PCem

I don't use a starter pack; just a stock 6.22 install + the official Creative Sound Blaster 16 floppies from 1993, which install a bunch of devices and TSRs to initialize the card and mixer. It's a little more involved than a simple SET BLASTER line.

Just tried your config with a DOS 6.22 + SB16 drivers + OAK CD HDD image and the intro+game sound works there too.

I get sound and music in Cybermage just fine including the intro. 430VX, Pentium 100, AWE32, Win95B. Cybermage configured to (as read in the setup program) SOUND CARD (DIGITAL) SOUND BLASTER 16/AWE32 SOUND CARD PORT 0x220 DMA: 1 IRQ: 7 MIDI DEVICE (MUSIC) SOUND BLASTER (FM) MIDI PORT 0x388

Until I noticed I can't run the slowest MMX even in W98 desktop for some reason, which I find really odd (opening windows, navigating, etc) makes it all drop below 100%. They'll all do that at startup on the current recompiler. I found running Rain helps a bit (your preference on HLT-spamming win9x...

I've already mentioned a similar bug prior to v14 (reproduced by starting a machine with a Pentium recompiler, closing back to config menu, then starting a 486)

I never said it didn't work at all. It still has Glide support, just no Direct3D HAL driver. 3rd party drivers are your only option because, well....... 3dfx closed a year before XP released

Yes via 3rd-party drivers, but don't expect Direct3D support for V2 on NT-based OSes.

It could happen eventually. There are bits of code in PCem already to support 387 detection. But "should" I wouldn't think so.

Yes. PCem doesn't frameskip. That triple core Athlon II won't give you much V2 SLI action. I'd expect it to only ever do well with Pentium 75. To get V2 SLI going great you would need a relatively recent Intel Core i5-i7 @4GHz+.

Unreal runs fine (and better starting from version 218). It's your host computer that's slow and can't handle all the frames at once. Adding (actual) Pentium II emulation won't fix this for you. Perhaps there's also a generational issue with regards to performance acceptance as well, as getting 25fp...

Here's what that looks like... I undid your x and y swap and... Getting warmer!

Here's what that code looks like Seems to be adding more dither than the reverse...

I assumed the 3dfx V2 driver already dioes validating as i've managed to make the card detection fail while trial-and-erroring very slightly different dither tables. I don't have doubt for PCem's current 2x2 table. I would guess you are missing the conversion to RGB565 that is done after the ditheri...

I'd assume this is the WX mouse locking problem with the window focus, reproducible by doing this:

- open a CD-rom or shader manager window
- Tab to another window
- Close another window
- Witness your mouse get stuck in the center of the PCem window

Here's a new patch: - Heavily refactored: table cut in half, no extra alpha blend edit - Now performs dither subtraction on destination before the blending function - More consistent naming (it's called dithersub from here on out) - An attempt to be consistent with the PCem code style (should have n...

Sam running slow on Pentium MMX is NOT a bug! There are much faster CPUs PCem doesn't emulate that Sam would also run slowly on! In addition, PCem doesn't skip frames.

Sounds like 430VX - Try going into the BIOS and enable "reset configuration data" in the PNP/PCI config screen. Sometimes that'll get around a freeze on post. It's also important to have absolute paths to your hard drive images and CD-ROM image. and finally, not all 98SE CDs are bootable - only the ...

Play a quake game and DON'T use third party drivers, and you should see the diff...

The OP never gets edited and i've already reported Serious Sam a few times earlier with bug reports as it was intended to work on the Voodoo2. Sam's a CPU hog designed for the 7th gen; a Geforce2 won't help this, not even a Voodoo5 6000 will help this. Banshee would be the next in line. I'd also pro...

A lot of the special OEM machines PCem emulates also emulates their built-in video chipsets that sometimes doesn't have separate selectable emulation or have quirks/features of their own.

Unreal (initial retail release) is fully completeable, in case anyone is curious to try it on there for its 20th anniversary. 430VX PODMMX180 V2 AudioPCI Win98se

Replacing the udvd driver with oakcdrom.sys (yes it's non-Free) on the floppy media seemed to let FreeDOS 1.2 install. Haven't dug around for any Free CD drivers that do work yet. FreeDOS 1.2 seems to hang on 8088s too which defeats the idea of FreeDOS with a Free BIOS (Xi8088) with XTIDE on CGA :( ...

I'm not feeling up to giving out EXEs anyway. It'd have some of my hacky stuff applied to it and be nowhere as optimized, and I have a feeling if I do, i'll have to make a huge zip with all the dependencies...

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Mon 14 May, 2018 10:33 pm

I'm using the version of PCEM datestamped 12/19/2017.

Upgrade. V14 recently came out and you'll likely have more support for that than a 6 month old build.

I'm still working a bit on this but decided to put it out early as I really need a break from this (4 trial and errory days so far). I'd prefer technical feedback on this. It's not ready for the tree in its current state (still have comments and the tabs/spacing isn't consistent as I code in a notep...

Oddly I get this bug with the release build from the site, but not in a self-made wx 3.0 gcc 4.7.2 build from the current revision. :S

Here's a naive attempt at recreating the double-sized dither, which apparently only should apply to the 4x4 dithered triangles when they are blending (2x2 dithering, mostly seen under 3dfx's Direct3D HAL, and UnrealEngine should not be affected by this patch at all). It's a slow implementation for t...

Still on a Midway sports kick NBA Jam Tournament Edition (DOS) has flickering issues no matter the speed and it occurs on Trio64 and Cirrus GD543x NBA Hangtime (Windows) runs perfectly. Same PMMX233 system above on AWE32/W95. Also Cyberbykes can have the same Magic Carpet VGA issue with Trio64 if yo...

A Phenom II 3GHz probably can only handle a P90 at best at this time (v14). I don't know whether the future recompiler rewrite will benefit it or not.

Still not a 100% method but good enough. (And the rips with different hashes had no audible differences anyway) Trial and error's always a huge part of the CD ripping process. Sometimes you'll desire some of these error corrections.... I've a particular older game (1993 Win3.1 CD game) that refused...