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S3 Trio64 1MB vs 2MB (filled sockets) speed difference.

Posted on 2024-01-01, 08:51

in Marvin \ Video
Hello, just found out interesting finding. On higher resolutions than 320x200, you'll definitely benefit from increased memory bandwidth, when you fill your memory sockets on S3 Trio64 card. Will probably work on every 2D card this way. Tested card: Dataexpert S3 Trio64 DSP3364P 1MB (empty sockets = …

Re: Settlers II with 512KB VRAM

Posted on 2023-12-29, 12:19

in DOS
Finally I have 512Kb ISA VGA's, so I've tried it on real thing. I have AVGA2 (which is renamed Cirrus Logic 5402 chip), Trident 8900CL, Trident 9000C and Trident 9000i-3 They all have 512Kb RAM. I was testing them, also did some benchmarks and comparsion (suprisingly, Trident 8900CL is fastest of …

Re: Settlers II with 512KB VRAM

Posted on 2023-12-10, 02:23

in DOS
I remember, that on our 486 - DX2-66 Mhz computer, we could not run Settlers 1 in Super VGA mode (In settings is that option). Only in VGA mode. SuperVGA didn't have even checkbox for that. But maybe I remember it wrong, and it was only on "borrowed" computer before we have our own. We sometimes had …

Re: OPL3 vs. ESFM vs. CQM vs. SBLive

Posted on 2023-12-06, 00:15

in Marvin \ Sound
How close to CQM or ESFM / OPL3 are the integrated soundblaster pro solution modes on some motherboards from around y2000? Like QDI Kinetiz 7E? (AC97 codec?) can anyone provide recordings of Doom1 and Duke 3d midi here, if he can record it?

Re: Is the FX5600 a great option for Win98?

Posted on 2023-12-01, 15:33

in Marvin \ Video
In some games, the difference can be as much as 30%. Holy Moly, I did not expect anything that big with these mature cards. Do you know other such cases? BloodRayne 2 has the most neglected case, other games have an average difference of 5-20%. I only did research on these two video cards. Because …

Re: Is the FX5600 a great option for Win98?

Posted on 2023-11-28, 19:30

in Marvin \ Video
Keep in mind that GeForce 4 MX 440 64-bit (typical low-profile) > GeForce FX 5200 64-bit. From his graph, FX 5200 64-bit > MX440 64-bit. 22 fps vs 18 fps. And MX440 64-bit has even advantage of 275Mhz core clock. But in this case, it's completly bottlenecked by memory ,so that overclock on core …

Settlers II with 512KB VRAM

Posted on 2023-11-26, 12:55

in DOS
Hello, is Settlers II runable with 512KB VRAM VGA card? (Probably ISA, not sure, if PCI cards wasn't 1MB minumum) Basically, question is, if with any 512KB VGA card, with support for Supervga (640x480 x 8 bit (256 colors)), can run the game, or it needs to have VESA support (probably only later …

Re: Is the FX5600 a great option for Win98?

Posted on 2023-11-26, 12:24

in Marvin \ Video
For example I have an Radeon 9550 videoacard with 3.3 ns GDDR Samsung K4D261638F-TC33 chips ant they can't run at their nominal speed of 300MHz (for GDDR 600 with 3.3 ns chips) because they're factory set in BIOS to run at 200 MHz with tighter timings for 200 MHz frequency. But when I set the …

Re: Is the FX5600 a great option for Win98?

Posted on 2023-11-20, 10:43

in Marvin \ Video
Out of 6 radeon 9600/9600 pro and 9550 cards, I cannot get reference clocks (300 mhz memory) on any radeon. Even tried 3.6ns Samsung one, but 280 mhz is maximum. You do know out of those only the 9600 Pro has reference clock 300 MHz? Yes, I know. I was speaking also about rated speed (of memory …

Re: Is the FX5600 a great option for Win98?

Posted on 2023-11-19, 19:06

in Marvin \ Video
Well, went check the auctions, and first Radeon that I come across https://cdn.aukro.cz/images/sk1699777238343/g … -176532100.jpeg the worst possible R9600XT that exists. Samsung LC50 memory. (original should be 300Mhz, so 3.3ns memories) Well... just saying...

Re: Is the FX5600 a great option for Win98?

Posted on 2023-11-19, 16:20

in Marvin \ Video
It was a trash offering, because Radeon 9000/9200 existed. Or even discounted Radeon 9100, which completely mopped the floor with all Nvidia budget cards of that period. So lets try FX 5200 (128-bit, overclock to 300/300) Lets don't. It's absolutely unrealistic scenario, when majority or "good" …

Re: Is the FX5600 a great option for Win98?

Posted on 2023-11-18, 20:52

in Marvin \ Video
FX5600 also had the same cut-down 64-bit versions. Like I said, it's a completely redundant chip. Even in "good" configuration it had performance of GeForce 4 MX, which is also not a good series of cards. Lets compare it to other Nvidia lowest GPUs of generations before: TNT2 Vanta / Vanta-LT …

Re: Is the FX5600 a great option for Win98?

Posted on 2023-11-18, 10:17

in Marvin \ Video
Actually, FX5200 is not bad budget card. I don't agree with Serpent Rider, that it shouldn't have been released. Who screwed the card reputation, were manufacturers, but they've already starting to do it with Gefroce MX440-8x refresh. They've put 64-bit bus and cheap memory on. And underclocked the …

Re: S3 Trio64 freezing under win9x native drivers

Posted on 2023-11-17, 16:30

in Marvin \ Video
Just extract the newer native WDM driver from WinMe. (either an install or CD) I can't remember 100% but isn't the Trio64 driver that comes with Win98se just the driver from DirectX 6.1a. I really don't know, but I've checked whole list under W98SE (manually select driver), and there was only one …

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