Reply 20 of 31, by sklawz
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wrote:Yeah, I guess the lean machine didn't quite get off the start line. I have colin mcrae demo and carmaggedon carpocalypse demo al […]
Yeah, I guess the lean machine didn't quite get off the start line.
I have colin mcrae demo and carmaggedon carpocalypse demo also exiting to desktop with no message after some minutes, that could mean overheating. . I have a passive vga hetsink I could apply to the southbridge if that could help, or even a fan on the northbridge, wherever that unichrome chip is. First thing when I get a pc is to check capacitators, they are fine.
Regarding the cpu upgrade, I don't think it would matter, I mean 2.0GHz is plenty for win98 games.
Overall unichrome does not seem suitable for gaming, wouldn't you say?
I have not done much game testing but I did install Star Wars X-Wing Alliance
and that ran fine. Ths IGP is supposed to support anything up until DirectX 7, so,
if that includes all your favourite late 90s games then it should be adequate.
One observation I have is that the UniChrome works better in XP by a fair margin
so if your games work in XP it would be preferable to use that. I will see
about looking at those demos you mention for a test later in XP and 98 if
they have a benchmark feature.
Personally I just use my desktop for playing games in Linux with WINE or
XP in virtualbox (it can work okay with quite a few old games).
Currently I am making progress in C+C renegade and I have only used the
UniChrome machine really for remote SSH access to CYGWIN to control
the serial port.
Bye-bye