I remember when I bought the Pentium 3 Coppermine CPU... It was such an event.. My motherboard supported it and I could not wait to install it.. Before I was rocking a Pentium 2 233Mhz .. This was a primo upgrade!
im glad this is a video. im glad other people also searched for something along the lines of this video. my curiosity stems from the fact that i can play AAA titles on an i5 3470 + gtx 1060 and 2070 super. 8 years....
My Pentium 3 1000 (Compaq Deskpro EN SFF) uses a Low Profile GeForce GT 440 with 1 GB DDR3 RAM via PCI zu PCie Converter 😀 I also have a GT 520 but it is significantly slower even with the system and a GT740 but that doesn't really do much anymore because of the limitations of the CPU and the PCI bus. Up until 2003, the games ran quite well, but many titles from 2004 onwards are now running slowly. I wouldn't want to play at 10 FPS. Even the fastest graphics card is useless if the CPU becomes too slow. But I'm amazed at how many newer titles still run on it. Mainly because of the lack of CPU instructions, which makes things even more difficult with newer games. But it's nice that you can still do something with the old hardware, even if you have to lower your expectations for newer games.
I'm currently building a dual pentium3 1.0ghz retro box using the Intel OR840 paired with 2GB RDRAM and a 6600GT. I might run the same AAA games you did and see what difference there is.
Morrowind could run faster with some tweaking (Got a P3 myself and get around 30 fps in towns and 50 outside) Doom 3 aswell, people manage to run that on Voodoo cards Around Oblivion/Bioshock/Mass Effect is where big butget gaming is out of the question, maybe some easier games to run would be CoD 3, Battlefront or Neverwinter Nights 2 Still a great video that shows how fast the progression was during that time.
windows ME. It fails at windows ME because of an overlooked bug in the new opcodes added in coppermine (Katmai didn't have it) that doesn't play nice with the way windows ME manages memory (98se and all NT windows are ok). That said its a good solid chip especially for win XP or Various Linux distros. Just not good for Win ME. FYI Tualatin fixed the bug, so win ME has the correct memory data and no bluescreen, and Tualatin 1.4 P3 is MUCH faster than netburst wilammette P4 1.8. :) Tualatin could actually compete with the ATHLON until AMD broke the 2ghz barrier. P4 couldnt even keep up with an athlon 1.3ghz until Northwood and Prescott came out.
Bioshock at that framerate is just a few frames below playable, but I'm sure with lower graphics settings and resolution it would play fine. I would also try Borderlands and Fallout 3. I found ways to make those games playable on some really shitty computers when I was 16 or so.
Yes, I can confirm that Borderlands will work on a Pentium III, but you'll need to patch the executable because it requires the SSE2 instruction set. It will run very poorly though, even with my old Athlon XP 2000+ system with an HD2600 Pro graphics card, it was barely playable with frequent drops below 15fps.
Both look pretty cool! Added them to my wishlist on GOG. Will snag them on a deep sale and let you know! :-) I could not believe how well Y's 6 ran. I could play and enjoy that on my P3 just as much as my Core i7!!!
Ys 6 was definitely a cheat though, being originally a 2003 game that was polished up for re-release recently.. Also curious as to how Sudeki would run, since that's a very old game that was actually kind of problematic on the Cherry Trail Atom tablet I tried it on. It ran, but occasionally had rectangles of the screen that would tear. Ys 6 on the other hand was great on that cherry trail tablet. (I imagine the Pentium 3 is about the same single threaded CPU power as a cherry trail tablet.)
I remember when I bought the Pentium 3 Coppermine CPU... It was such an event.. My motherboard supported it and I could not wait to install it.. Before I was rocking a Pentium 2 233Mhz .. This was a primo upgrade!
I almost wonder how much of the FPS drops were from the GPU you were using. Should have had the usage % up on screen!
im glad this is a video. im glad other people also searched for something along the lines of this video. my curiosity stems from the fact that i can play AAA titles on an i5 3470 + gtx 1060 and 2070 super. 8 years....
Hey! I got that same cpu but with Radeon R5 240, want to upgrade to a 1050 ti to get all the juice I can get :D
Would be interesting to see how a Pentium 3 tulatin-s 1.4ghz would do with a ati 3850
My Pentium 3 1000 (Compaq Deskpro EN SFF) uses a Low Profile GeForce GT 440 with 1 GB DDR3 RAM via PCI zu PCie Converter 😀 I also have a GT 520 but it is significantly slower even with the system and a GT740 but that doesn't really do much anymore because of the limitations of the CPU and the PCI bus. Up until 2003, the games ran quite well, but many titles from 2004 onwards are now running slowly. I wouldn't want to play at 10 FPS. Even the fastest graphics card is useless if the CPU becomes too slow. But I'm amazed at how many newer titles still run on it. Mainly because of the lack of CPU instructions, which makes things even more difficult with newer games. But it's nice that you can still do something with the old hardware, even if you have to lower your expectations for newer games.
I'm currently building a dual pentium3 1.0ghz retro box using the Intel OR840 paired with 2GB RDRAM and a 6600GT.
I might run the same AAA games you did and see what difference there is.
Awesome! I would love to see the results!
The OR840 was damaged in transit :( If I can find another that isn't ridiculously over priced I might revisit the project.
Morrowind could run faster with some tweaking (Got a P3 myself and get around 30 fps in towns and 50 outside)
Doom 3 aswell, people manage to run that on Voodoo cards
Around Oblivion/Bioshock/Mass Effect is where big butget gaming is out of the question, maybe some easier games to run would be CoD 3, Battlefront or Neverwinter Nights 2
Still a great video that shows how fast the progression was during that time.
windows ME. It fails at windows ME because of an overlooked bug in the new opcodes added in coppermine (Katmai didn't have it) that doesn't play nice with the way windows ME manages memory (98se and all NT windows are ok). That said its a good solid chip especially for win XP or Various Linux distros. Just not good for Win ME.
FYI Tualatin fixed the bug, so win ME has the correct memory data and no bluescreen, and Tualatin 1.4 P3 is MUCH faster than netburst wilammette P4 1.8. :) Tualatin could actually compete with the ATHLON until AMD broke the 2ghz barrier. P4 couldnt even keep up with an athlon 1.3ghz until Northwood and Prescott came out.
Interesting, thank you!
Got a 2019 game to try: Ion Fury
Bioshock at that framerate is just a few frames below playable, but I'm sure with lower graphics settings and resolution it would play fine.
I would also try Borderlands and Fallout 3. I found ways to make those games playable on some really shitty computers when I was 16 or so.
I actually want to try this again with a more powerful card. See if I can get a few more FPS out of the old PIII.
Oh, I saw Fallout 3 on a Athlon 64 with a HD 6450.
Let's say it wasn't the best experience.
Yes, I can confirm that Borderlands will work on a Pentium III, but you'll need to patch the executable because it requires the SSE2 instruction set. It will run very poorly though, even with my old Athlon XP 2000+ system with an HD2600 Pro graphics card, it was barely playable with frequent drops below 15fps.
I have a dual pentium 3 1ghz 4GB of ram and a ati radeon hd 3650.
What video car did you use in that machine?
ATI 3450
@@drhoads08 The 3450 is by no means a powerful video card even for a P3.
Nice, Ys 6.
I wonder how Cosmic Star Heroine or Stardew Valley would work on an old system.
Both look pretty cool! Added them to my wishlist on GOG. Will snag them on a deep sale and let you know! :-) I could not believe how well Y's 6 ran. I could play and enjoy that on my P3 just as much as my Core i7!!!
Ys 6 was definitely a cheat though, being originally a 2003 game that was polished up for re-release recently.. Also curious as to how Sudeki would run, since that's a very old game that was actually kind of problematic on the Cherry Trail Atom tablet I tried it on. It ran, but occasionally had rectangles of the screen that would tear. Ys 6 on the other hand was great on that cherry trail tablet. (I imagine the Pentium 3 is about the same single threaded CPU power as a cherry trail tablet.)
Thanks for another cool looking game recommendation. I added it to my wishlist as well.
Whats that game you play???
System shock 2???