First post, by Scythifuge
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Greetings,
I have a Diamond Viper card on the way. Apparently, it is a Windows accelerator card and I keep reading that DOS performance leaves little to be desired. What does that mean, exactly? I will be testing it on a 4dps mobo with a 486DX2/66 CPU and I think 16mb RAM (maybe 32, I can't remember at the moment.) I will be running MS-DOS games up to 1994 on this machine with most games running at 320x200 (and adjacent resolutions.) I can't think of any games for MS-DOS using higher resolutions/colors that I would run on this machine as I would probably just use some flavor of Pentium I/II/III.
What should I look for when trying to gauge performance with this card in DOS? For example, would Doom run slow and choppy? The majority of the games will be Doom and Doom-likes, RPGs, strategy games like Dune II, adventure games, etc.
Thanks!
Scythifuge