Need help getting modem play to go faster!
USR 28.8 and Practical 28.8
P75 (24M, Mach64/2V) and P90 (64M, Mach32/2D)
Tried various inits.
It seems that who ever makes the call, their machine has about double
the processor occupancy of the other.
To get the game to even feel playable we have to turn off all details
and run with a frame rate of 10fps.
Not much difference when other drivers are turned off either.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Mike
> Need help getting modem play to go faster!
> USR 28.8 and Practical 28.8
> P75 (24M, Mach64/2V) and P90 (64M, Mach32/2D)
> Tried various inits.
> It seems that who ever makes the call, their machine has about double
> the processor occupancy of the other.
> To get the game to even feel playable we have to turn off all details
> and run with a frame rate of 10fps.
> Not much difference when other drivers are turned off either.
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> Mike
9600 : ATS37=9N0S46=0&Q0&K0%C0 ..(Zoom 14k4 fax/modem) ............modem fixed at 9600
9600 : AT%C0\N0B8 ...............(markless 28k8 fax/modem) ........modem fixed at 9600
14k4 : ATS37=11N0S46=0&Q0&K0%C0 .(Zoom 14k4 fax/modem) ............modem fixed at 14k4
28k8 : AT%C0\N0B15 ..............(markless 28k8 fax/modem) ........modem fixed at 28k8
28k8 : AT%C0\N0&K0 ..............(Dynalink 1428VQH 28k8 fax/modem) modemspeed determined
by negotiation
If you need the strings with B8 or B15, the value sets the speed,
and 10 or 11 will set it to 14k4 (I don't have this modem, so I
don't know the exact value for sure), you should be able to find
this in your modem-manual.
(In all strings the 0's are zero's, not capital o's)
All these init-strings turn of datacompression and DTE/DCE-flowcontrol.
Keeping the speed at 9600 might also help.
The graphics-settings I'm using are (other than Monaco) :
While not linking : SVGA, Fences, Track, Hills, Trackside objects
No plot and no texture in mirrors
All trackside objects
Estimated framerate 17.0 , I set it at 13.4
While direct-linking : SVGA, Fences, Hills, Trackside objects
No plot and no texture in mirrors
All trackside objects
Framerate set to 12.8
While modem-linking : Same as with direct, but fps set to 12.1 or 11.8
When you're using two different Pentiums, then the slower must be the
leader. The 'follow'-er gets a hard load to pull and probably will let
off steam every now and then.
While in menu's pressing Ctrl-M brings up a chatwindow.
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Windows.....brings you yesterdays speed today.
regards
Scott
