First post, by sgt76
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I'm playing this super duper game again on what must be the 600th system in the last eleven years. This time I'm trying to actually finish the damn game on a period correct all 1999 440BX/ Katmai 600Mhz/ Geforce 256/ Win98SE system.
The last system I played this on was a 800Mhz Coppermine/ V3 setup (overclocked to 183mhz).
This performed and looked much worse than my current machine. This puzzles me as at the bottom of Bullfrog's intro screen it says "3dfx" which I take to mean that the game is optimized for 3dfx hardware- sorta like "The way it's meant to be played" crap 😜 that we have today.
And yet the Nvidia has richer colours, none of that famous lag at the intro screen, blitzes through the game even with a dozen dark mistresses. All this even using a much slower cpu. The V3 doesn't even wake up when using a cpu of 500-600mhz... is it that cpu dependent?
That would seem strange as it was one of the cheaper cards in 1999 so nobody would have paired it with a 600mhz or faster cpu. More likely something like a Celeron 300A or P2 or K6-2... all CPUs which from my personal experience when paired with a V3 make for a less than stellar experience.
Anyone else experienced this? Was 3dfx's heyday so severely limited to 96-98 that one year later they were so thoroughly outclassed?
I will be playing through a few more classics on the Geforce 256 to compare against the V3, like Kingpin- which I remember could slow down to a crawl on a 500mhz Katmai/ V3 combination.
