Use Glide with the Radeon
"Socius" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> In article <[email hidden]>, BRH <"bertrh<no-
> spam>"@attbi.com> says...
> > I just switched from a Voodoo5 card to a Radeon 8500LE. GPL had been
> > running in Glide with the V5 and ran beautifully. Unfortunately, the V5
> > was lacking for sims requiring D3D, so I made the switch to the Radeon.
> > So, now I have to run GPL in D3D.
> >
> > I have installed the D3D patch and tweaked the core.ini according to the
> > suggestions on Papy's site. However, I'm still underwhelmed with the
> > results. With the V5, I had all Graphics settings maxed out (including
> > the Detail Slider all the way to the right) at 1024x768 and had a solid
> > 36 fps at all times except perhaps at the back of the grid at Monaco.
> > Now, I have to move the detail slider about 1/3 of the way to the left
> > of full to get the same fps, and the image still has "jaggies".
> >
> > Is there something else I need to download or tweak in order to get the
> > image back to what I was used to? Perhaps an updated patch? FYI --
> > My system is an Athlon 1700XP with 512 Megs RAM.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Bert
>
>
> Considering your processor, did you also apply the patch for fast CPU (>
> 1 GHz)?
>
> Regards
>
> Socius
