Trips
> Are you running at any resolution other than 640x480?
> Eric
> > For whatever it's worth, I'm running GPL on the Voodoo3 3000 AGP,
> and
> > I've never had to check the "limit texture memory to 2 MB" to make
> it
> > work properly.
Tore Hanson
>> The BX-2 motherboard has an onboard sound chip. I don't like it
>> because its wavetable is horrible compared to my Montego sound card.
>> However I worry that if I disable the onboard audio, it might
>> disable the onboard game port as well, and the Montego port might
>> not be as accurate as the onboard one. Does anyone have familiarity
>> with this kind of situation?
>The Turtle Beach Montego has a digital gameport that I would bet is much
nicer
>than the one on your onboard audio chip.
>Dave Ewing
This fixed the GPL texture problem with my new Voodoo 3 3000.
Thank you Graeme and whoever discovered this
I'm now enjoying 1027x768 with all detail on - mmm hmm !
Hi,
Could you please, please, tell me what other hardware you are using and your
framerate at the start with a full field, from the back row, all details,
mirrors, 1027x768,***pit view, at Monaco? And with number of sounds set at
4?
Thanks,
Tom
thanks for the informative post, very interesting stuff. GPL is
certainly reason enought to upgrade any system, IMO.
But you piqued my curiosity with this:
why's that?
I will say this- I hate driving in general, and try not to much.
people on the road drive me crazy. But I love racing sims, and
particularly online GPL. strange contradiction, I think.
Will this do anything for a v2 SLI setup?
I have the a jumpy online performance (Celeron at 450MHz, ABit BH-6 mb,
96MB RAM, Voodoo2, SB 16) and use PDPI L4 gamecard. This card's driver uses
Poll with interrupts by default. Do you have any idea how to fix this or
some workaround ? My online performance was ok, when I had the same spec,
but PII 266 and Intel's LX motherboard with onboard Yamaha OPL-SA2 sound
card.
Thanks,
Tadej Krevh
> w.r.t. "Poll with interrupts enabled"
> I believe that this setting will only have an effect on the computer
> while you're running a program that is using DirectInput to read the
> joystick. So you don't need to worry about it messing up Quicken or
> Excel or whatever. While running games, having this box unchecked can
> cause a couple of anomalies...
> (1) It's possible that your system clock may run a little slowly while
> running the game.
> (2) If the game uses any devices that require frequent and/or timely
> attention by the CPU (the serial ports are most notorious for this),
> these devices may not operate very well while the box is unchecked. So
> if you find you're now having more disconnects, or jumpy on-line game
> performance, you may need to adjust your serial port settings.
> Hi !
> I have the a jumpy online performance (Celeron at 450MHz, ABit BH-6 mb,
> 96MB RAM, Voodoo2, SB 16) and use PDPI L4 gamecard. This card's driver uses
> Poll with interrupts by default. Do you have any idea how to fix this or
> some workaround ? My online performance was ok, when I had the same spec,
> but PII 266 and Intel's LX motherboard with onboard Yamaha OPL-SA2 sound
> card.
I don't know what might be causing your jumpy online performance, but
the
L4 shouldn't be the problem. You've changed enough other items between
system upgrades that almost anything else could be the cause! :)
Grant.
It can't hurt to try...! (well, maybe it can, but who knows)
Seriously though, don't expect anything to work and if you've already
got good performance don't bother.
--
Cheers!
Graeme Nash
(Calvin & Hobbes)
http://www.karisma1.demon.co.uk
ICQ# 11257824
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"Sorry, my eyes were on screensaver"
To avoid problems with the L4 make sure you do not use "mini drivers". Make sure you set your controller to use only the PDPI devices (prefixed with (L4)), especially in GPL. Make sure you have the contoller panel set to use the PDPI game port. I use a Nascar Pro wheel with split pedals and had to cutomize the Win98 registry settings to get the contol panel to recognize the right half of the steering wheel. (left turns only was a problem). I use a procedure that Greg Renner wrote up in the HMRC NG. Unfortunately the tech support at PDPI are not up on sim racing application or if they are they are reluctant to share this information. If you want these instructions please email me and let me know which format is best for you.
Tore
>I have the a jumpy online performance (Celeron at 450MHz, ABit BH-6 mb,
>96MB RAM, Voodoo2, SB 16) and use PDPI L4 gamecard. This card's driver uses
>Poll with interrupts by default. Do you have any idea how to fix this or
>some workaround ? My online performance was ok, when I had the same spec,
>but PII 266 and Intel's LX motherboard with onboard Yamaha OPL-SA2 sound
>card.
>Thanks,
>Tadej Krevh
