swaaye wrote on 2022-09-09, 22:11:
At 640x480 you will be hitting a CPU bottleneck but I imagine the framerate is so high there's nothing to complain about.
Yeah, the Savage4 is a fantastic performer when used with p1mmx or cyrix cpu with pre-2000 games. In these machines it easily outperforms basically everything except the matrox g200. The stability is also fantastic.
However, the savage4 doesnt scales above this. So in p3-class computers, where finally the geforce and radeon cards can work without producing stuttering mess everywhere, it wouldnt make too much sense to use a savage4. Another con for the Savage4 is the xp drivers which are very bad and unstable.
Its important to note that the only resolution i used this card ever was 640x480 at 16 bit, so if someone wants to use this card in 800x600 i would rather recommend the tnt1 or voodoo3 instead.