GP3-2000 and GeForce2Go (MX 400)?

So, I have my snazzy new notebook with a 1GHz P-IIIM and a 32Mb GeForce2Go. GPL runs like butter (36fps at 1280x1024 with all the new add-ons), as does Nascar Heat, Rally Trophy, FS2002 etc. Then along comes Mr. Crammond's prehistoric graphics engine. It runs better in software mode than in hardware! Even my old P-III 500 notebook with the dog's breakfast 8Mb Savage chip did much better. Does anyone have any specific experience with getting GP3 to run on a GeForce2Go? Barring that, any tips from users with the desktop MX400, which is about the equivalent? Sure, I could buy F1-2001 and have nice graphics, but somehow I love the racing (and weather) in GP3. perplexed Stephen

Hey Stephen, can't get rid of those notebooks, can you ;)? I have a regular 2 MX which is not all that far away from your card I suppose. Considering that it's a pretty fast processor for the graphics card that you have, I would not be surprised that the SW engine runs faster at lower resolutions, as it seems to be very well optimized (in contrast to the HW engine). What I did find about GP3 and hardware acceleration is that the calibration stuff indeed is something quite necessary, but only if coupled with the automatic settings for the graphics fidelity/speed. A calibrated card with the automatic setting for quality vs. speed is, at least from what I found out, much faster in the high PO situations than is any manual fiddling of the settings yourself at similar quality settings. My guess is that the in-game graphics calibration times different parts of rendering and then the graphics engine automatically reduces the most expensive tasks when PO shoots up. You might want to try that out if it helps you (no guarantees, as ever :) ). -Gregor Stephen Ferguson wrote:

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> > So, I have my snazzy new notebook with a 1GHz P-IIIM and a 32Mb GeForce2Go. > GPL runs like butter (36fps at 1280x1024 with all the new add-ons), as does > Nascar Heat, Rally Trophy, FS2002 etc. > > Then along comes Mr. Crammond's prehistoric graphics engine. It runs better > in software mode than in hardware! Even my old P-III 500 notebook with the > dog's breakfast 8Mb Savage chip did much better. Does anyone have any > specific experience with getting GP3 to run on a GeForce2Go? Barring that, > any tips from users with the desktop MX400, which is about the equivalent? > Sure, I could buy F1-2001 and have nice graphics, but somehow I love the > racing (and weather) in GP3. > > perplexed > Stephen

Thanks Gregor. Due to the nature of my work, notebooks are my curse and my salvation, and I still can't justify a standalone desktop just for games. Considering what the new notebook can do in everything except GP3, it's pretty amazing. I'll keep playing around with calibration, but in the meantime, GPL is looking beautiful (and I finally see what everyone has been raving about for the last two years). Stephen "Gregor Veble" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Hey Stephen, > > can't get rid of those notebooks, can you ;)? > > I have a regular 2 MX which is not all that far away from your card I > suppose. Considering that it's a pretty fast processor for the graphics > card that you have, I would not be surprised that the SW engine runs > faster at lower resolutions, as it seems to be very well optimized (in > contrast to the HW engine). > > What I did find about GP3 and hardware acceleration is that the > calibration stuff indeed is something quite necessary, but only if > coupled with the automatic settings for the graphics fidelity/speed. A > calibrated card with the automatic setting for quality vs. speed is, at > least from what I found out, much faster in the high PO situations than > is any manual fiddling of the settings yourself at similar quality > settings. My guess is that the in-game graphics calibration times > different parts of rendering and then the graphics engine automatically > reduces the most expensive tasks when PO shoots up. You might want to > try that out if it helps you (no guarantees, as ever :) ). > > -Gregor >

Are you using WinXP? GP3-2000 runs very slowly in XP (at least on GeForces). The strange thing is that the original GP3 works fine under XP. > Thanks Gregor. Due to the nature of my work, notebooks are my curse andmy > salvation, and I still can't justify a standalone desktop just for games. > Considering what the new notebook can do in everything except GP3, it's > pretty amazing. I'll keep playing around with calibration, but in the > meantime, GPL is looking beautiful (and I finally see what everyone hasbeen > raving about for the last two years).

Yep, it's XP. I'll try my original GP3 tonight (why didn't I think of that?) thanks Stephen "Damien Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:a2h4p0$116bqg$[email hidden]... > Are you using WinXP? GP3-2000 runs very slowly in XP (at least on > GeForces). The strange thing is that the original GP3 works fine underXP. > > > Thanks Gregor. Due to the nature of my work, notebooks are my curse and > my > > salvation, and I still can't justify a standalone desktop just forgames.

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> > Considering what the new notebook can do in everything except GP3, it's > > pretty amazing. I'll keep playing around with calibration, but in the > > meantime, GPL is looking beautiful (and I finally see what everyone has > been > > raving about for the last two years). > > >