First post, by DeathRabbit679
Specs are:
AMD Athlon 1400 MHz
512MB PC133 RAM
SB Live CT4760 (VxD Driver)
GeForce 4 Ti4600 128mb (30.82 Detonator)
MSI 6389 w/VIA KT133A Chipset (4-in-1 ver 4.35)
Win98 SE w/ DX8.1
I'm kind of getting back in the swing of running a machine this old over the past year or so; it's possible I'm just expecting too much from it, but I feel like I'm not quite getting the amount of juice I expected for the squeeze here. I've slain several of the usual monsters already (vid card falling back to pci mode without mobo drivers, buggy WDM sb live drivers, newer Nvidia drivers being unstable in 98) and now3dMark01SE is clocking in around 8200 which is maybe a bit slower than I expected but doesn't seem ridiculously out of line, but when it comes to games, I'm a bit disappointed. Unreal Tournament manages to somehow drop into the 50s at 800x600x32. Similar situation with Alice. Very occasionally, Max Payne will sometimes drop as low as mid 20s when lots of projectiles are on screen, same resolution/color depth. Morrowind performance is really bad, but it's Morrowind so I didn't read too much that data point. I don't have any hard data to prove it, but the times at which it'll slow down smell like CPU getting bogged down, which seems absurd for those first 3 games, but I only ran Intels back in the day when this stuff was new so maybe AMDs from this era are wimpy, I dunno. In fact I set out to do a P3 tualatin for this box at first, but those boards seem to be about as rare as a lightning-struck 7 leaf clover in a nuclear sharknado, so I went this direction instead. Any thoughts on stuff to try? Or am I just wanting to much out of this setup and I need go build a P4(eww)