GP2 Frame Rate Survey

Hi, I would like to conduct a survey as to frame rates in GP2 in regards to CPU speed and video card performance.. In order to make this a constructive study everyone has to use the same settings in GP2. So from the main menu in GP2 go to options and then to graphics detail level. Set the graphics detail mode to automatic and your 3D display type to SVGA and GP2 will give you a recommended frame rate.Then list the speed of your CPU,Video Card and frame rate. Mine is:133 Pentium Diamond Stealth 64 2meg vram estimated frame rate 16 Thanks Steve

>> Mine is:133 Pentium Diamond Stealth 64 2meg vram estimated frame SDC> rate16 SDC> Scott's: Pentium 166, Matrox Millennium 4Mb WRAM, Est. Frame Rate 18.= 2 Pentium 120, Trident TGUI9440 1MB DRAM, EFR: 17 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Henrik Hjortnaes AMIGA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> > Mine is:133 Pentium Diamond Stealth 64 2meg vram estimated frame > rate > > 16 > Scott's: Pentium 166, Matrox Millennium 4Mb WRAM, Est. Frame Rate 18.2 Mark's : Pentium 166, Matrox Millenium 4mb Wram, est. frame rate 17.0

Cyrix 6x86 P150+ (120MHz) Diamond Stealth 3D2000, 2Mb EDO Frame rate 17.0 Beno?t Parmentier http://parmentier.via.ecp.fr

Scott's: Pentium 166, Matrox Millennium 4Mb WRAM, Est. Frame Rate 18.2

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> I would like to conduct a survey as to frame rates in GP2 in regards >to CPU speed and video card performance.. In order to make this a >constructive study everyone has to use the same settings in GP2. So from >the main menu in GP2 go to options and then to graphics detail level. Set >the graphics detail mode to automatic and your 3D display type to SVGA and >GP2 will give you a recommended frame rate.Then list the speed of your >CPU,Video Card and frame rate. > Mine is:133 Pentium Diamond Stealth 64 2meg vram estimated frame rate >16

When setting the detail graphics mode to automatic, you effectively rule out any possibility to measure the speed of different computers. The only conclusion you will be able to make, is that setting the graphics detail mode to automatic leads to an estimated frame rate between 16 and 18. This has nothing to do with the speed of your computer, but only with the way 'automatic' has been programmed in GP2. Only slow computers (486's) will give a lower value, because they will not be able to reach this framerate of 17 or so. Arnold

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> > > Mine is:133 Pentium Diamond Stealth 64 2meg vram estimated frame rate > > >16 > > > Thanks Steve > > Packard Bell Pentium 100 16 meg, Cirrus 24-bit, 1meg, under Win95, 16 FPS. > I have a Cyrix 686 133 Mhz, Cirrus 5446 1 Mb RAM: Estimated frame rate: > 18.2 > Asgeir

I cant see how you guys are posting a survey on Framerate with GP2. Your posts are inaccurate until you decide what track to compare the survey on because the detail on all tracks are different and therefore the CPU occupancy changes. Are you surveying on one particular track? -DG

Pentium 133, Diamond Stealth 64 2meg vram, EFR: 16 Pentium 166, Matrox Millennium 4Mb WRAM, EFR: 18.2 Pentium 120, Trident TGUI9440 1MB DRAM, EFR: 17 Cyrix 6x86 P150+ (120MHz), Diamond Stealth 3D2000, 2Mb EDO, EFR: 17 Pentium 166, Matrox Millenium 4mb Wram, EFR: 17 Let's all forget this survey, shall we? The EFR does not truly reflect what= s happening on the screen. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Henrik Hjortnaes AMIGA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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> Hi, > I would like to conduct a survey as to frame rates in GP2 in regards > to CPU speed and video card performance.. In order to make this a > constructive study everyone has to use the same settings in GP2. So from > the main menu in GP2 go to options and then to graphics detail level. Set > the graphics detail mode to automatic and your 3D display type to SVGA and > GP2 will give you a recommended frame rate.Then list the speed of your > CPU,Video Card and frame rate. > Mine is:133 Pentium Diamond Stealth 64 2meg vram estimated frame rate > 16 > Thanks Steve

Setting the graphics detail to automatic means that different computers will be using different graphics settings. Something which I have always maintained is that the best test of speed of GP2 is not to use the estimated frame rate as that is just based on a couple of simple benchmarks (see GP2 log) and won't give a very accurate reflection of how fast the computer is. Rather, it is just intended as a ballpark estimate. Instead, I think the best way of measuring relative speeds of computers running GP2 is to set the detail levels and frame rate at a certain agreed upon level, and then start quick race (Italy, Position 6) and see the occupancy before the green light comes on. Therefore, this gives an indication of how well the given computer can actually run GP2 at those detail levels, as it is doing the same types of calculations it actually does in the race. (Even though the race hasn't started, the game is still constantly updating the screen and recalculating everything).

What level of graphics detail are you using for these comparisons? Sorry I missed the original post... Karim

> > > Mine is:133 Pentium Diamond Stealth 64 2meg vram estimated frame > > rate > > > 16 > > Scott's: Pentium 166, Matrox Millennium 4Mb WRAM, Est. Frame Rate 18.2 > Mark's : Pentium 166, Matrox Millenium 4mb Wram, est. frame rate 17.0 Guy's : Pentium 166, Hercules Dynamite 128 2Mb, est. frame rate 21.6 same Stealth64 Video 3200 2 Mb, " " 18.6

166+ Cyrix 2MB Matrox Millenium Est. frame rate 19.6 -- kind regards Phil Jesson

says... Packard Bell Pentium 100 16 meg, Cirrus 24-bit, 1meg, under Win95, 16 FPS.

> > Mine is:133 Pentium Diamond Stealth 64 2meg vram estimated frame rate > >16 > > Thanks Steve > Packard Bell Pentium 100 16 meg, Cirrus 24-bit, 1meg, under Win95, 16 FPS. I have a Cyrix 686 133 Mhz, Cirrus 5446 1 Mb RAM: Estimated frame rate: 18.2 Asgeir