AlessandroB wrote on 2023-10-25, 12:30:
marxveix wrote on 2023-10-25, 12:22:
AMD K5 @117MHz (PR166 no MMX) managed to work well with some early 3D, like MotoRacer (smooth as butter), still its newer cpu than intel pentium 60, also Voodoo1 was working well for K5, still better to use faster AMD K6-2/3 or Intel Pentium MMX/PII cpu for early 3D stuff.
At the same MHz speed AMD K5 is equal or faster than Intel Pentium cpu, just AMD K5 wont overclock faster than 133MHz (PR200). Slowest Pentium that i had one moment was Socket5 Pentium 75 and that i upgraded to Pentium 133MHz. These non MMX cpus are for 2D (mostly), but 200MHz non MMX intel cpu would work better than rest non MMX cpus i think. 3D is to much for Pentium 60MHz oldie, i would stick with 2D card.
And instead of that… thinking about a 3D card that allow this P60 doing something “that i not belive is possible for the poor 60mhz?)… changing point of interest in my search? still good DOS compatibility but also squeeze the maximum ot this P60 can be fun…
Of course some early 3D would work and i have used my K5 for that early 3D part, even faster 486/586 can be used for 3D,i just like someting faster usually, like i cannot play well with most S3 Virge (S3D) and ATi Rage2 (3DCIF) @ 3D stuff, actually it is possible, but not@30fps and 640x480 or higher resolution, still i love many older videocards, like S3 Virge GX2 / ATi Rage3 for 3D.
Lowering game resolution with right videocard + driver can improve performance, also Voodoo1 accelerator can be used in dos. For my K5 build only older driver version worked for Win9x, same can go with other videocard drivers and retro pc, also older drivers can be faster than newer.
I hope you can find perfect videocard for your Intel Pentium 60Mhz build.
31 different MiniGL/OpenGL Win9x files for all Rage 3 cards: Re: ATi RagePro OpenGL files