rec.autos.simulators

> >Very happy to see this topic. Because all of my friends here in Hong Kong are
> >willing to upgrade their machines, enabling to play this game with all graphic
> >on! Please try to inform the ultimate setup which can run more than 20fps in
> >SVGA with most graphic on?

> >BTW, Which graphic card can speed up the fps rate in GP2?
> >( Is the S3 Trio 64 better than Millennim MGA? How about 3D accelerator?)

> >Looking for your valuable comment.

> Millennium should perform as well as S3.  I've wrote this in my other
> posts but most PCI cards make no difference in the performance of GP2.
> ATI Mach64 is reported to be slow in DOS but I'm not really sure.  GP2
> does not support any 3D accelerators.

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>>> I don't know specific, but on my P133 with diamond 64 2Mb vram and 32 mb
>>> fast page ram I get around 16F/s with 85% detail in SVGA, so I think you
>>> need P166, 32Mb edo and try the S3 trio 64 chip it should be very fast
>>> under dos
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>>I am getting 25 fps in SVGA with most graphics off, but I prefer this for
>>better frame rate.  My system is a cyrix 120/P150+, 32 meg edo ram, ati
>>mach 64 2 meg, 512 k pipeline burst cache.  I play from dos.
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>I just getting 16 fps in SVGA with recommend mode. My system is P5/100, 16M ram
>(not EDO), without Pipeline, S3 968 S430 2M display.
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>One of my friends getting 17.5 fps in SVGA with mostly all graphic on including
>the mirror (only except the "SKY" button), His system is P5/166, 64M EDO, 512K
>Pipeline, S3 Trio 64 V+ 2M display.
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>Very happy to see this topic. Because all of my friends here in Hong Kong are
>willing to upgrade their machines, enabling to play this game with all graphic
>on! Please try to inform the ultimate setup which can run more than 20fps in
>SVGA with most graphic on?
>BTW, Which graphic card can speed up the fps rate in GP2?
>( Is the S3 Trio 64 better than Millennim MGA? How about 3D accelerator?)
>Looking for your valuable comment.
>Best regards,
>Ray Fung

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>>>> I don't know specific, but on my P133 with diamond 64 2Mb vram and 32 mb
>>>> fast page ram I get around 16F/s with 85% detail in SVGA, so I think you
>>>> need P166, 32Mb edo and try the S3 trio 64 chip it should be very fast
>>>> under dos
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>>>I am getting 25 fps in SVGA with most graphics off, but I prefer this for
>>>better frame rate.  My system is a cyrix 120/P150+, 32 meg edo ram, ati
>>>mach 64 2 meg, 512 k pipeline burst cache.  I play from dos.
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>I just getting 16 fps in SVGA with recommend mode. My system is P5/100, 16M ram
>>(not EDO), without Pipeline, S3 968 S430 2M display.
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>One of my friends getting 17.5 fps in SVGA with mostly all graphic on including
>>the mirror (only except the "SKY" button), His system is P5/166, 64M EDO, 512K
>>Pipeline, S3 Trio 64 V+ 2M display.
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Very happy to see this topic. Because all of my friends here in Hong Kong are
>>willing to upgrade their machines, enabling to play this game with all graphic
>>on! Please try to inform the ultimate setup which can run more than 20fps in
>>SVGA with most graphic on?

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> >> I don't know specific, but on my P133 with diamond 64 2Mb vram and 32 mb
> >> fast page ram I get around 16F/s with 85% detail in SVGA, so I think you
> >> need P166, 32Mb edo and try the S3 trio 64 chip it should be very fast
> >> under dos
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >I am getting 25 fps in SVGA with most graphics off, but I prefer this for
> >better frame rate.  My system is a cyrix 120/P150+, 32 meg edo ram, ati
> >mach 64 2 meg, 512 k pipeline burst cache.  I play from dos.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I just getting 16 fps in SVGA with recommend mode. My system is P5/100, 16M ram
> (not EDO), without Pipeline, S3 968 S430 2M display.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> One of my friends getting 17.5 fps in SVGA with mostly all graphic on including
> the mirror (only except the "SKY" button), His system is P5/166, 64M EDO, 512K
> Pipeline, S3 Trio 64 V+ 2M display.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Very happy to see this topic. Because all of my friends here in Hong Kong are
> willing to upgrade their machines, enabling to play this game with all graphic
> on! Please try to inform the ultimate setup which can run more than 20fps in
> SVGA with most graphic on?

> BTW, Which graphic card can speed up the fps rate in GP2?
> ( Is the S3 Trio 64 better than Millennim MGA? How about 3D accelerator?)

> Looking for your valuable comment.

> Best regards,
> Ray Fung

>Undoubtedly the best setup is a Pentium Pro 200 with Intel Natoma chipset (440 FX). I run with all details
>and objects on in the forward view except sky, and smoke in the mirrors, and it is super smooth at 18.2
>fps (eg, I can get an occupancy of 50% on some tracks during a race). At the start of the quick race
>(ie, Italy, position 6, before the light goes green) with these details the occupancy is 92%. My machine
>also does 81.1 on Chris Dial's 3D bench.