I was hoping to collect some opinions on this. I have an ATI Mach32 (1993) 1MB card that uses a VLB slot (faster than ISA) and I wanted to replace it with a card that shows higher resolution in 16bit color. So I ordered an ATI Mach64 (1996) 2MB card, but it uses an ISA slot. I already know I am going to get a better resolution, but now I am worried about performance.
I play mainly high end dos games (i.e., thunderscape, Warcraft II, Mechwarrior II) and a few games designed for windows 95. I know that Mach64 supports dos gaming in terms of dedicating memory, just worried about performance in general.
So although it’s a newer card, will the downgrade from VLB to ISA kill me? Also, I added this ISA card to the same VLB slot on the mainboard but I don’t know if that makes any difference.
I play mainly high end dos games (i.e., thunderscape, Warcraft II, Mechwarrior II) and a few games designed for windows 95. I know that Mach64 supports dos gaming in terms of dedicating memory, just worried about performance in general.
So although it’s a newer card, will the downgrade from VLB to ISA kill me? Also, I added this ISA card to the same VLB slot on the mainboard but I don’t know if that makes any difference.