Reply 20 of 28, by speeddemon
mothergoose729 wrote on 2021-06-24, 06:05:For a pentium MMX there really isn't any reason to go faster than a single voodoo 2. From what I remember the Voodoo 2 is fully featured for DirectX 6 and compatible with directx 7, which is well beyond anything you would want to play on a socket 7 PC anyway. I would pair it with a S3 virge DX or something similar and focus on DOS.
My only concern with a S3 Virge DX is that I recall them being blurrier than modern graphics cards for 2D stuff.
Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2021-06-24, 06:09:speeddemon wrote on 2021-06-24, 06:04:I think Phil was saying in this video that you can actually use the 45.23 drivers with the FX 5500. Does that change your opinion?
No. The 45.23 drivers came out in July of 2003 and are optimized for CPUs that were common at that time. The Pentium MMX was heavily outdated by then.
I also have a TNT2 PCI card. Better?
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