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GP2 - frame rate - Thanks to John Wallace and all in R.A.S.

John Redmo

GP2 - frame rate - Thanks to John Wallace and all in R.A.S.

by John Redmo » Tue, 20 Aug 1996 04:00:00

Thanks to all of those who post relevant info that permits us to get every bit
of juice out of our machines to play that wonderful game, I just tweaked my
bios with the info I found in Sim Racing News, and with that, enabled the PCI
burst mode, and BINGO my video speed went from 169 to 464, I'm running on a
P150 overclocked to 166 with 16mg EDO ram, and a Matrox Millenium 2mb (with
bios v2.0) curiously enough I get better frame rate under Win95 than from Dos,
perhaps this is due to the blazing perfomance under Win by the Matrox (I don't
know) And with those changes I can now run every circuit but not Monaco :-( in
SVGA at a frame rate of 23,? (that is the one I set) the one given by the
program is 25,6 and that is with curbs, fences,track, verges,bank, hills,
trackside object (all and with texture), smoke. In the mirror I keep curbs,
fences, track, and smoke.

 And with all that new speed I just finished my second race of the season in
6th place, the keyword is "finished" in Brasil I was forced to retire after 12
laps, transmission failure... It's good for the ego to be in the points ( even
only one... :-)  )
So again thanks to all of those who help and especially to you John Wallace,
long life to your Sim Racing News.

John.

Greg Cis

GP2 - frame rate - Thanks to John Wallace and all in R.A.S.

by Greg Cis » Tue, 20 Aug 1996 04:00:00


>Thanks to all of those who post relevant info that permits us to get every bit
>of juice out of our machines to play that wonderful game, I just tweaked my
>bios with the info I found in Sim Racing News, and with that, enabled the PCI
>burst mode, and BINGO my video speed went from 169 to 464, I'm running on a
>P150 overclocked to 166 with 16mg EDO ram, and a Matrox Millenium 2mb (with
>bios v2.0) curiously enough I get better frame rate under Win95 than from Dos,
>perhaps this is due to the blazing perfomance under Win by the Matrox (I don't

This *may* be true. I know that I run WIN95 without a config.sys & autoexec.bat.
All of the CDrom, sound & mouse drivers are WIN95 drivers. I can run GP2 from
WIN95 without a DOS re-boot & it runs (same performance as in DOS). This means
that GP2 is using the WIN95 CDrom, soundcard & mouse drivers. Who says that
GP2 wouldn't use the Video Drivers? It just might...
John Wallac

GP2 - frame rate - Thanks to John Wallace and all in R.A.S.

by John Wallac » Tue, 20 Aug 1996 04:00:00



I'm glad I could help, and thanks for taking the time to let us know
your success! :)  After so many e-mails regarding Sim News being delayed
this month, it was nice to see a friendly e-mail for a change ;)

Nice race at Brazil, but don't be too confident - your next race should
be TI-Aida....LOTS of fun - not!

Cheers!
John

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