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IGPS Nostalgia

Graeme Na

IGPS Nostalgia

by Graeme Na » Wed, 26 Jun 2002 21:39:39

Since I missed the last thread or two on this subject, I thought I'd
belatedly join in, having found my IGPS1 CD the other day... Almost
persuaded me to fire up GPL again :-)

<fx: waves at fellow ex-IGPSers>

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John Simmon

IGPS Nostalgia

by John Simmon » Thu, 27 Jun 2002 06:01:40



I watch those replays all the time...

Remember Monaco? Great finish...

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Tony Rickar

IGPS Nostalgia

by Tony Rickar » Thu, 27 Jun 2002 06:54:08

For an event that didn't allow a reset for going upside down the last
lap at Mosport was the one for me :-)

Hi Graeme!

Tony

Graeme Na

IGPS Nostalgia

by Graeme Na » Thu, 27 Jun 2002 19:02:58

lol, I remember that one. I saw you finish the race on three wheels
and on fire and wondered how you managed it!

What chance a reunion race sometime? :-)

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John Simmon

IGPS Nostalgia

by John Simmon » Thu, 27 Jun 2002 20:27:11



My favorite pass was when me and ZZ Busch were racing down the
backstretch at Mosport and I caught him and passed him just as we
crested the last rise before the right-hand sweeper.

We both made it through the turn!

Bill Cranston had retired because he had company arrive at his home.  He
was showing them the game (our race in progress) and he clicked onto me
and ZZ just as we started down the back stretch.  He said it was
pandemonium as me and zz settled it at the top of that rise.

You want to hear something weird?  I have a much better system now then
I did when we were running in IGPS, and GPL doesn't run as well.  I get
brief periodic screen freezes.  The only thing I can think of is that
GPL isn't real fond of my ATI Radeon 8500 running in D3D (I was running
a Voodoo card when IGPS was active).  I don't run *any* graphics mods or
anything like that, and I still have worse performance than I did with
the voodoo card.

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Andre Warrin

IGPS Nostalgia

by Andre Warrin » Sat, 29 Jun 2002 23:36:26


>You want to hear something weird?  I have a much better system now then
>I did when we were running in IGPS, and GPL doesn't run as well.  I get
>brief periodic screen freezes.  The only thing I can think of is that
>GPL isn't real fond of my ATI Radeon 8500 running in D3D (I was running
>a Voodoo card when IGPS was active).  I don't run *any* graphics mods or
>anything like that, and I still have worse performance than I did with
>the voodoo card.

It also may have something to do with either some updates you
installed (those beautiful 16bit cars are stunning, but on my system
they cause quite a drop in fps) or maybe it's your memory settings in
windows causing the freezes.. At home I have a textfile with a couple
of windows memory settings to get rid of the screenfreezes. Mail me if
you want to have the file.

Andre

John Simmon

IGPS Nostalgia

by John Simmon » Sun, 30 Jun 2002 01:32:35




> >You want to hear something weird?  I have a much better system now then
> >I did when we were running in IGPS, and GPL doesn't run as well.  I get
> >brief periodic screen freezes.  The only thing I can think of is that
> >GPL isn't real fond of my ATI Radeon 8500 running in D3D (I was running
> >a Voodoo card when IGPS was active).  I don't run *any* graphics mods or
> >anything like that, and I still have worse performance than I did with
> >the voodoo card.

> It also may have something to do with either some updates you
> installed (those beautiful 16bit cars are stunning, but on my system
> they cause quite a drop in fps) or maybe it's your memory settings in
> windows causing the freezes.. At home I have a textfile with a couple
> of windows memory settings to get rid of the screenfreezes. Mail me if
> you want to have the file.

> Andre

I'm running Windows 2000/DirectX 8.1 with 768mb of RAM. If you're
running win98, your settings may not be applicable.  I'm using DirectX
because OpenGL doesn't work in GPL on my system.

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Andre Warring

IGPS Nostalgia

by Andre Warring » Sun, 30 Jun 2002 07:34:08


>I'm running Windows 2000/DirectX 8.1 with 768mb of RAM. If you're
>running win98, your settings may not be applicable.  I'm using DirectX
>because OpenGL doesn't work in GPL on my system.

I'm using W98SE and running GPL in Dx. Here's the file. I did all
steps except nr.7 (can anyone explain why step 7 would improve GPL?)
and it sure worked for me!

Some things from earlier threads to try:
1)Set your computer in control panel/system/file system/ to network
server (which increases caching ability).
2) Set your computer in control panel/system/performance/virtual
memory (swapfile size) to min 128 max 128
Actually in your case with 512meg you can set it to min256 and max256.
3) Set your bios aperture to 64 (or even 128)
(Hit the del key when computer boots up)
4) Set the line in your system.ini file to
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
This file should be in your windows directory(folder).
5) Use enditall (look for version #1 it's easier to understand).
6) Set number of sounds in GPL to full (16)
7) Turn the volume in GPL down to 50-60%, and the volume in windows
down to about 70%. Then adjust your volume using your speaker amp.

Andre

John Simmon

IGPS Nostalgia

by John Simmon » Sun, 30 Jun 2002 08:07:59

Almost none of that applies to Win2K, or I've already tried it... :(




> >I'm running Windows 2000/DirectX 8.1 with 768mb of RAM. If you're
> >running win98, your settings may not be applicable.  I'm using DirectX
> >because OpenGL doesn't work in GPL on my system.

> I'm using W98SE and running GPL in Dx. Here's the file. I did all
> steps except nr.7 (can anyone explain why step 7 would improve GPL?)
> and it sure worked for me!

> Some things from earlier threads to try:
> 1)Set your computer in control panel/system/file system/ to network
> server (which increases caching ability).
> 2) Set your computer in control panel/system/performance/virtual
> memory (swapfile size) to min 128 max 128
> Actually in your case with 512meg you can set it to min256 and max256.
> 3) Set your bios aperture to 64 (or even 128)
> (Hit the del key when computer boots up)
> 4) Set the line in your system.ini file to
> ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
> This file should be in your windows directory(folder).
> 5) Use enditall (look for version #1 it's easier to understand).
> 6) Set number of sounds in GPL to full (16)
> 7) Turn the volume in GPL down to 50-60%, and the volume in windows
> down to about 70%. Then adjust your volume using your speaker amp.

> Andre

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