GP4 perfomance - slow cpu fastest video card...

I have an older Pentium700 with plenty of ram and and older sound blaster and wheel and pedals So, in order to play GP4 i got a spanking new GeForce FX5600, but performance still sucks - about 10fps with *everything* turned off and lowest resolution. The board supports agp x 2 Does anyone have any suggestions ? Or is a P700 a total write off for this game ... Y

"Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> I have an older Pentium700 with plenty of ram and > and older sound blaster and wheel and pedals > > So, in order to play GP4 i got a spanking new GeForce > FX5600, but performance still sucks - about > 10fps with *everything* turned off and lowest resolution. > > The board supports agp x 2 > > Does anyone have any suggestions ? Or is a P700 > a total write off for this game ...

I'm using pIII 1.4 with radeon 9700 pro.... runs like a dream (after editing the graphics config file). I had a pIII 800 before that, it struggled a lot more, though did a lot better than yours. KK

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> "Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... >> I have an older Pentium700 with plenty of ram and >> and older sound blaster and wheel and pedals >> >> So, in order to play GP4 i got a spanking new GeForce >> FX5600, but performance still sucks - about >> 10fps with *everything* turned off and lowest resolution. >> >> The board supports agp x 2 >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions ? Or is a P700 >> a total write off for this game ... > > I'm using pIII 1.4 with radeon 9700 pro.... runs like a dream (after > editing the graphics config file). I had a pIII 800 before that, it > struggled a lot more, though did a lot better than yours. > > KK

Have you made sure that all background programs are not running? You don't want anything but maybe your firewall running in the system tray. exit out of realplayer, printer/scanner software, aim, messenger, etc..... other things that can use up cpu cycles would be anti virus, backup programs, monitoring software, etc..... HTH Sean

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe in order to take full advantage of an amazing graphics card it's necessary to have a CPU to back it up? J.R.

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 23:07:11 +0800, "J.R." <[email hidden]> wrote: >Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe in order to take full advantage of an >amazing graphics card it's necessary to have a CPU to back it up? >Its depends on the game, but in general his video card is sitting around twiddling its virtual thumbs waiting for the processor to give it something to do. -- Andrew. To email unscramble [email hidden] & remove spamtrap. Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim messages to quote only relevent text. Check groups.google.com before asking a question.

Andrew <spamtrap@localhost> wrote in news:[email hidden]: > Its depends on the game, but in general his video card is sitting > around twiddling its virtual thumbs waiting for the processor to give > it something to do. > -- Or in the case of an agp 2/p700, the vid card is twiddling thumbs and knitting and cooking popcorn all whilst waiting for something to do. dave henrie

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> Andrew <spamtrap@localhost> wrote in > news:[email hidden]: > > > Its depends on the game, but in general his video card is sitting > > around twiddling its virtual thumbs waiting for the processor to give > > it something to do. > > -- > > Or in the case of an agp 2/p700, the vid card is twiddling thumbs and > knitting and cooking popcorn all whilst waiting for something to do. > dave henrie

Jeez I was going to buy that sim..........But now I see this I may have to wait till I increase my cpu power. Im still on a 300 with 384 ram & a Voodoo2 card ;-) Hey I still drive GP2 all the time ;-)

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> Kasper Kowalski wrote: > > "Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:[email hidden]... > >> I have an older Pentium700 with plenty of ram and > >> and older sound blaster and wheel and pedals > >> > >> So, in order to play GP4 i got a spanking new GeForce > >> FX5600, but performance still sucks - about > >> 10fps with *everything* turned off and lowest resolution. > >> > >> The board supports agp x 2 > >> > >> Does anyone have any suggestions ? Or is a P700 > >> a total write off for this game ... > > > > I'm using pIII 1.4 with radeon 9700 pro.... runs like a dream (after > > editing the graphics config file). I had a pIII 800 before that, it > > struggled a lot more, though did a lot better than yours. > > > > KK > > Have you made sure that all background programs are not running? You

don't > want anything but maybe your firewall running in the system tray. exitout > of realplayer, printer/scanner software, aim, messenger, etc..... > other things that can use up cpu cycles would be anti virus, backup > programs, monitoring software, etc..... Good plan. GP4 is far more poorly programmed, and requires a very stable machine to run trouble-free... I certainly don't like having stuff going on in the background while playing GP4 because it usually cause the game to hang at some stage. OTOH, I have all sorts of stuff up in F1C... I have dual screens, so I run F1C on one, and have Trillian/Outlook on the other and see if messages come up, etc etc... and it runs faultlessly. Definitely better programmed. KK