Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for improving performance in Half-Life? At 640x480 I'm getting anything from 60fps in smaller areas, 20-30 normally, and down to lows of around 10-15fps in larger complex areas. I swear it wasn't this bad originally but who knows, it was a long time ago …

Thanks for the technical explanation! It's great to be learning more about this. I only had a Banshee back in the day so never encountered any of this, apart from the MiniGL wrapper. I'm re-playing Half-Life at the moment as it happens, again using a Banshee (with a K6-2 500, same setup as I first …

Perfect, that's what I want to hear. I've got enough other machines with more power, this one is purely for the experience and fun of SLI 😀

Got it, that makes sense, thanks. I'd completely forgot it was fairly common for games to to give the user the option to select an adapter. I think I'll go with the G200, it seems to be very highly regarded as a companion for Voodoo 2 setups.

I've got a pair of Voodoo 2 cards on the way for an SLI setup, so now I need to choose a 2D card to go with them. I'm trying to decide between S3 Virge and Matrox G200. The former ticks the nostalgia box (used to have one), but the latter is useful because it's AGP so I could use the setup with a …

There's some good points in this thread, and despite its age, I do mostly agree with the OP. Now that these operating systems aren't in daily use the risks are not the same. Sure, if you don't use antivirus and you're installing any old random tat from the Internet, you can still easily hose a …

So it turns out I just needed to RTFM... in the controls setup screen if you click on the control option on the left it toggles the selected input on the right between keyboard, joystick, and mouse (as appropriate). Extremely non-obvious UX but hey it was the 90s. Now my joystick works perfectly and …

Thanks - that's an interesting read. I did not have J200 in my autoexec.bat but adding it hasn't helped. 3 of 3 devices are initialised ok by the Creative gubbins, and CTCU shows everything as ok and no conflicts, so I'm fairly confident the joystick and port are happy especially given they work in …

Hi guys, long time reader first time poster :) Does anyone have any tips or suggestions for getting a joystick working in the original Need For Speed SE? I have a simple 2 axis/2 button joystick that works fine in other games (e.g. Nascar) as well as in Windows, and NFS will go through the initial …