rec.autos.simulators

>figured out that the game hates the OpenGL drivers higher than the
>2.40's.  I tried the latest Creative drivers and my framerate dropped to
>less than 1 fps, yuck.  When I reinstalled the Creative 2.08's it worked
>fine again.  If you are using the 3.xx drivers and want to keep them on
>your machine you can just put the 2.08 or 2.40 version "nvOpenGL.dll"
>file in your GPL folder and it will use that file just for GPL.  Your
>other games will use the 3.xx OpenGL driver still.  Hope this helps.

>> I 've downloaded the GPL demo from Sierra and I was quite shocked to
>> see that the game performed very badly on my Athlon 600, equiped with
>> a NVidia Riva TNT2 model 64 (32Mb) and DirectX 7.0a. The game runs
>> like if my computer was an old PC XT 4.77 mHz...

>> Since the demo is optimized only for 3Dfx and Rendition Verite, I was
>> forced to use the "software option", but nevertheless about one frame
>> per second on an Athlon 600 is a little difficult to believe.

>> However, the demo is quite old and I was wondering if the retail game
>> was supporting more graphic cards,  like NVidia.

>> Is there someone here who has GPL and gets a good performance with a
>> NVidia Riva TNT2 64? Any hints?

>> Thanks,

>> Francois Bertin

> figured out that the game hates the OpenGL drivers higher than the
> 2.40's.  I tried the latest Creative drivers and my framerate dropped to
> less than 1 fps, yuck.  When I reinstalled the Creative 2.08's it worked
> fine again.  If you are using the 3.xx drivers and want to keep them on
> your machine you can just put the 2.08 or 2.40 version "nvOpenGL.dll"
> file in your GPL folder and it will use that file just for GPL.  Your
> other games will use the 3.xx OpenGL driver still.  Hope this helps.