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I own an Olivetti P/60 with 8mb RAM and a SmartyPCI/1mb video card.  My question is this: what sort of upgrade
would have the most impact on GP2 performance?  An OverDrive CPU upgrade to a P/120?  More RAM?  How much more?
 A memory upgrade on the video card?  It can accept another 1mb.  Please don't suggest a more powerful
computer.  In fact, I may well do that, but not anytime soon.  As it is, my system resources (still happily
running Windows for Workgroups 3.11) don't come close to being taxed by anything that I run other than GP2.  In
fact, the only games I routinely play are World Circuit and now GP2.

With my current setup, I run between 19fps and 23fps in VGA mode with a good mixture of detail enabled (fences,
track, trackside objects) with approximately 100% occupancy, depending on the circuit (and the traffic jams).

Realizing this NG has some quite technically proficient members, I would really appreciate some opinions.

Somebody wrote

to >a P/120?  More RAM?  How much more?
don't >Suggest a more powerful
my system >resources (still happily

good >mixture of detail enabled (fences,
the >circuit (and the traffic jams).

really >appreciate some opinions.

My opinion:

RAM isn't the best factor, cause the frames have to be calculated
prozessor overdrive is to expensive, and for your new computer (sometimes)
then unusable

=> therefore, buy a new Graphics Card, to megs of VRAM or WRAM and use it
later on your new PC

Good Luck

Ziggy

Another important factor is pipeline burst cache. If u can, upgrade ur
motherboard with one that has the burst cache if ur current mb does not
have this. The video card upgrade with a mb using burst cache will make a
big difference.
Good luck !

question is this: what sort of upgrade ........

The PS2 Modules don't come in smaller sizes than 8MB anymore, you'll
probably need two of them, so that's 16MB (or US$ 100.- or DM 150,- I
don't know where you're living). More RAM won't affect GP2 speed too
much, though. There's more of a difference in Windows. If you buy RAM,
see to it it's 60 nanoseconds EDO RAM. Your current board won't notice
the difference, most likely, but this way, you can transplant the
memory to your new computer once you upgrade.

Don't. Most videocards use domestic memory modules, which are very
expensive. Check how much the upgrade will cost. Most likely, you'll
get a new 2MB card with a better chipset for about the same amount of
money. For GP2, videocards with the S3 Trio 64 chipset are a good
budget decision. You can use the S3SPDUP utility and get very handsome
results in VGA mode.

Same here. If you're not afraid of tinkering with your computer, I
have a very low-budget advice: Overclock it to P66, if the mainboard
allows. This should give an instantaneous performance boost of more
than 10 percent. For a good description of this process, check out Sim
Racing News (August issue, I think; url in any posting by John
Wallace) or mail me.

Hope I qualify. :)

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