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3dfx Hardware & Software => General Discussions => Topic started by: ScottyMcNoob on 01 December 2006, 00:11:07

Title: Voodoo5 getting 7fps on Serious Sam:FE
Post by: ScottyMcNoob on 01 December 2006, 00:11:07
It's consistantly getting around 7 fps on the first level of Serious Sam (First Encounter). Stock clocks, with good cooling on the cores (but not memory). I'm using Amigamerlin 3.1 drivers, and MesaFX 6.2. Well, I copied the opengl32.dll into my system32 folder, replacing the old one (I think that's what I was meant to do).

Rest of system:
AMD K6-II 500Mhz
256MB PC100 SDRAM
AX-59pro motherboard
6 GB 5400rpm hard drive

I did a full installation of Serious Sam, and patched it to 1.05 european (newest version).

It's at 640x480, with all options defaulted as quite low (from what I saw in-game).

What's going on? Is there something I've done wrong? Or is this expected?
Title: Voodoo5 getting 7fps on Serious Sam:FE
Post by: Raff3DC on 01 December 2006, 01:29:33
Try the WickedGL: https://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/3dfx/wickedgl/index.htm

Greetings from Germany,
Raff
Title: Voodoo5 getting 7fps on Serious Sam:FE
Post by: ps47 on 01 December 2006, 17:58:33
the answer is: K6-2 500.sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
Title: Voodoo5 getting 7fps on Serious Sam:FE
Post by: Obi-Wan Kenobi on 01 December 2006, 19:59:46
The K6-2 500 is way too slow indeed, the idea would be get an AthlonXP/Pentium4 based rig they are way better for some serious Voodoo5 work.
Title: Voodoo5 getting 7fps on Serious Sam:FE
Post by: ScottyMcNoob on 01 December 2006, 20:30:01
So what sorta games am I looking at playing with a 500mhz K6-II?

(Minimum requirements for Serious Sam are a K6-3 400mhz. Is the architecture of the k6-2 compared to the k6-3 really making that much of a difference?)
Title: Voodoo5 getting 7fps on Serious Sam:FE
Post by: Obi-Wan Kenobi on 21 December 2006, 12:50:35
Like ps47 said :
QuoteOriginally posted by ps47

the answer is: K6-2 500.sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.

specs on game boxes aren't that reliable lol.
Title: Voodoo5 getting 7fps on Serious Sam:FE
Post by: bloodworm on 21 December 2006, 16:38:54
yes, the K6-THREE is an order of magnatude better than the K6-TWO.  If you overclocked the processor, you might get 2 or 3 more FPS.