Reply 420 of 53268, by SavantStrike
wrote:I have an AMD 2.1GhZ system with a socket A chip and 1.5 Gigs of Ram, Audigy 2 ZS, etc. Plenty of free slots and a spare drive...should I install Win98 as a second OS and used the Glide cards with my GeForce 5200? That system should handle it easy enough. Or should I use hacked 3dfx drivers for XP?
Oh, that's a different story. Frankly it's more optimal than my own glide setup, I went from a P4 2.8ghz to a 1ghz coppermine simply because the coppermine was more nostalgic 😀. You'll get plenty of juice out of twin V2's on any box with a cpu say 800mhz+ (with 1+ ghz being golden).
If you go for Win98, whatever you do don't add more ram. It can only address a max of 2GB, and if the rumors are true it sucks at 512mb and above without an official service pack. Oddly enough, I've run both PIII with 768MB and a P4 with 1GB of ram with no troubles, but then again all I ran on them was games.
I say try it with Win98 though. You don't have to do a thing to get games of the era to work right the first time.