rec.autos.simulators

GPL and ATI Radeon under Win2K

Douglas Elliso

GPL and ATI Radeon under Win2K

by Douglas Elliso » Wed, 11 Apr 2001 04:35:58

I'm a born-again GPL'er using an Ati Radeon and the Direct 3D Patch.

If I'm doing a practice - I'm fine..but

When I race and there's other cars ahead of me - it stutters - badly. I'll
get a few seconds fine, then a few short pauses. Plays HELL with your
powerslides - Anyone else got the same problem (and ugly noises with a
Soundblaster Live Platinum)

Doug

Sideshow Bo

GPL and ATI Radeon under Win2K

by Sideshow Bo » Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:40:59


: When I race and there's other cars ahead of me - it stutters - badly.

No such problems here...
-W2K SP1, DX8
-PIII933, 384 MB PC133
-Intel D815EEA MB
-Radeon 32DDR 3102 drivers
-SB Live Digital w/ Dell's LW3 drivers
-GPL 1.2 (or whatever the official Papy patch is) w/ D3D patch, hi-res
***pit and 3D wheels on two car makes.

ACPI fully functional with Radeon and SBLive on the same IRQ (and 5 other
devices).

I do get occasional slight stuttering near the end of a short novice AI race
(I'm not good enough for the intermediate races).  I attribute that to
perhaps the replay file being written to disk as available RAM decreases but
that's a guess as I've never tried a longer race to see what happens.

As a shot in the dark... is your pagefile a reasonable size?

SB.


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