Speccy portable for winme mod#
I tape mod laptop WiFi cards (Intel AC-7260) all the time (once) to get Bluetooth working The worst offenders are Electronic Arts and Ubisoft. This is also problamatic because it makes it impossible to tell a true bad sector from a fake DRM bad sector. This is due to it having to skip the false bad sectors AND run a maximum accuracy Data Position Measurement run against the disc. I haven't imaged any DVD's with that tech yet but that's going to be. Discs using this tech combo usually take around an hour to image. After this things get even more convoluted and they start to use both false sectors AND data position checking to protect discs.
Imaging my copy of Neverwinter Nights which uses Securom 4 took around 2 hours for 3 discs. SecuROM shows up in late 1999, SafeDisc around that same time with both having heavy revisions around once a year until 2002 when they start using false sectors and other trickery which makes imaging them (even with modern hardware) extremely annoying.
Speccy portable for winme full#
After that they usually request a full install.Īs far as invasive DRM. Multidisc games tend to load data on the fly from discs until around 1998ish, with them usually having optional full installation between then and 2000. The two mediums (multi-CD and DVD) co-exist roughly between 2002 to 2005. Eventually around 1999 we see 3D games expand to having multiple discs, usually between 2 and 4, and this continues until the mid 2000's when we move over entirely to DVDs. That whole thing starts to fade 1997-ish and we start to see games go back to being 1 CD usually due to the advent of useful real-time 3D graphics in consumer grade PCs. I've noticed something about the progression of game size.Īround 1993 we see FMV show up on the scene and games go from being a maximum of 30 or so megabytes without redbook audio, or one whole disc (rarely, more often 2/3rds CD capacity) with redbook audio to being 2 to 6 discs.
Speccy portable for winme install#
I mostly want them easily accesible for DOSBOX/Virtual Machines/Machines I can't be arsed to install a CD Drive in but there are some I'd like to have backups of to use as I don't always want to open the box of a rare $60 boxed DOS game (and risk adding more creases, etc to the box) and then risk damaging that disk somehow. I've been archiving my CD ROM's to an external HDD using Alchohol 120%. The bright side is that even with the slower frequency I'm using now, the system runs as good as it did when I used to run it faster, so I haven't got any substantial loss in performance, but quite the opposite, since it seems to be smoother than before, but it could be the increased core voltage that smooths things out, I don't know. The system now is rock solid as it used to be, but even the slightest increase of the frequency will make the system freeze or BSOD in 3DMark 2003. Unfortunately, even after doing these things, the system was still unstable, so I had no other chance than reducing the FSB back to the last stable frequency I used for a long time: 147.30MHz. I've tested them with MemTest86+ and I got no errors, both before and after putting the heatspreaders, so I can rule out bad RAM as the cause of the instability. So, I've increased the core voltage to 1.675v and put heatspreaders on my RAM modules (which they get quite hot to the touch). I just found out that my Tualatin RDD is no longer stable with the FSB set at 149.14MHz, either freezing randomly or spitting 0x00000D1 BSODs. That 45 degree angle pissed me off when I was a teenager.įound this pinout via and hope it's handy to someone else. the front panel wiring! I decided not to even bother with the front panel USB ports and audio. Added another one after this picture was taken. Drilled a single hole and put a standoff + screwed motherboard to it. Used a PCIe card and the original PCI network card to ensure the motherboard would be mounted properly. had to dremel out the I/O shield which is attached to the motherboard tray. Mounting the motherboard proved interesting.
The original specs was a P4 with 512MB RAM. had to cut out a space for the power cable with a dremel.Ī closer look. Intel HD3000 onboard graphics (FirePro V5800 is on the way) Intel Core i5 2400 3.1GHz quad core processor This was a bit of a pain.Īntec EarthWatts EA-380 380W power supply Not sure how many people have attempted to reuse those early 2000s Dell clamshell cases.
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