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You definitely need a P2 class processor to take full advantage of the
voodoo2 card. My frame rate more than doubled when I changed from a K6-240
to a P2-266 when running the massive1 demo. The networked play is much
smoother too. The reason is the slow floating point in the K6. I  have been
told the new K6-3D fixed this problem, but I have not tested this
personnally. I am not fond of Intel, but I must give em credit. The P2's are
screamers for gaming.

Tom Geer wrote:

> 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!'

I just added the Voodoo 2 ( no overclocking ) and I am getting 32.8 FPS at
800x600, particles on( no tweaking ). Before I added the Voodoo, I was
getting 8 FPS( No 3d card ) So I would have to say I got a 4x improvement!!
I guess it all depends on where you start at.
My system is:
Pentium 233mmx
96 megs ram
Matrox Millenium II 4 meg
Monster 3DII 12 meg!!

Tom Geer wrote:

> 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!'

I have a k6 233 and had a 4 meg power vr and had to run under 600x400 on
unreal for good performance. I got voodoo2 and run 800x600 (no tweaks) and
no hitches or slowdowns. I am very happy with k6 and voodoo2. I am sure it
would work better at k62 or pentium 2, but I am happy for now. I replayed
quake2 at 800x600 and it was even quicker, Like a new game. And gl quake!!!
heaven! The nail gun never slows down even with a full monster attack.
Yes-I'm happy.

Joe

On the contrary. I have an AMD K6-2 300Mhz, and a VooDoo2, and version
3.17 of Quake Beats out the P2's and their less expensive.

The new K6 AMD chips have 3Dnow, you can d/l drivers for Quake2 at
http://www.amd.com with these drivers, no matter what you have voodoo2 or
otherwise, it will optimize quake2 for the proccessor, this message is just
for informations sake!
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