CharlieFoxtrot wrote on 2024-10-03, 09:12:

Depends on the graphics card, but I’d say it runs pretty much maxed out at 1024x768 or 800x600. I played it back in the day with […]
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GreenBook wrote on 2024-10-03, 08:17:

At what settings MaxPayne 2001 run well on PC Pentium3 800mhz? […]
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CharlieFoxtrot wrote on 2024-10-03, 07:48:

Edit: Max Payne 1 runs just fine on fast P3 with decent graphics card. It isn’t heavy and doesn’t support or require shaders, only TnL.

At what settings MaxPayne 2001 run well on PC Pentium3 800mhz?

I understand the bad reputation of GF4Mx comes from 2 reasons:

first) GF4mx was not a weaker version of GF4ti, but GF4mx was based on GF2

second) GF4mx 420 was a terrible graphics card, but 440 and 460 were ok.

Does GF4mx440/460 has similar performence to Radeon9000?

Depends on the graphics card, but I’d say it runs pretty much maxed out at 1024x768 or 800x600. I played it back in the day with P2 400 with GF2MX400 and although it wasn’t optimal, it was playable. A friend had 900MHz Duron and if I remember correctly, TNT2 and it ran very well. Again, it isn’t especially demanding game and you can most likely find some old benchmarks with it from the webs.

You can also google old GPU reviews yourself instead asking people to provide everything for you. Here is a comparison of Radeon 9000 Pro and it is quite comparable with MX440 and MX460:

http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/radeon/r9000-3.html

Difference is of course that Radeon supports shaders being based on a newer architecture, but how much that matters with such low end card and games that should be playable, is up to the user.

I'm currently running max payne 1 on an Athlon 1400 and a Radeo 9250 PCI, but the 64bit version. The games runs decently even at max settings at 1024x768, but in rooms with tons of enemy it start to stutter pretty badly.
I haven't pinpoint yet if it's using virtual memory (i have 256 mb of 133 sdram) or if it's limited by the bus. But it could easily be the second.

Basically, these GPUs do have a good enough silicon to run thoise games, but have these dumb artificial limits like 64bit busses and the like.
Not that different from current nVidia selling high end GPUs with 8 or 12 GB of VRAM.

A wiser person than me would call these "waste of sand".