rec.autos.simulators

by **gdf1** » Fri, 26 Mar 1999 04:00:00

GPL runs so incredibly BADLY in software rendering that I really believe
that they should have made hardware support (Rendition and Glide) as
standard for this game. A friend of mine was dead e***d about this after
seeing how wonderful it looks on my computer, bought it and now can't return
it, because he doesn't have the hardware.

What do you think?

Adam

by **schwab** » Fri, 26 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Well, making it a requirement would have been realistic, at any rate...

--Dave

> GPL runs so incredibly BADLY in software rendering that I really believe
> that they should have made hardware support (Rendition and Glide) as
> standard for this game. A friend of mine was dead e***d about this after
> seeing how wonderful it looks on my computer, bought it and now can't return
> it, because he doesn't have the hardware.

> What do you think?

> Adam

--
Dave Schwabe
The Aussie Toad -- Grand Prix Legends & Brabham site
http://www.racesimcentral.net/~schwabe

by **Wayne Bradle** » Fri, 26 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Buy the hardware???? hmm.. that was easy! anymore questions???

Wayne

by **rob** » Fri, 26 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Kind of like how they say it will run on a p200 or something,
which is ok - unless you actually want other cars in the race!

rob.

>GPL runs so incredibly BADLY in software rendering that I really believe
>that they should have made hardware support (Rendition and Glide) as
>standard for this game. A friend of mine was dead e***d about this after
>seeing how wonderful it looks on my computer, bought it and now can't
return
>it, because he doesn't have the hardware.

>What do you think?

>Adam

by **Ruud van Ga** » Sat, 27 Mar 1999 04:00:00

>> GPL runs so incredibly BADLY in software rendering that I really believe
>> that they should have made hardware support (Rendition and Glide) as
>> standard for this game. A friend of mine was dead e***d about this after
>> seeing how wonderful it looks on my computer, bought it and now can't
>return
>> it, because he doesn't have the hardware.

>> What do you think?

Well, on my AGP video card and PII-450 it actually is not too bad,
though you must use the lower resolutions and less detail. I can get
However, I agree these things are nice only when you want to multiplay
the game using machines that don't all have 3D cards but just fast
processors.

Ruud van Gaal
MarketGraph / MachTech: http://www.racesimcentral.net/
Art: http://www.racesimcentral.net/

by **Woodie** » Sun, 28 Mar 1999 04:00:00

>GPL runs so incredibly BADLY in software rendering that I really believe
>that they should have made hardware support (Rendition and Glide) as
>standard for this game. A friend of mine was dead e***d about this after
>seeing how wonderful it looks on my computer, bought it and now can't return
>it, because he doesn't have the hardware.

Someone who worked on GPL said here that they didn't want to include software
support, but Sierra made them add it. If your friend is so e***d, he should
get an accelerator, they're not that expensive.

Don McCorkle

by **gdf1** » Sat, 03 Apr 1999 04:00:00

>Kind of like how they say it will run on a p200 or something,
>which is ok - unless you actually want other cars in the race!

>rob.

>>GPL runs so incredibly BADLY in software rendering that I really believe
>>that they should have made hardware support (Rendition and Glide) as
>>standard for this game. A friend of mine was dead e***d about this after
>>seeing how wonderful it looks on my computer, bought it and now can't
>return
>>it, because he doesn't have the hardware.

>>What do you think?

>>Adam

My desktop PC is a Pentium 166, 32MB of RAM and a Voodoo II card. In
software rendering I get LESS than 1fps and in 3Dfx I get around 26fps
- however, even in 3Dfx, with a single other car on the track and
everything virtually all the way down, I suffer with around 7 - 10fps.

I can't begin to imagine software rendering in a single race, LOL!

rec.autos.simulators

GPL, Hardware as Standard?

GPL, Hardware as Standard?

GPL, Hardware as Standard?

GPL, Hardware as Standard?

GPL, Hardware as Standard?

GPL, Hardware as Standard?

GPL, Hardware as Standard?

GPL, Hardware as Standard?