rec.autos.simulators

I was just wondering how will a Pentium Pro 200mhz run under dos session
with gp2, the video card is a STB ViRGE[TM]/VX 8mb of ram, also the system
has 72MB of EDO DRAM

I should work, but if you have any problems, please send the hardware to
me, I will be happy to fix it for you ;-) (Might take a little time though)

Mose

Not Very well.  The olny benifits you will recieve with Pentium Pros are in
Windows NT.  It will run 16 bit aplications like a Pentium.  But it excels
32 bit apps.  You find out all about it on there web sight.  www.intel.com

Chris

Do you actually have such a system?  It works great on mine!  You will
find that a PPRO200 (mine is o.c. to 233) with Fastvid and the
appropriate video card (mine is Millenium) gives the best gp2
performance of any system available.  GP2 is a 32-bit executable.
It's developed under dos4gw.  The fact that it uses DOS as a
program-loader and for file-i/o is irrelevant to its real-time
operation.  This sounds to me like someone repeating the old news that
only applied to the very earliest PPRO chip-sets.

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I'm very pleased, that somebody else but me, agrees that PP doen' t run 16
bit programs (like all the shit we like) faster than a normal P. That's a
statement.......... ;-)

Mose

   For GP2, I turn off the clouds, mirror details, and this thing
screams on every track but Monaco, which slows it down a little.  
I might be able to adjust this, and get the mirror detail and
clouds to work on different tracks, but I just leave those options
and enjoy myself.  

   I ran sum experiments on ICR2, and found that I was getting
about 23 FPS with all of the cars visible, and all of the detail
on at Michigan.  On the road courses I prefer, where fewer cars are
visible ahead and behind, the numbers were better.  

   The P6 does fine on 16 bit applications.  On 32 bit applications,
like the DOS4GW based sims discussed in this group, the P6 is
great.  To my eyes, it looks "Like the movies", as far as being
smooth.  I don't remember the processor occupancy numbers, but I
never notice a slow-down.  

   How does it compare to a P5/166, P5/200 or P5/200/MMX?  I've
never seen one run GP2.  

   I'm not saying the fast P5s are crap.  I am saying any owner
of a P6/200 will be happy with GP2 and ICR2.  I hope P5 owners
are happy to.  I'll never expect to own one.  

                                                          Larry

Check this site
http://www.zip.com.au/~davidg/GP2/data/poresult.html
You'll realize that the difference between a P200 and a P200MMX (same
video cards) is about 10%
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I have a P200mmx and I can run everything on except clouds in svga and I
get 26+ frames.  The PP200 is a waist of money just to run DOS games.  The
200MMX is the better buy.  It is half the price.

Chris

   For GP2, I turn off the clouds, mirror details, and this thing
screams on every track but Monaco, which slows it down a little.  
I might be able to adjust this, and get the mirror detail and
clouds to work on different tracks, but I just leave those options
and enjoy myself.  

   I ran sum experiments on ICR2, and found that I was getting
about 23 FPS with all of the cars visible, and all of the detail
on at Michigan.  On the road courses I prefer, where fewer cars are
visible ahead and behind, the numbers were better.  

   The P6 does fine on 16 bit applications.  On 32 bit applications,
like the DOS4GW based sims discussed in this group, the P6 is
great.  To my eyes, it looks "Like the movies", as far as being
smooth.  I don't remember the processor occupancy numbers, but I
never notice a slow-down.  

   How does it compare to a P5/166, P5/200 or P5/200/MMX?  I've
never seen one run GP2.  

   I'm not saying the fast P5s are crap.  I am saying any owner
of a P6/200 will be happy with GP2 and ICR2.  I hope P5 owners
are happy to.  I'll never expect to own one.  

                                                          Larry

"Half the price"?

That is in the UK mind you.

It's difficult for me to compare the two as I have only the one, but
everything I've tried is stunning AND it's great work my development
work in NT4!

Stuart

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Check on Dell,

Their MMX 200mhz is way cheap. With all the best stuff you can have
http://www.dell.com
Why buy a Scrapard Bell or Aptiva??
Go for the power. Buy a Dell
This is not a publicity
It reflects the reality of today's computers
Read magazines and you will find that Dell 200MMX is +/-30% cheaper then
the PP200.  And their the best computers on the market.  No joke.
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