Re: Best video card for 1996-2000 PC? (re: Half-Life, Unreal, Quake, American McGee's Alice, etc)

Posted on 2023-10-03, 01:44

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by VivienM

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Going back to your first. Yeah I think that is exactly why those cards are so hard to find. Its not that they wernt common, because I know they were, its that they were ditched 20 years ago. Because everbody knew the graphics card world was going in a completely different direction and retro was …

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Re: Best video card for 1996-2000 PC? (re: Half-Life, Unreal, Quake, American McGee's Alice, etc)

Posted on 2023-10-03, 01:27

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by VivienM

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AFAIK trading on VOGONS is discouraged at least, if not completely forbidden. Other than eBay or yard sales, try e-waste or simply asking around friends: most people don't even realize vintage computers can be collectible and simply recycle them or even leave them on roadside. I've personally …

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Re: Best video card for 1996-2000 PC? (re: Half-Life, Unreal, Quake, American McGee's Alice, etc)

Posted on 2023-10-02, 23:47

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by VivienM

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Make a list of games you want to play. Are there any Glide exclusives? If not, don't spend top dollar on 3dfx. Are there a few Glide exclusives? Decide if they are so important that you need to build an entire system around them. Otherwise, just get a Geforce or Radeon. They are cheaper and they …

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Re: Best video card for 1996-2000 PC? (re: Half-Life, Unreal, Quake, American McGee's Alice, etc)

Posted on 2023-10-02, 22:34

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by VivienM

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Going on that basis then youre looking to build a high performing XP system then, which means you can go all the way up to an Intel i7-3770k (3770k because it can be over clocked to outperform a higher clocked CPU with the Ivy bridge architecture but stay on the LGA 1155 platform) with an nVidia …

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Re: Best video card for 1996-2000 PC? (re: Half-Life, Unreal, Quake, American McGee's Alice, etc)

Posted on 2023-10-02, 22:23

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by VivienM

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I'm looking into buying a GeForce Ti 4200 and a Voodoo 3 3000. The prices are insane on eBay and I've never seen anything like that in yard sales near me :( I'll keep looking and if anybody is selling one please let me know!! I think it takes an incredible amount of luck to find these things …

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Re: Best video card for 1996-2000 PC? (re: Half-Life, Unreal, Quake, American McGee's Alice, etc)

Posted on 2023-10-02, 22:10

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by VivienM

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If you're targeting period correct hardware, then the Best builds you can have are Athlon 1200 + VIA KT133A chipset board or a Pentium 4 1500 + Intel i850 chipset board. Former owner of a s. 478 1.9GHz Willamette and an i850 board here. Would discourage the i850 platform, especially on socket 423 ( …

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Re: Best video card for 1996-2000 PC? (re: Half-Life, Unreal, Quake, American McGee's Alice, etc)

Posted on 2023-10-02, 21:55

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by VivienM

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My current spare hardware includes a Pentium 3 500 and an AWE64 which both seem period accurate. I don't think anyone has asked this (if anyone else did, sorry, missed it), but do you have a motherboard for that PIII 500? Assuming it's slot 1, might be worth exploring what faster CPU options there …

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Re: Issue installing OS (XP)

Posted on 2023-10-02, 21:48

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by VivienM

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Exactly that. Back then there was no other way to do it. As we are talking retro hardware implying the idea that something else might be possible isnt helpful. And at the same time, I think it's dangerous to be too too categorical on some of these things. A lot of things are better understood 20+ …

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Re: Best video card for 1996-2000 PC? (re: Half-Life, Unreal, Quake, American McGee's Alice, etc)

Posted on 2023-10-02, 21:35

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by VivienM

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I want the best performance and cost but don't care too much about period accuracy. However, I want to play the games as intended and accurate as possible without any hacks or fan patches. For example, I've heard that Unreal is best (??) with Glide. I know there are wrappers (nGlide, etc) but how …

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Re: Issue installing OS (XP)

Posted on 2023-10-02, 12:07

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by VivienM

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The USB worked! Thank you! I never would've thought to download a driver that mentioned a floppy lmao..... Well, the XP (and probably prior versions of NT) installer asks for an F6 floppy, and there are relatively few non-floppy ways of providing those drivers (flash drives and optical drives need …

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Re: Issue installing OS (XP)

Posted on 2023-10-02, 01:08

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by VivienM

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The USB worked! Thank you! I never would've thought to download a driver that mentioned a floppy lmao..... Well, the XP (and probably prior versions of NT) installer asks for an F6 floppy, and there are relatively few non-floppy ways of providing those drivers (flash drives and optical drives need …

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Re: HP t5710 and it isn't running Windows 98!

Posted on 2023-10-02, 00:56

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by VivienM

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Maybe I am missing something... but... while I very much loved Win2000 back in the day and it was a complete breath of fresh air compared to the disastrous 98SE, what is its advantage/niche as a retro OS (other than pure nostalgia, I guess, for what arguably was the greatest Windows version ever)? …

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Re: HP t5710 and it isn't running Windows 98!

Posted on 2023-10-02, 00:16

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by VivienM

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Maybe I am missing something... but... while I very much loved Win2000 back in the day and it was a complete breath of fresh air compared to the disastrous 98SE, what is its advantage/niche as a retro OS (other than pure nostalgia, I guess, for what arguably was the greatest Windows version ever)? …

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Re: Unable to Boot 98Se floppy disc.

Posted on 2023-10-01, 20:24

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by VivienM

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Dumb question - are these image files in a format such that you could just boot up Linux and write them using dd?

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Re: Issue installing OS (XP)

Posted on 2023-10-01, 03:29

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by VivienM

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My SSD is on one of the SATA 3 ports. The ports hooked up to which controller? The spec sheet for that board says: "- 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s connectors by Intel® Z77, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, Intel® Rapid Storage and Intel® Smart Response Technology), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug …

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Re: Issue installing OS (XP)

Posted on 2023-10-01, 03:26

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by VivienM

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I've tried it with the BIOS using IDE and AHCI, and I've also tried with a SP3 ISO using WinSetupFromUSB -- which has drivers it loads in, but it could be missing the one I need. I only have an external ODD, so I suppose that could be an issue -- but it detects and boots from it. What's confusing …

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Re: Issue installing OS (XP)

Posted on 2023-10-01, 03:11

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by VivienM

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What are your BIOS SATA/AHCI settings? And what connectors are your drives connected to? I didn't look up the specs on this motherboard (I'm guessing it has an extra SATA controller in addition to the Intel one), but you need to be slipstreaming some AHCI drivers for that Intel chipset, not just for …

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Re: So old post solves new post cause this is something I think any Compaq Presario SR1200NX or otherwise felt at some p

Posted on 2023-10-01, 02:24

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by VivienM

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some have said they had luck brute forcing it with certain programs but I tried and it seems it doesnt work so why is the BIOS that way? It's worth noting that, like a lot of things, high resolutions used to be rare and costly. If you had a system with 1 meg of video RAM in the mid-1990s, I think …

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Re: So old post solves new post cause this is something I think any Compaq Presario SR1200NX or otherwise felt at some p

Posted on 2023-10-01, 00:31

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by VivienM

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What video card/chip does this machine have? And how much video memory? What OS? Have you tried other OSes, e.g. a bootable Linux DVD, which is often a great way to test whether the problem is software or not? And why do you think a new video card wouldn't help? (I tried to google that model number, …

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Re: Finally doing it.

Posted on 2023-09-30, 16:57

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by VivienM

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That’s exactly it. This board was not received well when it was launched due to it being “locked down” only a +4% burn in option allowed for OCing with no voltage control. But what is the common denominator with the comments and reviews is it is a rock stable board at factory settings. Exactly what …

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