Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2023-08-14, 21:17:
gamefan_851 wrote on 2023-08-14, 20:46:
I will also look into the different glide wrappers. For Glide games itself a real voodoo card would be the best fo course but in order to make the athlon 1400 shine I would need something like a Voodoo 5 card which is way over my budget.
If you're into playing Glide games at resolutions higher than 1024x768 then a Voodoo 5 can give you an advantage, but it's certainly not worth the insane eBay prices. On the other hand, if you're willing to run your Glide games at period-correct resolutions, then a Voodoo 2 or a Voodoo 3 will do just fine.
Anyway, as others have said, most Unreal engine games (including UT and Deus Ex) can be played on newer systems using UTGLR and other fan-made renderers. There aren't that many reasons to run those games under Win9x, unless you really want to use an Aureal Vortex 2 card for A3D 2.0 or something.
A big thanks for your answer.Well I am more a fan of peroid correct resolutions like 800x600 or 1024x768. With some games highter resolutions can look rather nice but strange tat the same time because the user interface was not meant to be displayed in such high resolutions.
Also thx for the hint. I will look into the fan made renderers of Unreal Engine games to play them on newer systems.
vetz wrote on 2023-08-14, 21:34:
So it depends on what you are planning in the future with retro rigs. I can almost promise you that you won't end up with just two systems in this hobby 😜
If you get beefier WinXp system, then you can go with almost any card newer than year 2000 (not including budget cards). If not, and this is your fastest system and you intend to play games well into the 00's (extending a bit more than your list above), then get the fastest card you can up to Geforce 6800/X850.
You are absolutely right. The retro computing landscape so vast that is impossible to just get 2 systems. There are so many more things to explore and try out.
Getting a xp system did not did not occur to me yet to be frank but it would be worth considering as well for the next project.
I think I might turn the athlon 1400 system just into the ultimate 1999 and 2000 gaming rig. And for games from 2001 and beyond I might get beefy xp system.
Which specs would you consider as decent for a rather powerful xp gaming system for the years 2001 until 2003/04?
auron wrote on 2023-08-14, 21:36:
at a quick glance D2 seemed to look correct with a ti 4200, using the 1.13d patch, but the CPU overhead was absolutely ridiculous. in glide on a V3, a pii 400 is enough to almost always hit 25 FPS save for very intensive areas, but with the ti 4200 in D3D it was a stuttery mess even on a piii 1100. i reckon a fast athlon XP is needed to max it out there, and some fast storage too ideally, because the way the game loads in assets on the fly does not seem to play well on period hard drives. 512 MB RAM is good for long sessions but does not remedy the stutter when coming across new assets for the first time.
on modern hardware there are definitely glitches in D3D with 1.13d, but it's possible that this was improved with the 1.14 patches.
Did not know that is hard to get D2 running in good quality. That's very interesting topic. But the topic also made me curious to try out how well D2 would run on my first rig ( a p2 400 mhz system with a riva card). I have ordered a copy of D2 already i will check it out soon as the copy arrives.