As long as I stick to 640x480 resolution, performance is great.
I had to turn down a couple of options to get a solid 36 fps,
but the game still looks fine. It's noticably slower when at
the back of a 20-car field, but that only lasts for the first
few seconds of a race.
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I have a Celeron 300A o/c'd to 374Mhz and 128Mb PC100 SDRAM.
I get very good performance with *all* details on, but with the detail
bias setting at halfway and eight sounds on. This is running with a
full 19 opponent cars... right now I am still playing the beta version
until my copy arrives (sent today by Purolater... yippee!) but I imagine
things wouldn't be *too* different in the final release.
Monaco (as with all GP games :) is the harshest on FPS. Most other
tracks I am running at 36FPS with an occasional dip if something big is
happening in front of me. At the back of the starting grid is where
things are slowest - perhaps very high ***s or low twenties - but it
quickly picks up to close to 36FPS within a few seconds.
The Voodoo I is still a definite contender on my system, but that is
running at 640x480. If is set resolution to 800 then there is a major
slowdown - FPS that had been near 36 most of the time drop down to
mid-twenties at best and low ***s at worst (unplayable if one is used
to the faster).
I will wait just a wee bit longer until I go to the Voodoo II. :)
Cheers,
Gian Vitzthum.
> As you would expect with the wide range of hardwsre about there have
> be some pretty contradictory reports on performance the one that
> really worries me is will it run fine on a voodoo 1 board with 4 meg
> the rest of the machine is ok 333 amd etc.... any thoughts would be
> greatly appreciated as ihave 35 pounds burning a hole in my pocket
Thanks for your help guess I'm 35 poorer. now if anyone has any good
ideas how to keep the wife happy.........
Binesh
Turn off the drivers arms and***pit texture and your fps will go up!
>Binesh
>>As you would expect with the wide range of hardwsre about there have
>>be some pretty contradictory reports on performance the one that
>>really worries me is will it run fine on a voodoo 1 board with 4 meg
>>the rest of the machine is ok 333 amd etc.... any thoughts would be
>>greatly appreciated as ihave 35 pounds burning a hole in my pocket
>I have a Celeron 300A o/c'd to 374Mhz and 128Mb PC100 SDRAM.
>I get very good performance with *all* details on, but with the detail
>full 19 opponent cars... right now I am still playing the beta version
>until my copy arrives (sent today by Purolater... yippee!) but I imagine
>things wouldn't be *too* different in the final release.
>Monaco (as with all GP games :) is the harshest on FPS. Most other
>tracks I am running at 36FPS with an occasional dip if something big is
>happening in front of me. At the back of the starting grid is where
>things are slowest - perhaps very high ***s or low twenties - but it
>quickly picks up to close to 36FPS within a few seconds.
>The Voodoo I is still a definite contender on my system, but that is
>running at 640x480. If is set resolution to 800 then there is a major
>slowdown - FPS that had been near 36 most of the time drop down to
>mid-twenties at best and low ***s at worst (unplayable if one is used
>to the faster).
>I will wait just a wee bit longer until I go to the Voodoo II. :)
>Cheers,
>Gian Vitzthum.
>> As you would expect with the wide range of hardwsre about there have
>> be some pretty contradictory reports on performance the one that
>> really worries me is will it run fine on a voodoo 1 board with 4 meg
>> the rest of the machine is ok 333 amd etc.... any thoughts would be
>> greatly appreciated as ihave 35 pounds burning a hole in my pocket
