I now want to upgrade to a 21st century card, so I can try Vice
City ( hardly the same I know, but I enjoyed playing it with my cousin at
Christmas on his PS2), but I dont want to buy a card which isnt backwards
compatable with GPL. Any experience with these newfangled Geoforce
cards or similar would be appreciated, thankyou.
Mr Davo
> I now want to upgrade to a 21st century card, so I can try Vice
> City ( hardly the same I know, but I enjoyed playing it with my cousin at
> Christmas on his PS2), but I dont want to buy a card which isnt backwards
> compatable with GPL. Any experience with these newfangled Geoforce
> cards or similar would be appreciated, thankyou.
> Mr Davo
Have you applied the CPU fix?
Malc.
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Doug
> Have you applied the CPU fix?
> Malc.
Never got around to the patch. I had about 80 games to sort out after my
upgrade and basically just checked to see if it still ran. It did, so it
stayed out of the discard pile, but about 12 others didn't.
Just installed the CPU fix and yes it helps. Gets GPL back to its normal
state of uncontrollability. I would prefer a controller patch to make the
cars less jittery and keep the high graphics speed, makes it more exciting
like the modern racing games instead of the usual deceptive slowness which
lets you think you're going to get around the corner easily, but don't.
GPL is not high on my list of games to play, too much like hard work for
little gain and not much fun. I was mostly interested in playing online but
wasn't making significant progress and got tired of the guys ***ing about
'that warping Fer", thanks to my high ping.
It can stay on my PC awhile longer until I need the space.
> > Have you applied the CPU fix?
> > Malc.
Glad you got it working anyway ;-)
There are ways to 'tune' your connection to help reduce warp, and it takes
practice to get the most out of gpl, but it is worth the effort if you're
interested in racing.
Have you tried lfs? http://www.racesimcentral.net/
It's alot of fun, online racing is very good although currently not as well
organised as gpl (5 year head start ;-)) and the cars are relatively easy to
drive.
Malc.
>> My PC has a Voodoo3 3DFX video card, and as I'm only
>> really interested in GPL, since I installed the glide patch, thats
>> been fine for me.
>> I now want to upgrade to a 21st century card, so I can try Vice
>> City ( hardly the same I know, but I enjoyed playing it with my cousin at
>> Christmas on his PS2), but I dont want to buy a card which isnt backwards
>> compatable with GPL. Any experience with these newfangled Geoforce
>> cards or similar would be appreciated, thankyou.
>> Mr Davo
>There is a D3D patch available.
>Says it works with all GF cards.
>I have it and it works fine with my GF4 Ti4400.
> I tried it with a GF2-MX400 and wasn't too happy with it. Voodoo
> graphics were much more clear and crisp and much more pleasing to the
> eye.
> > I tried it with a GF2-MX400 and wasn't too happy with it. Voodoo
> > graphics were much more clear and crisp and much more pleasing to the
> > eye.
> Try adjusting the parameters to match the capabilities of your card, especially the LOD slider
> setting in a tweaking program like RivaTuner. Also I highly recommend using the tweaked OpenGL
> patch available from RSC forum since you have a GF card. Of course you happen to be using one of
> the absolute rock bottom GF cards still available new as well, which doesnt help. B4 you rant, I
> have one too, so don't think I'm trying to criticize you. :)
