Best graphics card for AMD K6-2 350 Mhz processor.

Reply 20 of 43, by Takedasun

Posted on 2021-06-21, 21:22

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Reply 22 of 43, by Joseph_Joestar

Posted on 2021-07-21, 19:04

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Interesting. I wonder why the TNT2 PRO goes from 23 FPS at 32-bit color with 2.08 drivers to just 9 FPS with 3.68 drivers. That's a huge difference!

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Reply 24 of 43, by Nemo1985

Posted on 2021-07-21, 21:33

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Or nvidia dirty tricks that have been disabled in the newer driver?

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Posted on 2021-08-05, 02:31

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What's interesting is how well the supposedly vastly inferior S3 Savage4 Xtreme manages to hang in there, on this game. Sure it's noticeably slower under 32 bit color, but 16 bit color it's only a little bit slower than the better cards. Perhaps the S3 drivers are sensitive to the CPU and chipset combination used?

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Posted on 2021-08-05, 03:31

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Well until you swap the CPU out for a K6-3+ 550 and it gets slow again.

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I should imagine one that works would be go.....

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Posted on 2021-08-05, 06:49

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BitWrangler wrote on 2021-08-05, 03:31:

Well until you swap the CPU out for a K6-3+ 550 and it gets slow again.

Ought to be just fine for my Pentium MMX 233MHz system. (PCI version anyhow.)
Much as I love 3dfx cards, the prices are absoludicrous anymore.

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Reply 30 of 43, by Takedasun

Posted on 2022-06-18, 20:35

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Reply 31 of 43, by swaaye

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NFS3 has Glide support and that is probably the fastest/smoothest option with a K6.

Reply 32 of 43, by Takedasun

Posted on 2023-07-24, 20:23

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Reply 33 of 43, by Sphere478

Posted on 2023-07-24, 22:00

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Add a radeon 9800 pro to the tests if you are able to get one to run stable.

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Kinda surprised how well the Rage 128 are doing, I don't feel so dumb for owning *cough* several now.

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Reply 35 of 43, by Takedasun

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Sphere478 wrote on 2023-07-24, 22:00:

Add a radeon 9800 pro to the tests if you are able to get one to run stable.

There is no way to test the Radeon 9800 right now.

Taking into account the weakness of the platform, most likely the performance will be equal to Radeon 9250 (Catalyst 4.7)

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Reply 37 of 43, by Takedasun

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There is a lot of inconsistency wrt the clouds being rendered between those cards as well as between driver versions for the S3 Savage 4.

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Reply 39 of 43, by Takedasun

Posted on 2023-07-29, 12:09

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