Not knowing the config hurts troubleshooting. If you have the latest Voodoo2 or Voodoo3 drivers installed, you'll also need DirectX 7 (minimum) installed for those drivers to work with Direct3D at all. "'99" implies at least an expectation for Windows 98 support as that shipped DX6 and sho...

After your next Win98 install, enable the Virus Warning in the BIOS so you can try to prevent a possible boot infection. For recovery, F-Prot (loaded off a clean boot floppy) should be able to recover the boot sector IIRC. The only other reason I can think of a spontaneous OS boot failure would be a...

Is there a boot sector virus on the floppy you used to install?

Jonathan McEvoy wrote: ↑Wed 03 Aug, 2022 1:03 pm maybe optimizing it for 64-bit and dropping support for Windows XP/Vista/7/8 and only supporting it for Windows 10/11 64-bit

spontaneous platform regressions doesn't amount to progress. Doing that won't make the handmade assembly dynarec code more assemblier.

SWAT3's a tactical first-person shooter. It's like Rainbow Six but with apprehensions

a mobile i5 2.4GHz isn't going to be enough to emulate SWAT 3. SWAT3's a CPU hog that calls for 400MHz P2s to be playable at the least. The game had unusually dense character models for the time, as well as the complex AI, and there's big lightmaps everywhere. My current machine that can 100% the P2...

That's what the 'default' setting is for (tries to mimic actual performance of the emulated video hardware). The rest overrides that (and can be a fun curiosity to check where a bottleneck lies with some games)

Sooga wrote: ↑Wed 20 Jul, 2022 9:23 am Not to be mean but this project is out of touch with reality sadly by people so obessed with 'realism' they are sacrificing usefulness (cough) multi threading (cough).

name one emulator that multi-threads emulation of a single-threaded CPU.

1 Yes, but just because 3dfx hasn't released that much info on their voodoo 5 doesn't mean it's not impossible to emulate and I'm just giving suggestions. 2 furthermore I have not said in all the machines but in slot 1 with the celeron and the last pentium the gigabyte of ram was more normal also t...

- The Sims doesn't care about 3D APIs.
- Like V2SLI, the Voodoo5's amount of video memory is a ruse. It's also not very more game compatible than the Voodoo3 we have now. (apart from supporting some more texture formats/sizes)

IMO: 1. not trivial. 3dfx never released as much info on the V5 that the V3 and prior had. There also isn't any CPU in the world to LLE it well theoretically. 2. not practical (especially with regards to the current generations PCem covers and the OSes many would most likely use with this) 3. they'r...

V18 will be switching to Qt This may regress XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 support. Several emulators moving to QT (PCSX2, Dolphin) gave up 7 because they had no choice in the matter when that decision's from upstream and/or develop on Win10/linux unaware of the platform regression creep issues. OTOH it's great...

Is DirectX 7 installed? The last Voodoo2 drivers rely on them.

Windows 98SE does not ship Voodoo2 drivers. The Voodoo3 drivers do not provide functionality for the Voodoo2. You should disable the Voodoo Graphics checkbox when you've got a Voodoo3 anyway. Identity crisis aside, they work like two different beasts.

Have you seen the readme at the git repository?

The latest Raspberry Pi OS's on aarch64 and that's an architecture that wasn't tested much at the time of v17 (even though an arm64 dynarec is present, the 64-bit Raspban being a beta with less driver functionality). The current development tree on github may have better aarch64 support.

Delete flash.bin

DamTheGreat wrote: ↑Mon 02 May, 2022 8:45 am i7-9700 @ 3 GHz.

I'd dial the guest down to 166-200MHz. Voodoo2 threads can also matter, and i'd stick to 2 for this. (Maybe turn the screen filter off to help. :'( ) Either that, or get the host past 4ghz.

Games like Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy run great on VMWare, but you would need a powerful CPU, if it exists, to run them with PCem. This is applied in real-life too. A Celeron 600 with a Voodoo3 isn't going to run JK2/JA very good, what with the weighted skinning, large textures and song crossfad...

Banshee/Voodoo3 have the VRAM necessary to handle contemporary widescreen resolutions (1280x720, 1600x900, 1920x1080), however Win9x monitor drivers don't expose them. You'll have to Powerstrip them in, probably.

Nevermind unemulateably slow Pentium IIIs when there's still other gaps (K5, MediaGX, UMC486, Rise mP6, Nexgen). We barely have CPUs that can scratch at the highest emulated celerons (disregarding emulation of cache penalties).

it's not a plugin. This was written long before the plugin system, and it'd probably need a major rebasing on the latest tree.

All 3DAnalyze does is inject overrides of caps and ids for Direct3D and OpenGL. It won't emulate anything. Way back then, it was mostly used to try to get DX8/9 games to work on DX7 hardware (often to trainwreck/slow results), and its hooking wasn't very stable.

SDL2 does have a screensaver-disabling function and disables screensavers by default.

On the PCX1/2 front, this repository just happened

https://github.com/powervr-graphics/PowerVR-Series1

No tech docs, but the simulat2 (PCX1) and simulat3 (PCX2) folders have a lot of juicy bits for emulation reference in there as that's simulator code (among hardware registers, etc).

As-is? Not many, as that's when CD protection started to peak.

Practically speaking, the SSE games that'd be requiring a minimum P3/AthlonXP would be late 2005 stuff also requiring GPUs far beyond feasible emulation (and also at this time, pixel shader 2 was starting to be seen as obsolete by some big developers already as nVidia pushes ps_30 hard)...

Bump for technical inspiration as there's recently been a DOSbox fork about it (intended for upstream)

https://github.com/jrdennisoss/dosboxrm

That's a different realm of usage though. Where PCem emulates, it'd have to emulate all the behavior that comes out of using the hardware, including the Voodoo2's incapabilities. It's not an ultimate turn-of-the-millennium game fixer, but can serve to fill compatibility gaps as time goes on, as even...

When I last tried it on a V2 it went into seemingly a rasterizer mode. Maybe it got support added in a later patch or something, but it definitely wasn't there for the demo.

also note the post dates. Blade of Darkness DOES work on PCem v17's V3 emulation fwiw.