Tribes 1 unplayable with Radeon 32 DDR

[brinstar117]

Good gosh, I have no idea why my framerates are so low in Tribes 1. That's right Tribes 1! My system specs are:

PIII 800 eb
CULS2
PC 133 512 mb Crucial cas 2
Radeon 32 DDR (using newest beta drivers, all other games appear to run faster)

What can I tweak?

EDIT: I forgot to add that the OS is Win2k

 

[duragezic]

Well Tribes 1 ran very bad even at 800x600 on my Radeon 64, Celeron 550 system. That was in win98. I know Tribes was a glide game but that's sad. My voodoo banshee and cel 550 ran it better at 1024x768!

I really don't think there's much you can do. Software would probably run better.

Those with Geforce's also have bad performance I believe also. Having a 3dfx card is very nice for that game since the OGL sucks and there isn't any D3d.

edit: Lucky you for having a V5 handy.
Just don't try Tribes 2 with that baddy. Complete opposite for T2. 3dfx = very slow although the wickedGL drivers help supposedly while a Radeon/GF2 in OGL is the fastest.

 

[brinstar117]

thanks for your insight from personal experience, I pulled the Voodoo 5 out of my other system and am using it for now, 1024x760 4X ffsa is sweet!