Hi,
I have an antique PentiumPro 180, Gateway/Intel VS440FX motherboard, 96MB and a Voodoo2 12MB 3D card running Win95.
I’m considering upgrading, but in first instance not the motherboard. At the moment achieving very poor frame rates in Q3A:
about 12 FPS (demo001) and 7.6 FPS (demo002) very consistently across several resolutions (800x600, 640x480, 512x384) with all Q3A video options set to maximum. No difference in frame rate whatsoever between 16- and 32-bit textures setting.
When I yank every spec completely down, frame rate gets up to a still poor 26 FPS (identical for 3 resolutions tested, and both demos now showing virtually identical FPS), but this of course is visually very poor.
I don’t really know whether to upgrade CPU or 3D accelerator first. Q: what is the main bottleneck here, is it PPro 180 or Voodoo2? Are the Celeron-II 766’s of e.g. PowerLeap, Hypertec and Evergreen possible solutions, what kind of frame rate increase can I expect roughly?
I'd very much appreciate any help on this. Thanks very much in advance!
I have an antique PentiumPro 180, Gateway/Intel VS440FX motherboard, 96MB and a Voodoo2 12MB 3D card running Win95.
I’m considering upgrading, but in first instance not the motherboard. At the moment achieving very poor frame rates in Q3A:
about 12 FPS (demo001) and 7.6 FPS (demo002) very consistently across several resolutions (800x600, 640x480, 512x384) with all Q3A video options set to maximum. No difference in frame rate whatsoever between 16- and 32-bit textures setting.
When I yank every spec completely down, frame rate gets up to a still poor 26 FPS (identical for 3 resolutions tested, and both demos now showing virtually identical FPS), but this of course is visually very poor.
I don’t really know whether to upgrade CPU or 3D accelerator first. Q: what is the main bottleneck here, is it PPro 180 or Voodoo2? Are the Celeron-II 766’s of e.g. PowerLeap, Hypertec and Evergreen possible solutions, what kind of frame rate increase can I expect roughly?
I'd very much appreciate any help on this. Thanks very much in advance!