Quake II on a 68060 @ 50Mhz?

[Karlos]

Nicely, I would expect.

The only feature you wouldn't get is coloured lighting, which is due to the lack of chromatic blending on the permedia 2.

[Karlos]

Well I wouldnt notice the loss of coloured lighting  much being as I'm colour blind :-)

It should look fine on the CVPPC. You still get bilinear filtering, transparency and other effects. Perhaps it's slightly less atmospheric with monochromatic lighting, but I expect not many people ever noticed!

Compared to software mode the quality (and speed) on the CVPPC is superb.

[Karlos]

Wow. What happened to it? Or is that a bad question?

[Karlos]

@Ikir

I would like to try it on your machine also :-D

[Karlos]

Kenny,

My sentiments exactly. Windows is the single biggest performance sucking piece of crap ever conceived.

For example, after booting, with no additional apps, my Win2K is using over 100M of ram according to task manager. What for, for f*cks sake? I have all non essential services turned off and the others set to load when required).

It's unreal. I can watch the CPU usage jump over 50% just typing into this window.

What kind of utter, god awful sloppiness is it?

[Karlos]

@BOOtDisk

Maybe I want to keep memory free for those applications you rate so highly.

Look, the fact that the OS can swallow such a f*cking huge chunk to do absolutely bugger all is shameful. You can't deny it and remaking how cheap ram is these days is not the point. I could have 1G of ram for all you know, thats still 10% wasted for sod all and it still bitches at me about VM usage...

Actually, when I had considerably less memory installed, the amount used by windows after boot up was less by a similar factor (about 60M). So, is Win2K just using an extra 40M just to help it remember that it now has a lot more additional memory to waste than it used to? :lol:

No other OS I have *ever* seen (and I've seen a few) behaves in such a strange resource hungry way.

[Karlos]

To be fair, Kenny, your PC system does sound a bit screwed up, considering I actually had WinXP (Pro) running on a 5 year old K6-II 350 with 128Mb (100MHz FSB) at one point.

It wasn't the fastest set up, but waiting a minute for IE6, well, that's taking the p*ss somewhat. Maybe 5-15 seconds, but a minute?

To strangle an 1.3G Athlon back to slower performance than that old PC sould take some seriously bad hardware or software conflicts.

Win2K sp3 was perfectly usable on the machine (after adding a bit more RAM). Booting took a bit longer than I would have liked though ;-)