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Voodoo card
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Posted by: Shalome
Okay, this is from the b/f, not from me, and YES we KNOW the Voodoo2000 is a P.O.S:
processor: 533 pentium
memory: 256 mb
video card: Voodoo 2000
OS: Win98
Problem: Frames-per-second in D2 gets crazy after an hour or so of play. Sometimes as long as 3 or 4 hours, sometimes after only 20 minutes. This happens both online and offline.
Symptoms: The hard drive begins to read/write at what seems like inappropriate times for normal game play. The FPS will then oscillate from 60-40 FPS (normal) down to 12-17 (very low) and back about once a second, with the hard drive read/write going on the whole time.
Solutions Tried: Closing D2 and relaunching, closing all unnecessary apps, changing number of frames buffered per second. Rebooting is the only thing that solves the problem, but even that is only a temporary fix.
Since Nvidia bought out the Voodoo company last year and discontinued Voodoo cards, there are no new drivers to download. "Download the newest driver" is the only answer I could get from the regs in Open Tech Support on b.net, but since there are no new drivers, that's impossible. I plan to buy a GForce as soon as financially possible.
Does anyone know an appropriate OpenGL/Glide setting to tweak or have some other trick to try?
Thanks..
Posted by: Swilo
This doesn't sound like the video card is at fault. It seems more likely that D2 has used up all the memory and is then going to swap file on the hard drive. This explains the sudden performance drop and excessive HDD activity. I would suggest changing your virtual memory settings.
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Swilo is probably right. Here's some things that might help out.
- Try setting the role of the computer as network server. The setting is under the performance tab from the system icon in the control panel. This should help the OS utilize your memory above 64 MB's better.
- Try setting your swapfile to a static setting. Instead of letting windows change your swapfile, try setting the minimum and maximum swapfile size the same. This will decrease boot time and should help cut the slowdown from hard drive swapping down. A setting of 384 or 512 megabytes should be good. Just make sure you set the minimum and maximum the same size. Defrag after doing this as well.
Post back if it still is acting up. A program like cachemem would probably help out a lot if you're still having trouble. I'll dig it up for you if you're interested. 
Posted by: Shalome
Still acting up, though not as often as before. Now it's about once per day, rather than once per game-session.
Messed with the swapfile settings and the virtual memory management, but it still happens occasionally. The weirdest thing about this is it only seems to happen when the b/f plays. I don't have this problem anymore, but then, his gaming sessions seem to last a few hours longer than mine.
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