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Puter Problems

  • 01-04-1999 04:22PM
    #1
    Thinker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Hey all,

    I need a favour, pleeze?! Just some info.

    My HDD crashed a while so that's why you haven't had the pleasure of my company in some time. smile.gif Anyway, not only did I replace the disc, I got a brand new AMD K6 366 MHz machine with an 8 Meg AGP accelerator card. I wonder, does anyone know, does K6 not like Quake or something? I can't change the screen res without the blasted machine crashing on me. Plus I can't get GLQuake working. Also, Quake2 ran better on my old Intel P120! Can't get GL Graphics for that either.

    So, is there Quake Driver software I need for the card or is there something in Quake2 that means only Intel processors can, um, process well with it?

    Thanking you,
    Thinka.




Comments

  • #2
    regi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,282 ✭✭✭regi


    Hmmm... AMD K6-2s run really nicely with Voodoo II cards, not really anything else, due to its less-than-great FPU. I wouldn't even try to run OpenGL games unless you had a Voodoo II, or maybe a TNT. Anyway, if you want to really boost your Quake2 performance in software mode, go to
    http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/k623d/drivers.html
    and get the 3Dnow drivers. 3DNow is a series of 33 extra instructions on the K6-2s and K6-3s that are there just to speed up games. Quite a lot of big games support them now. Also, get DirectX 6, as this will use the 3Dnow instructions for non-supported games. Finally, if you do get a Voodoo II card, your machine will run Quake 2 better than a Pentium II of the same clock speed. Quake, unfortunately, is a big of a lost cause. It'll run okay, but not great sad.gif

    C'est la vie.

    Dan

    Check out http://www.3dnow.com/ for more 3Dnow stuff.

    Dan


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