First post, by varrol
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- Newbie
My current setup for is: Asus P5A, Pentium 200MMX, 256MB RAM, GF 2 MX400, ISA ESS 1869 (but playing with no sound now)
Running boot into DOS from Windows 98 with extended memory option
Some time ago I had Pentium 120MHz (still have working CPU 😀 ) with ~64MB of RAM and some S3 Trio - I've noticed, that my current Socket 7 setup seems to have worse performance. Screamer 2 for example - was always one of my favourite games - there are 4 modes: low res - low color, hi res - low color, low res - high color and hi res - high color. Back then I remeber playing hi res - low color with no problems. And now hi res - low color is unplayable - quite low fps.
I've tried also windows game Sega Rally Championship - despite low requirements, it's also pretty slow.
I checked with AMD K6-2 350MHz and was even able to run Screamer 2 in high res - high color (FPS not great though) -> so CPU does make a difference.
Maybe my memory is wrong and it should be like that?
Unfortunately I don't have much time to play with my old computer stuff, so want to narrow down what to check - do you have any suggestions? I'm thinking of running benchmarks and compare to similar machines + remove all not used pci/isa cards.
AOpen AX6B+ | P3 1G | 1GB ECC REG | FX5200 | CT4500
AOpen AX59pro | K6-2 450M | 256MB | Rage 128
Asus CUBX-E | P3 1G | 512MB | GF4 TI4200 | YMF719E-S
Asus P3B-F | P3 933M | 384MB | Radeon 9200 | CT4520
Asus P5A | P55C 200M | 256MB | Riva TNT | CT3600