Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?

Posted on 2024-05-13, 18:37

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My recollection is that the Voodoo 3 was well regarded as a solid choice for price, performance, features and compatibility. By the time the Voodoo4/5 were on the scene all that had changed. Nvidia's relentless product cycle and 3dfx's own mistakes meant that 3dfx were clearly behind on price, …

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 21:21

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I didn't have a P4 back then, (I have one now, was given it) but I remember reading at the time they were so bad that Intel enthusiasts were using the P3-based Pentium-M laptop processors in desktop motherboards.

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-05, 09:22

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P4 - as boring as a modern computer, except old, slow, and hot.

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Re: Quake3 colorMipLevels LOD curiosity

Posted on 2024-04-20, 17:19

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Radeon 9000

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Re: Quake3 colorMipLevels LOD curiosity

Posted on 2024-04-15, 22:17

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Are there any cards in particular you're interested to see results for?

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Re: Voodoo 4 graphical glitch

Posted on 2024-04-14, 11:46

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Unstnced LCD, force your monitor to sync on this blue screen. Yes it looks like the phase is off on the auto sync. The monitor's VGA auto sync locks on best when the computer is displaying a tight checkered pattern. The windows shutdown screen is dithered so it reveals when the phase is off where …

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Re: Making CD audio to work with virtual CD drives for DOS games in Win98

Posted on 2024-03-24, 12:14

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Just tried Half Life with CDDA enabled in the game menu, and the image mounted in daemon tools. For some reason I ripped this image as a cue/ccd/img. Started a new game and the music played. Worked fine streaming from the NAS. You're right, it's finicky.

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Re: Making CD audio to work with virtual CD drives for DOS games in Win98

Posted on 2024-03-24, 10:37

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There's no need to load the game up to test cd audio is working, just load up track 2 of the disc in the win98 cd player. I'm not sure is that true. Some time ago I played around with DAEMON Tools 3.47 on Win98SE with Audigy 2 using VXD drivers and I could get the cd player to play music tracks …

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Re: Making CD audio to work with virtual CD drives for DOS games in Win98

Posted on 2024-03-24, 09:24

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I have Tomb Raider CD audio working in Win 98 with Daemon Tools, in bin/cue ripped from my original disc. Sound blaster Live with the vxd drivers. Just want to check that in the cue sheet you can see all the tracks after track 1 listed properly as audio? Cue sheet is just a text file. You probably …

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Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

Posted on 2024-03-17, 12:03

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Then again installed the Rage Pro Turbo AGP and always impressed that ran so well even in Quake2 and partially even Quake3. Ok that I am testing these with a 500Mhz P-III to push these to their speed limits but still surprise me every times. It's almost "too good" for the level of cards I am …

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Re: Why does Rage Software's Incoming crash with an invalid instruction on a Socket 7 motherboard but not a Socket 370?

Posted on 2024-03-03, 15:34

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I guess it's just not compatible on Socket 7 then. That's too bad. PCGamingWiki lists Incoming as released in 1998, with a minimum requirement of Pentium 133 MHz. I remember running it on a k6-2 400. I don't know why the game is crashing, but general incompatibility with socket 7 doesn't sound …

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Re: What is the difference between the Rage Pro, Rage Pro AGP 2X, and Rage Turbo?

Posted on 2024-03-02, 15:02

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That's interesting, I wondered why that RTCW menu looked so bad on Rage Pro. They were expecting the text to be filtered. There are some other examples I noticed while using the rage pro where the rage xl might do better. I don't have a rage xl so my comparison shots are rage pro on the left, and …

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Re: ATi RagePro OpenGL files

Posted on 2024-03-02, 09:31

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Well that's an interesting result. I have the PCI rage pro (xpert@play) and had assumed the AGP versions would perform identically. I wonder what other issues the AGP Aperture setting might be causing on the AGP version. With regards to brightness on GLQuake, Half Life, and Q2 engine games (Quake 2, …

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Re: ATi RagePro OpenGL files

Posted on 2024-02-29, 14:08

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Theres some videos on youtube of a rage pro on the latest driver running glquake demos with no glitches. https://youtu.be/Rs672EI7qPU?feature=shared There's also some gameplay footage on the same channel. Maybe change the gl_triplebuffer setting?

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Re: What is the difference between the Rage Pro, Rage Pro AGP 2X, and Rage Turbo?

Posted on 2024-02-29, 13:54

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There's an ATI specifications document on the VGAmuseum site that lists the differences, here's the relevent part. Edit - sorry the attached is such poor quality, you can just about make it out though.

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Re: ATi RagePro OpenGL files

Posted on 2024-02-28, 23:31

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For the latest driver with Rage Pro and GLQuake open the console and type gl_ztrick 0 to fix the flickering.

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Re: Does anyone know if there is a ATI Rage XL driver that will run Final Fantasy 7 correctly?

Posted on 2024-02-27, 20:47

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Recently when I tried Tomb Raider Cif on a Rage Pro I experienced other bugs. The first is well-known, where there are unsightly texture glitches when playing with a Pentium 3. I don't know whether this is a processor speed issue or bus speed issue. These first show up in the second level. There are …

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Re: Enable anisotropic filter on og Half-Life 1?

Posted on 2024-02-24, 21:05

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VenomSpark wrote on 2024-02-23, 02:23: like after 30cm on the ground is all blurry You could try then console command gl_texturemode gl_linear

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Re: How to install and run vanilla Half-Life 2 without Steam

Posted on 2024-02-14, 21:03

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In case anyone's wondering, it works with Catalyst v4.3.

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Re: How to install and run vanilla Half-Life 2 without Steam

Posted on 2024-02-13, 21:36

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So I followed the instructions in the first post using my 2004 eur retail disc, but it turns out the gcf files are encrypted on this version. I had to use GCFExplorer instead to unpack the gcf files, each one requires entering the correct "Half-Life 2 GCF encryption key" before unpacking. Then as …

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