First post, by iulianv
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I put together an old system around a Pentium/200 MMX (the ceramic one - I just love those) on an ASUS mainboard with 4x32MB of EDO RAM.
The first "goal" is to use it to play the games that back then introduced me to the world of hardware-accelerated 3D gaming on PCs - Quake2 and Unreal.
First tried Quake2 with a Virge/DX(4MB)+Voodoo2(8MB) "combo" (both Diamond) - really great framerate but low resolution and lousy colouring (16bit on TN panels looks pretty crappy when compared to a CRT).
Then tried Quake2 (in OpenGL mode) with an Elsa Winner 2000/Office (8MB) card - great resolution and colouring but extremely poor framerate (Permedia2 is known to be this slow).
I assume one way to get 1024x768, 24 or 32bit colour depth and playable framerates for 3D-accelerated Quake2 on that CPU is to find a PCI Riva card, but those are too "common" 😀. Is there any PCI implementation of Permedia3? Are there any other PCI OpenGL cards (of reasonable length) that I could look for?
And, as a side question, would the Voodoo2 16bit colouring improve significantly on a non-TN panel LCD monitor?