I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36.
I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any
settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card?
GPL is unplayable right now. Sometimes it will lock up for up to a
second (or more). And I end up feeding the ducks on the side of the
road at Spa. I need help!!
:)
dave henrie
> >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36.
> >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any
> >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card?
> GPL is unplayable right now. Sometimes it will lock up for up to a
> second (or more). And I end up feeding the ducks on the side of the
> road at Spa. I need help!!
> :)
I've installed it. It says the video setting is "Direct3d7".
800x600, minimum detail.
> > Dou you have the D3d patch installed and enabled ???
> I've installed it. It says the video setting is "Direct3d7".
> 800x600, minimum detail.
dave henrie
>> > Dou you have the D3d patch installed and enabled ???
>> I've installed it. It says the video setting is "Direct3d7".
>> 800x600, minimum detail.
> There should be a readmed3d.txt in your gpl folder now that covers the d3d
>patch. There are some lines of text that can be changed in the core.ini
>file that might/should improve how your card performs. Hopefully that will
>cover it for you.
>good luck
>dave henrie
>>> > Dou you have the D3d patch installed and enabled ???
>>> I've installed it. It says the video setting is "Direct3d7".
>>> 800x600, minimum detail.
>> There should be a readmed3d.txt in your gpl folder now that covers the d3d
>>patch. There are some lines of text that can be changed in the core.ini
>>file that might/should improve how your card performs. Hopefully that will
>>cover it for you.
>>good luck
>>dave henrie
>I switched it down to 640x480 and it seems to stay at 36fps and is
>actually playable now. But I'd like to get is up to 1024x768. I'm
>runing a Duron 850 so I doubt there should be a problem doing this.
How do I find out what services are running in the background on
WinME? I am thinking that something is running in the background.
Now I"m at 640x480 and it still drops down to 10FPS.
> >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36.
> >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any
> >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card?
> How do I find out what services are running in the background on
> WinME? I am thinking that something is running in the background.
> Now I"m at 640x480 and it still drops down to 10FPS.
>> Dou you have the D3d patch installed and enabled ???
> I've installed it. It says the video setting is "Direct3d7".
> 800x600, minimum detail.
This helped solving my network problem I described earlier.
All the best,
uwe
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>>> Dou you have the D3d patch installed and enabled ???
>> I've installed it. It says the video setting is "Direct3d7".
>> 800x600, minimum detail.
>check to see if your gfx board shares the IRQ with another card,
>and if it does, play a round of pci poker to make sure all cards
>have their own unique interrupt.
>This helped solving my network problem I described earlier.
It seems to hang in there pretty good past the first lap. But when I
get more than 5 cars on the screen (start of a race), I get poor
performance.
Here's an update on the card. It still sucks in GPL. I've changed
the setting in the core.ini file a few times according to the readme.
but it still locks up. I've also played PCI Poker with all my cards.
I only have a NIC, modem and sound card installed right now. I
thought perhaps it was the sound card that conflicts with the video
card but no.
On grid in 20th at Silverstone I get 22FPS. At Monza its 24FPS.
During racing it will occasionally lock up and other times it will dip
down to 10 or 15 FPS for a couple seconds. My old Voodoo 3 2000 ran
36FPS everywhere!!!
So now what? I've given up! Its either get a new video card (any
recommendations?) -or- retrieve my old Voodoo3-2000 from my brother.
What should I do.
PS the system is a Duron 850 w/ABIT motherboard, 128MB, SB64PCI, an
old ISA modem and 1 Realtek8139 NIC.
> >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36.
> >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any
> >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card?
> Here's an update on the card. It still sucks in GPL. I've changed
> the setting in the core.ini file a few times according to the readme.
> but it still locks up. I've also played PCI Poker with all my cards.
> I only have a NIC, modem and sound card installed right now. I
> thought perhaps it was the sound card that conflicts with the video
> card but no.
> On grid in 20th at Silverstone I get 22FPS. At Monza its 24FPS.
> During racing it will occasionally lock up and other times it will dip
> down to 10 or 15 FPS for a couple seconds. My old Voodoo 3 2000 ran
> 36FPS everywhere!!!
> So now what? I've given up! Its either get a new video card (any
> recommendations?) -or- retrieve my old Voodoo3-2000 from my brother.
> What should I do.
> PS the system is a Duron 850 w/ABIT motherboard, 128MB, SB64PCI, an
> old ISA modem and 1 Realtek8139 NIC.
Of course I installed the game. Then installed the patch :)
And read/applied the readme file. Tried both the Geforce2 setup and
the TNT1 setup. Neither was better than the other.
>> >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36.
>> >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any
>> >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card?
>> Here's an update on the card. It still sucks in GPL. I've changed
>> the setting in the core.ini file a few times according to the readme.
>> but it still locks up. I've also played PCI Poker with all my cards.
>> I only have a NIC, modem and sound card installed right now. I
>> thought perhaps it was the sound card that conflicts with the video
>> card but no.
>> On grid in 20th at Silverstone I get 22FPS. At Monza its 24FPS.
>> During racing it will occasionally lock up and other times it will dip
>> down to 10 or 15 FPS for a couple seconds. My old Voodoo 3 2000 ran
>> 36FPS everywhere!!!
>> So now what? I've given up! Its either get a new video card (any
>> recommendations?) -or- retrieve my old Voodoo3-2000 from my brother.
>> What should I do.
>> PS the system is a Duron 850 w/ABIT motherboard, 128MB, SB64PCI, an
>> old ISA modem and 1 Realtek8139 NIC.
> >did you get the D3D patch from papy.com?....
> Before I even installed the game :)
> Of course I installed the game. Then installed the patch :)
> And read/applied the readme file. Tried both the Geforce2 setup and
> the TNT1 setup. Neither was better than the other.
> >> >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36.
> >> >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any
> >> >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card?
> >> Here's an update on the card. It still sucks in GPL. I've changed
> >> the setting in the core.ini file a few times according to the readme.
> >> but it still locks up. I've also played PCI Poker with all my cards.
> >> I only have a NIC, modem and sound card installed right now. I
> >> thought perhaps it was the sound card that conflicts with the video
> >> card but no.
> >> On grid in 20th at Silverstone I get 22FPS. At Monza its 24FPS.
> >> During racing it will occasionally lock up and other times it will dip
> >> down to 10 or 15 FPS for a couple seconds. My old Voodoo 3 2000 ran
> >> 36FPS everywhere!!!
> >> So now what? I've given up! Its either get a new video card (any
> >> recommendations?) -or- retrieve my old Voodoo3-2000 from my brother.
> >> What should I do.
> >> PS the system is a Duron 850 w/ABIT motherboard, 128MB, SB64PCI, an
> >> old ISA modem and 1 Realtek8139 NIC.