Re: F1 2000 & F1 Championship Season 2000 (EA) - crashes

Posted on 2020-07-14, 01:15

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by tincup

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in Windows

I took a shot at this and have it running on W10. Using a NoCD exe in case that makes a difference, but I have a disk and iso to check. dgVoodoo2 v554; default settings except DX AF/AA max and resolution set to my desktop Run game config w/ admin and set to Secondary D3D graphics Set game exe …

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Re: Wings Of Destiny (Psygnosis)

Posted on 2020-07-01, 13:34

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by tincup

in Windows

in Windows

Actually I found the hacked wod.exe on that site yesterday after checking this thread and the recent WOD chatter over at dxwnd. And and by jove it works! I'm using it on a W95osr2 build even - not emulation -and it solves the setting menu issue. Can finally set the cards, resolution and play with …

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Re: Wings of Destiny " "could not read animation format" fatal exception error on start

Posted on 2020-06-30, 18:35

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by tincup

in Windows

in Windows

Only luck I've had is running it on a dedicated W9x build. Even then I can't configure the game without a CTD and in-game it's nor really working. Weird thing is I played about 1/3 of the Allied campaign when I bought the game years ago. I just can't seem to get it run now even on a clean retro …

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Re: Wings Of Destiny (Psygnosis)

Posted on 2020-06-30, 18:31

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by tincup

in Windows

in Windows

hi! - i just saw this thread, having asked about the game myself just now - silly me i thought it such an obscure game that noone else would ever be trying to get it working. I also cant run it on windows 10 - i get the animation format error at the start and that is a fatal exception error. I wish …

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Re: Motherboard Recapping Services

Posted on 2020-06-21, 21:54

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by tincup

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I googled Vogons recommendations for recapping services and it seems like Badcaps is the place to go. Are there any other (US) outfits the collective can reccomend? I have three nice Abit slot-1 boards and one shows definite signs, and one a hint. Might be time for a little preventive medicine... …

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Motherboard Recapping Services

Posted on 2020-06-21, 20:54

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by tincup

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I googled Vogons recommendations for recapping services and it seems like Badcaps is the place to go. Are there any other (US) outfits the collective can reccomend? I have three nice Abit slot-1 boards and one shows definite signs, and one a hint. Might be time for a little preventive medicine...

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-06-19, 22:16

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by tincup

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After a 2 year respite I jumped back on my W95c/ P3-667@500/ Abit BH6/ QDI Legend-8mb(Rendition)/ Voodoo2-12mb/ Montego2 build and resumed installing a testing a host of games 1995-2001, for the last week or so. About 2/3 of the 80gb HD is filled with games including a comprensive digital image and …

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Re: Abit BH6 - Boot From CD?

Posted on 2020-06-17, 23:40

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by tincup

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Which IDE header is it connected to? The manual says a below: NOTE HPT 366 IDE controller is designed to support high-speed mass storage. Thus we don’t suggest you connect non-disk devices that use ATA/ATAPI interfaces, such as CD-ROM to HPT 366 IDE connector (IDE3&IDE4). He's asking about a BH6, …

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Abit BH6 - Boot From CD?

Posted on 2020-06-17, 18:12

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by tincup

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've had no luck booting my trusty Acronis 8 recovery CD on an Abit BH6 build. It's the 1.02 board version with final 'SS' bios. I've read similar CD boot reports online about trouble booting from CD with this board from years back. The typical reccommendations were to make sure the CDR was set to …

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Re: A TNT2 32MB is apparently better than a 16MB Voodoo 3 3000?

Posted on 2020-06-17, 15:46

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by tincup

in Milliways

in Milliways

You're saying the v5 has inferior IQ to the v3? I mentioned it - in a sort of off-topic ramble. From the Voodoo cards I have and use the V3 has the best IQ in my opinion - subjective of course. I love the V5 for all the things it does and it looks great too, but honestly the V3 turned my head with …

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Re: A TNT2 32MB is apparently better than a 16MB Voodoo 3 3000?

Posted on 2020-06-17, 15:30

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by tincup

in Milliways

in Milliways

You're saying the v5 has inferior IQ to the v3? Ahaha... no I mentioned it - in a sort of off-topic ramble. From the Voodoo cards I have and use the V3 has the best IQ in my opinion - subjective of course. I love the V5 for all the things it does and it looks great too, but honestly the V3 turned …

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Re: Saitek Cyborg 3D joystick / Win95

Posted on 2020-06-17, 14:49

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by tincup

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

The dilemma I face is that USB controller are no go on W95 of any flavor. You can enable the mass-storage/thumb drive function but that's about it. I was combing through a readme in an R Loew W95 USB driver kit looking for help (his memory limit patch is great BTW) and he states that exhaustive …

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Re: Saitek Cyborg 3D joystick / Win95

Posted on 2020-06-17, 00:10

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by tincup

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in Marvin \ Software

Was searching for W95 drivers for the Saitek Aviator (if there is one) This "v 1.0" CD only contains XP. Pic below. In the meantime I'm trying to get a Saitek AV8R USB functioning in W95 (USB1 is fully funtional in this rig). Legacy drivers for the similar "Aviator" model install... AV8R and …

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Re: A TNT2 32MB is apparently better than a 16MB Voodoo 3 3000?

Posted on 2020-06-15, 23:58

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by tincup

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in Milliways

It's always worth mentioning the 2D/DOS quality of voodoo3 is almost unsurpassed. So true. I was an original V1, v2 and V5 buyer and it was only within the last 8-10 years I picked up a V3 out of curiosity. Side by side it has the finest IQ of the lot hands down and miles ahead of period D3D. It's …

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Re: Saitek Cyborg 3D joystick / Win95

Posted on 2020-06-10, 16:29

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by tincup

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[Necro for the win!] I read that there were issues with this stick/W95 and a patch was realsed. No luck finding it, but I assumed the v275 driver was the upgraded any way. Saitek/MadCatz doesn't keep an old driver repository. Just possibly that was this different patch for the gameport Cyborg 3D on …

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Re: MiG Alley

Posted on 2020-06-05, 01:09

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by tincup

in Windows

in Windows

This ddraw log file? W10/GTX 1060/MIG v123

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Re: MiG Alley

Posted on 2020-06-04, 23:38

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by tincup

in Windows

in Windows

Could anyone who has the Nvidia cockpit transparency issue upload the debug logs for me? To keep the log size to a minimum, please keep the test as short as possible. Just enter a quick mission, have the cockpit show up, and immediately exit the mission and the game. how do you find/make the debug …

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Re: MiG Alley

Posted on 2020-06-04, 21:03

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by tincup

in Windows

in Windows

Thanks for the feedback! At least now I know the performance fixes are ok on Nvidia also. Too bad about the cockpit issue. Since I can't reproduce it, I probably won't be able to fix it, but we'll see... G-Sync is Nvidia's variable refresh rate technology, which requires a compatible monitor also. …

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Re: MiG Alley

Posted on 2020-06-04, 19:31

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by tincup

in Windows

in Windows

Progress! I re-started with a clean copy of my v123 test install and with W8/Admin compatility settings the game boot and flies. Same tearing on cockpit, but overall performance seems noticably better even at 1600 than before. I currently have nVidia scaling at GPU override/fullscreen (for other …

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Re: MiG Alley

Posted on 2020-06-04, 18:49

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by tincup

in Windows

in Windows

First pass with the new ddraw and I'm dumped to a 640 desktop shortly after clicking the game shortcut adter a number of tries. W10/GTX 1060/MIG ver 123 I'll try compatibility modes per above suggestions.

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