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Has anyone played GP2 on a 400 mhz PII yet?  How are the frame rates?
I am in the market for a new computer and it all depends on if a 400 mhz
PII can run GP2 with all of the details on.  Or I'll just wait untill
the 450 mhz chip comes out.

Regards,
Ralph

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I can run all graphics in LOW RES,  it stays around 50-60% for all tracks
except
Monaco when it jumps to 70-80%.  It only reaches 90-100% when I crash really
bad :)

It would seem to me, we need to wait for the PIV 1GHz to run in HIGH RES ;)

Jason.

I can live without clouds in the sky or mirrors so would say go for it.

With a 12MB Voodoo2 GPL looks smooth also....

Never heard such bullshit...

A PII 400 runs it MUCH better than a P200. A friend tested it and got 25fps full
detail under 100% except at the start at Monaco and when using external
viewpoints and when there's a lot of smoke.

JoH
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|Hi Everybody,
|
|Has anyone played GP2 on a 400 mhz PII yet?  How are the frame rates?
|I am in the market for a new computer and it all depends on if a 400 mhz
|PII can run GP2 with all of the details on.  Or I'll just wait untill
|the 450 mhz chip comes out.
|
|Regards,
|Ralph
Yes, frame rates around 25-26 with all details on.
Russ

RD> Has anyone played GP2 on a 400 mhz PII yet?  How are the frame rates?
RD> I am in the market for a new computer and it all depends on if a 400 mhz
RD> PII can run GP2 with all of the details on.  Or I'll just wait untill
RD> the 450 mhz chip comes out.

This is a joke, isn't it ?? Would be a shame if a 3 year-old game wouldn't
run on a PII 400 with all details :-/

Tststs...but BTW: why do you want to play GP II when there's F1RS. This
game kicks ass and runs VERY smooth with ALL (!!!) details on my AMD K6
200/w Monster 3D ;-)

Also, man mailt sich...

.\\atze        [ FmMW2109 - FmMB2139 ]

*home* : http://www.home4u.de/buesing/

It's better to burn out than to fade away!

My advise : save a bit with the 350 compared with the 400, and get
a Voodoo2 for 3dfx specific games. It won't matter in GP2

Regards

Guy

Although I turn it off to get the performance boost, I find it a shame.
The sky definitely does add something to the atmosphere, even without
weather effects.  For one thing, the motion of the sky relative to the
observer enhances the perception of motion.  Also, it looks nice.
It's a shame that they couldn't at least use a simple gradated fill
for the sky, like they used to in the old flight sims, going from blue
at the top to almost grey at the horizon.  Much more realistic looking,
and almost no effort to implement.  The blank blue sky in GP2 and
ICR2 (non rendition) looks like a piece of cardboard.

Stephen

and now I say....

Because GP2 is a purely processor intensive game, graphics cards and MMX
(not around when they made it) don't affect it. Therefore it should
follow that a PII400 should run it at just over double the speed of a
P200 (PII has a slightly better architecture but this doesn't help
much).

So if you play it on a PII 333 and see a PO of 200% you should be OK
with a PII 666 :-)

Me? - I'm still playing it on a CxPR166+ so spare a thought....
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Michael C Wallace