Kahenraz wrote on 2022-12-23, 20:40:Those are very nice. I think the Voodoo Rush is underrated. I wish I had bought one or two before prices started to get out of control.
Shitty cards in all their ways. 🙁
Speed, electronics, drivers, BIOSes, support are bad as hell.
Need help? Begin with photo and model of your hardware 😉
Babasha wrote on 2022-12-23, 16:41:Two Voodoo Rush'es are back to life - cleaning, soldering, drivers and registry patching!
Nice!
I always thought the Rush cards were really cool looking... very old-school. Though looking at how mediocre the performance is in relation to board complexity reminds me of why 3dfx didn't survive very long. The Riva 128 was released just a few months later, is basically better in every way and does it all with one graphics chip and 4 RAM chips on a small and simple PCB. Those were really crazy times. 😁
Now for some blitting from the back buffer.
Ozzuneoj wrote on 2022-12-23, 21:02:Though looking at how mediocre the performance is in relation to board complexity reminds me of why 3dfx didn't survive very long.
True, this was noticeable with the Voodoo5 and the VSA-100 architecture. A product that wasn't competitive with simpler GeForce and Radeon cards in terms of performance, power consumption, features and price. Another reason for the downfall of 3dfx was the acquisition of STB which alienated third-party manufacturers.
Got my Compaq Contra 3/25 booting today from CF Card via Anydrive DDO.... windows 3.1 fired up and Wolfenstein running ok.
Yesterday I downloaded Fallout 1 from the Epic Games store.
Tested it on my Pentium II build: it works!
The strange thing is: it starts only after opening the dxdiag menu 🤔
Before, it gives me this DirectX error:
Demetrio wrote on 2022-12-23, 23:18:Yesterday I downloaded Fallout 1 from the Epic Games store. […]
Yesterday I downloaded Fallout 1 from the Epic Games store.
Tested it on my Pentium II build: it works!IMG-20221223-WA0011.jpeg
The strange thing is: it starts only after opening the dxdiag menu 🤔
Before, it gives me this DirectX error:
IMG_20221223_233302.jpg
I'd reinstall Direct X, and try various versions, actually I'd just do the final DX9 unless that doesnt fix it.
It's likely the Epic ver of Fallout is using the sfall ddraw.dll which is incompatible with 9x. Try deleting or renaming it if you want vanilla Fallout to work on 9x.
AFAIK, the lowest supported OS by sfall is Windows 2000 and XP+ are the versions the sfall dev supports.
I'm thinking this usage comes from these versions of the game being orginal Fallout patched to latest official version with the High Resolution patch installed but I haven't looked at the Epic version.
Thinking for 9x likely the TeamX patches may be the best bet for original fallout.
Nowadays you'd be better off running F1 using fo1in2 (installer requred Vista last I checked back in 2020 but you could install on Vista and copy over files to XP, haven't tried earlier) or Fallout 1 DOS Patcher (F1DP). Don't mess with FIXT. There's been ALOT of fixes for F1 and F2 over the years but the games can be finished just fine without.
Life is strange.
Today, after more than 20(twenty) years of daily->weekly service, the ridiculously tiny fan/cooler on my Asus GF4 Ti 4400 graphics card finally started to sound like a lovesick hairdryer.
Briefly pulling out the onboard fan connector led to strange effects, even in 2D, so.... I finally (!) had a use for that cheapo China VGA fan I bought many years ago.
Now, next conundrum was HOW to actually fit the new cooler to the now naked gpu chip.... As the holes would not match, and the writing on the package was clearly not meant for my card version, even if it said GF4xxx, the suggested mm hole distance was way off. So, eventually I found a (wrong) combination of holes that seemed to fit(though cooler slightly tilted), but then next issue arose - what side of the card and in what order was each of all those small screws and bits actually meant for ?? As there were some strange threaded 'disks'/thick metal 'washers' inlcuded.
And, here comes the fun part: after some headscratching, I ended up on google, and somehow found a youtube video... where someone we all know and love (no, not Santa! 😆 ) was doing exactly the same, with the EXACT same card model !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7Dr3en3zU
GPU cooler from eBay / GeForce4 Ti 4400 cooler upgrade
PhilsComputerLab
bestemor wrote on 2022-12-24, 00:08:Life is strange. […]
Life is strange.
Today, after more than 20(twenty) years of daily->weekly service, the ridiculously tiny fan/cooler on my Asus GF4 Ti 4400 graphics card finally started to sound like a lovesick hairdryer.
Briefly pulling out the onboard fan connector led to strange effects, even in 2D, so.... I finally (!) had a use for that cheapo China VGA fan I bought many years ago.
Now, next conundrum was HOW to actually fit the new cooler to the now naked gpu chip.... As the holes would not match, and the writing on the package was clearly not meant for my card version, even if it said GF4xxx, the suggested mm hole distance was way off. So, eventually I found a (wrong) combination of holes that seemed to fit(though cooler slightly tilted), but then next issue arose - what side of the card and in what order was each of all those small screws and bits actually meant for ?? As there were some strange threaded 'disks'/thick metal 'washers' inlcuded.
And, here comes the fun part: after some headscratching, I ended up on google, and somehow found a youtube video... where someone we all know and love (no, not Santa! 😆 ) was doing exactly the same, with the EXACT same card model !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7Dr3en3zUGPU cooler from eBay / GeForce4 Ti 4400 cooler upgrade
PhilsComputerLab
I hope you were a little more sparing with the thermal paste. =)
Discovered my Epson Equity III+'s front cover had cracked. Not sure how it happened, but all those little plastic struts had split apart.
Applied some acetone and clamps and hopefully that will seal it back together.
Frustrated with the laptop I just got. Has a 233mhz MMX, ESS 1879, however it has Neomagic MagicGraph 128XD graphics and yes that chip is responsible for it having janky scrolling on two of my favorite titles Jazz Jackrabbit and Keen 4. Very unfortunate
Cleaned my Orion TVCR0950b inside and out (except the tube got dusted off and the power board got the same treatment since I didn't want to risk damaging the set. The VCR portion wasn't working very well at all until I cleaned the sensor off with a bit of contact cleaner and 99.9% Isopropyl Alcohol on the heads and the sensor to prevent the plastic sensor from fogging up.
https://imgur.com/gallery/8Iefw88
Here's a gallery of the small, cute unit. The future plan is to modify it to allow RGB and s-video once I gather more deets on the box for the jungle and microcontroller chips.
Discord: https://discord.gg/U5dJw7x
Systems from the Compaq Portable 1 to Ryzen 9 5950X
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/retropcuser
DosFreak wrote on 2022-12-24, 00:01:It's likely the Epic ver of Fallout is using the sfall ddraw.dll which is incompatible with 9x. Try deleting or renaming it if y […]
It's likely the Epic ver of Fallout is using the sfall ddraw.dll which is incompatible with 9x. Try deleting or renaming it if you want vanilla Fallout to work on 9x.
AFAIK, the lowest supported OS by sfall is Windows 2000 and XP+ are the versions the sfall dev supports.
I'm thinking this usage comes from these versions of the game being orginal Fallout patched to latest official version with the High Resolution patch installed but I haven't looked at the Epic version.
Thinking for 9x likely the TeamX patches may be the best bet for original fallout.Nowadays you'd be better off running F1 using fo1in2 (installer requred Vista last I checked back in 2020 but you could install on Vista and copy over files to XP, haven't tried earlier) or Fallout 1 DOS Patcher (F1DP). Don't mess with FIXT. There's been ALOT of fixes for F1 and F2 over the years but the games can be finished just fine without.
Renaming ddraw.dll did the trick!
Thanks a lot 🍻
My new retro network build network. It serves something else too but 4 vlans, one for retro and other for various iot's and the rest for my home network. Nothing fansy but working. Pfsense and 4 gigabit ethernet ports. Works with everything for my retro nas serving drivers and os's, games 😀
Decided to play the untested GPU lot lotto again:
Paid $68 shipped for:
2x BFG 8800GTS 640MB OC
1x EVGA 9800GT 1GB (more rare than the 512MB GT)
1x XFX 7600GT
1x EVGA 8600GT (Passive cooled)
1x EVGA GTS 450
Seller seems to primarily sell sporting goods and sports cards, so they probably are actually untested. The GTS were probably an SLI pair so its likely either both works or at least one works.
Cyb3rst0rms Retro Hardware Warzone: https://discord.gg/jK8uvR4c
I own too many graphics cards: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qDcUg … of=true&sd=true
Dug through my stash to get AN430TX and socket 370 intel with 815 boards out, ordered AIMM card for it. Does help big time as I had one once.
Lost the PIII 1.4GHz processor, will keep looking. I know it is somewhere.
Cheers,
Great Northern aka Canada.
pentiumspeed wrote on 2022-12-25, 00:58:Dug through my stash to get AN430TX and socket 370 intel with 815 boards out, ordered AIMM card for it. Does help big time as I had one once.
Lost the PIII 1.4GHz processor, will keep looking. I know it is somewhere.
Cheers,
Oh, I have one of those AIMM cards. I don't believe I own any boards that use them though. Such a neat little quirky thing. It kind of reminds me of a year-2000 version of the RAM expansion cards from the 80s.
Now for some blitting from the back buffer.
As it turns out, all of my EDO, including the RAM in my SE/30 that is provably not bad, triggers the DOS 6.22 "MEMORY ALLOCATION ERROR" on this motherboard. I'm just at a loss.
Ozzuneoj wrote on 2022-12-25, 01:51:pentiumspeed wrote on 2022-12-25, 00:58:Dug through my stash to get AN430TX and socket 370 intel with 815 boards out, ordered AIMM card for it. Does help big time as I had one once.
Lost the PIII 1.4GHz processor, will keep looking. I know it is somewhere.
Cheers,
Oh, I have one of those AIMM cards. I don't believe I own any boards that use them though. Such a neat little quirky thing. It kind of reminds me of a year-2000 version of the RAM expansion cards from the 80s.
AIMM provides separate fast channel to integrated GPU and helps reducing load on main memory. Used on 810 and 815 chipset with IGP. Does make difference. Think embedded memory on a IGP that intel used in few processors later on.
Cheers,
Great Northern aka Canada.
BetaC wrote on 2022-12-25, 18:19:As it turns out, all of my EDO, including the RAM in my SE/30 that is provably not bad, triggers the DOS 6.22 "MEMORY ALLOCATION ERROR" on this motherboard. I'm just at a loss.
Maybe try Goldmem or something similar (like Memtest86) to test your memory.
