The 3dfx versions of Blood and Shadow Warrior are still practically software renderers. You're not going to see any meaningful acceleration in them. Bilinear filtering was a hell of a drug.

Verdorie1 wrote on 2024-11-08, 19:04:

In Quake's timedemo 1 the Gainward gets 27.1fps on average and at 49MHz it gets 32.5fps, quite the difference for just a 4MHz clock speed difference.
Th Diamond Monster however is in a league of its own. At 50MHz it gets 33.1fps and at 57MHz a whopping 37.8fps.

I bet the vsync is enabled, making the cards run for example at 25 or 37,5 FPS most of the time, thus exaggerating the real performance difference.

Putas wrote on 2024-11-09, 07:53:

I bet the vsync is enabled, making the cards run for example at 25 or 37,5 FPS most of the time, thus exaggerating the real performance difference.

Vsync is disabled. My framerate is variable and there’s screen tearing all over the place.

I wasn't aware that the clock on the Voodoo graphics had such performance impact. I should take a second look on my cards to see what they are running on.

When regards to performance, have you tweaked the memory and cache settings in the BIOS? Beside that I don't think you can do much more for this build except upgrading to a Voodoo2 or get a board that supports 100mhz FSB.

vetz wrote on 2024-11-09, 10:47:

When regards to performance, have you tweaked the memory and cache settings in the BIOS? Beside that I don't think you can do much more for this build except upgrading to a Voodoo2 or get a board that supports 100mhz FSB.

I changed the settings to get the most performance out of it. I don't really want to get a Voodoo 2 as I mostly want to keep it 1997ish and I already have a Voodoo 3 machine for the faster 3D titles.
As for 2D performance, that's just CPU speed at this point. I built this PC for the DOS titles that I had issues with on my Slot 1 machine. Games like Daggerfall, Screamer 2 and Blood didn't work great with my 400MHz Pentium II.

As a result I decided to upgrade that Slot 1 PC to a 600 MHz Pentium III at 112MHz bus for 672MHz total to get good performance in games from 1999 and 2000 and I built this one for the games from 1996/1997 which didn't work great on the other machine. Also this gave me an excuse to actually use Windows 95 as the other machine of course runs 98SE.

Blood and Shadow Warrior are definitely playable though, not quite as fast as I had hoped but I finished them both on their harder difficulties.

What revision of diamond monster u have ?

ciornyi wrote on 2024-11-09, 11:27:

What revision of diamond monster u have ?

It's a revision G

Verdorie1 wrote on 2024-11-09, 11:35:

ciornyi wrote on 2024-11-09, 11:27:

What revision of diamond monster u have ?

It's a revision G

As i thought latter revisions seems like better overclock and mhz. Thx for info btw

Monster 3D gains in 640x480 Quake 2 timedemo demo1.dm2 as well.
From 22.0 fps at 50MHz to 25.5 fps at 57MHz.