First post, by TimWolf
Been a long time since I did anything with Windows 95. Over 10 years since I did an install, and 20 years since I used it allot. Trying to setup a fun gaming PCI 486. Right now it has an 80mhz ST (Cyrix) DX2 in it, with a Matrox Millennium II, with the upgraded ram board @ 8mb. Even with this overkill, Duke 3D struggles allot. This must be the CPU? BTW the ram is 48mb (3x 16mb EDO) and the board has 256k cache. I'm planning to drop a 5x86 133 running at 160 (I hope). The question is, with the ram upgrade on that Matrox card, is that just wasted? Do I even need 8mb for anything? I've got two of these identical Matrox Millennium II cards, one with, and one without daughter card. It's a hoot to go 32-bit 1600 x 1200 on the desktop, but all the games make it fall back to ugly 256 color low resolutions (and you have to set it manually...annoying!) so is that extra 4mb just wasted in this setup? Is there anything I could make an excuse to use it for on Win95?
Thanks in advance for the thoughts and discussion. I really enjoy having a place to chat about this stuff.
TW