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by **Gary Youn** » Sun, 31 Oct 1999 04:00:00

I have an Nvidia TNT2 card. Is there a patch or the like available to make
GPL run better with this card.

I do not have a 3dfx card on my system

All help/ideas gratefully received

Gary Young

by **Brian Bowle** » Sun, 31 Oct 1999 04:00:00

Sorry but all you can do is edit the mirrors in the core.ini to update less
frequently. You should get a voodoo 2 card. Places like compuusa have them
for only about $39-$49. Then you can run all the graphics on and get 36fps
if your system is 400mhz or more.

Brian ABC RACING

by **Chris Bloo** » Sun, 31 Oct 1999 04:00:00

There is a "Beta" patch for GPL which you will find at The Fastlane
http://www.the-fastlane.com/ . This allows you to run in OpenGL. It should
work on your TNT2, though it doesn't on my Savage 4:(

by **Andre Hanegraa** » Sun, 31 Oct 1999 04:00:00

Very thru so, and although it works fine with my machine (pIII 450 with tnt)
i still can't help wondering why this "beta"stays beta, it's out for a very
long time now and i think its as final as it wil get, i hoped for an update
but i don't expect one anymore. I aslo wonder very much why the people at
papy dont provide use people who don't have a 3dfx card (and this group gts
bigger and bigger wih the 32bit color cards) with a solid patch so we can
run with good mirrors and in open gl or d3d as we please. It prob. is a
matter of money still with such a big gpl comunity they will get a lot of
goodwill. I get a solid 36-40 fps in 1024x768 with the open gl beta still
sometimes i get irritated about the mirrors, also i can't get rid of the
feeling that would they have provided a solid patch my fps would be
higher(as they are in most games). Am i the only one wondering about this?
Am i spoiled?

Andre Hanegraaf
Amsterdam

by **Tracey A Mille** » Sun, 31 Oct 1999 04:00:00

Andre Hanegraaf wrote

As long as it's "beta" they don't have to provide tech support for it.

by **Chris Bloo** » Sun, 31 Oct 1999 04:00:00

I have also wondered what Papy were thinking about when they did GPL. Why
no direct 3d? Games like NFS3 run with lovely graphics with my Savage 4,
perhaps GPL would have sold similar numbers if it was playable on a wider
range of machines.

by **Chris** » Sun, 31 Oct 1999 04:00:00

Yup, unfortunately.

by **Chris** » Sun, 31 Oct 1999 04:00:00

I think we've been over this many times, but the bottom line is that Papyrus
had lots of experience with the Rendition, had some with Glide [because of
NROS] and at the time they really started developing GPL Direct3D was a very
hard 3D API to write too and so-so in performance. I'm sure that they put
together the OpenGL rasterizer because people were asking for an alternate
to Rendition or Glide and OpenGL is far easier to write in than Direct3D.

And no, GPL would not have sold any better; its still a content issue.

by **Peter Prochazk** » Mon, 01 Nov 1999 03:00:00

<snip>

You should not get any more than 36 fps. GPL limits you on this, even if you
could get more. The 1.1 patch introduced a timing bug, so some people get
more than 36 fps, but it should not be the case. So don't worry about it!

Peter
Vienna, Austria

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