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Reply #285 - 14.06.13 at 13:42:53
 
@Gary,
You can create one using the format from V4 4500 on the device.ini and modify it with ID VENDOR showed on V-Control for rampage card.

It will have same features as a V4 on V-Control.

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Reply #286 - 14.06.13 at 16:55:12
 
Great ideea Oscar !
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Reply #287 - 15.06.13 at 02:08:06
 
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Reply #288 - 15.06.13 at 03:26:21
 
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Been out if for hours, but were making progress! I'm really not sure how the heck I ended up with a Voodoo 3 tab, some artifact of the Voodoo 3 files used for some of the Rampage drivers (like the splash screen which has a V3 notation) I did some mixing of a few sets of Rampage drivers too.

V_control doesn't display any further information even after hacking the ini file. Just states "3dfx Rampage AGP" even tried modifiying one of the ini files (changed it to rampage.ini) and there was no change.

Here is NFL Blitz running-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXdGzDEjpM0&feature=youtu.be

Unreal seems to run fine but now UT runs but with some rendering errors and Deus Ex and Wheel of Time fail after a few seconds as does Half Life. MDK runs with rendering errors, NFL Blitz runs for a few minutes before tossing its cookies.
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Reply #289 - 15.06.13 at 03:36:30
 
I don't trust the reported chip speed or indicated 16mb ram, we know the boards have 32 mb.

Gamma correction tools work though!! 

Now I need to get things stable, going to have to figure out a whole bunch of tweaking settings to keep stuff from crashing.
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Reply #290 - 15.06.13 at 13:07:16
 
Looking great Gary.

Did you try the ForceAA feature ? Does it work?

Looking forward to more updates.

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Reply #291 - 15.06.13 at 13:52:02
 
G1nX wrote on 15.06.13 at 13:07:16:
Looking great Gary.

Did you try the ForceAA feature ? Does it work?



I have not tried it yet, just getting the beast to run this far has been chore enough without opening a fresh can of worms.

You are looking at several nights worth of effort with driver swapping, inf file hacking, BIOS poking, card swapping, several versions of directx installing/de-installing, bootlogging to find out what is crashing on start up, pulling hardware that may or may not be conflicting all the while staring at monitors that looks like faded ass when in DOS and smeared with grease when in windows at 1024 x 768 (the only way to get at some control tabs/panels)

(And please, no slight is intended nor implied toward Loeschzwerg who has his work cut out for him with no direct access to the hardware nor hi-res photos of the original and I have had very little feedback from the current original dongle owner as to picture quality)

Loeschzwerg has done a fantastic job and things would not have progressed to this point without his help, the dongle has been the least of my problems! Were both doing our best with the tools at hand, things will progress one step at a time.
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Reply #292 - 15.06.13 at 14:18:16
 
What I don't understand is this-

When I have the hardware acceleration slider to "off" in the windows advanced panel, why do some applications run and others do not? Is the OS translating some calls to a software driver?

I'm assuming some functions of Direct Draw continue to work (since that is still available in the DX testing and information panel) but functions of DirectX are disabled?

I'm considering digging a second system out of storage, I think I have an ABIT BH6 BX based system what should work. The idea is to remove any possible conflicts with a dead stable platform and the BH6 has plenty of BIOS options I did not have with the other slot one system I tried using.

I'm so close to have full rendering for more than a minute or two I can taste it, driving me nuts!


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Reply #293 - 16.06.13 at 22:20:24
 
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In case you wanted to know what things looked like without the dongle, a simple solution is to not use it when I need a DOS window. In the case doing a hardware dump with v_control.

Is Koolsmoky still tinkering with the program? Here is the hardware dump that I got. Adding the proper ID string to the SYSTEM.INI file lets the program "properly" ID the board but no options are present even with a modified 4500/rampage INI file.

[Device 5]
device_name    = \\.\Display1
device_key     = System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\DISPLAY\0002
bus            = 1
dev            = 0
func           = 0
vendor         = 121a
device         = 10
subvendor      = 121a
subsystem      = 3
revision       = 1
command        = 3
status         = 230
class          = 3
sub_class      = 0
prog_interface = 0
agp_capability = 206002
agp_status     = 1f000237
agp_command    = 1f000301
pci_command    = 3
pci_status     = 230
base_address_0 = e0000000
base_address_1 = d0000008
base_address_2 = 9001
base_address_3 = 0
base_address_4 = 0
base_address_5 = 0

Had one crash too many I think, Win98 install is hosed. I can't get back onto a desktop with any hardware acceleration active. Time to call it a day and relax.
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Reply #294 - 17.06.13 at 01:57:48
 
Anyone here ever use Visual Studio 6.0?
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Reply #295 - 17.06.13 at 05:51:49
 
C++ Smiley  i used but long time ago....
What do you want to know?
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Reply #296 - 17.06.13 at 08:55:34
 
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m14radu wrote on 17.06.13 at 05:51:49:
C++ Smiley  i used but long time ago....
What do you want to know?


Nmake in Visual Studio 6 is used to compile the Rampage source code.

I'm baffled by something (unrelated to the above) why are the control panels showing more information now? Not that I trust it but it does show the correct BIOS revision where the earlier tests did not. The tests done a few months ago use Rashlys drivers but I don't see anything diffferent between those and what I am tinkering with at the moment. I am using a modified inf file now but the information on the control panel popped up before that. I have to tinker with the inf still to get rid of the annoying bug where on first install the referesh is locked at 120+ hz. At the monent the "fix" is to boot into safe mode and chande the refresh from unknown to adapter default and then reboot.

Something to do with the voodoo4 driver still being installed? Some registry setting perhaps? Stuff like this bugs me, has to be a reason. Hardware has not changed and I'm still using the same OS install (till something got buggered yesterday) puzzling..

 
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Reply #297 - 17.06.13 at 11:47:51
 
@Gary,
Possibly some info is got from voodoox.inf- Did you try to use the inf from Rashly driver and check what info you get on 3Dfx Tool?

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Reply #298 - 17.06.13 at 12:28:17
 
Good news- This morning I did a fresh install of Win98SE!

For those following, this order.

1) Setup a new drive with two drive letters, only the OS is on the C:, Everything else on D: including the win98 files so I can blow off the C: partition at any time and start over.

2) Installed Win98 running the setup file off d: from a boot disk

3) Once to a desktop I changed from VGA adapter to new adapter using modifed inf which worked great, did not have to boot to safe mode once.

4) Installed DirectX 8.1 off some game CD

No other drivers or patches were installed!! No chip drivers, no sound drivers, nothing! The only "?" in device manager is the onboard sound which I don't care about right now. USB disabled in BIOS.

I was able to run the DirectX diag (spinning cube with DX logo) in both DX7 and DX8 modes with no problem! I could not do this before, it would hang on the first test after a few moments.

Tunnel test and wizmark both have graphic errors but I'll tinker around more after work.



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Reply #299 - 17.06.13 at 12:35:22
 
Excellent new!!! Smiley Now times to check if your system is enough stable for testing D3D games without BSOD.

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