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I did try to poke around with multiple computers, and for some reason it exhibits this behavior on 3 out of 4 of them. There's no "audio enhancement" crap enabled on any of them. The three it did distort on use windows 10, the one it didn't was windows 11 (maybe a default driver issue?). I did a test with the same audio file on foobar with no plugins. You'd think the computers would send the same audio data to the reciever/headphones, but it seems by default it alters the audio somewhere in the headset, the distortion doesn't appear on wired headphones, my old Logitech headphones, my stereo. It's really odd. The only way to make the issue go away is to turn down the specific application's volume, the application's audio in the windows mixer, or turning the gain down on the whole EQ in the driver for the headphones. Turning the overall volume down doesn't fix it, so it's not like there's not enough power in the amplifier. It's just really odd how an issue like this is just there by default. It's like what you'd expect to hear if someone were to go into an EQ program and crank the bass frequencies because "more bass is better am I right".

So for the longest time I used my 5 year old logitech G533 headset for talking shit on discord while hanging out in my garage tearing apart my 20-40 year old tech and all that, and it works. It sounds halfway decent, the mic is okish, you can plug it into any computer without worrying about drivers and it just works. Over time it developed an issue where the mic would periodically stop working for no reason until I let the battery die completely and I let it sit for about a week, so I'm like hey, I guess that's a good reason to just buy something new for once. So I picked up the corsair hs80 headset. It definitely has a nice feel to it, but the sound out of the box is awful. I keep on seeing reviews upon reviews with people praising the audio out of these things, but out of the box they are unbearable. I'm talking about compression ducking at very low volumes when just listening to music. The fix? download the dumb drivers to make a custom eq and turn everything down from 0db to -2db, this fixes the compression issues. I'm not talking about data compression, I'm talking audio compression. This is where when things get loud, the less loud things start ducking out in volume. Why on god's green earth would you make your base line flat EQ compress the audio? I'm thinking about taking these back to the store tomorrow. Anyone have any recommendations on some sort of headset like the old G533 where I can just plug the dongle in and it just works without having to download everyone's big RGB gamer EQ ecosystem habitat CPU cycle/ram hogging crap on my computer to make it serviceable for just being able to walk around my house and talk to people online? Also beware the HS80 if you're looking for something to just plug in and have it work, you'll be disappointed by the sound quality lol.

Gonna necro an old ass thread for the fun of it. I got bored and installed windows 95 on one of my 486 machines today and ran Super Pi on it, and this is the result. Compaq Deskpro 4/25is with a 33mhz processor, 16mb of ram.

Guess I'll dump my setup in here again Since last time I've upgraded that tower on the left with a voodoo card, so fun stuff.

Nichijou Humanity has Declined Cowboy beebop. You probably got baited my good sir.

You're all banned for still doing this for almost 5 years.

Take your time.

lagging how and how much I have a i5 6600k and a 970. it gets anywhere from 45 to 80fps usually. the game is very optimized. not much else you can expect from an early access game.

Yeah, charlie chaplin was the mascot for the IBM PC.

Yeah, thats what I meant, they don't come with video adapters by default.

Alright then, here you go If the mods don't like it I guess they can just delete it and I'll do it the other way or whatever. if you're bored enough you could also watch the other videos I made for this, which includes me being a dork when turning it on the first time.

Double post, but this forum software sucks and I can't figure out how to add this to my last post. Whoooa hang on there dude, you're way off. everything in this machine isn't even near what you think it is. This thing is so old it would only be good running DOS or Windows 3.1, none of the hardware is compatible with modern PCs minus the PS/2 peripherals. This machine only has ISA bus slots, that was before PCI, which is before PCIe. The hard drive is IDE, so its slower than turds if you compare it to the slowest modern drive. Although, its not completely useless if you intend to run old software or games on it.

Looks more like FPM than EDO to me. I don't think many 486 machines use EDO. but yeah, looks like a 486 DX2-66. http://ps-2.kev009.com/pcpartnerinfo/ctstips/27ce.htm Clean it up, install DOS 6.22, Install the SB16 drivers (seems to have a SB16 vibra sound chip), play Tyrian 2000. Enjoy.

I already have a couple videos on this thing, but iirc people aren't allowed to post their own videos on the forum.It seems the only place that its allowed is in status updates so I guess I could charge up my crappy little camera and record a video of me powering it up and link my status update here or something. They aren't that expensive, like half the price of your average cruddy cherry keyboard.

There was some guy who had a warehouse of old ATs and was selling them on ebay, I haven't seen any recently, so maybe he's out of them. you could probably get one used for cheaper on ebay anyway. well when this thing was made, PC gaming wasn't really a thing. There was computer gaming, but that meant home microcomputers like the commodore, ataris, etc. There weren't many PC games back then, and the ones made at the time of the AT's launch won't run properly on an AT anyway, since they used the CPU speed of the old IBM PC as the timer because all the old PCs ran at the same clock speed. But it was a monster office machine.