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First post, by vorob

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Currently, i've got Dell Latitude D800. Pentium M, 16:10 screen, GeForce 4200. Awesome machine for old stuff but i've got few issues:

Because of widescreen, I can't play dos games without screen stretching. It's uncontrollable.
Because of 4200, I can't play Doom 3, Thief III, Half-Life 2, Prey, SWAT 3 and games near these. And I want them cause recently I bought PCMCIA Creative card with EAX 4.0 support.

So I've googled and found Toshiba Tecra S3, similar single-core Pentium m processor, 4:3 screen, GeForce 6600 and PCMCIA slot available.

Processor: Intel Pentium M 750, 1860Mhz
Chipset: Mobile Intel 915PM Express
Display: 15″ SXGA+ (1400x1050)
Videocard: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600, 128Mb
Ram: 2Gb, DDR2
Audio: SigmaTel HD Audio
Storage: HDD 120 GByte
Wireless: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG (802.11b/g)
Connectivity: 3x USB 2.0 / DSUB / RS232 / PCMCIA / Parallel port / Firewire

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Last edited by vorob on 2020-02-05, 20:02. Edited 2 times in total.

Reply 3 of 5, by vorob

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Okay, made some maintenance, re-pasted GPU and CPU, replaced almost dead HDD, cleaned of dead bugs and dust and reinstalled Windows XP.

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Now I'm installing different games and testing. For now I'm really disappointed that some games are broken because GeForce 6 dropped the support to paletted textures. Yes i can fix it by applying some patches and wrappers, but that's the opposite of what i was interested in this laptop.

Reply 4 of 5, by vorob

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Now i'm desperately searching for the most complete list of old games that died and started looking worse because of hardware changes in GeForce 6.

Reply 5 of 5, by vorob

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Well, another issue. I've got old Dell D800 (2004) and thought that Toshiba, which is newer (2005), will have an equal or better screen, but the reality was rough. Toshiba washout horribly, take a look: Toshiba is on the left and Dell is on right:

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