Reply 20 of 27, by Jolaes76
I have an Asus A8V Deluxe with an Opteron at 2.5 Ghz (performs about the same as a 2.8 Ghz Athlon 64 X2). In this system, I have an Aureal Vortex 2 card with a NEC DB50XG clone daughterboard.
I aimed at a very fast Win98SE system which runs XP as well. Win98SE means optional booting to DOS 7 as well.
As a point of reference, this system is significantly faster than a Tually Celeron but it only makes DOS SVGA games step up one notch only on the resolution ladder. 1280x1024 is playable in most cases, but anything higher can make things crawl. And that is with an nvidia 7900GS.
DOS SVGA games simply demand an insane bandwidth at high resolutions. You need to find a good compromise, even on a fast system.
Then again, fortunately, there is only a handful of DOS games that support 1280x and higher resolutions...
"Ita in vita ut in lusu alae pessima iactura arte corrigenda est."