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Performance tweaking GPL 1.1?

4 posts by 4 people · 19 Sep 1999 - 22 Sep 1999

Nick Alder 19 Sep 1999#493735
Hi, Does anyone have any tweaking tips for GPL? I got a steady 36fps before I installed 1.1 and now I get around 28-31fps. It may not sound much but I can really tell the difference. Also, would a Voodoo3 give me a solid 36fps? At present I have a PII 350, 128mb RAM, Voodoo2 8mb, SB AWE64, Sidewinder FF wheel. TIA.
Are you able to get 36fps, when you lower the resolution and turn off details ? If not, then you maybe are a victim of the GPL 1.1 fps/slow-mo problem, which hopefully will be solved soon with a new patch. I have no problem with 1.1, same fps as with 1.0. PIII 450, V3 3000, SBLiveValue, LWFF. Generally, however, the best things to improve fps in GPL without hurting display quality are: Detail slider more to the left. Turning off textures and objects in the mirrors. Using less sounds played simultanously (helps in race starts). Maybe turn off drivers arms, if you can live without them. Hope, that helps Peter Vienna, Austria
Tom Pabst 20 Sep 1999#493910
Nick.... That type of equipment should be running GPL at max FPS with no problem....I know may with less equipment than yours. Yes.....a V3 card would help even more......but better than that......get rid of that SB AWE64 sound card....it steals cpu cycles like a bandit. Get an SB Live card...about $100....free up your cpu to render graphics and run the GPL AI.....and you get cool 3D sounds too! What a deal....huh? Tom Pabst **************************************************************
EldredP 22 Sep 1999#494417
Quoted text (27 lines)>Nick.... >That type of equipment should be running GPL at max FPS with no problem....I >know may with less equipment than yours. >Yes.....a V3 card would help even more......but better than that......get rid >of >that SB AWE64 sound card....it steals cpu cycles like a bandit. Get an SB >Live >card...about $100....free up your cpu to render graphics and run the GPL >AI.....and you get cool 3D sounds too! What a deal....huh? >Tom Pabst >************************************************************** >> Hi, >> Does anyone have any tweaking tips for GPL? I got a steady 36fps before I >> installed 1.1 and now I get around 28-31fps. It may not sound much but I >can >> really tell the difference. Also, would a Voodoo3 give me a solid 36fps? At >> present I have a PII 350, 128mb RAM, Voodoo2 8mb, SB AWE64, Sidewinder FF >> wheel. >> TIA.
Hmm. I'm running a K6-2 350, with 128MB ram, AWE32, Voodoo 3. I can't get full detail at 640x480, and I don't have FF. On the grid at Monza with 19 AI, I get about 12fps with full detail... :-( What's up with THAT?!? Doe the AWE32 drag down the system too? Help! <g> Eldred __ Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc If all the world's a stage, where is the audience sitting? remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

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