True! I considered windows ME but as I kid I mostly used 95 and 98... I'm going to bite the bullet and get the 9600 Pro but from the pictures of the card on sale, it seems to have a very anemic heatsink and fan, wonder if I can find something better nowadays... Would love to push that card a bit …

Good luck. You may find that upgraded CPU still a bottleneck for that video card. I'm a fan of GeForce4 for 9x machines. Period correct and plenty fast enough for the era of games up until XP released. If I'm going to max a game out, there's typically patches and stuff so I can just run it on my i9 …

The thing is, you're not going to max out to many games with a P3 733, especially if you're using a wrapper. CPU upgrade is in the pipeline, I'd like to stay with socket 370, but it is quite a bit expensive to go into higher end with something like a 1266S or a 1400S, hence me mentioning I'm …

You may as well run XP with the system. Eh, true that I'd have more options as an XP machine but I'd like to just get a nice, really fast 98SE build (I really like win 9x too lol), mostly for the "buy hardware I couldn't get at the time" factor, the nostalgia of the older games and playing them …

I see... I would like to get an FX series for highest compatibility, but I don't have any games that I want to play that will make use of 8bit palleted textures or table fog so that's why I considered those 2 options since they're quite cheap. I do play NFS3 on this machine so, I'd be bummed to lose …

Hello everyone, I'm considering spicing up my old 98SE build with a new GPU and a new CPU/mobo as unfortunately the Voodoo3 whilst great with older titles and a great overclocker (can push it to 218MHz), quickly finds itself struggling with some newer ones. But this is mostly about the GPU since for …

But yeah, I mainly built this computer for games I couldn't play at the time, to experience earlier 3D games and the mythical 3dfx cards with their Glide API and while I could build a VM or even play said games on modern hardware, it's not really the same thing. I know and I also won't choose or …

I think DS1 came out roughly at the same time as ES Morrowind maybe it sets the demands into perspective... Less cliff racers though.. DS1 did come out just shy of a month before TES3, but I think the latter is quite a bit more demanding... makes sense as it has quite a bit better graphics imho. I …

Yeah, being a game from 2002 and from Microsoft of course they'd target XP for optimization. But yeah, I mainly built this computer for games I couldn't play at the time, to experience earlier 3D games and the mythical 3dfx cards with their Glide API and while I could build a VM or even play said …

Thank you all for your replies. Just for fun, I tried to run the game at 1920x1080, on a very specific area with object detail on max and I got 16FPS. Reduced the resolution to 640x480... I got the exact same frame rate. It seems that the Voodoo 3 can handle DS1, but the CPU like soggi said, it's …

Oh man... and this is recently installed system as a few months ago I replaced a 20GB HDD with a 256GB SSD just for that quality of life, and speed, it saturates the ATA bus at about 80MB/sec. I forgot to mention I also have an Intel Pro1000 GT NIC, but I don't think it matters, I only use the …

Hello, I've been trying to get Dungeon Siege 1 (fully updated) to run properly on my Pentium III based system, while it runs it's not without issues, as I'm getting between 10 and 30FPS, often in the high 10s/low 20s with object detail at minimum and not in combat. Also I get the exact same …