from voodoo3 2000 pci to pny geforce mx 4000 pci

I am not really big into gaming, but this has been bothering me for quite some time. When I first bought the voodoo3 16mb card my games weren't much better than my integrated one. I could live with that for a little while. Then I just bought this inexpensive card for about 70.00 - the 64mb geforce mx4000 - and these cards are years apart in technology. My games run exactly the same. I have a k-6 533mhz, 384mb, 20gig hard drive, and everybody tells me that the games that I am playing should run very smooth. I have heard that pci sucks but it still doesn't make any sense. I have all the updated drivers but my games - which are more than 2-3 years old - run very choppy. What could this possibly be that both of these cards run my games the same?

Oh, and I have gone through the numbers with conflicting drivers and such so that is not the problem. Thankyou.

When you're playing the games, make sure you close every other program you have open (AIM, Zonealarm, Yahoo, Mozilla, etc.. etc..) maybe even disable your internet connection (unless they're online games). that worked for me.

Its possible that the graphics card isn't the bottleneck. (And PCI really does suck for graphics). What games do you play? Have you tried defragmenting your hard drive and running a spyware remover, as well as being sure to close all other programs when you play?

The only game I have right now is Catechumen. It's recommended requirements are:

16mb video.
pentium 300
directx 7.0
128mb ram

My computer can easily fill these recommendations. It's similar to quake 2 graphics. I have spysweeper so spyaware and adware isn't a problem(I sweep every shutdown); and I close all unnecesary programs to free up resources. The only thing I haven't done is defrag. Haven't done that in months so I'll do that and tell you if it helped me. Thankyou guys for your replies, I really appreciate it.

one more thing, what's bottleneck?

The part of the computer causing the slowdown. For graphics intensive processes, the bottleneck is often the video card, meaning a new, better video card will improve performance. For number crunching, cpu performance is more important, so a new video card won't improve performance, but a faster cpu would, etc.

I remember I used to rock a k6-2 450 overclocked to 533... I think i had an nvidia tnt2 vanta (tnt2 with only 16mb instead of 32 if i remember correctly) and quake 2 was never a problem.

Wait! What version of windows are you running?

Windows 98