Greetings to all.
Having found it in the my cupboard (after around 25 years) I finally managed to put together a build centered around my old AMD Duron 800Mhz.
The spec is as follows:
Amd Duron 800
Epox 8KTA3L+
768Mb SD100 RAM
Geforce 2 Ti (on Detonator 30.82 drivers)
I obviously had a lot less RAM back then, and my GPU was a Kyro 2 at the time. But it's in the same ball park as the GF2 Ti, I think?
I managed to get Windows 98 installed on it and paired it up with an old 1024x768 monitor.
Now, I don't know if I am misremembering some things but the performance is far lower than I remember/expected.
I started off with Return to Castle Wolfenstein which, even at the lowest of settings, has a wildly fluctuating frame rate which goes from 40ish indoors down to about 10-20 outdoors. Lowering the resolution down to 640x480 doesn't change anything. Outdoor sections are truly unplayable.
Ok, fair enough - that game was a bit later so maybe I played it after upgrading.
So I rooted out my old copy of Ghost Recon which I know for a fact I played hundreds/thousands of hours of on this system. The first level is a big open map which perhaps doesn't help matters, but the frame rate never hits 30. I tried lowering everything to the absolute lowest settings (including resolution) and it does improve things. But I'm pretty sure that I didn't have to do this back then? I used to play the game pretty competitively online so I can't imagine I was at sub-30 fps.
I also tried 1nsane which fairs a tad better, giving me 40ish fps.
I'm just a bit confused as to whether this performance is expected or if there is something wrong somewhere. With the FPS barely changing with resolution drops I'm thinking it's CPU related.
Any help would be great because it's driving me nuts!
Cheers!
Having found it in the my cupboard (after around 25 years) I finally managed to put together a build centered around my old AMD Duron 800Mhz.
The spec is as follows:
Amd Duron 800
Epox 8KTA3L+
768Mb SD100 RAM
Geforce 2 Ti (on Detonator 30.82 drivers)
I obviously had a lot less RAM back then, and my GPU was a Kyro 2 at the time. But it's in the same ball park as the GF2 Ti, I think?
I managed to get Windows 98 installed on it and paired it up with an old 1024x768 monitor.
Now, I don't know if I am misremembering some things but the performance is far lower than I remember/expected.
I started off with Return to Castle Wolfenstein which, even at the lowest of settings, has a wildly fluctuating frame rate which goes from 40ish indoors down to about 10-20 outdoors. Lowering the resolution down to 640x480 doesn't change anything. Outdoor sections are truly unplayable.
Ok, fair enough - that game was a bit later so maybe I played it after upgrading.
So I rooted out my old copy of Ghost Recon which I know for a fact I played hundreds/thousands of hours of on this system. The first level is a big open map which perhaps doesn't help matters, but the frame rate never hits 30. I tried lowering everything to the absolute lowest settings (including resolution) and it does improve things. But I'm pretty sure that I didn't have to do this back then? I used to play the game pretty competitively online so I can't imagine I was at sub-30 fps.
I also tried 1nsane which fairs a tad better, giving me 40ish fps.
I'm just a bit confused as to whether this performance is expected or if there is something wrong somewhere. With the FPS barely changing with resolution drops I'm thinking it's CPU related.
Any help would be great because it's driving me nuts!
Cheers!
