First post, by biessea
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Hi there!
I was thinking about it from months, and now I decided to write you all here my big question:
I have a real DOS 6.2 system, a nice old system with an AMD K6-2+ 450MHZ, 64MB RAM and a Banshee video card on PCI bus.
Now I tried a PCI Radeon 7000, and a Nvidia Quadro NVS100 PCI.
My question is simple: How does DOS operating system manage various video card? I always known that DOS work with real hardware and doesn't have any api or sort of acceleration library (even if the 3dfx used in DOS the glide2x.ovl library).
So, If I put on DOS a video card with 1pixel shader, 3TMUs and 1ROPs like the Radeon 7000 and then I switch with a more powerful Quadro NVS100 that has 2pixel shaders, 4TMUs and 2 ROPs, can DOS run faster 3D video games like Mechwarrior2 or Nascar 2? Can DOS get riddle of faster video RAM memory? Can DOS get advantage of faster clocked video card?
I have this question from ages, I love old retro system as much as the new one, but in DOS I really don't know how things work.
I hope some DOS expert can answer me exaustily and comprehensive 😉
Thanks a lot guyssssss 😉
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