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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    Quake is showing up everywhere with the remaster coming out and that reminded me I tried running Quake on this system with just the SiS card. And you could count the FPS on one hand! So planned to play it on my 98 system. But! Now I have the Voodoo in there. So installed Quake and in 640x480...
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    I'll keep an eye out :D
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    If you read into it they had this same brightness bug when they were released. 20+ years ago. Post I was reading from that time were describing the same thing I was seeing. I don't use Win 98 on this system because I have my original 98 system. A Pentium 500MHz and TNT.
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    This is now the end of troubleshooting this system. It still has a issue here and there like the sound card 16bit DMA and may have games not compatible with the SIS but I got the S3 card now and can just not use 16bit DMA. Besides that I am very happy with this system and to finally have DOS...
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    I tried out VniVBE with Windows 95 too but had the same kind of corruption on Windows boot once the graphics kicked in. Had to uninstall it to get Windows working again. Besides that I upgraded the Voodoo/Glide drivers as I had the release versions installed. I tried upgrading the SIS drivers...
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    So I put the SIS back in. One thing I had not tried is the UniVBE. Getting this to work in DOS took me a few hours. I don't have much DOS experience remember. But after finally getting it working I started up Blood. The first logo would play but then everything would glitch out. There would be...
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    ...WELP... I put in the S3 card and booted up DOS... and I was blinded. In the black spaces there were angled flowing scanlines and static and everything was just very bright. So I looked it up and find out that the S3 cards are known for a Brightness Bug. Reading about it it seemed like 90%+ of...
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    Got my S3 Virge DX! Testing will begin shortly.
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    Retro Dev Screenshot

    This is a screenshot a dev posted to Voodoo Extreme that I saved over 21 years ago :D Even back then DNF was a joke :D Anyone know who the dev would be? Cant remember :(
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    The seller was nice enough to post these screenshots :D
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    I ordered the S3 Virge. Gonna take a few weeks to get here but I'll post results after I test it out.
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    For 4MB I see these two listed: S3 VIRGE DX 86C375 ATI Rage II+ OH, I found this comparing the 2, the Virge seems to be the winner for 2D DOS: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=34658
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    I definitely don't want to get anything over 4MB as I have a TNT 16MB in my 98 system but as I already have the Voodoo maybe something less. Do you know if a ATI Rage Wonder MACH 64 1MB is good?
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    Oh, someone did inform me that "the 6326 AGP model (no data available for PCI) is marked as incapable of running build engine at high resolution in MS-DOS at all". But I can play Blood in DOS. Was playing it last night and going to play more tonight.
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    True but as I said it ran fine on this hardware before. Is there a good 2D PCI card still going for cheap on eBay you can recommend?
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    You don't have to go to a 3rd parity site for SB drivers. Creative still hosts all their legacy drivers and CTCM is part of the DOS driver package used to set resources for their PnP cards. It works fine. The CT4170 has known issues with Build games and 16 bit DMA. This card uses I5 D1 H3.
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    That is all done by the CTCM program by Creative. And nothing on this system is running over 640x480.
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    I'm using my original copy of DOS Blood. It should not be using the GPU at all. It's all processed by the CPU. And again, it use to run better using the same hardware.
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    Oh! And this is the system is you like your hardware pics :)
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    After all this I'd just like to say I'm very happy to have a working 166 system running DOS 6.22/Win 3.1 & Win 95! Ask yourself this question, when was the last time you played Hover? If you don't know what Hover is... then get off my lawn you damn kids!
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    Windows 95. The reason why I built this system. I'd like to say something... If your looking for a Retro system from this era just install Windows 98SE and don't be a idiot like me and try and get Win 95 working... It took over 6 hours with help looking up drivers online to get everything...
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    DOS & Win 3.1 Born in 81 I only had consoles up to 96 and never really thought that much about computers. I knew about the Commodore 64 from commercials but did not really care. I did take a few computer classes at school. Learned word processing in WordPerfect 5.1 and some BASIC in DOS and used...
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    For those interested in the lore. I have every compute I've ever had except for a Q9450 that got fried (but don't really care about that one) and my first computer. I got my first computer in 96. A Acer Aspire with a Cyrix 150MHz and 33.3K modem, 8MB Ram (I think) and Win 95. And it was a piece...
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    Next was the sound card (and thanks to 'RetroSwim' for this and the PC speaker info). I was informed the SB16 has know issues with Build Engine games and 16 Bit DMA. That also made me think about the audio options, I had everything set to max. That also made me remember that on my first PC I had...
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    (Wall of text and screenshots warning!) Alright, with everyone's help and input I have (for now) come to the end of troubleshooting my 166 system. Blood is still not where it was performance wise but has improved. Here's all I did. First the BIOS. Using the setting below got rid of all my DOS...
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    Welp... It was just crossed wires. The manual I had must of had the layout for another SB16 (there are so many) with the headers switched. But I can now hear the PC speakers through my speakers! Ok, taking lots of screenshots and will put together a big update for those interested soon...
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    Sorry, stopped getting notifications for this tread. As for the above I will post replies and a big update but right now I've been trying to figure out one more issue that popped up. Question: for the SB16, it has headers for PC Speaker in. When connected I can only hear the PC speaker if I turn...
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    Correct. But I don't remember if I tried Blood in 6.22... I think I did and it errored too. I did use the DOS memory manager to use extended memory.
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    DOS 6.22 worked fine. The SB software has a program that detects the PnP for DOS and Win 3.1.
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    I'll check those out.
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    I had this enabled before with the issue. Tried turning it off but no difference.
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    I'm not using the on-board sound or video. I did try but had problems with both. Again this system was working great with the previous 98 install until I reset the BIOS. This is what makes me think that it has be a BIOS setting that is causing the performance and sound issues in DOS. I use to be...
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    But there is! It gives you more time to access the BIOS when you are doing so frequently :D Attached is the memory I'm using and the BIOS does have a 10NS option.
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    Looking for some Retro help with a P166MHz system.

    Looking for some help and pasting this around. For the following system: SL27K (Intel Pentium MMX 166 MHz) MICROSTAR MS-5187 VER:1 32MB 10NS 3.3V PC100 RAM Sound Blaster CT4170 (SB 16) SIS 6326 4MB (PCI) A few years ago I tried installing DOS 6.22/Win 3.1 and Win 95 on this system but could...
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    New drive size problem

    Welp, I requested a replacement. Could not find a fix.
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    New drive size problem

    Hi, I got a 4GB WD HDD and was initializing it (GPT) when the USB connection cut. It was showing the correct size before but now shows less then half. Is there a way to fix this? I've done the Googling and tried switching to MBR then back to GPT but no luck. Regards, Tar
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    Request for very simple script.

    It's working! Thanks so much! And everyone else!
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    Request for very simple script.

    Thanks! Using PowerShell I tried creating the script and it opened WinAmp the first time but did not the 2nd as the window name changes with every song. So I tried the following: $wshell = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell; $wshell.AppActivate('* Winamp *') Sleep 1 $wshell.SendKeys('c') But...
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    Request for very simple script.

    Thank for the reply! I guess I would like to use something free? Would I need to install something? Honestly I thought I would just need to enter some text into notepad and save it as a bat file? Or do you mean the language that I would be using in notepad?
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    Request for very simple script.

    Hi, Sorry to bother you with this but I know very little about scripting. I'm looking for a file that I could run that would select a already running WinAmp and press 'c' (the pause button). I'm running Windows 10 Pro. I've been trying to look up on how to do this but cant put it together in my...
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