D3 on an antique..........

BAAL · Post by **BAAL** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:06 am

Hey guys a quick question on your thoughts. I have a new roomie who plays d3. Herein lies the problem. His comp is very outdated, i mean really outdated.

Specs:
P2-350
256mbs SDRAM
Radeon 7000 vid card
Current OS on it is XP PRO, however the os is borked and needs to be reloaded....

My question is that due to the old cpu, in order to get better performance from D3, would u suggest maybe win2k or even 98se as a better alternative for somewhat better performance. This pc is only used for email and D3.

My thinking was that an older os wouldnt eat up as much of the system ram, thus leaving more for descent.

Oh and HDD space is limited to one 8.4GB drive partitioned in half.

Oh and while i'm at it can someone link me to the best ati drivers...not really familiar with em but i heard something about omega drivers being good....

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:15 am

I'd try 2k...and see if you could find an old voodoo based card like a v3 to throw in there.

BAAL · Post by **BAAL** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:34 am

That thought also crossed my mind---ive got an old v5 at work in another sys....

Jagger · Post by **Jagger** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:54 am

I'd go Win2K, though even that is pushing it on that machine. '98 is just too unstable, and 2k isn't quite the resource hog that XP is.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:05 pm

I'd go with 98SE if you have it.

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 5:46 pm

And don't forget to shut off all the uneccesary procceses on both 2K and XP. Guide at www.blackviper.com

Also, does his mobo support any higher CPUs? If any poor bastard still has a P2 in stock he'd probably be giving it away by now.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 5:49 pm

Slot1 Pentium II processors make good paperweights.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:25 pm

D3 will run fine on that box. I ran it on a K6-2 350 with 64MB of PC100 with a nVidia TNT (Diamond Viper V550, 16MB SDR, AGP 1.0 set to 2x) without any major problems. I've seen Win2k run fine on a P2 200 so it should run fine on that 350. It won't be the fastest thing in the world, but atleast it'll run.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:23 pm

Krom wrote:Slot1 Pentium II processors make good paperweights.

Cyrix processors make better paperweights.

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:27 pm

Avder wrote:
Krom wrote:Slot1 Pentium II processors make good paperweights.
Cyrix processors make better paperweights.

No, they make better fireworks!

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:57 pm

MD-2389 wrote:D3 will run fine on that box. I ran it on a K6-2 350 with 64MB of PC100 with a nVidia TNT (Diamond Viper V550, 16MB SDR, AGP 1.0 set to 2x) without any major problems.

I played it on a 366 K6-2, 64MB of ram and a V3 2000. It sucked. The man needs more umph.

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:09 am

I set up a
600 Mhz AMD K7 Athlon (Slot A)
FIC SD-11 Mobo
256 Mb PC133
Voodoo 3500
SB Live Platinum
Sony DVD 16X
Plextor CDRW 40a
20GB & 30Gb WD Drives
CH Pro Throttle(Gameport) M$ Sidewinder 3DPro
Dual Boot O/S
Win 98SE / Windows 2000

Strictly as a Legacy Box, I was going to do it with NT4, but I wanted USB support for the workstation side of it Runs top... for older games and a gerbil porn archive(just dont tell sickone)

Games: D1/D2/D23dfx/D3/Gunship!/Q1/Q2/Falcon 4.0 just to name a few

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 10:38 am

Krom wrote:Slot1 Pentium II processors make good paperweights.

yah, and i have two running my Server, both pushed up 350 MHz from the stock 400

BAAL · Post by **BAAL** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 10:52 am

hmm...might try 98 on it...ive got a copy buried away somewhere