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- Sun 15 Sep, 2024 10:54 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: PCem minimum software requirements?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2421
Re: PCem minimum software requirements?
For the x86 targets, the absolute minimum's a CPU with SSE2 extensions. For the Windows requirements, the WxWidgets and SDL2 parts will bite.
- Wed 07 Feb, 2024 4:00 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 124242
Re: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)
My personal sources for drivers had been: - GLSetup = 3dfx V1/V2/V3 drivers for Win9X, lazy installer from certain 1999-2001 game discs that involve OpenGL (starting from Quake III Arena and ending around Serious Sam The Second Encounter), also useful for any other decent enough 3d card of the 98-99...
- Sun 28 Jan, 2024 2:05 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Windows 3.1 graphics card drivers ?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3481
Re: Windows 3.1 graphics card drivers ?
Real S3 cards never worked with Windows for Workgroups' SVGA driver. The Cirrus, Oak and Tseng cards should though
- Sun 21 Jan, 2024 4:06 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Alien Carnage configuration menu not responding!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3480
Re: Alien Carnage configuration menu not responding!
I doubt it's 'developers messing with players' but more developers not bothering with a menu selection routine for configuration. Some games did that (especially in the 286 era), it's only a step beyond Y/N questions about wanting music or sound from the amiga days
- Sun 14 Jan, 2024 3:59 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: I need help with setting up a 486 DOS machine
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5389
Re: I need help with setting up a 486 DOS machine
On some of the autodetection boards you'll need to manually detect and configure a drive and then enable LBA or LARGE elsewhere to use larger drives. Earlier 486 boards likely won't have the choice. I prefer the AMI WinBIOS for socket 3 because that's what my VIP 486 was (though the emulated board i...
- Thu 28 Dec, 2023 1:44 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: PCem's biggest limitation for 3D accelerted games
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3542
Re: PCem's biggest limitation for 3D accelerted games
Voodoo3's among the fastest of the pre-Geforce256 GPUs in 1999, the most widely supported (primary Direct3D+OpenGL device, Glide3, plus the bunch of prior Glide2 games), and it had the most technical information available for longer so it's the most logical to emulate. The issue for years are today'...
- Mon 18 Dec, 2023 3:28 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Unable to install Intel Chipset Utility drivers on PCem win98SE
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1275
Re: Unable to install Intel Chipset Utility drivers on PCem win98SE
Intel chipset drivers typically are for later boards than the 430VX that would need them for AGP and DMA purposes (among other things). They're not neccessary for Triton boards, especially as Win98se already come with device drivers that work fine with them. If you needed an Intel chipset driver to ...
- Sat 16 Dec, 2023 9:37 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Gravis Gamepads emulation!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1803
Re: Gravis Gamepads emulation!
IIRC Gravis Gamepads also had a GrIP standard for input to allow for extra buttons and a second pad
- Wed 06 Dec, 2023 2:58 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cat amongst the pigeons
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2523
Re: Cat amongst the pigeons
It's all trial and error and drops when: - there's too many blocks to recompile, which can happen with video decoding more often, and self-modifying code - too much frames rendered to keep up, which can occur with Voodoo cards not being vsynced on slower processors - I/O access can also be a factor,...
- Fri 01 Dec, 2023 1:52 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Win98 in PCem
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2216
Re: Win98 in PCem
I'm assuming these refusing 90s games are modern source ports compiled on later VisualC 201X's and GCCs after 4 or GoG releases with additional support DLLs to smoothen the modern windows compatiblity experience. There was no XP in the 90s so that shouldn't be necessary. I think the only company tha...
- Tue 21 Nov, 2023 2:46 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Akte Europa optimisation
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2568
Re: Akte Europa optimisation
There's a few games where a Trio64 can render faster than a ViRGE DX at DirectDraw 2D
- Wed 08 Nov, 2023 5:32 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: PCem vNext Builds
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13910
Re: PCem vNext Builds
PGO isn't something very automatable. Instead there could be -flto, which still isn't quite PGO tier but is a good boost and is what i've always done for making WIP builds.
- Sat 02 Sep, 2023 1:22 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 124242
Re: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)
I'm very content with the performance from K6/233 emulation and that's adequate for a lot of stuff from early 2002 and earlier (having dealt with PCs of a similar performance target at the time). The real cutoff is the later 2002 stuff that demanded DXTC and HWT&L as there was an emerging DX7/8-...
- Wed 26 Jul, 2023 8:54 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 124242
Re: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)
PCem release builds use profile-generated optimization.
- Thu 01 Jun, 2023 6:29 pm
- Forum: Development
- Topic: New hardware for PCem v18?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10665
Re: New hardware for PCem v18?
i'd rather see a rise, k5, or an umc486 before either of those
- Sun 07 May, 2023 12:13 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: is surround sound supported by pcem?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2222
Re: is surround sound supported by pcem?
No. PCem doesn't emulate any 5.1 card, but it does emulate an AudioPCI which can work with A3D for some HRTF'd 2 channel sound, which Half-Life can do.
- Sun 09 Apr, 2023 6:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Mirror HDD directly to PCem with USB Image Tool
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2497
Re: Mirror HDD directly to PCem with USB Image Tool
Yep, the raw image file format hasn't changed. I've booted some old img backups of hard drives dumped with WinImage and DD from long ago.
You can also do the reverse. I've once DD'd a prepared PCem img with xfdisk + several windows installs to a HDD on a real computer and it worked.
You can also do the reverse. I've once DD'd a prepared PCem img with xfdisk + several windows installs to a HDD on a real computer and it worked.
- Sat 08 Apr, 2023 9:42 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 124242
Re: PCem v18 News (Was v17 Notice)
it say Removed code for disabling optimization, as its causing lag issues. F… unfortunately we dont have full title of the Removed code for disabling optimization Check the commits for full untruncated messages. without use multiple core You can't force multi-core optimization for emulating a singl...
- Fri 31 Mar, 2023 11:05 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Future graphics card emulation
- Replies: 112
- Views: 250651
Re: Future graphics card emulation
Read the room and check your entitlement.
- Fri 24 Mar, 2023 4:25 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: why ryzen5 1200 simulate Win98 sound suttering?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3424
Re: why ryzen5 1200 simulate Win98 sound suttering?
Windows 9x does heavy access when it boots and that's a bottleneck to the emulation when it does and it happens to everybody.
- Tue 14 Mar, 2023 9:45 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: If you have problems with the VM window title bar being off the screen
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2805
Re: If you have problems with the VM window title bar being off the screen
Having the window set to be resizable helps, because then it'll nudge the window downward when you do.
on modern watered down versions of Windows, you'll have to shift-rightclick on PCem in the task bar to access the move window feature.
on modern watered down versions of Windows, you'll have to shift-rightclick on PCem in the task bar to access the move window feature.
- Tue 14 Mar, 2023 8:54 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: 3dfx voodoo 3 2000/3000 game resolution problem
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1852
Re: 3dfx voodoo 3 2000/3000 game resolution problem
A lot of older Glide games didn't futureproof (nor couldn't) for Banshee's breaking of the resolution limits. For Glide, only newer games using Glide3x released in 1999+ should be more hi-res aware. Otherwise it'll be Direct3D and OpenGL (no MiniGL) for older hirez-able games. This goes both directi...
- Thu 09 Mar, 2023 2:42 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Can PCem Interface to Hardware?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1971
Re: Can PCem Interface to Hardware?
If it's about industrial use to replace hardware, please be aware that PCem is designed for entertainment and does not offer full floating point precision (otherwise it'd be way too slow and unusuable). All FPU emulators take performance shortcuts and this is also true for 6th+ gen console emulators...
- Mon 27 Feb, 2023 12:35 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: which is the best way benchmarking different cpus?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4146
Re: which is the best way benchmarking different cpus?
For Ryzen, turning off SMT helps.
- Fri 24 Feb, 2023 1:08 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: [Request] Ubuntu ppa / linux binaries
- Replies: 12
- Views: 14380
Re: [Request] Ubuntu ppa / linux binaries
One of the biggest advantages of running Linux is that everything, all system packages and all installed software can be managed in a single system-wide package manager that keeps everything up to date. it is very poor practice to circumvent it. Downstream has opportunities to make unsupported chan...
- Mon 20 Feb, 2023 12:15 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Gigabyte GA-686BX don't recognize SB AWE32
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3055
Re: Gigabyte GA-686BX don't recognize SB AWE32
Yeah, this AWE32 isn't plug 'n play. You'll always have to add new hardware manually or let it do the exhaustive search, and then you can install the AWE32/64 software.
- Sun 19 Feb, 2023 1:50 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Future graphics card emulation
- Replies: 112
- Views: 250651
Re: Future graphics card emulation
Verites are a little special because Sierra On-Line had a video card with it (Screamin' 3D) and Papyrus games were made to support that (up to Grand Prix Legends)
Papyrus has something to do with the Millennium 3D support in vNext too
Papyrus has something to do with the Millennium 3D support in vNext too
- Sat 18 Feb, 2023 1:45 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Future graphics card emulation
- Replies: 112
- Views: 250651
Re: Future graphics card emulation
with sarah's naming conventions, if it doesn't end with em or ulator, it's probably not an emulator.
- Fri 17 Feb, 2023 1:08 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Playing games to completion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3454
Re: Playing games to completion
It's how I played them then. Mice had balls with little wheels that'd get gunked up and 90s "gaming mice" were ergonomic horrors that sometimes try to shove trackballs on them.
- Fri 17 Feb, 2023 12:25 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: My goal = 200 MHz
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2963
Re: My goal = 200 MHz
The comfortable clockspeed on a 201X Intel Core processor that can reach 200mhz emulation's usually 4ghz. 4ghz was a very common stable overclock as well, but that's relegated to "K" processors. (2500k and up etc.)