@Tiemen

Very Nice!

Just a bit of a heads up with your 250GB SSD, make sure to install rloew's PATCH137 or PATCH1TB so you don't encounter wrap-around corruption past the 137GB barrier and lose everything on the drive.

I don't want to alarm you, but it looks like there is a snake in your case.

Duffman wrote on 2022-11-18, 06:33:

@Tiemen

Very Nice!

Just a bit of a heads up with your 250GB SSD, make sure to install rloew's PATCH137 or PATCH1TB so you don't encounter wrap-around corruption past the 137GB barrier and lose everything on the drive.

I made a Partion in windows 98 that gives me a 128 GB harddisk. I will never have more on that disk. Do you think it's still necessary to install it?

@tiemen

I believe so yeah, Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken, it's something to do with how win98 handles drives larger than 137GB is broken and needs patching, I recall XP RTM had a similar issue that wasn't fixed until XP SP1.
Microsoft never released an official patch for win98 though, so we have to use rloew's - you can find it here link: https://rloewelectronics.com/distribute/TBPLUS/3.0/PATCH/

Duffman wrote on 2022-11-18, 14:58:

@tiemen

I believe so yeah, Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken, it's something to do with how win98 handles drives larger than 137GB is broken and needs patching, I recall XP RTM had a similar issue that wasn't fixed until XP SP1.
Microsoft never released an official patch for win98 though, so we have to use rloew's - you can find it here link: https://rloewelectronics.com/distribute/TBPLUS/3.0/PATCH/

Thanks, I'll check it out!

That's a beautiful system thank you for sharing it with us.

Uhh, Feyenoord Rotterdam? Greetings to the Dutch! Nice daily runner. Personally, I'd just be sparing with those fans.

That QDI Advance 10T board is so neat, supporting the fastest Tualatin but also has an ISA slot. When I was building my Tualatin system, I originally wanted to go with the Advance 10T but bought 2 bad ones in a row, gave up and bought a TUSL2-C. So I ended up having to build another slot 1 rig with ISA for pure DOS stuff. I ain't mad, but so nice to see a rig that has the best of both worlds. 😀

"The voodoo5 5500 broke, luckily"
I don't think anyone else has said, ever! 🤣

I like the nice simple case design and as you said the cooling is so much better then ones from 20 years ago.
I'd still want EAX support but if it's hassle free your after then just the Yamaha card is fine, plenty of motherboards used similar YMF for onboard sound during this time.

Tiemen wrote on 2022-11-18, 03:39:

Installed literally every game I played from age 5-15.

sounds like a really great nostalgia system, nice set up too!

Very good 😀

I always like to see finished projects... gives me hope I will too some day 🤣

Very nice! Great machine from the Netherlands. I like. More Dutch Vogons ppl here?

Dayum that's one hell of a tualatin monster, would you entertain a fellow nerd?
Can you try and run deus ex (latest) on that PC at max detail at 1024x768? i'm not fully satisfied with the performances of my own PIII system regarding deus ex and since i'm planning to add an MX300 in it as a companion piece to the SB i want to check if i need to upgrade something.

iraito wrote on 2023-02-06, 16:16:

Can you try and run deus ex (latest) on that PC at max detail at 1024x768?

I'm afraid that is a bit too much for the V3-3000.

Tiemen, your system is so fine, greets! I am totally with you that if there is an ISA slot forget the Audigy just use it.

Bruno128 wrote on 2023-02-07, 10:52:

iraito wrote on 2023-02-06, 16:16:

Can you try and run deus ex (latest) on that PC at max detail at 1024x768?

I'm afraid that is a bit too much for the V3-3000.

Tiemen, your system is so fine, greets! I am totally with you that if there is an ISA slot forget the Audigy just use it.

Yeah max details @ 1024x768 is the issue, might handle it at 800x600 however.

I remember running this game at 1024x768 with max details on a Voodoo2 SLI setup back in the day and it ran it beautifully using GLIDE.

TrashPanda wrote on 2023-02-07, 11:02:

Yeah 1024x768 is the issue, might handle it at 800x600 however.

Agreed. I recently replayed Deus Ex on an AthlonXP 1700+ and a Voodoo 3 2000 and it ran pretty good at 800x600. I was getting 60+ FPS indoors and 40-50 FPS in large, outdoor areas.

One thing to note is that the first level (Liberty Island) is the most demanding map of them all. Literally every other level in game will have better frame rates.

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2023-02-07, 11:08:

TrashPanda wrote on 2023-02-07, 11:02:

Yeah 1024x768 is the issue, might handle it at 800x600 however.

Agreed. I recently replayed Deus Ex on an AthlonXP 1700+ and a Voodoo 3 2000 and it ran pretty good at 800x600. I was getting 60+ FPS indoors and 40-50 FPS in large, outdoor areas.

One thing to note is that the first level (Liberty Island) is the most demanding map of them all. Literally every other level in game will have better frame rates.

I would have thought the V3-3k was on par with a Voodoo2 SLI setup but I guess it doesn't quite have the grunt. I guess it does demonstrate just how powerful the 12Mb Voodoo2 actually was back in the day and how much it scared the likes of ATI and nVidia into stepping up their game. That said . .the TnT was one hell of a card and really stuck it to 3DFX, sad they never had a chance to reply with the Rampage core.

I was curious mostly for the CPU, truth is that my GeForce 3 system has something like 25fps in large areas, i think a voodoo 3 can run the game pretty well with a strong CPU like the best tualatin or a P4/athlon XP.

iraito wrote on 2023-02-07, 16:50:

I was curious mostly for the CPU, truth is that my GeForce 3 system has something like 25fps in large areas, i think a voodoo 3 can run the game pretty well with a strong CPU like the best tualatin or a P4/athlon XP.

I can tell you that I get 60+ FPS on Liberty Island at 1280x1024 with an Athlon64 3400+ paired with a GeForce FX 5900XT.

Certain outdoor maps in Deus Ex are very demanding on the CPU.