Voodoo2 on Non-PII System

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From: Tom Geer
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 00:00

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I have heard two basic schools of thought on running a Voodoo2 card on
anything less than a Pentium-II class system:

1. You will see little or no performance increase.
2. You will see exceptional performance increase (up to 2X).

Well, from personal experience the truth seems to lie somewhere in
between.

My system: AMD K6-1 200Mhz overclocked to 233Mhz with 80Mb EDO RAM

Voodoo1 o/c'd to 55Mhz, 3fingers tweaks, particles OFF, 640X480:
demo2.dm2 = 30.2 FPS
Voodoo2 12MB, 92Mhz, 3fingers tweaks, particles ON,   800X600: demo2.dm2
= 35.6 FPS

So, as you can see there is definitely some performance to be gained
here, though nowhere near 2X.
There is no significant speed improvement at lower resolutions or with
particles off, indicating that the
CPU is about maxed out but at least I can play at 800X600 with particles
ON.  I'm happy with it!

--
'I used to be conceited - but now I'm perfect!'

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From: Tom Geer <tgeer@mediaone.net>
Subject: Voodoo2 on Non-PII System
Date: 1998/09/06
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