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GP3 - has anyone tried it on a system like mine?

Ruud van Ga

GP3 - has anyone tried it on a system like mine?

by Ruud van Ga » Tue, 25 Jul 2000 04:00:00

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:41:50 GMT, "Marc Collins"


>That's bizarre.

Ouch, it's even more of a signal that the source hasn't changed much,
except for possibly areas like weather.c :)
I will buy it ofcourse for the hardware acceleration support still.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the GP2 utils will work on GP3
unaltered. :(

So sad Geoff hasn't called anybody in to get a fresh look of the
things that needed to be done to make things a LOT better.
Perhaps I'll give F1-2000 another spin.

>Marc.



>> > >I installed it yesterday on my 2nd computer - that is a k6-2 300, 128
>mb,
>> V2
>> > >12mb. There is only one  way you can get the game to run -
>> > >in software mode, 640x480 most details off in about 20 fps.
>> > >The Hardware mode will most probably be too slow on your system.

>> > *Hardware* mode is slower than software mode?!!?!?

>> on slow systems the software mode is faster than the hardware mode,
>> obviously because the game core is software rendering, and the hardware
>> rendering is just an overhead to make it look better and add higher
>> resolutions. When you have a fast system or a fast vid card this overhead
>> will give you benefit, if you don't then software rendering is the way to
>> go.

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