04-24, 05:25

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by Mentalbass

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I've got an HP Vectra P3 500mhz 512Meg RAM. It works like a charm. Just can't figure out why the CD-rom and CD-burner only read original CD's, like audio or software. They both won't read burned discs. The CDRom drive and burner are original HP. Is it timeperiod of those drives, there aged, why it …

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Re: Gravis Thunderbird 2 joystick drivers

Posted on 2020-03-07, 20:29

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by Mentalbass

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derSammler wrote on 2020-03-07, 20:05: Should not need any drivers. It uses 4 buttons and 4 axes, which is what a standard gameport supports. Super! Thanks for the info.

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Gravis Thunderbird 2 joystick drivers

Posted on 2020-03-07, 19:37

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by Mentalbass

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I'm looking for dos drivers for Gravis Thunderbird 2 joystick. Or is just plug in the gameport on sound card (galaxy 2) and it will work? Ive checked the awesome vogons driver page but don't no if Gravis joystick utilities is the one i need. Thanks for your knowledge!

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Re: Weirdness after installing soundcard

Posted on 2020-02-11, 19:01

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by Mentalbass

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I don't reckon it's a power supply. It may be the memory. If you have an opportunity to swap memory modules for different ones, try it. Or if your rig has two pairs of RAM, try it with just one pair and if the problem persists, try the other pair. Memory is being looked at too. Ill give you guys an …

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