🚀 go-pugleaf

>My question is:  Is the 2D performance of the Stealth II better than
>the 2D performance of my old Stealth or would it be a waste to upgrade?
>I play games like

Red Alert - same or slower

Total Anihilation - faster

Quake - why are you running non-GLQuake? get GLQuake 0.97 and the Rendition
miniGL drivers. You'll never go back to non-glQuake!

Quake2 - ditto


Jedi Knight - already D3D accelerated. Runs like a dream!


>Does the Stealth II accelerate DirectDraw better than the old stealth?


Probably. Need to run some tests.

Why not get a Hercules Thriller 3D 4MB instead of a SII? V2200 is faster
than V2100 (un-overclocked, of course). And you can probably use the
Rendition reference drivers with the Hercules, but definitely NOT with the
StealthII.

From the other posts on this board the SII has its share of nits (custom
BIOS requiring Diamond Drivers, can't run ref drivers, had to wait for
latest driver release to run latest miniGL, GDI-acceleration was screwing up
a few people, random lock-ups, etc), but I have one and personally it runs
OK. I only get the occasional lock-up in Mechwarrior Mercs D3D patch.

I am O/Cing both my whole system waaaayy out of spec with a P166 @
208.3Mhz/83MHz Bus, StealthII: V2100:65MHz Memory:130MHz. I will be backing
off a little on those settings to see if I can make the system more stable.
I tried it at 70MHz/130MHz at one stage, but ALL my benchmark results
(including Timedemos) were 20% slower! So I went back to 65/130.

Ben