Nanite10 Posted October 11, 2001 The original Quake requirements are a Pentium processor. I was wondering if anyone knew if the original would run on a 486? (75 Mghz, DX4) Thank you for any responses. 0 Share this post Link to post
masterhassan Posted October 11, 2001 dont know but you can try, ive always wondered about that too 0 Share this post Link to post
xit-vono Posted October 11, 2001 I'm pretty sure the text says you can run it on a 486, but it recommends a pentium. 0 Share this post Link to post
Katarhyne Posted October 11, 2001 Yes, I ran Quake on an AMD 133Mhz 486 (which I used for the longest time instead of moving to a P54C). It ran quite well. 0 Share this post Link to post
deadnail Posted October 11, 2001 I first got Quake going on a P75 and it ran quite well. Just go pure DOS and you should be fine. 0 Share this post Link to post
deathz0r Posted October 11, 2001 heh, i got quake working on a 486 66mhz, <1996>that had a bitchin 8mb of ram (woah), and a 1mb (yes, 1 MEGABYTE!) video card.</1996> 0 Share this post Link to post
LorD BaZTArD Posted October 11, 2001 I got Quake running on an old Osbourne (dead company)486/66. 16MB Ram and a video card. S3VGA I think it was. Anyone want 10FPS at low resolution? I don't. Ugh. Funny thing was, I tried Quake 2 on the same machine (Yes I AM crazy)I turned everything (graphics wise)off. And got similar performance..... Tried HL too. Except it didn't run. That PC was crap anyway. I'm glad I got rid of it. Of course it was good for the old games I had. 0 Share this post Link to post
Espi Posted October 11, 2001 <1996>that had a bitchin 8mb of ram (woah), and a 1mb (yes, 1 MEGABYTE!) video card.</1996> <brag> Bah, I got a P90 at that time... overclocked to 120Mhz </brag> 0 Share this post Link to post
Captain Red Posted October 11, 2001 heh, i got quake working on a 486 66mhz, <1996>that had a bitchin 8mb of ram (woah), and a 1mb (yes, 1 MEGABYTE!) video card.</1996> heh thats was mine (except it had a 2mb video card) I was Over the moon when it ran (sorta). Ahh that lovely 486/66 Wich I got off my fokes who paid $4000 for it. And now, I've got my 120mhz, 16ram, and a 1mb video card(wich is an upgrade from the 486 form parts of 2 other pice of shite putas). ahh how times have changed. /me wonders off into the background cursing and swaring 0 Share this post Link to post
Xenoman Posted October 11, 2001 Argh, my dad got a Pentium 300 MHZ, 128 RAM and 4MB Videocard in July, 1998. It cost him about $1200, an offer from his job though... 0 Share this post Link to post
AngelOfDeath Posted October 11, 2001 You Have To Have A Mathcoprocessor. There are pentium class 486's i belive 0 Share this post Link to post
spank Posted October 11, 2001 Quake runs OK in a 486DX4 at anything faster than 75MHz and with at least 16 megs of RAM. Try putting a Voodoo or a Verite and running GLQuake, it rocks. Anyway, any Pentium is faster than whichever 486, even though an 100MHz DX4 comes very close to the P60. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted October 11, 2001 yes quake will, but slowly, also it HAS TO BE a 486DX. the 486DX has the math co-processor needed by quake. also u better have some good ram too. I would recomend trying it on a 486DX/80 or better. I once tried tombraider I on a 486DX/88 and it was slower that donkey shit 0 Share this post Link to post