Yeah I was running windows NT, had a go at IBM OS/2 Warp and at the end was running Windows 2k Pro, as windows 95/98 etc only uses 1 cpu.
£10 Windows XP PC from a house clearance, repair and upgrade.
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Yeah I was running windows NT, had a go at IBM OS/2 Warp and at the end was running Windows 2k Pro, as windows 95/98 etc only uses 1 cpu.
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Plus NT was natively 32 bit, whereas 95 was not.
Didn't the Pentium Pro run noticeably faster with NT because the CPU was designed for native 32 bit OSs?
It was a much more stable platform for sure, although driver support for NT4 and earlier wasn't great.
It's been downhill since W2K in important ways and XP was a compromise that I ignored for as long as I could, until after SP2.
Thanks i will check it out. Ive been loading it with games. just trying to get return to castle wolfenstein to work but it crashes after opening video clip.Lovely build! You should take a look in the retro section in here where a few members have retro builds
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LMAO at 980ti with an Athlon X2 
3x VRAM/RAM ratio... does 32 bit Windows even see the full 6GB VRAM?! And how much utilisation are you able to get out of it (I assume the CPU is absolutely pegged at 100% the whole time)?
3x VRAM/RAM ratio... does 32 bit Windows even see the full 6GB VRAM?! And how much utilisation are you able to get out of it (I assume the CPU is absolutely pegged at 100% the whole time)?
I think it sees 4gb of the vram. I will double check. It seems to be running ok. Ive not got too much gameplay done just testing games as I install them. Ive just put return to Castle wolfenstein on at max settings same as everything else I've tried. The GOG releases seem to be working great. No messing about looking for fixes or extra patches.LMAO at 980ti with an Athlon X2
3x VRAM/RAM ratio... does 32 bit Windows even see the full 6GB VRAM?! And how much utilisation are you able to get out of it (I assume the CPU is absolutely pegged at 100% the whole time)?
Should I try crysis? Or anything else you think i should test?
Shadow warrior works too which I always had trouble with even on my win98 machine but Duke nukem would always run which I thought was strange. Both of these with the gog releases just work.
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Crysis should work well... and you'll actually be able to max it
(I think the only video I saw of it maxed near time of launch was 3 or 4 GTX 280s in SLI)I used to play it on a Conroe C2D (e6300?) and 8500GT with physics on ultra and everything else low/medium, so would assume it'll run well.
I assume someone has fixed it since, but I once tried to play Theme Park on a much newer PC... I can only assume it had no speed limit beyond the CPU performance, as soon as I started a game I got a 0.1s blink of the map before it went to the 'You lose' FMV
... I'll have a look through my spares box (by which I mean a decent chunk of my second bedroom!), I might have some old kit kicking around that would otherwise end up in landfill when I get around to it
Crysis should work well... and you'll actually be able to max it
I used to play it on a Conroe C2D (e6300?) and 8500GT with physics on ultra and everything else low/medium, so would assume it'll run well.
I assume someone has fixed it since, but I once tried to play Theme Park on a much newer PC... I can only assume it had no speed limit beyond the CPU performance, as soon as I started a game I got a 0.1s blink of the map before it went to the 'You lose' FMV
... I'll have a look through my spares box (by which I mean a decent chunk of my second bedroom!), I might have some old kit kicking around that would otherwise end up in landfill when I get around to it
Im sure ive got Crysis on disc somewhere and Far cry too. When ive came to some of my games for some reason the discs have been missing. They must be somewhere in the loft. Sometimes its easier to just download them than ratch through all my boxes up there.
I can remember running Crysis back in the day but i cant remember what setup it was on. it might well have been this PC ive built back up but on an older graphics card setup.
I know some dos games can be like that running too fast, i think wing commander is another one. Im sure there are programs to slow things down for that issue. I have a Windows 98 pc running at 233mhz but i can change the motherboard jumpers to slow the CPU right down so it can cover a wide range of the earlier games.
Have a search though your spares it might tempt you to build an old system back up.
I got really lucky picking it up. Having a good spec monitor back then was something I just couldn't afford, I only really got handed down upgrades when my grandad upgraded his computer.
With some of the games I've been loading the patches or gog versions have aloud the games to be cracked up to either 1600 x 1200 or even 1800 x 1440. I had a quick go on unreal gold earlier. I played this quite a lot when it came out but I never finished it (I had the original version not the gold version) I also never played the expansion.
Ive also installed trespasser, i remember playing this when I was at school but I don't think I got far with it. I've found an unofficial patch for that which had improved various issues with the game so I'm looking forward to playing that again. Im just loading a few games each night when I get chance.
The gog return to Castle wolfenstein seems to run great, i tried another version but there was some graphics issues with some textures.
Still plenty more i want to add.
I had to pick a nice nvidia card to go with the force chipset it was only £51 so I thought it was a good deal.980ti with an AM2 Athlon 64 is crazy work