First post, by DamienC
I remember playing the MW2 demo on my old Packard Bell P100 in the 90s, and I remember it running fairly well at 640x480. I could be remembering completely wrong.
Now I have a P100 system I built, and I found a copy of the full game. It feels like it's playing between 10-20fps at best, definitely not smooth enough to be enjoyable at all. With all settings turned to low and disabling the enemy display (F4 key twice) I can get up to what feels like 25ish fps, but I'd rather not turn everything off. Game is perfectly playable at 320x200, but I'd rather play at the higher res.
Specs:
Intel Pentium 100-S
Octek Rhino 20+ board (ATX Socket 7, 430TX chipset)
32mb PC66 SDRAM
4gb CF card
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro PCI (S3 Virge DX 4mb)
DOS 6.22
Is there a way I can speed up the game, or will I need to upgrade something? Tried using the S3 Core VBE 2.0 and S3SPEED utilities; they didn't seem to have much of an impact. Tried overclocking a bit but the P100 doesn't like either voltage increases or multiplier increases.
I was thinking about maybe throwing in a new CPU or video card. I think a 233mhz Pentium MMX or K6 is the fastest this board will take. I don't think a new video card would make much of a difference as my S3 is pretty speedy for most things and I don't think a swap would make much of a difference in software mode. I have zero interest in installing Win95 and getting a 3D accelerator; I want to keep this box strictly DOS.