I've been trying for a while now to get an AWE32 working in my super socket 7 emulation setup. I can get the pci128 working just fine but I want to try to run the voodoo card in sli. Anyone know what the issue is or have any ideas? I've removed all pci 128 drivers and freshly installed the awe32 on...

OK, just tested the demo - it has the same no-fuel problem, so this is not a CD copy-protection mechanism.

I tested a variety of PCem builds: P1 MMX, Voodoo 2/S3 Trio, Win 95, Win 98 - all had the same no-fuel problem.

Definitely looks like a PCem bug. Oh well.

There aren't really other good 3D accelerator options in PCem aside from Voodoo, and a Voodoo 3 will handle most everything (aside from a few DOS Glide games and such). I can get Jane's IAF to display fine on the Voodoo 3, and I doubt the graphics card is messing with the game logic... You should be...

The reason I can't hear engine noise is because my engine has no fuel! In every mission, my gas tank starts as completely empty. That is obviously not how the game is supposed to work, and I have NO IDEA how to troubleshoot that issue. I've never seen that before. The gauge in the actual game inter...

The things you're reporting about Windows errors with icons and colors are definitely unusual. How confident are you that you set up the Voodoo 3 drivers correctly? There shouldn't be anything noticeably different at the surface level about Windows 98 running on PCem vs real hardware. You might cons...

Filtering (nearest or linear) is just based on personal preference. If you use nearest neighbor and your monitor doesn't have 1:1 integer scale with the emulated resolution, you will get some uneven pixels, so linear filtering can be used to fix that (at the cost of blurring). It sounds like you're ...

You have a very good host CPU - it runs at 5.1 GHz, not 3.5 (you should look at performance core speed). That said, a Pentium II 450 might still see some slowdown. I'd probably go with a PII-400 for most things. The difference between the two with a Voodoo 3 is going to just be a few frames in most ...

You cannot add new hardware to PCem. It only supports the currently-emulated hardware listed here: https://github.com/sarah-walker-pcem/pcem A Pentium 4 is far beyond the means of PCem. It supports Pentium II, but that requires a very good host CPU. In addition, although PCem has very high compatibi...

I would try using v17 and seeing if that works.

You didn't mention anything about your host PC, but General MIDI works fine for me on a Windows 11 host. Make sure you have a "MIDI out device" selected in your PCem sound settings (click the settings button to the right of where you selected "Sound Blaster 16"). If nothing shows...

I have this game installed and working fine on a Pentium 90 (HOT-557, 16 MB RAM, SB16, S3 ViRGE) in DOS 6.22. You shouldn't have to install Windows 3.1. Maybe your DOS config files weren't set up right? If you need a DOS mouse driver, I highly recommend the open source CuteMouse. It uses very little...

Intel i7-13700k, or i9-13900k if you have a lot of money.

100% is probably not realistic for ALL games/software, but you can get a lot of the way there with any current-gen CPU that has a single core frequency over 5 GHz. The higher that frequency goes, the higher the chance that a particular game will run at 100%. That assumes you're limiting the Voodoo 3...

What is "Voodoo type" and how to set it up when using Voodoo 3 3000? Don't enable "Voodoo Graphics" when using a Voodoo 3. Only enable Voodoo Graphics if you are using a Voodoo 1 or 2 paired with a video card. The Voodoo 3 is a self-contained card. The Voodoo 1 and 2 worked in t...

I still don't understand why it works in 86box though. If it was a Windows issue, or a game version issue, or a driver issue, i shouldn't work in 86box too, right? Edit: OK the game loads in DOS. However, the mouse isn't working and it also doesn't detect the CD. I think the reason why the game cra...

And you're using the original retail CD - NOT Battle.net, right? What is the exact error message you get? You can get to DOS by going to Shutdown -> Restart in MS-DOS mode. Try running the game from DOS. The official readme.txt included with the game even says: "TROUBLESHOOTING If you are havin...

The game works fine on PCem - I have it installed and just tested it. I'm using the original retail CD (unpatched) on DOS 6.22. My setup: Pentium 90 (Shuttle HOT-557) 16 MB RAM S3 ViRGE/DX Sound Blaster 16 Are you trying to run it through Windows 95 or something? Have you tried running it purely in ...

In response to the OP (from two years ago, but for the sake of new readers): This is the same dynamic recompiler issue that Terminator: Future Shock has, as reported various places: https://github.com/sarah-walker-pcem/pcem/issues/169 Both Daggerfall and Terminator: Future Shock run on Bethesda's Xn...

I believe it's similar to what I reported earlier: https://github.com/sarah-walker-pcem/pcem/issues/25 Happens only in D3D and with Voodoo 2 not Voodoo 3, Voodoo Banshee or Voodoo Graphics, regardless of which driver version is used. I think it's due to bug in Voodoo 2 emulation. I noticed issues i...

It depends on the specific game, but a lot of games should run at the max or near max of what PCem can handle (PII-400 or PII-450), assuming you set appropriate frame rate limits and such.

Just to state this clearly: The games you're trying to run are 60 Hz games, not 70 Hz, right? You should be able to see what they're running at by checking the "xx frames/sec" line on the PCem Machine Status window. I'd check that first. I'd also check the monitor refresh rate setting in W...

Only OEM windows 98 CDs are directly bootable and don't need a floppy. Oh, right - if it's a retail Win 98 SE CD it won't be bootable. Thanks. I guess the boot order should be changed when I've installed Windows, so it doesn't restarts the installation process? You can leave it at that - just eject...

You don't need a boot floppy for that motherboard with Win 98 SE. Eject the floppy, set the boot priority to CD-ROM first, put the CD-ROM in, and reboot. That will save you some trouble. Not sure why the boot floppy didn't work, though - it should.

I had an idea: you can trigger the AHK script just based on mouse cursor position. An example is here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32027784/trigger-ahk-script-based-on-the-position-of-the-mouse So you have the PCem window selected, you set the mouse trigger at, say (0, 0), and you just move ...

I tried doing it using AutoHotKey but no success. I've never really thought about this, but I think this is a clever approach. AutoHotKey can get the contents of the clipboard and then type out the text. The problem (as I imagine you found out) is how to trigger the AutoHotKey script. When you're i...

Another way to move a window: Press Alt+Space (May not work if keyboard input is captured) Press M (for Move, if your Windows language is not English this may be a different key) Press any arrow key (Up, Down, Left, or Right) Move the window with the mouse Press Left Mouse Button to stop moving the...

What driver version do you have installed? What DirectX version?

That CPU has a max boost clock of 5.4 GHz, so although I haven't tried it, I think it's safe to say it would be in the upper end of PCem performance (that doesn't guarantee you'll be able to run PII-450 perfectly for everything, though). Whether it's worth it to use PBO with PCem would require testi...

Arjen42 wrote: ↑Fri 10 Mar, 2023 4:43 pm Type help format and scroll down to see both commands are valid.

True, but I noticed he wrote /F:1400 instead of the correct /F:1440

However, I just tested it and trying to use /F:1400 throws back a parameter not allowed error, so I assume the OP just mis-typed the command in his post here.

The command should be:

format a: /F:1.44

I tested that and it worked fine. Without the /F switch, it defaults to a 2.88 MB floppy on PCem for me.