Creative Modem Blaster USB on Friday and in general the results were good.
Much more stable on-line racing - less warping, no disconnects (so far), and
other cars don't jump around nearly as much. (I did get a 6 second lap at
Monza due to one warp, but that server was very flaky).
However, the warnings about frame rate hits were very true. I had to drop
back to 800x600 and turn a bunch of stuff off to get a driveable fps. With
my old winmodem I could run at 1024x768 and get 36fps consistently.
Anybody have any tips on hardware tweaks to get the fps back up (especially
at Spa)?
Specs: PII 333, 128MB RAM, Voodoo 3 3000 (oc'ed to 183), Diamond MX-300
sound card, LWFF USB wheel.
I'm gonna keep the modem because even though GPL is pretty ugly at 800x600
with low detail bias, it's nice to be able to race close without fear of
jumpy cars. And I got my first win in my second race with the new modem, so
it's obviously lucky!
Thanks!
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Rob