"rik zeppelin" wrote ...
> "Tim O" wrote ...
> > > so you put something that stutters? What am I missing?
> > Most likely that he plays other games besides GPL.
> Yea, I'm getting 40-85 fps in F12001 graphics maxed in 1024x768, gp3
> graphics maxed in 1280x1024 under 100% always, and N4 a solid 42 fps in
> 1024x768 with everything maxed, it's just GPL and the old d3d patch that
are
> the problem.
> "rik zeppelin" wrote ...
> > "Tim O" wrote ...
> > > > so you put something that stutters? What am I missing?
> > > Most likely that he plays other games besides GPL.
> > Yea, I'm getting 40-85 fps in F12001 graphics maxed in 1024x768, gp3
> > graphics maxed in 1280x1024 under 100% always, and N4 a solid 42 fps in
> > 1024x768 with everything maxed, it's just GPL and the old d3d patch that
> are
> > the problem.
> > My Geforce2 GPL stutters were cured when I adjusted the "AGP Aperture"
in
> > the BIOS. Think I went up to 64 Mb.
> > Tony
> > "rik zeppelin" wrote ...
> > > "Tim O" wrote ...
> > > > > so you put something that stutters? What am I missing?
> > > > Most likely that he plays other games besides GPL.
> > > Yea, I'm getting 40-85 fps in F12001 graphics maxed in 1024x768, gp3
> > > graphics maxed in 1280x1024 under 100% always, and N4 a solid 42 fps
in
> > > 1024x768 with everything maxed, it's just GPL and the old d3d patch
that
> > are
> > > the problem.
> ok. (from memory)
> on the desktop, right mouse button, display properties
> settings tab
> advanced settings button
> GeForce MX tab
> more D3D options
> and right there somewhere is a line that reads something like
> System ram to use in pci mode [15] MB
> and my core.ini settings are exactly what the d3d patch readme file
> gives for a geforce card.
> this was with a geforce2mx, 32mb, on win98, 128MB ram. with the
> display drivers i downloaded about 6 months ago. sorry i cant be too
> specific, machine is at home. and i run enditall before running gpl.
> i'm running d3d not GL, i could not get GL to work properly.
> at its worse my stuttering tended to happen at exactly the same spot
> on each lap. my guess as to what was going on:
> the track loads, card says to gpl 'ive got 32+20 mb', gpl says 'great,
> here you go' and throws 52Mb of textures at it. gpl runs, but when
> the card needs some of the 'off card' textures, it has to do a bit of
> swapping around of memory. and this need would arise at the same
> point on each lap. if the card had said '32Mb' then it would only
> have got 32mb of textures, and no swapping required.
> couple the swapping bit with win98's virtual memory swapping, and it's
> could start to freeze slightly when doing all this swapping. 15mb
> works bettor cos it falls just below a size limit defined somewhere in
> windows/memory/disk sector size/whatever.
> but i'm no computer scientist. well, actually...
> dr martin.
> > > Could you please give more details where did you change a setting?
> > ok. (from memory)
> > on the desktop, right mouse button, display properties
> > settings tab
> > advanced settings button
> > GeForce MX tab
> > more D3D options
> > and right there somewhere is a line that reads something like
> > System ram to use in pci mode [15] MB
> > and my core.ini settings are exactly what the d3d patch readme file
> > gives for a geforce card.
> > this was with a geforce2mx, 32mb, on win98, 128MB ram. with the
> > display drivers i downloaded about 6 months ago. sorry i cant be too
> > specific, machine is at home. and i run enditall before running gpl.
> > i'm running d3d not GL, i could not get GL to work properly.
> > at its worse my stuttering tended to happen at exactly the same spot
> > on each lap. my guess as to what was going on:
> > the track loads, card says to gpl 'ive got 32+20 mb', gpl says 'great,
> > here you go' and throws 52Mb of textures at it. gpl runs, but when
> > the card needs some of the 'off card' textures, it has to do a bit of
> > swapping around of memory. and this need would arise at the same
> > point on each lap. if the card had said '32Mb' then it would only
> > have got 32mb of textures, and no swapping required.
> > couple the swapping bit with win98's virtual memory swapping, and it's
> > could start to freeze slightly when doing all this swapping. 15mb
> > works bettor cos it falls just below a size limit defined somewhere in
> > windows/memory/disk sector size/whatever.
> > but i'm no computer scientist. well, actually...
> > dr martin.
I solved the stutter (Geforce 64 DDR on K7T266) by throwing out my SBlife. Sound
(onboard chip) is a bit crackling now, but this nerving stutter is gone.
Cya
JensSchumi
>i was suffering from occasional stuttering, every lap or so, would
>drop to 0-3 fps for a second, then back to normal (36fps). it got
>worse when i installed the car and wheels graphics pack.
>then i changed a setting on the driver which was labelled something
>like:
> use extra ram in pci mode
>this was set to 20 Mb. i changed it to 0, which it didnt like, so it
>reverted to its defalut, which is 12Mb (could be 15, can't quite
>remember), and the stuttering is now completely gone!
>dr martin.
GPLRank: -14.82
Monsters of GPL: sub 95
JensSchumi
GPLRank: -14.82
Monsters of GPL: sub 95
