Re: The Force Engine (Dark Forces Engine remake)
Posted on Yesterday, 23:09
Nice to see you here! Thanks for posting and keep on doing great work 😀.
Re: Half-Life Performance Issues
Posted on Yesterday, 23:08
Sigh... There is no Glide renderer for Half-Life, there's miniGL support. If it works in... "Glide" for you, then it should probably work in OpenGL as well. Half-Life was written with Software and OpenGL renderers in mind and D3D was added late in development for compatibility, as by late 1998 not …
Re: K6-3+ and TNT2 = cpu bound QII
Posted on Yesterday, 07:53
Interesting, good to know!
Re: K6-3+ and TNT2 = cpu bound QII
Posted on Yesterday, 06:38
Are you sure? I find it hard to believe you are achieving ~90FPS in demo1 on that CPU without the 3Dnow! patch. I'm fairly certain HW T&L does not affect the performance in this game at all.
Re: Half-Life Performance Issues
Posted on Yesterday, 06:36
D3D in Half-Life is not that bad, but OpenGL is faster and more stable, I guess owing to the engine's roots in id tech 2. Not sure what was going on with that G400 there.
Re: K6-3+ and TNT2 = cpu bound QII
Posted on Yesterday, 05:06
Indeed. Perhaps try to enable external cache and also use the Quake 2 3Dnow! patch and 3Dnow! OpenGL in the menu. Out of curiosity, what driver are you using for the TNT2?
Re: K6-3+ and TNT2 = cpu bound QII
Posted on 2020-06-03, 23:26
What demo are you using to get these results? Not sure what the point of this thread is, are you asking a question? The card is definitely bottlenecked by the K6, although it's not a bad matchup at all. Why did you disable the motherboard cache though?
Re: Half-Life Performance Issues
Posted on 2020-06-03, 23:22
Wonder if AGP cards will do any better, will try my GF3 Ti This will not help. The game is not GPU bound, unless you're trying to play it at super high resolutions on that Voodoo3. I suspect that even at 1024x768, the V3 should be able to maintain 60fps with the game. Your issue is the CPU, the K6 …
Re: MP3s slightly slower on old '90s pc with CMI8330
Posted on 2020-06-03, 17:20
Yeah, pretty sure you need a faster CPU. Try 128kbps files and see how they perform.
Re: Build for Matrox G400 Max (EMBM) and A3D games?
Posted on 2020-06-03, 17:19
A3D was used in a lot of games. A3D 1.0 is not bad, but A3D 2.0 can be really impressive even today. However, it can be quite expensive on CPU cycles. Make sure to get a Vortex 2 card and not a Vortex 1. I've never messed with EMBM, but apparently it was a Matrox G400 series thing, CPU doesn't …
Re: Half-Life Performance Issues
Posted on 2020-06-03, 17:10
There ain't much that can be done. Half-Life is just that slow once you get into firefights. Perhaps there's some console command that disables something that takes up CPU cycles. I had a go with the game on a PII 350 recently, played through Uplink once again and yeah performance is shit with a …
Re: PCI Diamond Viper v550 16mb VS PCI Monster3D II 3Dfx Voodoo 8MB
Posted on 2020-06-02, 21:56
So i installed card next to viper, monster3d ii drivers installed like a charm. Unreal in Glide 3dfx works perfect under 800x600. A few questions: 1. 3dfx Glide in Unreal tournament gives me only 16bit texture to choose from. Is my voodoo2 not capable to provide 32bit textures? My viper can produce …
Re: Rendition Verite Thread
Posted on 2020-05-29, 10:45
Some games actually made use of higher res textures than most 3D accelerators supported at the time. MDK comes to mind, which makes the software version preferable to the Glide and D3D version on most cards. I think it used 512x512 textures? Funnily enough, MDK2 which was created by a different …
Re: PCI Diamond Viper v550 16mb VS PCI Monster3D II 3Dfx Voodoo 8MB
Posted on 2020-05-26, 23:22
UE1 and especially Unreal and UT are notoriously bad when using the original D3D and OpenGL renderers. Weird performance hiccups, apparently some features missing. Overall, on period correct hardware, Glide performs a lot better as the engine was written with that in mind alongside software …
Re: Ideas for upgrading K6-2 266 System
Posted on 2020-05-25, 23:10
Found a seller with K6-2+ 400 chips for 20$ in the US, perhaps it suits your wallet: https://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-K6-2-400ATZ-1-6V-Core-3-3V-I-O-Super-socket-7-CPU-Processor/254568245067 This should be the fastest thing this board can take without raising the FSB above 66MHz. The K6+ CPUs are …
Re: Ideas for upgrading K6-2 266 System
Posted on 2020-05-25, 19:56
Could just be that your CPU can't do 366MHz. I personally don't like odd FSB frequencies that use non integer dividers or just run buses off-spec all-together. In my experience, you're just asking for trouble, especially on old hardware where capacitors may have gone a little bad without you even …
Re: Tell us about your 3DFX collection
Posted on 2020-05-25, 19:31
My favorite build is my Voodoo 5 Shuttle: Dude... Do you have a thread showcasing this? It looks great! As for me: Voodoo1 4MB (Diamond Monster3D) Voodoo2 12MB SLI (Guillemot MaxiGamer 2 + Orchid Righteous 2) Voodoo Banshee PCI (Creative CT6750) Voodoo 3 3000 AGP Voodoo 3 3000 PCI Voodoo 5 5500 AGP …
Re: poor preformance
Posted on 2020-05-23, 09:34
Well, at stock speeds, the GF3 Ti200 might actually be more in line with some of the faster GeForce2 offerings. You have to keep in mind, with later drivers and faster CPUs, the 8500 is actually closer to the GF4 Ti cards than it is to GF3 cards, so it actually makes sense that the 8500LE would beat …
Re: poor preformance
Posted on 2020-05-23, 00:20
PC600 RDRAM is not especially fast and that CPU is certainly worse off than the 2GHz part Errius is using. Which card do you have exactly? Perhaps it is downclocked slightly compared to other Ti200 cards, but I doubt it, could just be a case of Willamette being slow. I have the same board with a 1. …
Re: The Force Engine (Dark Forces Engine remake)
Posted on 2020-05-22, 18:29
Looking good, wish them all the best on their endeavors. I remember getting excited back in ~2003-2004 when someone was porting Dark Forces levels to Jedi Academy, remember daydreaming just how awesome it would be. Then, after a couple of levels or so, they stopped and that was the end of that. …
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