Quake's special "Pentium" functions are more or less really the software spans driver and the lightmap texel-blending surfacecache update assembly routines with some abrashian black magic to get the pentium to write more pixels in parallel iirc, it's not relevant to GLQuake.

You'll get an increase if you turn off dynamic lights, less texture upload to go through.the slow PCI bus.

r_dynamic 0 only gains .2 fps. gl_flashblend 0 gains another .1 fps... running at 320x240 vs 640x480 gains only 1fps.

it should be gl_flashblend 1 that gains fps, not 0. Setting it to 1 disables dynamic light from entities.

You also didn't mention your 3d card. I played GLQ fine with a V2.

Voodoo 1 / Cyrix 5x86 120 fpu enhancements on

If your using a modern pci card maybe trying to make sure gl quake uses hardware tnl if it can be done (isnt already)

That won't do shit. The most modern optimization extension GLquake can utilize are the deprecated SGI Multitexturing extensions (which would help a 486)

It would be interesting if one could get quake's textures / lighting down to a level where a 586 would spit out 20-25fps.

It's not the texture resolution that's the problem. It's the bus throughput and the reduction of it to inch closer to 30. A V2 makes a more practical choice over a V1 in a 486 with multitexturing alone.

I thought quake 1 didn't make use of multi-texturing...

GLQuake supports multitexturing through gl_sgis_multitexture. The trouble is - most current videocards not use this alias, they use gl_arb_multitexture instead.

you should get approx 24 fps with a voodoo2 and default glquake settings with sound on

I should try that - and I will as soon as I go grab one of my V2 cards from storage. Those figures are on par with what I remember of my first PC (Cyrix 133 - or 120 that came overclocked to 133? + CT6670). I remember I actually finished quake after buying my first V2 card and it was very playable.

You played Quake on a Cyrix 133 back in the day? Impressive.

I did - I kind of remember a green heatspreader with cyrix 5x86-133gp on it, and I DEFINITELY remember stuff like PCConfig, Norton Commander and DxDiag in windows reporting the CPU as a Cyrix Instead 586 clocked at 133MHz. The mainboard had a VIA chipset, no PS/2, and had PCI and ISA. It had a PCI Cirrus Logic 53xx video card and a 800mb quantum fireball HDD.

I have never seen a Cyrix 5x86-133GP with a green Cyrix heatsink. It is said that Cyrix sold all their 133 MHz varients to computer upgrade companies, so I would be very surprised if they use the Cyrix heatsink. Do you have a photo?

Unfortunately no - I was too little back then. I also know that the 133mhz version does not come with a green heatsink, that's why I believe it might have been a 120mhz part overclocked to 133 by the system builders. Then again, I do remember it was running 33x4... dunno for sure - I was like 9 or 10 when I got it.

I recall the largest boost in performance on the software side was to turn off the gun motions. Did you try this?

Gun motions shouldn't impact anything. They use a lookup table on one value

Really? Perhaps I recall incorrectly. Memory isn't what it used to be. But please correct me where I am mistaken. I thought for those Quake2 on 486 tests we did that turning off the gun image had the largest impact on icreasing the framerate. Is that only true for Quake2 and not GLQuake?