rec.autos.simulators

I'm the US and have to wait another week to get my hands on F1GP 2 :(.
But in the meantime, I've seen several post stating the VGA
graphics are not quite bad. Up til now, all the previews had stated
that VGA looks good and SGVA looks great. So how bad is VGA? I've only
got a AMD 5x86 running at 160 so a doubt I'll be able to do SVGA very
well. Anyone try it on this chip at this speed? I do have a Stingray 64/V
which should help some.

With a 5x86, you don't run anything in SVGA (about 8 fps, I think...).
The VGA is not so good as you can think, but the SVGA is better then what
we knew!
I'm only able to play in VGA, 'cause I've got a P100, and if I don't want
to have 15 fps, I need to use this video mode: and I take 23 fps only
without some textures, like sky, track and mirrors.

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Paolo Zanetto

I've acquired GPII last Friday in Italy (07/19/96) and I've just
tested it during the weekend. I've got a P150 + 16MB RAM + ET4000
2MB equipped machine (cbench VGA = 181 - SVGA = 50) and to tell the
truth I had to lower the details near the minimum to get a good
frame rate in SVGA (proc. occ. near 80/100 %). This however depends
on the track you're racing on ; as an example, Monaco is AWESOME
(lot of textures) but you have to lower the details even more that
other tracks (e.g. Suzuka).

In VGA mode (320x200) I had to exclude the sky and track textures in
order to "satisfy" my tastes (i.e., to get a good frame rate). However,
even the VGA mode is very good so I think you should find a reasonable
tradeoff between details & frame rate (but all is pretty configurable).

Just my 2 cents ...

Best,
Roberto

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