I used to have a Pentium MMX 233 MHz machine that hit a wall similar to the one you describe.  I had an AWE 64 Gold ISA card that proved to be the culprit.  It turns out that this particular sound card provides good support for games up through DirectX 5, but as soon as you try to run a DirectX 6 game such as Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator, it stutters horribly.

Install a PCI sound card rather than the AWE 64 Gold, and see if that helps.

the cpu is slow-don't expect that games like quake3 will run smoothly (but you can try wickedgl anyway,see links in my signature).as for the d3d games,you can try installing the dx8 beta driver,it should give you a boost in d3d compatibility (again,see my sig)..

i dont mind not running quake 3 since its qutie nice on my gts260 system.


If i upgraded processor i fear i would loose the compatability with games such as destruction derby and monster trucks in particular. Mosnter trucks is already running too fast. A faster processor would stop it working all together

im not changing cpu. This problem is definately graphics related when running games like mm and re-volt

Blurredman wrote on 09.12.09 at 01:28:43:

Do not under-estimate L2 Cache, it is very important for performance.

You can not say the processor is not at fault here untill you have actually tried a processor with L2 cache. If there's still stuttering, the processor is not the problem.

Nobody asks you to accept the fact that K6-2/3 is just far too slow for any of those (just a little bit newer) games that you mentioned, but you can check for yourself. Use fraps to track the scalability of FPS when you increase the resolution. If you get same (or similar) FPS at 640x480 and at 1024x768 - then its not video cards fault.

You will notice that its not the card, nor the driver - its the CPU that lags like hell. If you want to play those other games you mention - get another rig.

Hello all,


Sorry I misunderstanded you all! I am gratefully sorry for not accepting my problem. I did a test you see..


I plugged my voodoo 3 2000 PCI into an Athlon 1700+ (1.1Ghz) system and the voodoo 3 outperformed the GeForce FX 5500 AGP which was in there for Midtown Madness!! I could feel it.

I also found out something about the computer specifications of which i though would be alot older (something like my specs above) but was actually a:

AMD Duron - Inconclusive speed - Maybe 700Mhz
ECS K7S5A Mainboard- I thought this was too mdoern when i read it - As the main PC at the time was hardly anything more (ECS K7VZA).

This brings me to the conclusion that the PC was infact a Socket A PC and not what I thought as a Socket 7.
This explains alot and I am gratefully sorry. I do not know if the games had problems back then as my dad does not remember things like that. But i know it had an ATI Xpert 2000 Pro 16MB card which would have had V-Sych enabled which would have explained why the PC games didnt run too fast..

Now, I am understanding it all, and if i could put my Duron 1.3Ghz into the PC i could do well off with the games i wish to play above- But the Voodoo driver does not seem to have V-Sync option, and all software like aTuner etc do not support 3DFX. 

Anyone got suggestions for V-Sync??? - Then my dream would be complete

Currently the setup is:
Windows 98SE
DirectX 8.1
OpenGL 1.1
AMD Duron 1350Mhz
Soltek SL-75KAV/-X Motherboard
768MB of SDRAM-For internet smoothness
Voodoo 3 2000 PCI
3Com 3c905-TX (PCI)
Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold (ISA)