rec.autos.simulators

I have a brand new Micron Millenia MXE with a P200 MMX, 64mb of 60ns
RAM, 512kb Cache, Diamond Stealth 3d 2000, Sidewinder Pro and run in
"re-boot to DOS" mode not Win95. With SVGA set to "auto" I get almost
everything "on" in the graphics detail setup, the game looking pretty
good (to be honest), nominal frame rate of about 20 but occupancy like
170% sitting still on the grid. To get occupancy down to the 90-100%
range on the grid and in chase car view during a busy race, I have to
set mine about like the previous poster.

Maybe the real frame rate is slower than the nominal rate in the "auto"
mode. I recall from my college days as a theater projectionist that
movies run through at 24fps and they look pretty smooth. With occupancy
at 90-100%, it's as good as a movie to my 48-yr old eyes.

GP2 is still the BEST racing sim on the market.....I am still gonna
blow  $1000 bucks on a P200, Matrox mel....etc, etc, just to hike the
fps up.
And when P300+ are the norm., GP2 will still be valid.

Congratulations to Geoff Grammond, he is a ***y genius, (GOD).  The
only thing I can't understand is how he got tucked up those wan***'s at
Microprose?

Jammer (UK)

......"Employ a ***ager, while the still know every thing!"

: I NEVER understood why people wanted to have all graphics and textures in the
: mirrors. Where the hell do you need them for? I only have the cars plotted in my
: mirrors, and much more detail on the track itself.

The REALLY fast guys want all the detail in the mirrors, since all of
the action is taking place behind them. <g>

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Tell it like it is Michael!!!!!!!!!!!

Good race at the Brickyard, (Old'Indytrack guy in rec.autos.simulators)
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ =ymenard now!!!
SPEED- http://www.nascarnet.com/~speed
     [===]   Go Rubens Barrichello, Jacques Villeneuve,

     | ! |   And all you that thinks that Jacques Villeneuve is
      |!|    from Canada, your right!! He's from St-Jean sur le
      |o|    Richelieu, 30 minutes from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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       v  
Fran?ois Mnard "Wasupe LeGrand"
May the force be with you, always!!
Que la force soit avec toi, jamais!(for you French people)
Excuse me for my poor English(I'm French speaking)

my is 166mmx with 32md edo overclocked to 207.5Mhz with 4mb vram
stealth 3d, without sky, I could run 23 to 25 fps with a help of a
patch file called s3spdup.exe. cpu occupancy is less than 100 most of
the time. However in monaco, I also have a bit of problem with high
fps because there are too much buildings. I also got the 96 (or 97)
adverts installed, I think the news ads make it runs a bit slower
because it contains more ads than the original.

I run it under win95, don't know whether it makes a bit of difference
or not.

BTW my board is Asus T2P4 rev 3.10

Chris

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Infomation Systems
University of Cape Town

I noticed you havent replyed to me from the last post I sent you.
:-(

Perhaps you may have erased it by accident ?  ;-)

As a frustrated "user" of GP2 maybe you can answer this post:

How can 17fps possibly be acceptable or as you put it "most people are
very happy with"

What were those people on ?

Its fine I suppose if one is into "slo-motion sim racing"

Mark perhaps I should remind you that its not just a "user" but a
CUSTOMER that has paid for a product that cannot deliver what it
advertises on the box.

A CUSTOMER should not have to strike a balance - you quote "choice is
with the user"   that is so smooth.

Lets tell it like it is sir: the actual word that you have ducked here
is .... compromise.

Lets carry that a step further: a compromised product that the customer
has to live with.

I will assume that your lack of another reply will mean that MPS and
yourself are in agreement with my valid statements about GP2.

l8Ter !

Jude R.
1996 AC Cobra(590hp)
1995 SHO(225hp)
1997 Windstar(It carries the kids and the spare parts)

If that thing could run gp2 at full detail i bought it already.

But gp2 cannot use more than 1 cpu and cannot take an advantage from
40 MB ram on the video card.

And in Gp2 the Pentium Pro 200 isn't faster than a 225 Mhz Pentium mmx
(overclocked).

Steffen Schleier

The clue about the framerate is: the game tries to show the number of frames per
second that you choose. So if you select 24fps, it will *try* to show 24fps. But
if you don't have enough cpu-power, it will take *longer* than a second to show
those 24frames! That's when it gets jerkey, and when processor occupancy gets
above 100%.

The trick is to set the desired framerate about 2.0 lower than the estimated.
You'll find that 21 fps this way is very smooth compared to 23fps with
occasional PO over 100%.

JOH

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JOH

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When everything else failed, we can still become im-
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BTW: it is true that you get a 1-2fps disadvantage from running in Win95.
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mortal by making an enormous blunder....

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This must be it, since the whole intel consept is based on the 66Mhz
freq.
Intel mentiond that they will not go up on the bus speed, to bad for
them.
I am surly going to get my self a Cyrix M2 that runs on a 100Mhz bus
speed.
That will speed up the graphics alot, since it then can be transfered
mutch more info on the bus.
the M2 also got the Intel Pentium Pro instructions registers.

I think that Gp2 will run realy well with the M2.

Looks like Intel is moving away from the home computer market and over
to the more advanced Network mainframe systems.

Frode Dufey

Good race at the Brickyard, (Old'Indytrack guy in rec.autos.simulators)
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ =ymenard now!!!
SPEED- http://www.nascarnet.com/~speed
     [===]   Go Rubens Barrichello, Jacques Villeneuve,

     | ! |   And all you that thinks that Jacques Villeneuve is
      |!|    from Canada, your right!! He's from St-Jean sur le
      |o|    Richelieu, 30 minutes from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

    [--I--]      
       v  
Fran?ois Mnard "Wasupe LeGrand"
May the force be with you, always!!
Que la force soit avec toi, jamais!(for you French people)
Excuse me for my poor English(I'm French speaking)

Frode Dufey