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by **Oliver Ku** » Thu, 11 Dec 1997 04:00:00

Hello,

>>Good video card? A Trident 1mb? You must be joking mate.
>>No wonder you are only getting 10.6 FPS. You'll double that with a good
>>card even with most of the detail turned on in SVGA (it helps to just have
>>the essential detail in the mirros though).
>>Go on, treat yourself to a better video card. You'll enjoy GP2 so much
>>more.

>A good video card is a pretty good idea, since a Trident 1 megger
>couldn't cut it even then. It won't make an iota of difference to GP2
>though (well, perhaps one iota, but no more than two). GP2 is ruled by
>the CPU and the textures requested, so turning turn off all the

Sorry, I must disagree. I've run GP2 for some weeks with an 1MB ISA card
(considered as fast back then in 1994) and a K6-233, and then with a
Mystique.
Result: with the Mystique I usually can handle 18,2 fps with all details
on, but with the ISA card the limit was about 10 fps! Maybe the Trident
PCI is somewhat faster, but in any case you can accelerate GP2 by buying
a decent video card.

Ciao,

Oliver

by **John Walla** » Thu, 11 Dec 1997 04:00:00

On 10 Dec 1997 11:40:10 GMT, Oliver Kus

>Sorry, I must disagree. I've run GP2 for some weeks with an 1MB ISA card
>(considered as fast back then in 1994) and a K6-233, and then with a
>Mystique.
>Result: with the Mystique I usually can handle 18,2 fps with all details
>on, but with the ISA card the limit was about 10 fps! Maybe the Trident
>PCI is somewhat faster, but in any case you can accelerate GP2 by buying
>a decent video card.

I know. What I said was that you will not get as big a performance
boost as you would from investing your money elsewhere. More CPU power
will give a far greater boost than a better video card. Mind you,
anyone using a P166 or above should still be using a 1Mb card like a
Trident - seems a shame to cripple a system in that way.

Cheers!
John

by **Richard Walk** » Thu, 11 Dec 1997 04:00:00

Not so. Plenty of us have not experienced any crashes whilst racing.

And if it ran fine on *that* machine then you would have no recourse at
all.

Not all PCs are equal. If you are experiencing lots of problems then it
is likely that one or several bits of your hardware are not quite
"standard" enough. Obviously companies should aim to test on as wide a
range of equipment as possible (rather more than, say, Ubisoft did with
F1RS) but it is simply not possible for them to test every cheap graphics
card / 10 quid "Soundblaster compatible" (sic) sounds card, etc.

Cheers,
Richard

by **defaultu..** » Fri, 12 Dec 1997 04:00:00

> > KREVH TADEJ heeft geschreven in bericht ...

> > >I would vote for GP2. I am playing it for some months now and it is
> > >really great. The only thing about it is that is has no 3Dfx support and
> > >you'll have 25 fps (on your computer)

> > Ahem. I've got a P-166, 32Mb of Edo ram and a good video-card 1Mb Trident
> > PCI and with all details on, GP-2 gives me 10.6 FPS in SVGA. I find that
> > still rather depressing.

> P166? Non MMX? Hate to tell ya, but your out of date. Time flies
> when your having fun :) 1MB Trident = good video card?????.
> Hehehehehehe! Hate to tell ya but a p166 with a 1 meg vid card is rather
> depressing these days. Of course, GP2 is a graphics pig. No arguement. I
> hear p2 300's don't yet run it full on! :((((((

Yes Bubba,
I can report they do run it with all the options turned on, and a couple of
other programs running in the background just to keep things a little bit fair
<ggg.>
All the best, Media Madman

by **Byron Forbe** » Sat, 13 Dec 1997 04:00:00

> KREVH TADEJ heeft geschreven in bericht ...

> >I would vote for GP2. I am playing it for some months now and it is
> >really great. The only thing about it is that is has no 3Dfx support and
> >you'll have 25 fps (on your computer)

> Ahem. I've got a P-166, 32Mb of Edo ram and a good video-card 1Mb Trident
> PCI and with all details on, GP-2 gives me 10.6 FPS in SVGA. I find that
> still rather depressing.

P166? Non MMX? Hate to tell ya, but your out of date. Time flies
when your having fun :) 1MB Trident = good video card?????.
Hehehehehehe! Hate to tell ya but a p166 with a 1 meg vid card is rather
depressing these days. Of course, GP2 is a graphics pig. No arguement. I
hear p2 300's don't yet run it full on! :((((((

by **Byron Forbe** » Sat, 13 Dec 1997 04:00:00

> On 10 Dec 1997 11:40:10 GMT, Oliver Kus

> >Sorry, I must disagree. I've run GP2 for some weeks with an 1MB ISA card
> >(considered as fast back then in 1994) and a K6-233, and then with a
> >Mystique.
> >Result: with the Mystique I usually can handle 18,2 fps with all details
> >on, but with the ISA card the limit was about 10 fps! Maybe the Trident
> >PCI is somewhat faster, but in any case you can accelerate GP2 by buying
> >a decent video card.

> I know. What I said was that you will not get as big a performance
> boost as you would from investing your money elsewhere. More CPU power
> will give a far greater boost than a better video card. Mind you,
> anyone using a P166 or above should still be using a 1Mb card like a
> Trident - seems a shame to cripple a system in that way.

> Cheers!
> John

When I upgraded my vid card in GP2 I noticed that I could not run
any extra details at the fps setting I use (19.x). But at lower fps I
could run many more details than before. A strange beast that GP2!

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