I know what ya mean...I started racing at Watkins Glen and I use full on
everything and for the first time my game began to flutter.But as far as cache
goes,does the cache on a K6-2 (64k if im correct) not larger than the
P2's?(32k).....where the Intel
shines over the AMD in this case,is that it performs better Floating point
calculations than it's AMD counterpart.So if GPL were 3dNOW enhanced(and i doubt
that it ever will,which is a shame)then it would kick the Intel's ass in
performance.I still get good frame-rates at Watkins-Glen,,,,it's just when i
round the final corner that it flutters a bit then once past all those fancy
graphics it's ok again.
> 36.95 FPS is the design limit for GPL. You will never greater than this.
> The key is the FPS when running with a full field of AI cars. The AI cars
> require tremendous amounts of CPU power not graphics power. The CPU is
> tracking the same parameters for the AI cars as yours - thats why the frame
> rate appears to decrease dramatically when the number of AI cars is
> increased. The graphics card is not independant of the CPU and requires
> clock cycles. If the CPU is busy tracking AI info then the graphics system
> suffers. Thats why the Pentium 2 with it's large on chip cache works so
> well. This is also why most people, even with older systems, get fairly good
> frame rates in practice sessions (no AI cars).
> Doug
> > I'm running a K6-2/350. This machine is quite fast. But, I'd have to
> say that
> >for GPL your best bet is still the Intel PII.
> > With 128 meg ram, 12 meg V.D.2 card, 8 meg sound card, I can only get
> 36fps
> >with almost everything off while online. With a PII I heard that online
> you could
> >have a lot of stuff on.
> > I'd go for the K6-2 for the price. But if you have the money I'd get a
> PII in a
> >hart beet.
> >> Hi!
> >> I wonder if Grand Prix Legends currently supports the 3DNow! instructions
> of
> >> the AMD K6-2 and K6-III processors? I have understood that with 3DNow!-
> >> optimizations you can get significant improvements in the performance of
> >> 3d-games. At least at the moment GPL is not listed in the www-page for
> >> 3DNow!-optimized products,
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/
> >> Viper Racing from Sierra is there :)
> >> So are there any plans for 3DNow! support for GPL??
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