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by **Kendt Eklu** » Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:06:55

OK - thought I was all fixed up, then tried a wet race, and the damn
stutters were back.
Hmm - play with the graphics settings - no change. Turn off FSAA, no
change.
What could it be? Seems like a texture swapping kinda pause - looked
in the Config.ini - theres a setting for "video memory". Could be how
much the game allows itself to use (said 231, and I've got a 128mb
card), so I think maybe if I make it match the card, there'd be no
more AGP texture swapping - wrong! At 128mb its even worse. Hmm -
maybe it means how much AGP texture mem to pre-allocate so it doesn't
have to go to main mem - increased it to 384 and BINGO! No stutters
in a wet Spa race :)! Even with FSAA/max settings - now I've got to
try the Alpha mod again!

Kendt

PS - now if I could only get rid of the damn XP deadzone...

by **Joachim Trens** » Fri, 08 Nov 2002 16:45:01

That's interesting. On my system this is set to 0!

As for the XP deadzone, doesn't the latest version of Logi's DxTweak work
under XP?

Achim

by **Ayde** » Fri, 08 Nov 2002 20:39:20

Is Force Feedback available in F1 2002 please...?

Also is the missing polygons and jagged graphics down to my 9700 Pro or F1
2002...?

Is there a setting i can change to sort it out..?

AD

by **Joachim Trens** » Fri, 08 Nov 2002 23:25:48

FF is available, but it was disabled after installation. I think you can
enable it in F2002's controller setup screens, but there's also a setting
ForceFeedback in the [Controls] section of the .PLR file in my 'save'
directory, so maybe it can also be enabled there.

As for the graphics issues, I don't have any of that here on a GF4. Are you
using 16bit or 32bit for F1_2002? Because I read that in 16bit, the 9700
doesn't do AA, which could lead to jaggies of course.

Achim

by **Kendt Eklu** » Sat, 09 Nov 2002 02:43:56

> That's interesting. On my system this is set to 0!

> As for the XP deadzone, doesn't the latest version of Logi's DxTweak work
> under XP?

> Achim

What's your system specs? I'll have to try 0 and see what it does
(maybe turn off all AGP texturing?).
DxTweak2 works under XP, but they admit that there's no way to make
deadzone settings stick under 2000/XP. I *think* I've got it sorted
in F1-2002, but I haven't done extensive testing. GPL is next. I
already tried RC2000 and either XP or the drivers didn't get along -
worse framerate than 98, and an annoying delay at the beginning of
each stage before the controller started to work. I'm doomed to
dual-boot ;)!

Kendt

by **Joachim Trens** » Sat, 09 Nov 2002 07:12:06

GF4-4600 with 128, WinME, Athlon XP, 512 RAM

Achim

by **Damien Smit** » Sat, 09 Nov 2002 08:15:03

As far as I'm aware, the 50% split axis deadzone issue that existed in F1
2001 was fixed in F1 2002. It's very obvious if there's a problem by
looking at the red bars in the joystick setup screen. It may be possible
that if you've got a complex wheel & pedals configuration that the deadzone
problem may still cause problems.

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