K6-2 chips with via chipsets require that you install agp drivers (they should have come with your motherboard, but if not check the website) AFTER you install videocard drivers. You will then be at AGP 2x.

I own a DFI K6BV3+/66 with a K6-2 533mhz processor and Gainward Geforce2 Ti/500 XP (I don''t know why they call it a Ti/500- its a Ti/200 card- but that what they call it)

Here are the motherboard AGP driver instructions that were included in the readme file of its installation disk:
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VIA AGP VxD Driver for Windows 95/98
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The "VIA AGP VxD Driver for Windows 95/98" supports Accelerated
Graphics Port (AGP) functionalities.

Regardless of the operating system you are using (Windows 95 or
Windows 98, you must first install the AGP card''s driver prior
to installing the AGP VxD driver. To install the AGP VxD driver,
click the "VIA AGP VxD Driver for Windows 95/98" button in
AUTORUN.
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I hope this is helpful.

There was a post not to long ago on opengl.org, where mcraighead (a driver writer for nvidia) stated he only uses W2K for developement. This means that the XP drivers are NOT developed for XP rather than W2K, but the other way round.

I have seen several machines running XP - but none of them outperform my W2K box - even with faster CPU's.

The Moral - the speed you see using various operating systems is more dependant on the overall hardware configuration. NOT the OS. I use a very nice ABIT motherboard, quality PC100 ram, and a PII350. I think the the amount of software running in the background also has a significant performance impact. The only non necessary thing I run in the background is the SETI@HOME screen saver software (which everyone should be forced to run!)

get it here http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu (unashamed plug)

BTW - don't run messenger software in the background when developing - some of them really screw up your FPS.

Edited by - Shag on January 31, 2002 1:05:30 PM

Check the AGP speed on the motherboard, 1X suppoort on the motherboard will not utlize a GeForce III to it''s potential, also the bus speed of the motherboard, chipset and finally the speed of your RAM.


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quote:Original post by Maximus
If you''ve had my experiences with athlons/durons and their lack of stability...

That probably doesn''t come out as it should. You should probably have written "If you''ve had the experiences I had with a lack of stability that I had while running Athlons or Durons." I''m not correcting your grammar (I mess up grammar often too) so much as your phrasing. You seem to blame the CPU for the stability the way you said it. It''s much more likely to be something else (software probably; OS and drivers are often to blame for such issues) not running correctly on the CPU if it''s anything. In addition, poor motherboards cause many more stability issues than processors do.