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Re: GPL and Geforce 256

5 posts by 5 people · 21 Apr 2000 - 24 Apr 2000 21:54 UTC

Race1530 21 Apr 2000#276090
I have a dell p3 600 256 megs ram with the geforce and it rocks. Go to dejanews and check archives in this newsgroup for fixes. Will find the easy mirror fix and knock the mirror refresh rate down to 1 or 2 and you will be very happy. I also have the voodoo 2 card and the geforce on my application is far superior.
Hi there Has anyone had any luck with getting this combo to work as it should. The best I can manage is below par fps and flashin mirror textures. My old V3 3000 was superior ;-( Any help is very much appreciated Cheers Mike
"Mike Fellows" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:8dq7m6$t5k$[email hidden]... > Hi there > > Has anyone had any luck with getting this combo to work as it should. > Yep > The best I can manage is below par fps and flashin mirror textures. > > My old V3 3000 was superior ;-( > > Any help is very much appreciated >You can install the 3.77 Detonator drivers, which you can get at http://www.reactorcritical.com/download.shtml. Once they're installed go to your Settings/Advanced/Geforce256/additionalProperties/openglsettings tab. Here are the settings I use for GPL, which work great: The first five options under Perf. & Capability Options are selected. Default color depth for textures is set to"Always use 16bpp". Buffer flipping mode is set to "use block tranfer". Using this setting, plus the second GPL Opengl batch patch should stop the flashing mirrors. Vertical sync is "on by default"--but "off by default" should also work. In \GPL\core.ini under Opengl I have "Tosshighestmip=0", "Mipfiltering=4", and "Mirrorsevery=1". These settings might also work for the 3.68 Detonator drivers--I don't know. I currently have the 5.14 drivers installed, which also work, except I can't change the game resolution to anything other than 640x480. Using higher resolutions with these drivers gives a small, clipped game screen and puts it in the upper left corner--anyone been able to get high res working right with these drivers? I'm using the 5.14 drivers, BTW, because Messiah needs them for that game to work properly--every hear of a released game needing unreleased drivers to work properly? These settings on a P3/800 allowed me to run full detail with mirrors set to "cars only", showing a full field drawn ahead and about half drawn behind, at 1280x res at frame rates consistently in the 35-36 range, except for starts when they drop briefly to the mid-20s. Hope this helps. Jerry Morelock > Cheers > > Mike > >
Some Call Me Tim 24 Apr 2000 14:40 UTC#275703
I've now spent quite a bit of time trying to get my GeForce working with GPL and although it looks fantastic in OpenGL it still only runs at between 20-30 fps and about 11 at the start even on my 581Mhz PIII. It still locks up on some circuits, most disappointingly at the ring, so I've given up and put my 2 old faithful Voodoo 2 12mb's back in. It might not look quite as good but I get 36fps except at the start when it drops to only 20 fps with 20 cars full detail. Yours much happier with his V2's SomeCallMeTim
Kotten 24 Apr 2000 21:54 UTC#275570
I have an ASUS 6800 Geforce that I do not use i GPL because fps and the visual quality is not as good as my trusty old V2 SLI combination. I spent quite a lot of time to get the Geforce to run properly and it was ok but not as good as my V2's. Geforce seems to be optimized for Quake! Happy Racing with Voodoo's Some Call Me Tim <[email hidden]> skrev i diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:G9YM4.2911$[email hidden]... > I've now spent quite a bit of time trying to get my GeForce working withGPL > and although it looks fantastic in OpenGL it still only runs at between > 20-30 fps and about 11 at the start even on my 581Mhz PIII. It still locks > up on some circuits, most disappointingly at the ring, so I've given upand
Quoted text (11 lines)> put my 2 old faithful Voodoo 2 12mb's back in. It might not look quite as > good but I get 36fps except at the start when it drops to only 20 fps with > 20 cars full detail. > > Yours much happier with his V2's > > SomeCallMeTim > > > >

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