New hardware - old games

Yes, you can notice a difference.

Doom III lagged on my old: Pentium 4 with ATI Radeon 9600. I ran it at 640x480 low settings, no AA, no AF.

When I built my core 2 duo machine with a x1950PRO, I maxed all the settings and played at 1280x1024 with smooth frame rates. 4xAA, 16xAF, in game settings to the max.

Then I upgraded my monitor and got a HD2900XT and frame rates are around double of my x1950PRO.

oohh!!, i found a copy of Sopwith that works on Linux, it was an amazing difference.

i remember it as monochrome green and black on the old XT (yes, this was before the days of the mighty 386, or Pentium, or AMD, or graphics cards or any of this new fangled stuff, when floppy's were still floppy, and a monitor's had two variants, orange and green)

now it's in glorious 4 colors!! ... on a 20" LCD no less!!

All i need to do is find dig-dug and digger, they need the 2 bit color treatment to!

Hmm, i must admit, the original splinter cell runs much better than it did, still a great game. I didn't notice much difference with the original Ghost Recon though. Man i wish ubsoft hadn't messed it up with GRAW, Ghost Recons game play is way superior to GRAW, even if the graphics are completely different.

The older Tomb Raiders also look a lot better than i remember them. Sadly Star Craft looks much worse, not being able to play it at native is a huge drawback, man i cant wait for SC II.

Hmmm, i miss the old XT..... no wait, i really don't