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GP2 - Solid performance info

Dave Bowe

GP2 - Solid performance info

by Dave Bowe » Sun, 30 Jun 1996 04:00:00


>Hi Dave,
>For your P-90 you could turn off all mirror textures and some "main"
>textures and the game would fly in SVGA. Right now you have a P-90, but
>they were worth hundreds a few months ago, and now are worth a mere
>fraction of that. Give it six months to a year and a P-166 will be had
>for about 100 or so. You know GP2 will run great on that, and how long
>will we be playing this? You just said that you are STILL playing F1GP
>:)
>Honestly, it is REALLY configurable, to the point where I doubt anyone
>will have a problem, certainly no Pentium user.
>Cheers!
>John

Well; I can't argue with that. F1GP is still worth playing now, even
if it is a tad easy.
I'm not really a fan of turning main textures off, but if it plays OK,
it plays OK. If all else fails I'll stick it on the home business
computer [P150] and just not tell anyone ;-)
Anyway, I'm happy as a pig in poo playing in VGA to be honest.

Yours processor-ly challenged,
Dave.

Scott Cadday

GP2 - Solid performance info

by Scott Cadday » Mon, 01 Jul 1996 04:00:00




> Such as whether it had pipeline burst-cache (no), used aggressive BIOS
> settings (yes), had UniVBE installed (no) or other things we never
> mentioned? :)

> Cheers!
> John

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John,
Please help me out - what do you class as "aggressive BIOS settings"?
John Wallac

GP2 - Solid performance info

by John Wallac » Mon, 01 Jul 1996 04:00:00



I'm doing something about it in Sim Racing News this month, but
bascially you can set your BIOS to run with very fast memory/cache
access among other things. They are set to reasonably safe settings by
default. This can have a marked effect on the performance of your PC and
software.

Cheers!
John

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Colin Campbe

GP2 - Solid performance info

by Colin Campbe » Wed, 03 Jul 1996 04:00:00

On Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:02:32 +0100, John Wallace



> >Please help me out - what do you class as "aggressive BIOS settings"?

> I'm doing something about it in Sim Racing News this month, but
> bascially you can set your BIOS to run with very fast memory/cache
> access among other things. They are set to reasonably safe settings by
> default. This can have a marked effect on the performance of your PC and
> software.

Hmm, this sounds good. I wouldn't mind knowing a bit more about this
from any of you who are knowledgeble about the subject...

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