Joel Belog
Producer
Papyrus Design Group
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Eric
> Joel Belog
> Producer
> Papyrus Design Group
> > I've downloaded the new patch but it won't work on my system. I have a
> > geforce ddr and directx 7.0. It allows me to select d3d from the
graphics
> > options but when i restart the game i don't have any menus just
pictures.
> > All the writing has gone. If i try to enter a race by clicking the
arrows
> > (no writing anywhere) i just get 2 big tyres on screen and the machine
> > freezes. Anyone else having problems ?
D3D patch!? On my way to try it out now on my Geforce2. Will report
back any problems I have. Using the OpenGL patch right now with no
problems.
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Nos
Maybe because you have "force FSAA" turned on? I just tested it out
and got excellent results. Never below 36fps, sharper graphics than
using the OpenGL patch too.Thx Papy. Looks as good as Glide mose now.
Only problem was that with FSAA on the frame rate was unplayable, but
I can hardly tell the dif with it on or off, and that's the truth. I
got about 24-26fps with FSAA on, but it felt more like 8-10. Only
problem I encounterd was that I got the following error when exiting
the game the first time.
DDHELP caused an invalid page fault in
module 3DBGFD32.DLL at 015f:b00d8b03.
Registers:
EAX=8e1c5c38 CS=015f EIP=b00d8b03 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=8e1c5da8 SS=0167 ESP=00b3f910 EBP=00000000
ECX=00000000 DS=0167 ESI=82def01c FS=5097
EDX=d1d2b000 ES=0167 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 79 fc 8b 77 18 8b d6 81 e2 01 f0 ff ff 81 fa
Stack dump:
00000000 82def01c 00b3f9e8 82def01c b00b38f0 82def01c 00000000
00b3fa24 82def01c d1d2b000 baab8af9 00b3f9e8 00000000 82def634
82def01c 802ded20
I ran the game 3 more times and got no error at all. DDHelp is a
Directx Helper app. Rebooted before running GPL again and never got
the error again. Running on Annihilator2 with Creative Labs 5.22
drivers. Excellent, just wish a few more developers would show the
same support and make their games work properly on non-Glide video
cards. You listening EA/Jane's? :-)
BTW, here are the settings I used in the core.ini file.Just folllow
the readme instructions.
[ Int Profile Values ]
value3 = Direct3D7:D3DDevice:0
value4 = Direct3D7:TossHighestMip:0
value5 = Direct3D7:TrilinearFiltering:0
value6 = Direct3D7:DoubleMirrorResWidth:0
value7 = Direct3D7:DoubleMirrorResHeight:0
value8 = Direct3D7:DirectMirrorRendering:0
value9 = Direct3D7:DisableZBuffer:0
[ Direct3D7 ]
D3DDevice = 0
TossHighestMip = 0
TrilinearFiltering = 1
DoubleMirrorResWidth = 1
DoubleMirrorResHeight = 1
DirectMirrorRendering = 1
DisableZBuffer = 0
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Nos
> >I've downloaded the new patch but it won't work on my system. I have a
> >geforce ddr and directx 7.0. It allows me to select d3d from the
graphics
> >options but when i restart the game i don't have any menus just pictures.
> >All the writing has gone. If i try to enter a race by clicking the arrows
> >(no writing anywhere) i just get 2 big tyres on screen and the machine
> >freezes. Anyone else having problems ?
> Maybe because you have "force FSAA" turned on? I just tested it out
> and got excellent results. Never below 36fps, sharper graphics than
> using the OpenGL patch too.Thx Papy. Looks as good as Glide mose now.
> Only problem was that with FSAA on the frame rate was unplayable, but
> I can hardly tell the dif with it on or off, and that's the truth. I
> got about 24-26fps with FSAA on, but it felt more like 8-10. Only
> problem I encounterd was that I got the following error when exiting
> the game the first time.
> DDHELP caused an invalid page fault in
> module 3DBGFD32.DLL at 015f:b00d8b03.
> Registers:
> EAX=8e1c5c38 CS=015f EIP=b00d8b03 EFLGS=00010206
> EBX=8e1c5da8 SS=0167 ESP=00b3f910 EBP=00000000
> ECX=00000000 DS=0167 ESI=82def01c FS=5097
> EDX=d1d2b000 ES=0167 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
> Bytes at CS:EIP:
> 8b 79 fc 8b 77 18 8b d6 81 e2 01 f0 ff ff 81 fa
> Stack dump:
> 00000000 82def01c 00b3f9e8 82def01c b00b38f0 82def01c 00000000
> 00b3fa24 82def01c d1d2b000 baab8af9 00b3f9e8 00000000 82def634
> 82def01c 802ded20
> I ran the game 3 more times and got no error at all. DDHelp is a
> Directx Helper app. Rebooted before running GPL again and never got
> the error again. Running on Annihilator2 with Creative Labs 5.22
> drivers. Excellent, just wish a few more developers would show the
> same support and make their games work properly on non-Glide video
> cards. You listening EA/Jane's? :-)
> BTW, here are the settings I used in the core.ini file.Just folllow
> the readme instructions.
> [ Int Profile Values ]
> value3 = Direct3D7:D3DDevice:0
> value4 = Direct3D7:TossHighestMip:0
> value5 = Direct3D7:TrilinearFiltering:0
> value6 = Direct3D7:DoubleMirrorResWidth:0
> value7 = Direct3D7:DoubleMirrorResHeight:0
> value8 = Direct3D7:DirectMirrorRendering:0
> value9 = Direct3D7:DisableZBuffer:0
> [ Direct3D7 ]
> D3DDevice = 0
> TossHighestMip = 0
> TrilinearFiltering = 1
> DoubleMirrorResWidth = 1
> DoubleMirrorResHeight = 1
> DirectMirrorRendering = 1
> DisableZBuffer = 0
> --
> Nos
I had similar problems with text disappearing at will in the menus, and
distorted image out on the track, no freeze though. Cured it by upgrading
the nvidia drivers from 3.68 to Detenator 5.22, my card is a TNT1.
Another tip is this: the screen refresh rate in 3D mode was low,
probably 60Hz, vs 85Hz in Windows. From another thread I learned that the
refresh rate for Direct3D can be set with Dxdiag.exe which should be in
Windows\System. Use the Override button on the More Help tab.
Everything looks great now!
Bart Westra
That's interesting. But, I guess that means I will have to buy next
years version of F1 2001 if we want FSAA. Maybe it won't be a problem
in GP3. :-)
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Nos
