Hi Glenn,
Ok, I've come to a conclusion on the frame-rate problem.
Since it runs at 36fps in 512x384 mode and in 640x480 the in-car view is faster
than the outside car view, this tells me the G200 is not keeping up with the
demands of 640x480. You heard of the TNT guys saying the in-car view is slow
compared to outside, right? Well that means the mirrors are slowing down the
in-car view. We are experiencing the opposite, slow outside view. This tells
me the card/drivers are not fast enough.
This might be due to the G200 driver mapping calls to Direct3D.
Anyway, you might want to contact Matrox to see if they got it to 36fps in
640x480.
I may contact them to get 512x384 to work (the lower buttons dont work after
racing). At least when my P2/333 becomes old with only a G200 I could play GPL
on it at 36fps :)
Jason.
> Jason,
> Outside view drops the frame rate to around 17. Monitor can support up to
> 85 hz in 800x600. I have the game set to 640x480 and I'm not sure what
> refresh rate it's at.
> Thanks,
> Glenn
> >Hi Glenn,
> >If you use the alternate view (F10) for outside the car, does it still stay
> at
> >28fps?
> >If so, its probably that the screen is syncing to your refresh rate. You
> can
> >drop to 640x480 (you probably have a refresh of 60Hz or more which should
> get
> >you 30fps). If this works, you *may* be able to increase your refresh
> rates up
> >to 72Hz for 36fps but don't go above your monitor specifications. There is
> >probably a way to turn off the sync, but I don't know off the top of my
> head.
> >Jason.
> >> Has anyone been playing GPL with a Matrox Millineum G200 video card? I'm
> >> running a P2 350 on an Asus P2B board and 64 megs of PC100 SDRAM and the
> >> best I can get is around 28 fps. I would like to get it up to 35 for
> >> playability reasons. I'm running the patch from Matrox to allow me to
> >> select the G200 as a graphics 3d accelerator. The interesting thing is
> that
> >> turning the graphics way down doesn't seem to help by more than 2 or 3
> fps.
> >> Any suggestions (I know that adding a Monster Voodoo 2 would help, but I
> >> would rather avoid that right now).
> >> Thanks,
> >> Glenn
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> >Jason Monds
> >"My other car is a Ferrari"
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