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Re: Why not 3dfx?

3 posts by 3 people · 18 Mar 2000 - 18 Mar 2000 19:26 UTC

rrevved 18 Mar 2000#286719
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 10:51:44 +0100, Thore Sorensen <[email hidden]> wrote:
Quoted text (9 lines)>I have tried a couple of new sims lately.... >STCC (Swedish Touring Car) - RC2000 (Rally Champ.) >I am dissapointed..... >I have a 233 MHz Pentium with 64MB and a 3dfx 12 MB gfx-card, but the >new games run bad.... The 3dfx-card is not an option? >All I can do is running through Direct X, which is rather bad on my PC. >Will the game-producers keep on doing this? >Or shall I stay at my Colin McRae Rally and SportsCar GT for ever? >I have a Voodoo3-2000 also but that isn't better...
You need a faster processor and at least 128mb of RAM. A Pentium 233 isn't enough to handle the types of sims you are attempting to run. -- * rrev at mindspring dot com * unit.26 - s.p.u.t.u.m. * http://www.cabal.net
I have tried a couple of new sims lately.... STCC (Swedish Touring Car) - RC2000 (Rally Champ.) I am dissapointed..... I have a 233 MHz Pentium with 64MB and a 3dfx 12 MB gfx-card, but the new games run bad.... The 3dfx-card is not an option? All I can do is running through Direct X, which is rather bad on my PC. Will the game-producers keep on doing this? Or shall I stay at my Colin McRae Rally and SportsCar GT for ever? I have a Voodoo3-2000 also but that isn't better... -- Med venlig hilsen / Best regards Thore Sorensen - [email hidden] DK-2700 Bronshoj - Denmark
(unknown) 18 Mar 2000 19:26 UTC#286806
Rally Championship should be 3dfx optimized. I can't swear to it since I threw away the box, hehe, but i'm positive it is. It should run fine on your, in the magazine review from Incite magazine, it would run very easily on anything from a 233 on up with a voodoo 2. Only you couldn't do the 1024 resolution without SLI, and even then, framerate wasn't worth it. RC2000 is also optimized to run on K6-2's, which might be why it runs so silky smooth on my system. Though I don't know if i'd recommend a K6-2 for a serious game machine, hehe. I use Voodoo 3, and sounds like you got a Voodoo 2, i would think you should get nice enough performance out of that card. 64 megs should be fine enough for most games, but like someone else said, 128 would be best. My p2 266mhz system, 64 megs with a Voodoo 3 2000 gets about the same framerate as my K6-2 450mhz, 128 megs and Voodoo 3 3000 in most of the games I play. So needless to say, I was kinda letdown by the performance of K6-2's when compared to P-2's, hehe. Destin Thore Sorensen <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
Quoted text (15 lines)> I have tried a couple of new sims lately.... > STCC (Swedish Touring Car) - RC2000 (Rally Champ.) > I am dissapointed..... > I have a 233 MHz Pentium with 64MB and a 3dfx 12 MB gfx-card, but the > new games run bad.... The 3dfx-card is not an option? > All I can do is running through Direct X, which is rather bad on my PC. > Will the game-producers keep on doing this? > Or shall I stay at my Colin McRae Rally and SportsCar GT for ever? > I have a Voodoo3-2000 also but that isn't better... > > -- > Med venlig hilsen / Best regards > > Thore Sorensen - [email hidden] > DK-2700 Bronshoj - Denmark

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