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poll : GPL and Geforce will it run ??

J Skants

poll : GPL and Geforce will it run ??

by J Skants » Tue, 15 Feb 2000 04:00:00

Question is will GPL run with my Geforce card ??

Had no luck running the demo on my geforce....
Tried the OGL patch, but maybe it is just that the patch does not work with
the demo ?

Not too keen on buing the game just to find I cant play it ! ;-)

thanx in advance
Joergen

Jon Anderse

poll : GPL and Geforce will it run ??

by Jon Anderse » Tue, 15 Feb 2000 04:00:00

It will run. It outperforms my V2 SLI. Mirrors are prettier with V2's,
though.

Jon


Erwin Zwar

poll : GPL and Geforce will it run ??

by Erwin Zwar » Wed, 16 Feb 2000 04:00:00

I heard the Creative GeForce has a unified driver that includes a Glide
wrapper (this allows you to run Glide software without a 3dfx based graphics
card installed).
Anybody uses this?

Erwin


>It will run. It outperforms my V2 SLI. Mirrors are prettier with V2's,
>though.

Only mirrors or is the whole screen affected?
not4u2

poll : GPL and Geforce will it run ??

by not4u2 » Wed, 16 Feb 2000 04:00:00

Hi Jon

Did you make special adjustments to the geforce software to outperform two
V2 SLI ???
How is the framerate in car and full grid ??
What brand Geforce ??
SDR or DDR ??

Thinking of getting one myself :)

THX in advance

G-Loc

Jon Andersen heeft geschreven in bericht ...

>It will run. It outperforms my V2 SLI. Mirrors are prettier with V2's,
>though.

>Jon



>> Question is will GPL run with my Geforce card ??

>> Had no luck running the demo on my geforce....
>> Tried the OGL patch, but maybe it is just that the patch does not work
>with
>> the demo ?

>> Not too keen on buing the game just to find I cant play it ! ;-)

>> thanx in advance
>> Joergen

Jon Anderse

poll : GPL and Geforce will it run ??

by Jon Anderse » Wed, 16 Feb 2000 04:00:00

From what I've learned from the Creative website, GPL does not work with the
Unified drivers.

The mirrors seems to be a bit slower with the Geforce. Otherwise I find the
Geforce superior. A bit darker, though, but that is probably an adjustment
thing.

Jon


> I heard the Creative GeForce has a unified driver that includes a Glide
> wrapper (this allows you to run Glide software without a 3dfx based
graphics
> card installed).
> Anybody uses this?

> Erwin


> >It will run. It outperforms my V2 SLI. Mirrors are prettier with V2's,
> >though.

> Only mirrors or is the whole screen affected?

> >Jon

Jon Anderse

poll : GPL and Geforce will it run ??

by Jon Anderse » Wed, 16 Feb 2000 04:00:00

I turned the mirror settings down. The mirrors update every 8th frame. With
this setting, i get 36 FPS during race at Monza (In car view, 19 AI cars,
640x480), except for at the starting grid, with fps around 30. With the same
settings, the V2 SLI never exceeded 30 fps.

During training I get a steady 36 with all details on (except mirrors) in
every resolution (my screen doesn't cope with res higher than 1152x862)

I have done no special adjustment except for that mirror thing. Well,  -
almost.

I've set the card to use block transfer when using OpenGL.

I use Nvidia 3.68 reference drivers.

The card is a Creative Annihilator Pro (the one with DDR Ram). It is not
overclocked.

The rest of my system consists of a PII350, 192 Mb Ram and SBLive soundcard,

If GPL is your primary choice, I think you should consider buying a V3. It
is cheaper than a Geforce, and I find it hard to believe that it is any
slower than the Geforce when playing GPL. If I was to choose all over again,
knowing what I now know about the Geforce (I struggled getting it to work
properly), I certainly would have considered a V3 myself.

Jon

de_sheph..

poll : GPL and Geforce will it run ??

by de_sheph.. » Thu, 17 Feb 2000 04:00:00



Last time I looked Creative had GPL as one of the games that would not
run with the unified drivers (n.b. I think that means completely
non-functional as they also had a "runs with signicant problems"
category)

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