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I am still wondering about what to do with my hardware problem described
earlier in my post about Thriller 3D and PIII 450.

I totally forgot the Banshee. I've done some researh on dejanews, but I dare
to fire some questions anyway.

1) Do the Banshee outperform V2 in GPL on 800x600? The Banshee can do
   1024x768, how big performance hit ?
2) AFAIR the 1.1 patch should get rid of the texture problems. Does it work ?

Thanks a lot for any input. And again, the Voodoo3 2000 PCI is not compatible
with my system....***

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However, the performance is identical at 800x600 compared to 1024x768 at
a given level of detail, so I suspect that the limiting factor in my
case is the processor (P233).

Yes! Almost none, when v-sync is disabled

Yes

The Banshee is far superior to the V2 in GPL, I know, because I have tried
both extensively.

K.S. Br?nnick

Yup - no blotches:)

Running a Diamond Monster Fusion II 16MB PCI - quite decent, runnning in 800x600,
hi res, lightning effects, smoke
cars only in mirrors. Only run online, so I haven't tested FPS with AI.

Matt/Birger,
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V2 does 1024x768 in GPL - the 800x600 limit is only for when z-buffer is
used and GPL doesn't use the z-buffer hence 1024x768 is possible.

I'm using a V2 (12MB Monster 3D II) + a P3-450 and in training mode this
is more than enough to max out the fps at 36-37 with all details turned
up to full (n.b. also have Soundblaster Live! which helps a bit).

The "back of grid at Monaco" rating is down to around 18fps in this
setup - though if I push the P3 to 600MHz (still experimenting but seems
reasonably stable - PC133 memory helps!) this goes up to around 30fps.

In the time I've had GPL I've progressed from

AMD K6-200 + software graphics - 8 fps if I was luck!
AMD K6-200 + V2 + everything on - 15-20fps
AMD K6-200 + V2 + minimum graphics 800x600 - 25-30fps
P3-450 + V2 + everything on 1024x768- 36 fps

and I've been amazed at how much more control I feel I've had at each
step up in frame rate + how moving back down the scale I notice that a
display that had seemed smooth now feels very jumpy! I'm also wondering
if with all the extra horsepower whether the physics modelling is
working at a finer granularity.

As for V2 vs Banshee - from what I recall reading the Banshee 3D
performance is lower than the V2. One benefit is that it avoids using 1
PCI slots (V2 + 2D card) which may be a factor.

work ?

?? may be wrong but I thought the texture problem only affected V3's

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