Hey Stephen,
can't get rid of those notebooks, can you ;)?
I have a regular 2 MX which is not all that far away from your card I
suppose. Considering that it's a pretty fast processor for the graphics
card that you have, I would not be surprised that the SW engine runs
faster at lower resolutions, as it seems to be very well optimized (in
contrast to the HW engine).
What I did find about GP3 and hardware acceleration is that the
calibration stuff indeed is something quite necessary, but only if
coupled with the automatic settings for the graphics fidelity/speed. A
calibrated card with the automatic setting for quality vs. speed is, at
least from what I found out, much faster in the high PO situations than
is any manual fiddling of the settings yourself at similar quality
settings. My guess is that the in-game graphics calibration times
different parts of rendering and then the graphics engine automatically
reduces the most expensive tasks when PO shoots up. You might want to
try that out if it helps you (no guarantees, as ever :) ).
-Gregor
> So, I have my snazzy new notebook with a 1GHz P-IIIM and a 32Mb GeForce2Go.
> GPL runs like butter (36fps at 1280x1024 with all the new add-ons), as does
> Nascar Heat, Rally Trophy, FS2002 etc.
> Then along comes Mr. Crammond's prehistoric graphics engine. It runs better
> in software mode than in hardware! Even my old P-III 500 notebook with the
> dog's breakfast 8Mb Savage chip did much better. Does anyone have any
> specific experience with getting GP3 to run on a GeForce2Go? Barring that,
> any tips from users with the desktop MX400, which is about the equivalent?
> Sure, I could buy F1-2001 and have nice graphics, but somehow I love the
> racing (and weather) in GP3.
> perplexed
> Stephen
