mirror detail. I couldn't imagine what good it would do at first, since they
look exactly the same when you're on the track alone. Passing by the pits in
practice, though, I noticed that the frame rate stayed nicely pegged at 36
fps, and the detail progressively disappeared out of the mirrors. It makes
sense when you think about it; those two tiny viewports are just as
expensive to render as the front view, unless you turn down the details; I
have it set to cars and track. Most of the time, even with cars in front and
back, the trees and roadside eye candy are rendered fully. When things start
bogging down, it kills the unnecessary detail. What an absolutely marvelous
graphics engine!
Michael.
> > With my PII233 system + Voodoo Banshee, I get pretty darn good frame
rates
> > in GPL with everything turned on, at 800x600 resolution, and it
generally
> > always keeps above 25fps with cars all around me, and pretty much maxes
> > out when I'm by myself. However, from the reading I've done about
online
> > racing (which I plan to start as soon as I get a little better) a
constant
> > 36fps is highly recommended. So my question is this - until I get my
new
> > PC, which details give the most frame-rate improvement for the least
> > graphical loss? I know in GP2, turning off the clouds gave a massive
> > performance boost, with little loss graphically - is there an equivalent
> > for GPL?
> I suggest taking out mirror graphics first, then setting your detail
slider
> near the middle. For mirrors, remember to take the graphics out _and_
also
> to set it to "cars only". You could also tweak with the # of sound.