First post, by TehGuy
So I've been thinking about which one of the two GPUs in the topic title I should go with in my Slot 1 machine with the following specs
Coppermine PIII 866Mhz for Win98, 1.0AGHz Ezra-T for DOS things via compatible slotkets
Gigabyte GA-6BXC Rev 2.0
256MB PC133
Orpheus sound card
AWE64
I have both GPUs in question, so it's too late for anyone to tell me to not spend money đ
From what I've gathered thus far, even though the 4200 supports DX8 it's not exactly great with it, which has me wonder if the 2-3 DX8 games I have that run under 98 will be better served on my XP machine or if I should bust out my P4 stuff and make a more dedicated 98 box to relegate this Slot 1 machine to DOS only, but I suppose I'll list off what I'm wanting to run on it leave that call to those more knowledgeable. I'm leaning towards the majority of what I want to play being fine on a MX 460 and slapping the 4200 in something else down the line or just running the few question titles on XP
I'm looking at some of the following at a desktop resolution of 1024x768 @ 85Hz, don't have to max it graphically but would prefer to or get close
Half-Life, plus xpacks
Morrowind
Dungeon Siege
Baldur's Gate + II
Neverwinter Nights
StarCraft + BW
Diablo + II
WarCraft III + FT
System Shock 2
Unreal
Deus Ex
The Sims
SimCity 3k
Monkey Island 1-3
Fallout 1 + 2
Incredible Machines
Myst, Riven, Myst III
Call of Duty (hopefully also CoD 2)
Medal of Honor
Quake 2
various other DOS games that I'm sure would run fine on even the GF2 MX200/MX400 I've got somewhere
and then possibly others as I get my hands on them, like FFVII, but I'm sure I'll know where to run them after this thread runs its course
Win98+DOS: C3 Ezra-T 1.0AGHz / P3-S 1.26GHz, 128MB RAM, AWE64 + Orpheus + Audigy 2 ZS, Ti 4200, 128GB SD card
Win XP SP3: C2Q 9650, 4GB RAM, X-Fi Titanium, GTX 750
PowerMac G4 QS 800MHz + GeForce4 Ti4200, OS 9
PowerMac G5 DP 1.8Ghz + ATi x800 XT, Leopard