10 fps with a P150+millenium ???

Well, i got these new machines at work, and they can't run my main application (gp2..). Its a Gateway P150 + Millenium card + SB16. Everything (video/scsi hd/ect) is from GW except for the sound blaster which we added ourself. Everything works fine under DOS and NT. Moving to gp: a) I try to setup sound. It autodetects SB, but locks up when i try to test the sound. I disable the sound. b) I run gp2. I get 10 fps with full graphics. I turn everything off, i get maybe 15. c) I move to an identical Gateway machine with no SB. Gp2 locks on startup (i dont even get the starting screen). Help! Right now, it looks like these machines are going back to GW!!

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> Well, i got these new machines at work, and they can't > run my main application (gp2..). > Its a Gateway P150 + Millenium card + SB16. > Everything (video/scsi hd/ect) is from GW except for > the sound blaster which we added ourself. Everything > works fine under DOS and NT. Moving to gp: > a) I try to setup sound. It autodetects SB, but locks up > when i try to test the sound. I disable the sound. > b) I run gp2. I get 10 fps with full graphics. I turn everything > off, i get maybe 15. > c) I move to an identical Gateway machine with no SB. Gp2 > locks on startup (i dont even get the starting screen). > Help! > Right now, it looks like these machines are going back to GW!!

Everything seems normal to me! When the 400mhz machines hit the stores, maybe then we can run GP2 with everything turned on. Terry

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> Well, i got these new machines at work, and they can't > run my main application (gp2..). > Its a Gateway P150 + Millenium card + SB16. > Everything (video/scsi hd/ect) is from GW except for > the sound blaster which we added ourself. Everything > works fine under DOS and NT. Moving to gp: > a) I try to setup sound. It autodetects SB, but locks up > when i try to test the sound. I disable the sound. > b) I run gp2. I get 10 fps with full graphics. I turn everything > off, i get maybe 15. > c) I move to an identical Gateway machine with no SB. Gp2 > locks on startup (i dont even get the starting screen). > Help! > Right now, it looks like these machines are going back to GW!!

what do you have the fps set at in the grafx menu? I found that when I set the fps at 10 it would limit the fps at 10. I assumed that if i set it at 10 and it coud draw, say, 20 then it would do so. But gp2 does not do this. I thought something was wrong with my cpu but that was not the case. Your problem sounds some what simular to mine.

>Well, i got these new machines at work, and they can't >run my main application (gp2..). >Its a Gateway P150 + Millenium card + SB16. I thought that GW2K stopped selling P150's several months ago? Come to think of it Intel stopped manufacturing those chips quite some time ago! You sure these machines are new? ;-)) You mention NT - are you trying to run GP2 from within NT? If so, I'm not surprised at your problems. NT was never designed to run DOS games which typically make direct calls to the hardware. If you are running from pure DOS (i.e. you've got a dual boot setup & can boot into good old DOS 5 or 6.x) then, sorry, can't think of anything obvious from the information provided. Is the video card one of the original Milleniums or a Millenium II? Or maybe even a Mystique? Have you checked with Matrox's web site that you've got the latest bios - GW2K often ship old ones with their systems. My GW2K P133 could quite happily get 21fps at most tracks in SVGA (most graphic details turned off though) so you should be able to do rather better than 15! Cheers, Richard