Old game seems slow.

[Dputiger]

The problem is, they are taking advantage of the cache. Disable the cache and see if the game doesn't play smoothly.

[Barney]

It's probably your videocard. Today's videocards aren't nearly as good with 2D as the ones 3~4 years ago. I play GTA sometimes and it runs only at 640x400 on my Athlon 950 with Geforce. I have a Pentium 166 with 2D 4mb PCI card where GTA runs even better on! He11, it runs even better on my 486 DX2-66 with the same 4mb card! And on my 386... Nah, just kidding, I don't even have a 386. <IMG SRC="http://server2044.virtualave.net/r0nald/ubb/biggrin.gif" border=0>

Ronald

[araaraara]

I have a voodoo3 2000 pci. Maybe it's just the way the game is designed. I think that it probably isn't coded in the optimal way for pentium+ cpus.

[richamies]

If it's not optimised for a Pentium, it'll at least be optimised for a 386 cpu. The processor should just look like a very, very fast 386 if that's the case(in my opinion).

It might be a timing related issue. Older games were programmed differently to those made today, hence the Turbo button on 486's. It might be that it's calculating something waaaaaay to fast, and then skipping a frame or five and calculating something else. It might be that it was optimised to skip frames when the CPU was really busy, but now the CPU is no longer a bottleneck for it, it might be a little confused.

I'm sure what I just said would confuse anyone. I'll shut up http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif.

Rich
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[Dputiger]

Your 2D speed in a video card is mainly a function of RAMDAC and Refresh Rate. I guarantee you, video cards today slaughter video cards from five years ago in every way, shape, and form. If you're having problems, it's because of other timing issues or incompatibilities.

[Eli]

Are you running it in a dos box within W9x? Try booting to a command prompt (or off of a floppy) and run it from there.

[araaraara]

I tried running NASCAR Racing on my computer. It is an old DOS game which requires a 386 cpu. When I put it to max graphic detail, the game seems choppy. The biggest problems are asphalt shading and grass texturing. Whenever these are enabled, the frame rate goes down and the game becomes jumpy. I can tell because the car drives twitchy and the scenery goes by in jumps. It is not a major slow down, but it is annoying. It happens on both my winchip and my k6-3+. Is it just a limitation of the game, and it can't take advantage of these advanced cpu's. I'm guessing that they don't use the cache properly.