Re: Voodoo 3 Pixel Artifacts

Posted on 2023-06-30, 04:21

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by wiibur

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When I started the flash tool before it asked to onput the bios (which I guess is just the file you download) but also a video mode. I think it was 1-5. Any Idea what this means? I did not experiment with the "-tM" TV mode argument and ran the flash command without it. I assumed it was related to …

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Re: Voodoo 3 2000 Artifacts and noisy video.

Posted on 2023-06-28, 15:44

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by wiibur

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Thanks again, bloodem! Attached is my modded bios version 2.15.05 for the Voodoo 3 3500 TV in case anyone needs it.

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Re: Voodoo 3 Pixel Artifacts

Posted on 2023-06-28, 14:18

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by wiibur

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do you also have Jagged Alliance by any chance and could test it? (just go into equipment menu and drag some items around and see if any "pixels" of the background get screwed) I tested it in Jagged Alliance and none of the equipment menu background pixels get corrupted and there is no artifacting …

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Re: Voodoo 3 Pixel Artifacts

Posted on 2023-06-28, 13:11

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by wiibur

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The DOS artifacts can be easily solved (unless you have other/different artifacts which are caused by faulty hardware). See the following thread, starting with this post: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1164093#p1164093 Edit: Just saw your Duke3D video and, yeah, it's the same type of DOS …

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Re: Ok Phil ridlle me this ;-)

Posted on 2023-06-28, 12:21

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by wiibur

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Jo22, it's sad that you didn't like that he became a bit popular and assumed the worst about why he left, but genuinely absurd that you have the gall to state whether his manner of speech and accent are "okay" or not. Also, if you didn't like him, why were you consuming so much of his content that …

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Re: Voodoo 3 Pixel Artifacts

Posted on 2023-06-28, 09:34

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by wiibur

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I would hardly call disabling write combining as a fix, this kills dos Video performance. Another bios suggested in that thread sounds much better. plus >I checked some other stuff. Saw it in a benchmark that a slider is displayed incorrectly after the benchmark ran. This was Windows 98. doesnt …

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Re: Voodoo 3 Pixel Artifacts

Posted on 2023-06-28, 03:11

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by wiibur

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don't know about the issue with that benchmark, but the issue in DOS VGA games is known and has been found to be fixable with a BIOS update here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=55409 alternatively, try to disable VGA write combining in BIOS. also duke3d exhibits a similar snow effect …

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Re: Best Configuration PCEM

Posted on 2023-06-27, 12:28

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by wiibur

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You can run brave.exe in the install directory for 3dfx glide mode. There is also bhd3d.exe for Direct3D mode and bhsoft.exe for Software mode.

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Re: Best Configuration PCEM

Posted on 2023-06-27, 10:48

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by wiibur

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Is the game configured to run in software mode instead of using the 3dfx card? I see the game says Software in the top right.

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Re: K6-2/3+ Success on Asus P5A 1.06 - simple mod

Posted on 2023-06-27, 07:46

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by wiibur

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EDIT: I was too optimistic, 120FSB wasn't fully stable, whatever I did. 115FSB needs 3,5V IO-voltage and Internal Page Detect: disabled in bios. K6-2+ takes 633MHz (115x5.5) but needs 2,4V :D EDIT2: And seems like stability is getting slowly worse... So it's the damn caps. dj_pirtu, does the …

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Re: Geforce 2 MX400 Windows 98SE issue

Posted on 2023-06-27, 07:13

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by wiibur

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As someone stated, there shouldn't be IRQ conflicts with a voodoo 2, but I did notice in your video that you still had your serial and parallel ports enabled. I always disable those in the bios as a best practice to try and avoid any potential resource conflicts. You may also want to remove your …

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Re: Geforce 2 MX400 Windows 98SE issue

Posted on 2023-06-25, 20:29

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by wiibur

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Earlier drivers should be more performant under windows 98 for that card. I think the first one that supports it is version 5.32 but the support is more complete by version 8.05.

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Re: Sound Blaster Gurgling From Digital CD-IN

Posted on 2023-06-21, 04:56

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by wiibur

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My mistake, thought I saw that in the manual but they actually swapped to a Digital I/O Module on the next diagram and I misread the label.

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Re: Sound Blaster Gurgling From Digital CD-IN

Posted on 2023-06-21, 03:32

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by wiibur

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I tried three optical drives and each one exhibited this issue in a different way, sometimes in-between cd tracks, sometimes after loading a disc, etc. I started trying different driver versions at this point and found ones that appear to have resolved the issue. They can be found here on …

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Re: Best card supported on both Windows 98SE and Windows XP

Posted on 2023-06-21, 03:25

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by wiibur

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My ATi x800XL AGP works well for this situation in my Pentium 4 machine with 512MB of RAM. For windows 98 I will disable hyper-threading on the CPU and force install the 6-2_wme_dd_cp_30314.exe drivers. The drivers work with a lot of games and the CPU and GPU are powerful enough to run the nglide …

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Re: Sound Blaster Gurgling From Digital CD-IN

Posted on 2023-06-21, 00:23

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by wiibur

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The product manual shows a Digital Output Module connected to the rear digital mini-jack. I'm currently using an RCA to 3.5mm mono jack cable and this seems to tap the correct digital output signal. If I was using a stereo jack RCA cable I assume the card would expect digital input on the second/ …

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Sound Blaster Gurgling From Digital CD-IN

Posted on 2023-06-20, 06:15

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by wiibur

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I've started using the digital output of my Sound Blaster CT4760 to capture my game audio, including digital CD audio through the card's digital CD-IN pins. It works really well and sounds very clean but sometimes when I insert a new disc I will get tons of gurgling noise from the digital CD-IN (see …

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Re: Retro Laptop with Voodoo 2

Posted on 2023-06-20, 05:57

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by wiibur

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Neat. The laptop looks like a nice win98 machine with decent audio, graphics chips, and i/o. Where or how did you come by the expansion chassis?

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Re: If MS-DOS had a dingle/theme song, what would it be?

Posted on 2023-06-19, 20:23

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by wiibur

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Rikintosh wrote on 2023-06-19, 19:50: But was there any documented specification of which default note/tone? I think the IBM PC used a 896Hz tone. This video has some good information about its history and different amplification/recording methods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi2tW23qb9c.

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Re: If MS-DOS had a dingle/theme song, what would it be?

Posted on 2023-06-19, 03:42

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by wiibur

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leileilol wrote on 2023-06-19, 01:37: beep 😂

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