swaaye wrote on 2022-03-10, 19:04:
Also, 😀, Voodoo2 is actually a pretty disappointing card in my experience. Even the 12MB card doesn't have enough texture memory. You will run into some stuttering caused by PCI bus texture swapping even with the original Unreal. I think of it as a super duper Voodoo1 for the most part.
I tried to play Diablo 2 with Voodoo2 SLI last year and there are quite a few areas that, if you run it at 800x600, it will drop from a solid 30fps to about 10fps. Voodoo3 2000 doesn't even blink.
Good to know; I have 2 Voodoo IIs, but still trying to figure that stuff out; got a 2D card, but got wrapped up in trying to figure out what the best setups are for the slew of AGP cards (right now my collection is fairly small, Voodoo IIx2, Voodoo 3 2000, Voodoo 3 3000, Asus version of NVIDIA Riva TNT2 32 MB, Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB, FX 5200, 6600 GT, 6800 GT 256MB and a Radeon HD 4650 1GB as far as AGP cards goes; I got these mobos laying around; a P4 2.8Ghz system that took a crap on me and feels like basically trying to plug holes to get it patched up (getting things like sound and USB working again).
Part of the reason I'm so interested in this stuff is that I really loved the 90s/00s; had a fantastic time (even on military deployments!), but my chagrin was being ignorant of computer technology at the time; I was much more a gamer back then; now I'm much more interested in the time machine concept and recapturing some of that unique time of innovation that you definitely don't seen now. (honestly the last modern GPU worth a darn was the GTX 1080Ti imo; 2080Ti was not much better and now AMD /Nvidia are just doing milk runs). I think it's a shame we don't have pioneers and innovators like we did in the 90s aside from a few notable exceptions like John Carmack; anyway, I really appreciate the help from everyone; just working on the funds as I go, because if I buy it all at once my wife may execute me at dawn.
I was planning on getting a V5 6000, but with the current turmoil, not happening from where I am. So now I'm looking at getting these other builds started and focusing on either W98SE or XP.
I am really fascinated by how poorly this Voodoo 5 PCI runs; all reviews I heard/saw said it was pretty much the same as the AGP version. From what I'm seeing out of my Voodoo 3 3000 it is giving a good run for the Voodoo 5 PCI's money, so I assume something is not right somewhere; but I digress.