The Post Your Old/Retro Builds Thread

[Nobu]

Playing some Wing Commander Prophecy on the Voodoo 5 5500 with 4xAA using Glide! The good old days of gaming... Using the patch to get resolution to 1280x1024 as well, plays great. This is why I wanted a Voodoo 5 5500, for the amazing glide AA, and the ability to use real hardware to do it, no emulators. Going to enjoy some old favorites for sure. I actually never played this game all the way through, so it's something new!

Sorry for the crap~ish looking phone photo over a screenshot... lol.

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Next time hit Print Screen, open paint and ctrl+v, then save to get a full-screen capture.

 

[III_Slyflyer_III]

Next time hit Print Screen, open paint and ctrl+v, then save to get a full-screen capture.

So I tried that, and it came out as garbage. I think the way the "SLI" works on the Voodoo 5 5500 with the 4xAA was giving me issues in that game with screenshots... I'd have to try again, but pretty sure it was jacked up.

 

[III_Slyflyer_III]

There is just something about the way a game look and run using Glide that just pokes all the right dopamine receptors in my brain. It has that feeling of playing on an arcade machine.

So true, most games that had Glide vs. DX or OGL just look so much better on Glide to me. For example, UT99 looks way better in glide, even though it's limited to 16bit color vs. 32bit color (which the V5 can do just fine). Not sure if it is the increased gamma or what, but it really does feel like coming home to gaming.

 

[Nobu]

So I tried that, and it came out as garbage. I think the way the "SLI" works on the Voodoo 5 5500 with the 4xAA was giving me issues in that game with screenshots... I'd have to try again, but pretty sure it was jacked up.

Ah, yeah didn't think about that. Probably won't work, iirc SLI messed up a lot of screen capture software.

 

[III_Slyflyer_III]

Ah, yeah didn't think about that. Probably won't work, iirc SLI messed up a lot of screen capture software.

Yeah, pretty sure it does, cause my Voodoo 3 would take screen shots just fine. The issue with that one tho was you lost the "22-bit" dithering as that was with a filter before the output signal to the monitor.

I can probably get clean screenshots if I run in "Single Chip" mode, but then I would lose the 4xAA and at that point, why have a Voodoo 5? lol

 

[STINGRAY230SX]

New guy here, loving the retro thread....
I used to dabble in the early gaming win95/98 but somewhere around 2000 my job/personal life took a much busier turn and all of a sudden the PC was burning cd's and surfing the interwebs, lol.
I was gifted some dell gx280's and built one up but went to win7 and never went back.
Then built a C2D box around 2010/11, cpu and sata hdd was from a small form factor Dell but I used a Gigabyte mb etc. put a SSD in it at some point and when it failed let it sit.
made a Dell i3 into a i7-4790 / Gigabyte GTX 1060 for now
recently redid my spare room/office and added a whole bench to play on.
dug out all the old game cd's to move and then thought I might play around a bit.
I had an Athlon 1.1 / MS-6330 / Radeon 9550 AGP / winXP box that my brother left at our parents house and I fired it up [Im not familiar with any AMD stuff at all]
Tried to get it to run Rogue Squadron 3D but it wasn't meant to be. I have several AGP cards that should do Direct3d but they are win95/98
2x Voodoo 2 for that SLI goodness PCI though
1x Voodoo 3 2000
1x Voodoo 5 5500
2x ATI rage2c
1x Diamond ViperII
I did try the Diamond ViperII and the ATI RageIIc but no joy as the drivers would do regular display but not the game, and I knew the Voodoo cards likely didn't have XP support, then I remembered I had a Nvidia FX 5500 PCI card and this morning popped it in and bam, Xwings for days.
I have a old GX280 mb / P4/ I will probably put together with the voodoo 5 and a win 98se install.
also an old Ms-6156 slot 1 mb with a 450mghz cpu I will probably use the V2's on since the parts are here already

Athlon


MS-6156

 

[Mr. Bluntman]

I have a old GX280 mb / P4/ I will probably put together with the voodoo 5 and a win 98se install.

Do be aware that Voodoo 5 AGP cards (if you're not using a PCI version) require a 3.3V AGP slot and will not work in most P4 motherboards as they do 1.5V signaling outside of a couple VIA/SiS chipsets.

 

[III_Slyflyer_III]

So I did come up with a much more elegant way of keeping my Voodoo 5 5500 cool! I generally run it around 175Mhz (166mhz is default) for most retro gaming as I use the 2x or 4x RGAA. I can run 183Mhz, but sadly one of the memory modules doesn't like it and I'll get some screen line corruption if I run higher (1280x1024 +) resolutions set that high. Interestingly, works 1024x768 or lower at that speed as less memory is used.

The clear side door has 2 fans too that blow in and across the top of the card. Way better than the old school floor fan idea I actually used back in the day with my voodoo 3... LOL.

I've debated putting this in a modern case for looks, but I need the CDrom drive for some games and the Disk Drive on occasion for DOS stuff.