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GP2 on a Pentium II 300 MHz

Thomas Babu

GP2 on a Pentium II 300 MHz

by Thomas Babu » Sun, 27 Sep 1998 04:00:00

When I install GP2 on my P2 300 MHz, the games runs soo slow. Very bad
frame rates, even on VGA. I have 128 MB SDRAM. What problem do I have?
Is this CPU too fast for GP2?

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Tomek98

Mike Davi

GP2 on a Pentium II 300 MHz

by Mike Davi » Sun, 27 Sep 1998 04:00:00


> When I install GP2 on my P2 300 MHz, the games runs soo slow. Very bad
> frame rates, even on VGA. I have 128 MB SDRAM. What problem do I have?
> Is this CPU too fast for GP2?

> -------------------
> Tomek98


 Tom,
    GP2 is not accelerated to run with 3D cards, therefore all the slow
framerate's you describe quite probably stem from a mediocre vid board.
GP2 is a real hardware hog. You have the CPU and RAM covered (my exact
system, by the way) so the only thing really left is the vid board. I have
run it reasonably well on 4meg PCI cards, but what it really likes is 8meg
AGP cards. Prices have fallen quite a bit lately, see if you can't find a
good fast 2D board for the beast.
    All the best, Mike

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Goetz Vogelsan

GP2 on a Pentium II 300 MHz

by Goetz Vogelsan » Mon, 28 Sep 1998 04:00:00


> When I install GP2 on my P2 300 MHz, the games runs soo slow. Very bad
> frame rates, even on VGA. I have 128 MB SDRAM. What problem do I have?
> Is this CPU too fast for GP2?

HAHAHA!!!!......damn funny....too fast....what do you think you have ...3
terraflops?
        You do have a Voodoo 1 or 2, right?
And youre sure that its not the beta??? It might has some bugs.
Rafael Medeiro

GP2 on a Pentium II 300 MHz

by Rafael Medeiro » Mon, 28 Sep 1998 04:00:00

It's not GPL ,it's GP2 and i have the same system and works great with GP2



>> When I install GP2 on my P2 300 MHz, the games runs soo slow. Very bad
>> frame rates, even on VGA. I have 128 MB SDRAM. What problem do I have?
>> Is this CPU too fast for GP2?

>HAHAHA!!!!......damn funny....too fast....what do you think you have ...3
>terraflops?
>        You do have a Voodoo 1 or 2, right?
>And youre sure that its not the beta??? It might has some bugs.

Jason Mond

GP2 on a Pentium II 300 MHz

by Jason Mond » Mon, 28 Sep 1998 04:00:00

 Hi Thomas,

I play GP2 in VGA mode with ALL details on with a P2/333 64MB and a
Matrox Millennium video card.  Works great even in Monaco usually
around 60-70% CPU but goes up to 90 in really cool crashes :)

It works well in Win95 and Dos Mode (Reboot to Dos Mode),
but try yours in Dos Mode first..  Might help you sort things out.

Jason


> When I install GP2 on my P2 300 MHz, the games runs soo slow. Very bad
> frame rates, even on VGA. I have 128 MB SDRAM. What problem do I have?
> Is this CPU too fast for GP2?

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> Tomek98


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Michael E. Carve

GP2 on a Pentium II 300 MHz

by Michael E. Carve » Mon, 28 Sep 1998 04:00:00


% When I install GP2 on my P2 300 MHz, the games runs soo slow. Very bad
% frame rates, even on VGA. I have 128 MB SDRAM. What problem do I have?
% Is this CPU too fast for GP2?

Do a search for fastvid.  It may help speed up your video for older
VGA/SVGA games.

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David Gree

GP2 on a Pentium II 300 MHz

by David Gree » Mon, 28 Sep 1998 04:00:00



It could be a problem with the keyboard, you may need to install a tsr of some
kind something like keyb.com or keyboard.sys... sorry can't remember the
specifics.

Jo Hels

GP2 on a Pentium II 300 MHz

by Jo Hels » Wed, 30 Sep 1998 04:00:00



>> When I install GP2 on my P2 300 MHz, the games runs soo slow. Very bad
>> frame rates, even on VGA. I have 128 MB SDRAM. What problem do I have?
>> Is this CPU too fast for GP2?

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>> Tomek98

> Tom,
>    GP2 is not accelerated to run with 3D cards, therefore all the slow
>framerate's you describe quite probably stem from a mediocre vid board.
>GP2 is a real hardware hog. You have the CPU and RAM covered (my exact
>system, by the way) so the only thing really left is the vid board. I have
>run it reasonably well on 4meg PCI cards, but what it really likes is 8meg
>AGP cards. Prices have fallen quite a bit lately, see if you can't find a
>good fast 2D board for the beast.

Videocard has almost no influence on the performance of GP2... It should play
very nice on a PII 300 (25fps SVGA without sky and some mirror textures?)

Sorry that I can't help you though...

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David Mocn

GP2 on a Pentium II 300 MHz

by David Mocn » Wed, 30 Sep 1998 04:00:00




>>> When I install GP2 on my P2 300 MHz, the games runs soo slow. Very bad
>>> frame rates, even on VGA. I have 128 MB SDRAM. What problem do I have?
>>> Is this CPU too fast for GP2?

>>> -------------------
>>> Tomek98

>> Tom,
>>    GP2 is not accelerated to run with 3D cards, therefore all the slow
>>framerate's you describe quite probably stem from a mediocre vid board.
>>GP2 is a real hardware hog. You have the CPU and RAM covered (my exact
>>system, by the way) so the only thing really left is the vid board. I have
>>run it reasonably well on 4meg PCI cards, but what it really likes is 8meg
>>AGP cards. Prices have fallen quite a bit lately, see if you can't find a
>>good fast 2D board for the beast.

>Videocard has almost no influence on the performance of GP2... It should play
>very nice on a PII 300 (25fps SVGA without sky and some mirror textures?)

And no smoke.... No PC on this planet can handle the GP2 smoke.
regard,
David Mocnay

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