Boy, where do I start?
vvbee wrote:Another option is getting used to and using low resolutions. That way you don't even need a model 3000. In '98 gaming, 800 x 600 and 640 x 480 ruled, and in '99 you had people running outcast in 400 x 300.
🤣 Yeah, I guess I could. That's what I had to do with The Need for Speed SE on my 2D-graphics-card Pentium MMX 233MHz machine for the game to run at least mostly around 30fps - all low settings, more or less. I'm just the kind of the guy that likes no compromises, however sometimes unreasonable the request. 😀
meljor wrote:No (= the short answer). […]
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the_ultra_code wrote:gdjacobs wrote:Phil ran nGlide on an Athlon 64 and was able to substantially outperform a Voodoo5. I don't know how iq stacks up, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-w1NziFoLg
Yeah, I saw that video already. But, that's my concern. He's using an Athlon XP, which 99% of all the different Athlon XP CPUs (according to Wikipedia; I'll surrender myself later 😀 ) ever produced were clocked at or above 1GHz. Would a lowly Intel Pentium 3 CPU released a year before be able to stack up enough to those Athlon XP CPUs?
No (= the short answer).
He 's using an Athlon64 as stated above which is even faster than the fastest Athlon XP. Your Pentium 3 will bottleneck the voodoo 5 but will also not run Nglide great with any card.
To be fair: nfs high stakes is a dog of a game imho with not a really smooth running game engine (on lower end pc's). I think NFS 3 and NFS 5 both run better on your system, they are also better games in general.
While I would have to disagree with you about NFS5 about it being a great game (not the same as those before it, especially so due to how different the cars feel; then again, haven't played much of it because of that, so I don't have the most-complete opinion) 😀, you are right regarding what CPU Phil used. My bad. Yeah, basically this would be a no-go, then. 😒
gdjacobs wrote:I suspect you'd start hitting CPU limits at higher than XGA resolutions regardless. As it sounds like you're not concerned about period correctness, I suggest making the leap to something with higher performance.
Athlon XP/64/Pentium IV machines can make really nice Win98/XP hybrid hosts with the right motherboard chipset, plus they're usually inexpensive (or free).
I would say I'm kind of weird in the sense that, for some things, I want period-correct, others, well, not so much. In this case, though, yeah, I am considering breaking out of period-correctness. I do, however, have my already pre-built 3.4GHz P4 machine at the ready for this task (although I'm not sure if the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB in the system, with its lack of support for palettized textures and table fog, would cause problems in older nGlide games - is that even a concern with Glide games?). I also have a nice, fully-functional Asus TUSL2-C Tualatin-compatible motherboard in storage that I recently purchased waiting to be used in a 1400MHz Tualatin CPU build - which I think would actually be what I am looking for (especially given the restrictions of NFS5, which has... problems on systems with CPUs clocked at over 2GHz). Powerful enough for nGlide emulation with at least a slightly less powerful GPU than the 5900XT, while being very compatible with games I am targeting. Is that a valid statement?