Nice! Do you remember the settings used for each game? How about testing with Pentium MMX and K6?

F2bnp wrote:

Nice! Do you remember the settings used for each game? How about testing with Pentium MMX and K6?

I was so busy, this took me weeks 😒

I might do MMX, but want to move on a Voodoo 2 on a P3 platform.

Settings are all defaults.

I could do some tests with Voodoo 1 or 2 (SLI as well). I own a Pentium 133, an MMX 233 and a K6-3+ which I can probably underclock or slightly overclock for this purpose.
I could also go with either an Alladdin V board or a 430TX board.

Nice !
Since gains seem to be on Turok and Incoming, I guess My P133 can stay in my P5-133 without fear of getting replaced by a 200MHz as soon as I put a Voodoo inside !

Updated video, now also includes Pentium MXX 166, 200 and 233!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsHMSDLBHwA

Nice vid and at least time you picked a better soundtrack, was tempted to send you some links 🤣

Wow, this is eye opening to say the list. The P166 MMX is a good deal faster than the P200. The extra cache really helps the Voodoo it seems!

Yeah a Pentium will pretty heavily bottleneck Voodoo1. The scaling of those results make it obvious it has a lot of headroom.

I will try and test some of the faster AMD CPUs. A fast K6-2 and K6-3+.

Tried a K6-2 and as soon every game just displays a green image. Sometimes it's blue. Basically a solid colour and the machine hangs.

Any ideas AMD fans, otherwise I will just leave testing AMD CPUs. Do I need an AMD CPU driver for Windows?

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Tried a K6-2 and as soon every game just displays a green image. Sometimes it's blue. Basically a solid colour and the machine hangs.

Any ideas AMD fans, otherwise I will just leave testing AMD CPUs. Do I need an AMD CPU driver for Windows?

A guess, but if you're using Windows 95, I thought it had a bug with CPU's above a certain speed? I don't know what else could cause this unless the CPU is defective somehow or it is a VIA bug of some kind.

Tried a K6-2+ and K6-III+.

The speed bug affects only the older W95 versions and manifests itself in a totally different error.

If I put back an Intel CPU all is well.

It crashed when probing or initialising the card. For example in Turok demo just before you can press the button to start the game.

Didn't find anything on google either.

Wondering if a re-install could help?

U didn't reinstall windows 95,after changing to a amd processor?
Couse if u didn't u should,after all the proc has a different architecture

Weird I did have the reference drivers loaded. Installed the Monster drivers and it's working now. 😕

PS: And yes, I needed that AMD K6-2 patch for anything faster than K6-2/300.

Continuing the benchmark saga...

Finally moving forward with my massive Voodoo 2 CPU scaling project. Done with Socket and Super Socket 7 processors. Done all the charts and tables and now I'm going straight to socket 370. Main reason is I don't have many of the slower Slot 1 CPUs, like a PII 233 or something like that. My neighbour does, so in the meantime S370 it is 😀

For those who don't know, I'm working on a "from 100 MHz to 3.2 GHz" Voodoo 2 (and SLI) CPU scaling project 😵

Started with the top dog to make sure everything works stably.

The board is pretty decent. I like AOpen. They always use Japanese capacitors so there are little stability issues. This one has an Intel chipset, Tualatin support and AGP. Perfect.

When mounting a CPU cooler onto a Tualatin, be very careful as the chips have a IHS. I snapped the mounting bit off a very decent board in the beginning of the year. So this time I just mount a small SS7 cooler with a Zalman 120mm fan blowing 😀

Storage is, once again, a modern SATA drive with 32GB capacity limit enabled (SEATOOLS) going through a SATA to IDE adapter. Works beautifully.

Wondering if I need chipset driver, but I will find out soon.

Go for it! I'm thinking of keeping a Pentium 4 machine with i865 chipset, GeForce 6800 and a voodoo2 for dual booting windows 98se and xp and I wonder how would it scale!

GeorgeMan wrote:

Go for it! I'm thinking of keeping a Pentium 4 machine with i865 chipset, GeForce 6800 and a voodoo2 for dual booting windows 98se and xp and I wonder how would it scale!

This is with just a single card:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4LfByYFv8Y

But yes, P4 is a valid option 😀

With SLI I recommend running a refresh rate of 85 Hz and enabling V-sync (on a CRT that is). Without V-sync you will see SLI artifacts.

In general I believe that the P4 platform will soon receive a lot more retro love. It's really a very solid platform. Cheap as chips. Super stable and easy to find parts 😀