Will Unreal even run on my 486 DX4 100?
IcEBuRN
No, I don't have a 486 but it did get you in here didn't it:-)
I have a PII300 and a voodoo1 and was wondering what the speed was like.
I heard everyone raving that it runs fine on their voodoo2s (with
p233/p2300s) and shit on their voodoo1s(p133/166).
But I have not seen anyone (yet) say how Unreal runs on a voodoo1 with a
high end CPU (no ones stupid enuough to be wasting it with a V1 anymore
I guess:-))
So any people with a similar system with benchmarks would be nice.
Even a high end MMX pentium or ppro might give me some idea...
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>No, I don't have a 486 but it did get you in here didn't it:-)
>I have a PII300 and a voodoo1 and was wondering what the speed was like.
>I heard everyone raving that it runs fine on their voodoo2s (with
>p233/p2300s) and shit on their voodoo1s(p133/166).
>But I have not seen anyone (yet) say how Unreal runs on a voodoo1 with a
>high end CPU (no ones stupid enuough to be wasting it with a V1 anymore
>I guess:-))
>
>So any people with a similar system with benchmarks would be nice.
>Even a high end MMX pentium or ppro might give me some idea...
I run unReal on a k6-200, Monster 3D, Intel TX97 chipset motherboard
with 96 megs of SDRAM and it runs GREAT.
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Eric Hutton
Why on earth do you have 96MB Ram on a TX97? That motherboard, like all TX
chipset motherboards, only caches a maximum of 64MB Ram... adding that extra
32MB's is actually SLOWING your system down!!!
Now, I have a K6-200, on a TX board (64MB), but no voodoo card. I am
considering getting a voodoo1 card. Tell me something, what kind of fps are
you getting... and i mean in the middle of a gunfight... Everything looks
fine for me at 512, but as soon as somebody starts firing missiles at me the
game slows to an unplayable rate.... Is it worth the $150cdn for a voodoo1,
or should I just hold off till the fall, when I plan to get a K6-3, 100Mhz
socket 7 board with 128MB ram, and a Matrox G200?
The Main Man
Unreal runs better with over 64Mb of memory!! (Even if you take into account
the system slowdown).
Getting more RAM is better for Unreal gameplay then upgrading your CPU or
the VooDoo (maybe you can get both the RAM and a VooDoo ;)
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On Tue, 9 Jun 1998 10:09:16 -0400, "Eric Hutton"
<eri...@omof.remove_this_spam_blocker_to_reply.mail.net> wrote:
>Why on earth do you have 96MB Ram on a TX97? That motherboard, like all TX
>chipset motherboards, only caches a maximum of 64MB Ram... adding that extra
>32MB's is actually SLOWING your system down!!!
Gee, you know... I never look at what the "experts" say about how much
ram to put on a particular motherboard... I let the results do the
talking. I teach Computer Electronics at a technical school, and
oversee 15-20 students building PC's from the parts every 3 months. I
see every motherboard/cpu/video card/sound card combination you can
think of.
The benchmarks we do involves both the Check-it Pro 5.0 and Winbench
98. Both benchmarks indicate improved performance across the board
with 96 or 128 MB of ram over just 64. It may not be cached by the TX
motherboard, but it is still faster than a swap to the hard drive.
>Now, I have a K6-200, on a TX board (64MB), but no voodoo card. I am
>considering getting a voodoo1 card. Tell me something, what kind of fps are
>you getting... and i mean in the middle of a gunfight... Everything looks
>fine for me at 512, but as soon as somebody starts firing missiles at me the
>game slows to an unplayable rate.... Is it worth the $150cdn for a voodoo1,
>or should I just hold off till the fall, when I plan to get a K6-3, 100Mhz
>socket 7 board with 128MB ram, and a Matrox G200?
I have never checked the FPS in Unreal - don't even know how to.
However, I have run it on identical systems - Ram, Primary Video card,
Motherboard, CPU, sound card, etc. And the difference with the Voodoo
is "Unreal"! Not only is it MUCH faster, but the Voodoo can do things
that a standard video card can't. Such as reflections...
transparencies... the volumetric lighting... the difference is
staggering. Get the Voodoo 1. It's worth the difference.
impact9
>On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:54:47 +0100, IcEBuRN
><IcE...@radium.spamproof.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>No, I don't have a 486 but it did get you in here didn't it:-)
>>I have a PII300 and a voodoo1 and was wondering what the speed was like.
>>I heard everyone raving that it runs fine on their voodoo2s (with
>>p233/p2300s) and shit on their voodoo1s(p133/166).
>>But I have not seen anyone (yet) say how Unreal runs on a voodoo1 with a
>>high end CPU (no ones stupid enuough to be wasting it with a V1 anymore
>>I guess:-))
>>
>>So any people with a similar system with benchmarks would be nice.
>>Even a high end MMX pentium or ppro might give me some idea...
>
>I run unReal on a k6-200, Monster 3D, Intel TX97 chipset motherboard
>with 96 megs of SDRAM and it runs GREAT.
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I'm running on a PII 300 with the Diamond Monster 1 and 64M sdram.
It's really smooth but could be a bit better if I had my pci sound
card. Also I wish epic had put in a "timedemo" like quake 2. That
would help use FPS freaks a bit.
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of the hardware version, such as volumetric lighting and on my pII300 at
640x480 runs about the same as quake2 in 640x480. But has anyone noticed
how the textures in software are all strangely distorted.
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96 Megs Ram for good Unreal play!
UnReaLaHolic
sorry I cant see whole string....but..
one thing...
if your motherboard is older, it cant cache more than 64 megs of ram...
if you have more than 64 megs ram ....this can lower your speed !!!!
a friend of mine had 128ram in his old p200(non mmx) system(V1)...he had
about 14fps..!!! (640..)
after removing 64megs ram......what a surprise.....he reached
20 FPS .....smoth (nearly...)
so...check your system....
rawen
Good? AS IF!
Torbjörn Johansson
DX4 100?
I stay very far away from the nearest P100
Boomerang
Um...............actually,....................NO!
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Vladimir Rodionov
> No, I don't have a 486 but it did get you in here didn't it:-)
> I have a PII300 and a voodoo1 and was wondering what the speed was like.
> I heard everyone raving that it runs fine on their voodoo2s (with
> p233/p2300s) and shit on their voodoo1s(p133/166).
> But I have not seen anyone (yet) say how Unreal runs on a voodoo1 with a
> high end CPU (no ones stupid enuough to be wasting it with a V1 anymore
> I guess:-))
> So any people with a similar system with benchmarks would be nice.
> Even a high end MMX pentium or ppro might give me some idea...
> IcEBuRN [N3D]
> It aint glass, but it sure can hurt...