I've got one of those aweful PC-Chips all-in-one motherboards (with
one expansion slot!). It uses the SiS620 video chip and has 3d
accelleration. I also have a Voodoo2 PCI card that I picked up
because the OpenGl patch didn't work with the onboard video adapter.
Ever since I installed it, my FPS sucked! I've read of plenty of
folks with a CeleronII 400e, 64 megs, DirectX 7.0a, and a Voodoo2 of
achieving perfectly decent framerates in GPL.
Well, after several months I've managed it myself, but throught a
weird series of steps which I'd like to dispense with if anyone can
give me the right thing to do. This all began when I decided to see
what the on-board video and the Voodoo2 might do with the new D3D7
rasterizer.
If I just go into GPL with the 3DFX rasterizer, my FPS is really bad.
From between 15 and 24 with everything turned off at 640x480. (this
is using the Glide wrapper, too, with mirrors redrawn every 4th frame)
If I go into GPL with [ Direct3D7 ] D3DDevice = 1 in the Core.Ini and
select the D3D7 rasterizer, save and exit, then restart GPL and go to
some track, drive a couple feet, then go back to options and reselect
the 3DFX rasterizer, the very next time I run GPL, the frame rate
ROCKS!!!!
Obviously this is an impractical method by which to achieve good video
performace and is impossible for on-line racing with Vroc. So for you
Voodoo2 gurus, what the heck is this process setting in my system that
gives me the terriffic FPS? How can I set this permanently? An
environment setting? A registry setting?
Help please! I just got to enjoy GPL like it was meant to be enjoyed
and I want to have it that way all the time!
Thank you.
Brett C. Cammack
That's Racing! Motorsports
Pompano Beach, FL