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Paul Jones wrote:

> I've heard two additional but conflicting points which may or may not be true...
>
> 1) Having any ISA ports in use at all will slow down the computer.

I've heard someone on r.a.s. say that.

>
> 2) If you have a PCI graphics card like Voodoo2, then the PCI bus will get
> flooded with textures and it may be an idea to put others devices on the ISA and
> USB buses to spread the load.

IMHO, developers will not try to load a lot of textures during game play because
that will slow the V2 down.  Textures are loaded at the start of the game and will
be used during play.  So if there is any flooding it's not because of textures.
Besides a 12mb V2 card can hold 8MB of textures.

AGP graphic cards were made so the video card can access main memory for textures
(fixing the low memory PCI card problem) -- I think Unreal will take advantage of
this.

The ISA bus is 4 times slower than the PCI bus, so I think its better to use AGP and
PCI for all cards.

>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>

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