First post, by Putas
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- Oldbie
I've tried a Savage 3D card in a 440BX and i815 boards, but AGP features would not work. I tried updating to the latest Savage 3D bios (which also means 110 MHz), and it is still the same.
So instead I turned to socket 7, with GA-5AA featuring Ali V chipset. CPU is a K6 III+ @ 500 MHz (100x5), 128 MB RAM, fastest timings, etc. All the things I wanted can be enabled in that rig. But some results are atrocious.
For example, in Quake 2 at 640x480x16 it should be possible to get 55 FPS with a Pentium II 400: https://www.anandtech.com/show/244/4.
My setup can do only ~30 FPS, various drivers tried, and 800x600 is slower by only one. Clearly, this is a host limitation.
I tried 3DNow! patch of Quake 2, no improvement.
Is there anything more to do to close the gap?