HI all,
Just thought I would post a little tweak I found which enables those of us with lesser spec pc's to gain a few extra vital fps. Apologies if this has already been mentioned before but I felt it worth outlining just in case it hadn't or some people like myself hadn't seen it.
In your main GPL directory you should find a very small file called app.ini which contains just 5 options. The one I adjusted was the "soundQuality" one which on my pc had defaulted to 2. I changed this to 0, saved the file then entered the sim.
In Training Mode at Monza in the pit lane I turned on the frame rate counter and could see that the fps was flickering at around the 33/34 mark, a significant difference to the 27/28 experienced with the previous soundQuality setting. The following readings were then taken during several laps:-
POSITION ON TRACK soundQuality = 2 soundQuality = 0
5th post after the pit lane exit 30 33
Halfway around Curve Grande 26-27 34-35
della Rogia 33 36
Exit of 2nd Lesmos 26-27 31-32
Under the Bridge 33 MAX
End of right hand barrier around Vialone 28 MAX
Start of Parabolica Braking Zone 28 MAX
Final right hand post around Parabolica 30-32 34-MAX
Exit of Parabolica 26 31-33
Start \ Finish Line 25-26 31-33
As you can see this equates to roughly 5-6 fps increase over the course of the entire lap, quite a difference and at no extra cost.
Whats more the same increases were realised whilst carrying out the same experiment with 15 ai cars and the change to the sound quality really wasn't that noticeable. Several times during this spell I was able to see for the first time the 37/38 figures that I had seen mentioned in one or two RAS posts.
Again apologies if this is already common knowledge but I would be interested to hear if everyone else had found the framerate increase to be so high.
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Peter Hooper
PS:- This is on my 233MMX, 64mb RAM, 512k L2 cache, Orchid Righteous 3DFX voodoo 1 card. All forward textures on, cars only in mirrors, all special effects on, detail slider set to one third from left.