DirectX on 386DX 40MHz 8MB Ram

Running Windows 95 and DirectX 6.1 video tests on 386DX 40MHz 8MB Ram(the processor doesn't allow installing a newer version of DirectX :D )

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• directx
• 386dx

[chucknorris687]

It's funny because the video ram required just to run a display at 1024 * 768, btw my favorite video display resolution requires at least 3MB's of video ram. How do I know this? Well if you take 1024*768*32/8/1024/1024 you get 3 or 3MB's of video ram. It's a amazing you can even get directX to work on this because my calculations don't even include 3d elements! So basically a 4MB video card would barely cut it for gaming back then. : ) My lord how times have changed! 1GB video cards?

[fullmetalbg]

@chucknorris687 hah yeah,to thin the progress between 2000 and 2010 is smaller than that from 2010 to 2011.How times have changed indeed :))

[TahreyUK]

What, no spinning cube test?! That's the only thing I wanted to see out of all of this :(

It doesn't need a 3D card to run, I've done it on barely-accelerated 1mb 2D cards before. A Trident SVGA should be fine with it... (the CPU, less so!)

[fullmetalbg]

@TahreyUK damn,didnt think of it at the time

i should look into that :D

[Jackfrost0381]

Those were the days....

[BilisNegra]

Couldn't you have muted your tv for five minutes?

[shadow444222]

what kind of keyboard is that?

[903someone]

If you bought a computer with 4 GB of RAM in 2010 which was one of the highest amounts of memory, you will notice that in 2011 the highest amounts are between 8 and 16 GB of RAM!

[903someone]

Technologies are changing so fast! My computer has 8 GB of RAM and a computer which is 20 years old has 8 MB of RAM! The difference is huge... How are the technologies going to improve in the next 20 years, since they have started to improve faster and faster every year! From 2000 to 2005 the technologies have improved less than from 2005 to 2010!

[166beads]

@TahreyUK I had a half a megabyte graphics card years and years ago and was unable to do the 3d spinning cube test because it was not even direct 3d compatible.

[tomperanteau]

Reminds me of my old OS/2 setup.

[tomperanteau]

@BilisNegra Geez.. Don't like it? Hit your mute button or go watch something else.

He made this for free and you are free to go elsewhere!

[jamesmusacchio1]

lol bottle-necked the ram...lol

[TahreyUK]

@xSnip3rMontag3sx In any case it's pretty difficult to come into contact with that stuff unless you're really meaning to do it, like sticking an uninsulated screwdriver into the expansion ports or one of the molex plugs.

And if you're doing that, with the power on, you've gone a couple steps beyond just having a bare motherboard + installed components out on the bench so you can do a bunch of tweaks and tests without having to continually open/close and/or reach into a cramped computer case.