Suggestions, yeah...
These are aged cards that don't support some newer methods, therefore the alternatives are slower and often switched to automatically by DX (I believe).Savage4, TNT2, GeForce2MX
Also, video cards have only one "active" texture. So if you don't sort things by z-order and texture, you'll get signifigant slowdowns. Far more than you'll get from the sorting.
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