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HELP GPL Problems

Dan Brow

HELP GPL Problems

by Dan Brow » Sat, 20 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Hi,

I bought a Diamond Viper 550 TNT and I added my Voodoo2 card to it and GPL
is running cruddy framerates of 15-20FPS in 3DFX, even when I use the Nvidia
Riva TNT OpenGL patch I still get low framerates.
I've d/l ALL the newest TNT and 3DFX drivers but still no improvement. I've
also checked so many times if GPL is in the correct graphics mode and I've
re-installed GPL loads of times to try and fix it but nothing works.

I have a
P][ 350mhz
512 L2 cache
64MB of ram
4.3GB Hd
16 MB Diamond Viper v550
12MB Magic Voodoo 2

Could someone please help me because I love this game so much.

thanks in advanced

Toni Lassi

HELP GPL Problems

by Toni Lassi » Sat, 20 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Are you running it in 800x600?

-
"If the meaning of life was printed in a book, someone
 would use it to keep the window open."

Bru

HELP GPL Problems

by Bru » Sat, 20 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Did you have any other 3Dfx cards in your system prior to the V2?

Sounds like the drivers are not installed properly.  You should see 36fps
pretty consistently.


>Hi,

>I bought a Diamond Viper 550 TNT and I added my Voodoo2 card to it and GPL
>is running cruddy framerates of 15-20FPS in 3DFX, even when I use the
Nvidia
>Riva TNT OpenGL patch I still get low framerates.
>I've d/l ALL the newest TNT and 3DFX drivers but still no improvement. I've
>also checked so many times if GPL is in the correct graphics mode and I've
>re-installed GPL loads of times to try and fix it but nothing works.

>I have a
>P][ 350mhz
>512 L2 cache
>64MB of ram
>4.3GB Hd
>16 MB Diamond Viper v550
>12MB Magic Voodoo 2

>Could someone please help me because I love this game so much.

>thanks in advanced

Bru

HELP GPL Problems

by Bru » Sat, 20 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Did you have any other 3Dfx cards in your system prior to the V2?

Sounds like the drivers are not installed properly.  You should see 36fps
pretty consistently.


>Hi,

>I bought a Diamond Viper 550 TNT and I added my Voodoo2 card to it and GPL
>is running cruddy framerates of 15-20FPS in 3DFX, even when I use the
Nvidia
>Riva TNT OpenGL patch I still get low framerates.
>I've d/l ALL the newest TNT and 3DFX drivers but still no improvement. I've
>also checked so many times if GPL is in the correct graphics mode and I've
>re-installed GPL loads of times to try and fix it but nothing works.

>I have a
>P][ 350mhz
>512 L2 cache
>64MB of ram
>4.3GB Hd
>16 MB Diamond Viper v550
>12MB Magic Voodoo 2

>Could someone please help me because I love this game so much.

>thanks in advanced

PC

HELP GPL Problems

by PC » Sun, 21 Mar 1999 04:00:00

If your using the OpenGL patch ensure you've tweaked your core.ini file.  I
set the mip filtering to 3 (can't tell much difference from the***pit
IMHO) and the mirror update to 8.  With this I can get over 36 fps during
practice at 800x600,  have to drop down to 680x480 and reduce the detail


>Hi,

>I bought a Diamond Viper 550 TNT and I added my Voodoo2 card to it and GPL
>is running cruddy framerates of 15-20FPS in 3DFX, even when I use the
Nvidia
>Riva TNT OpenGL patch I still get low framerates.
>I've d/l ALL the newest TNT and 3DFX drivers but still no improvement. I've
>also checked so many times if GPL is in the correct graphics mode and I've
>re-installed GPL loads of times to try and fix it but nothing works.

>I have a
>P][ 350mhz
>512 L2 cache
>64MB of ram
>4.3GB Hd
>16 MB Diamond Viper v550
>12MB Magic Voodoo 2

>Could someone please help me because I love this game so much.

>thanks in advanced

PC

HELP GPL Problems

by PC » Sun, 21 Mar 1999 04:00:00

If your using the OpenGL patch ensure you've tweaked your core.ini file.  I
set the mip filtering to 3 (can't tell much difference from the***pit
IMHO) and the mirror update to 8.  With this I can get over 36 fps during
practice at 800x600,  have to drop down to 680x480 and reduce the detail


>Hi,

>I bought a Diamond Viper 550 TNT and I added my Voodoo2 card to it and GPL
>is running cruddy framerates of 15-20FPS in 3DFX, even when I use the
Nvidia
>Riva TNT OpenGL patch I still get low framerates.
>I've d/l ALL the newest TNT and 3DFX drivers but still no improvement. I've
>also checked so many times if GPL is in the correct graphics mode and I've
>re-installed GPL loads of times to try and fix it but nothing works.

>I have a
>P][ 350mhz
>512 L2 cache
>64MB of ram
>4.3GB Hd
>16 MB Diamond Viper v550
>12MB Magic Voodoo 2

>Could someone please help me because I love this game so much.

>thanks in advanced

Remco Moe

HELP GPL Problems

by Remco Moe » Sun, 21 Mar 1999 04:00:00


>hahahahahha

Errr, Danny boy.....Toni asked if you were running in 800x600 mode.
Instead you  react on his sig.....John Wallace would have said:
pot..kettle..black.

Remco

Bob Migac

HELP GPL Problems

by Bob Migac » Sun, 21 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Set your voodoo refresh rate to the max rate your monitor can handle for the
resolution
you will run GPL in. (800x600)

Bob

Dan Brow

HELP GPL Problems

by Dan Brow » Mon, 22 Mar 1999 04:00:00

This is the first 3DFx card on my system.

BTW thanks for the help everybody, one day I'll get there.


>Did you have any other 3Dfx cards in your system prior to the V2?

>Sounds like the drivers are not installed properly.  You should see 36fps
>pretty consistently.

Dan Brow

HELP GPL Problems

by Dan Brow » Mon, 22 Mar 1999 04:00:00

hahahahahha

Umm, you can't speak Toni, sitting hear on this news group sending totally
useless info.
Mabey you need to learn how to READ, then you could understand the subject
and send something useful. You never know one day even you might be able to
have an attempt to read the book of life yourself.

No hard feelings Toni just be a bit more sensible,

Dan

Ps  Thanks everybody else for trying to help, I really appretiate it.


>"If the meaning of life was printed in a book, someone
> would use it to keep the window open."

Dan Brow

HELP GPL Problems

by Dan Brow » Mon, 22 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Sorry Toni looks like I'm the one who can't read. Sorry about that last
message I only saw your quote and not your question on the screen
resolution. Well it looks like it's back to kindergaten for me.
Hell what a start to my first newsgroup, making an utter fool of myself. I'm
really sorry Toni. Again I totally mis-read your message (DOH) and as for
what Remco said, I think he has a very good point for me to take note of,
"pot..kettle..black".
Well I was running it in 800x600 now I've decreased to 640x480 and theres a
slight improvement in frame rate.

thanks for your help Toni,

still trying to learn how to read,

Dan


>>I bought a Diamond Viper 550 TNT and I added my Voodoo2 card to it and GPL
>>is running cruddy framerates of 15-20FPS in 3DFX, even when I use the
Nvidia
>>Riva TNT OpenGL patch I still get low framerates.
>>I've d/l ALL the newest TNT and 3DFX drivers but still no improvement.
I've
>>also checked so many times if GPL is in the correct graphics mode and I've
>>re-installed GPL loads of times to try and fix it but nothing works.

>Are you running it in 800x600?

>-
>"If the meaning of life was printed in a book, someone
> would use it to keep the window open."

Toni Lassi

HELP GPL Problems

by Toni Lassi » Mon, 22 Mar 1999 04:00:00

With your setup, you should still be getting a steady 36 fps (even
with an older Voodoo1 card). You could try turning all the details
off, and if the FPS doesn't go any higher then your problem is not in
the graphics card but somewhere else.

-
"If the meaning of life was printed in a book, someone
 would use it to keep the window open."


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