So, it took a while, because I wanted to be sure. Tried the game on the following system:
Tualatin 1.4-S
512MB RAM
QDI Advance 10T
Voodoo 5 5500
Aureal Vortex 2
Win98SE
Performance is somewhat poor for my taste. Anything above 1024x768 is probably GPU limited, but at 1024x768 and below the game is very CPU limited. I made sure of that by overclocking the Voodoo 5 to 183MHz (default is 166MHz) and witnessed the same performance at 1024x768, on the scenes that made the framerate take dive that is.
A3D certainly steals some CPU cycles, as I saw performance improve slightly when disabling Hardware Audio Acceleration. So how slow is it?
Well, the first few scenes struggle at around 30-35 fps. Lowest framerate is around 25, but it's usually above 30. Then, it's all over the place. You can see it hit 60, then be around 45-48fps. For the most part, I'd say it jumps around 38-50fps. Unfortunately, this QDI board does not allow overclocking ( I can pick Default, 133MHz or 136MHz 😵 ). Is there any worthwhile software that would help me increase the FSB through Windows on such a board? I think it'd be interesting to try.