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GPL D3D Question

leman

GPL D3D Question

by leman » Sun, 11 Aug 2002 20:48:43

Use Glide with the Radeon



> > I just switched from a Voodoo5 card to a Radeon 8500LE.  GPL had been
> > running in Glide with the V5 and ran beautifully.  Unfortunately, the V5
> > was lacking for sims requiring D3D, so I made the switch to the Radeon.
> > So, now I have to run GPL in D3D.

> > I have installed the D3D patch and tweaked the core.ini according to the
> > suggestions on Papy's site.  However, I'm still underwhelmed with the
> > results.  With the V5, I had all Graphics settings maxed out (including
> > the Detail Slider all the way to the right) at 1024x768 and had a solid
> > 36 fps at all times except perhaps at the back of the grid at Monaco.
> > Now, I have to move the detail slider about 1/3 of the way to the left
> > of full to get the same fps, and the image still has "jaggies".

> > Is there something else I need to download or tweak in order to get the
> > image back to what I was used to?   Perhaps an updated patch?   FYI --
> > My system is an Athlon 1700XP with 512 Megs RAM.

> > Any help would be appreciated.

> > Bert

> Considering your processor, did you also apply the patch for fast CPU (>
> 1 GHz)?

> Regards

> Socius

nobody specia

GPL D3D Question

by nobody specia » Sun, 11 Aug 2002 22:49:16


Nope- don't; good luck trying, tho.  Glide is for 3dfx cards


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