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For those who bought GPL.....

PHendrix

For those who bought GPL.....

by PHendrix » Fri, 02 Oct 1998 04:00:00

I want to know if its going to run well on my system, P200 mmx 32 megs of ram,
and a Monster 3d.  Those of you who have bought the game, what are you running
it on?

EDavid41

For those who bought GPL.....

by EDavid41 » Fri, 02 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Hello

ram,
and a Monster 3d.  Those of you who have bought the game, what are you running
it on<<

Welcome to the club!!!  I have a P200 mmx, 64 meg of ram, and a 4meg screamin
3d from Sierra.  Plop GPL in and it runs DECENT (around 20 fps)at some road
courses such as Katyama<sp>...but at Monaco its about 15fps.  This is when I
drive alone...

When i have other cars around me....oh man...about 10-15 fps   :(

I'm going to get another video card and see if this improves anything.  If not,
WAAAAAA!!!!!!

Ed

Vic Lombard

For those who bought GPL.....

by Vic Lombard » Fri, 02 Oct 1998 04:00:00


>Welcome to the club!!!  I have a P200 mmx, 64 meg of ram, and a 4meg
screamin
>3d from Sierra.  Plop GPL in and it runs DECENT (around 20 fps)at some road
>courses such as Katyama<sp>...but at Monaco its about 15fps.  This is when
I
>drive alone...

>When i have other cars around me....oh man...about 10-15 fps   :(

>I'm going to get another video card and see if this improves anything.  If
not,
>WAAAAAA!!!!!!

For gamers, the Pentium should be officially obsolete at the turn of the
year. Don't bother so much with a new video card, get a P2 board and fast
CPU first.
Bart-W. van Lit

For those who bought GPL.....

by Bart-W. van Lit » Fri, 02 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Katayama was a F1 driver
but Kyalami was a F1 circuit :-)

Bart

Murc

For those who bought GPL.....

by Murc » Fri, 02 Oct 1998 04:00:00

I have a P233 MMX, 64MB ram, 8 meg voodoo 2. I get around 35fps with all the
options on and driving by myself. with 19 cars its around 20 FPS.
Lutz Goerk

For those who bought GPL.....

by Lutz Goerk » Fri, 02 Oct 1998 04:00:00


> On 1 Oct 1998 04:39:37 GMT,


> >I want to know if its going to run well on my system, P200 mmx 32 megs of ram,
> >and a Monster 3d.  Those of you who have bought the game, what are you running
> >it on?

> Sorry. It won't run very well at all on your system. Not nearly enough horsepower.
> Why not try the demo...

The Demo runs smooth on my P200 mmx 32 megs systems. But that seems to have
nothing to do with the full release (with other cars and stuff).

Lutz

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Alison Hi

For those who bought GPL.....

by Alison Hi » Fri, 02 Oct 1998 04:00:00


If you have L2 cache on your machine, GPL should run fairly well.  See
my GPL Hardware FAQ for an extensive discussion of GPL and hardware:

  http://nh.ultranet.com/~gpl/

Alison



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ymenar

For those who bought GPL.....

by ymenar » Fri, 02 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Bart-W. van Lith wrote

Kangaroo is an funky animal in the land of "Auseeeeee'zs"
Kaleidoscope is made for funky people (hehe BK good inside joke!)
Kindergarten is what r.a.s. was made for in a first place ;-P
Kite is a synonym for when my GPL funky car is airbone !
A funky Keyboard isn't really what you should race with

Aren't we off-topic now heh ? (actually it's _just_ to bring BK so he
replies to this post hehe)

Remember it's ALL IN THE FUNK !!!!

May the Funk be with you...

(Off course, for those who don't catch it.. we are back in 1967... the
summer of love and the land of the funk ;-D )

- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> Good race at the Brickyard!
- Official Mentally retarded guy of r.a.s.
- Excuse me for my English (I'm French speaking)
- Sponsored by http://www.awpss.com/ on the NROS
- "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."--

NYR21199

For those who bought GPL.....

by NYR21199 » Fri, 02 Oct 1998 04:00:00

So I'm guessin my p-133  80 megs of ram, 1mb trident video card, and 3
hardrives (256mb, 1.6g, 4.3g)  wouldn't work???

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ymenar

For those who bought GPL.....

by ymenar » Fri, 02 Oct 1998 04:00:00

NYR2119935 wrote

Unless you  like racing in 320x200 at around 3fps (Im serious).

2 problems here...

- P-133 (minimum is a P166, but I would guess a PII 233mhz is pretty enough)
- 1mb trident video card. (at least upgrade this to a Rendition card)

You could easily get what I said for... around 500$ ? (I might be wrong but
it's close)

- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> Good race at the Brickyard!
- Official Mentally retarded guy of r.a.s.
- Excuse me for my English (I'm French speaking)
- Sponsored by http://www.awpss.com/ on the NROS
- "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."--

rob

For those who bought GPL.....

by rob » Fri, 02 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Seriously?  What do you get on the starting line with 19 cars.

rob.


>I have a P233 MMX, 64MB ram, 8 meg voodoo 2. I get around 35fps with all
the
>options on and driving by myself. with 19 cars its around 20 FPS.

P. Kha

For those who bought GPL.....

by P. Kha » Wed, 14 Oct 1998 04:00:00

I don't think so.  My P166 (overclocked to 200MHz) with Monster 3D runs GPL
no problem with all details in practice, and racing is no problem as long as
you limit the number of opponents or turn off some graphics.  Motocross
Madness and Colin McRae also work fine.  So you can keep your old PC and
spend the money on games and controllers instead!

David Mast

For those who bought GPL.....

by David Mast » Wed, 14 Oct 1998 04:00:00


>rrevved wrote...
>>>>I want to know if its going to run well on my system, P200 mmx 32 megs of
>>>>ram,
>>>>>and a Monster 3d.  Those of you who have bought the game, what are you
>>>>running
>>>>>it on?

>>Time to upgrade if you want to play *any* new game.

>I don't think so.  My P166 (overclocked to 200MHz) with Monster 3D runs GPL
>no problem with all details in practice, and racing is no problem as long as
>you limit the number of opponents or turn off some graphics.  Motocross
>Madness and Colin McRae also work fine.  So you can keep your old PC and
>spend the money on games and controllers instead!

I'm running GPL on a 200MMX oc to 225 with a Voodoo1 and 64MB of RAM.  Running
solo, the framerate is usually the max'ed 36 fps with everything but clouds on
and the detail slider (which sets distance where extra detail is mapped) to
50% and mirrors on "cars only".  Adding all the mirror detail subtracts a few
fps.

I usually run Monza races with 11 opponents, but have also run full 19
opponent races.  I cut the track objects to "many" instead of "all".  The
framerate on the grid is the minimum I see, usually low ***s.  In a full
field, I find it useful to drop detail to "few" for the start only.  Typical
conditions are "many" and I see 20+ fps for the entire track (except the
launch).  But I must say that 20 doesn't feel as smooth here as it does in,
say, a flight sim.  I find I need more frames for smooth driving than for
flying (not surprising).

In one race, it bogged down to 3-5 fps for about 10 seconds.  On replay, I saw
that it corresponded to a ~ ten car pileup behind me!

SpiL

For those who bought GPL.....

by SpiL » Wed, 14 Oct 1998 04:00:00


> In one race, it bogged down to 3-5 fps for about 10 seconds.  On replay, I saw
> that it corresponded to a ~ ten car pileup behind me!

true.  the mirror detail setting have a pretty big effect on things too,
so you may want to turn that down.


flawless with _all_ options turned on at 800X600.  1024X768 is possible,
and pretty, but unrealistic for racing against any number of opponents.  i
play 8X6 with 15 opponents at any track and seem to maintain anywhere from
25 to 40 fps.... nothing scaled back on the options.

333's are cheap.  celerons even cheaper... amybe the new celeraon 'A'
series is a possible upgrade (and you can overclock the living hell out of
them).  plus, the full speed cache on the chip makes it the equivalent of
a baby Xeon processor.

good luck,
-jch

SpiL

For those who bought GPL.....

by SpiL » Wed, 14 Oct 1998 04:00:00


> It is framerate limited at 37fps.

all apologies.  i was paying more attention to the road and keeping my ass
on it than the frame counter.

-jch


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