Posted by RoarCade on 6, 2000 at 12:51 PM:
In Reply to: Re: I am about to buy a new 3DFX card (Voodoo5 5500 or 6000): Comments? posted by Stan on 6, 2000 at 12:06 PM:
: I'm using the Voodoo5 5500 in DOS using Mon-ARC and I believe it's the fastest most compatible combination out there for arcade monitors. I can't see the 6000 being much faster for any
Except for PC games. Midtown Madness 2 and Nascar 4 should benefit from the fact that there are 4 not 2 processors (1.67gigapixels). Also that it sports 128MB of SDRAM onboard seemed like a treat as well.
games. The bottleneck seems to be raw CPU power than video performance. Most games run at full speed except some of the newer games.
Well, all my games run at full speed (Even STUN Runner if you can imagine that) with my Voodoo 3 3000, with only 16 MB of RAM. It may be because I am running a PIII 700MHZ, overclocked to 850, with 256MB of system RAM. It's one of those FC-PGA chipsets which I found out yesterday (from here) that I could overclock, so I did. Added a second fan, and I keep the case cover off the PC and have a fan in the Cabinet as well, blowing out a self-made vent.
BTW, did the MAME team fine-tune the STUN Runner code since their announcement it would only work on a 2GHZ system???