Ah! This is *exactly* what I wanted to hear!
Now I'm going to save for an Athlon 700 (or Spitfire/Thunderbird). :-)
By the way, I take it your other games run pretty well? Have you tried
F1-2000?
Is this the 'detail bias' slider? 80% sounds great to me!!! I currently
have it on 0%! :-(
--
Richard.
"Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Alan Poe."
Sudesh
> -Keith
> > Nope the fps stay the same no matter how much I degrade the graphics... I
> > can run all the resolutions!? I have the 3.68 detonator now!, but it also
> > worked with the latest asus (3.78) and D5.14 drivers!? All under the open
> > GL and D3D settings is set to provide faster performance!, I don't see why
> > you're stuck with 640*480?
> > Oli
> > BEOROCKET Racing: www.beorocket.co.yu
> > > > I did all the things mentioned here in order to get GPL running with
> > > GeForce
> > > > cards... I have the Open GL beta2 installed latest Sierra patch no
Sudesh
> > Oli
> Me, either. Since that problem only occurs with the 5.x drivers, I figure
> it has something to do with the FSAA. But I still get the 1/4 size, clipped
> screen even with the FSAA turned off in both places I've found where it can
> be enabled. It's no real problem, since everything works fine with the
> 3.77 drivers.
> The only *problem* there was is that Messiah REQUIRED the 5.x drivers! Ever
> hear of something requiring beta drivers before? Neither have I, and that's
> one reason why *that* is no longer a problem.
> Jerry Morelock
> > On my new Athlon 700 rig, running a TNT2 (Detonator 3.77 driver), and
128
> > MB PC-133 memory, I get a butter smooth 36 fps at 1024x768 with every
> > detail setting maxed out, and ~30 on starts. And this is with a mirror
> > refresh rate of 2.
> Ah! This is *exactly* what I wanted to hear!
Jerry Morelock
--
Oli
BeoRocket Racing
http://www.beorocket.co.yu/
> > > On my new Athlon 700 rig, running a TNT2 (Detonator 3.77 driver), and
> 128
> > > MB PC-133 memory, I get a butter smooth 36 fps at 1024x768 with every
> > > detail setting maxed out, and ~30 on starts. And this is with a mirror
> > > refresh rate of 2.
> > Ah! This is *exactly* what I wanted to hear!
> My P3/800 gives me everything on except cars only in the mirrors-- with
the
> Geforce 256, mirror refresh 1--and at 1280x1024. Brief drop to mid 20s at
> start of a race, and 30+ the rest.
> Jerry Morelock
> > Now I'm going to save for an Athlon 700 (or Spitfire/Thunderbird). :-)
> > By the way, I take it your other games run pretty well? Have you tried
> > F1-2000?
> > > If I'm racing with a full field of AI, I bring the detail down to 80%
to
> > > compensate, and still get 36 fps.
> > Is this the 'detail bias' slider? 80% sounds great to me!!! I
currently
> > have it on 0%! :-(
> > --
> > Richard.
> > "Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Alan Poe."
> > > On my new Athlon 700 rig, running a TNT2 (Detonator 3.77 driver), and
> > > 128 MB PC-133 memory, I get a butter smooth 36 fps at 1024x768 with
> > > every detail setting maxed out, and ~30 on starts. And this is with a
> > > mirror refresh rate of 2.
> > Ah! This is *exactly* what I wanted to hear!
> My P3/800 gives me everything on except cars only in the mirrors-- with
> the Geforce 256, mirror refresh 1--and at 1280x1024. Brief drop to mid
> 20s at start of a race, and 30+ the rest.
--
Richard.
"I've got everything that you want, Like a heart that is oh, so true."
This is undoubtedly because the 3dfx rasterizer in GPL is, well, rather
optimised for 3dfx/Voodoo cards. This is because Glide is lower-level,
because it is specific to 3dfx/Voodoo.
With the OpenGL rasterizer, we have to cope with *another* layer of
hardware abstraction, dodgy drivers from NVidia, and the fact that it is
destinctly beta.
--
Richard.
"Cellophane flowers of yellow and green. Towering over your head."
Haven't really tried anything but 1280x. The only thing I care about seeing
in the mirrors is the cars. Since I have everything else turned on and
frame rates stay above 30 (frequently maxing at 36), and the race start drop
to the mid 20's is barely noticeable, there doesn't seem to me to be much
point in sacrificing overall detail for the sake of irrelevent mirror
detail. I could actually run at 1600x in the 30s if I were willing to
eliminate drawing a few cars and drop the mirror refresh rate a bit.
I imagine that at 640x res I could turn on most if not all the mirror
detail, but I'm not going there because, frankly, that res looks like ***
after running at 1280x.
Jerry Morelock
> Sudesh
> > I don't know if this applies to the GeForce. I have a TNT and was able to run
> > at 1024x728 but was getting about .5 fps. Someone here suggested editing a
> > line in my win.ini file under[DrawDib] called DVA=0 and changing it to DVA=1.
> > Worked like a charm. Didn't seem to affect other applications, and can easily
> > be changed back. By the anybody know what this line does?
> > -Keith
> > > Nope the fps stay the same no matter how much I degrade the graphics... I
> > > can run all the resolutions!? I have the 3.68 detonator now!, but it also
> > > worked with the latest asus (3.78) and D5.14 drivers!? All under the open
> > > GL and D3D settings is set to provide faster performance!, I don't see why
> > > you're stuck with 640*480?
> > > Oli
> > > BEOROCKET Racing: www.beorocket.co.yu
> > > > > I did all the things mentioned here in order to get GPL running with
> > > > GeForce
> > > > > cards... I have the Open GL beta2 installed latest Sierra patch no
