Warlord wrote on 2020-07-28, 16:59:
I don't have any experience in bottle necking Pentium 200s. Well I had a 233mmx with EDO back in the day and I remember it was about fast enough to run diablo and thats it. I don't think no amounts of getting a stronger GPU will help it. I put a radeon 7500 PCI or something I think in mine and it was still too slow to run anything. It kinda is what it is. A voodoo 2 might allow you to play games, but it might not allow you to get good FPS in those games.
Diablo as in Diablo 1? An MMX 233 will make short work of that. If you're talking about Diablo 2 then yeah that struggles as the processor is at the absolute minimum. Also, as has been suggested above, the Radeon card might actually perform worse than a Voodoo 2 in such a system 😁.
You can actually play a lot of games on an MMX and Voodoo2 and they will run pretty well. Unreal might not see a huge leap going from V1 to V2 for example, but other games definitely benefit, GLQuake and Quake 2 are night and day like I mentioned and are fairly playable even today. I've tried it and seen it first hand and in fact other people have and shared their experiences here as well as benchmarks even! I think Phil had a comparison, but can't find the link at the moment.
Jackhead wrote on 2020-07-28, 17:12:Thanks guys! I think i will go than with a voodoo2 to get a small boost about voodoo1.
The voodoo rush was a idea, but ok sound […]
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Thanks guys! I think i will go than with a voodoo2 to get a small boost about voodoo1.
The voodoo rush was a idea, but ok sounds like not really great swap for my ark2000pv.
A Banshee and above is not really what im looking for.
I just want keep the timeline. I also run on this mashine only dos 6.22 /win 3.11 .
Banshee only came out a few months after the Voodoo 2 though and in fact can be much slower in anything that does not make use of multi-texturing, while having a slight edge, which you'll probably not see, on games without multitexturing due to the higher clockspeed. If it is a period correct issue, it's still a 1998 card and very much a budget offering compared to the Voodoo2.
No Win9x though? If that's the case, forget the V2 and just grab a V1. There are very few DOS games with 3Dfx support and GLQuake is strictly Windows (okay there's QDOS but performance will be lacking probably, haven't tried it).