GPL and Gigabyte GA-GF1280 MX400

I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36. I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card?

On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:55:49 -0400, zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> wrote: >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36. >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card? GPL is unplayable right now. Sometimes it will lock up for up to a second (or more). And I end up feeding the ducks on the side of the road at Spa. I need help!! :)

Dou you have the D3d patch installed and enabled ??? dave henrie "zzzzzzzzzz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:55:49 -0400, zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> > wrote: > > >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36. > >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any > >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card? > > > GPL is unplayable right now. Sometimes it will lock up for up to a > second (or more). And I end up feeding the ducks on the side of the > road at Spa. I need help!! > :) >

On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 16:14:06 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote: > Dou you have the D3d patch installed and enabled ??? I've installed it. It says the video setting is "Direct3d7". 800x600, minimum detail.

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> On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 16:14:06 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> > wrote: > > > Dou you have the D3d patch installed and enabled ??? > > I've installed it. It says the video setting is "Direct3d7". > 800x600, minimum detail. >

There should be a readmed3d.txt in your gpl folder now that covers the d3d patch. There are some lines of text that can be changed in the core.ini file that might/should improve how your card performs. Hopefully that will cover it for you. good luck dave henrie

On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 17:14:37 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> >"zzzzzzzzzz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:[email hidden]... >> On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 16:14:06 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> >> wrote: >> >> > Dou you have the D3d patch installed and enabled ??? >> >> I've installed it. It says the video setting is "Direct3d7". >> 800x600, minimum detail. >> > There should be a readmed3d.txt in your gpl folder now that covers the d3d >patch. There are some lines of text that can be changed in the core.ini >file that might/should improve how your card performs. Hopefully that will >cover it for you. >good luck > >dave henrie >

I switched it down to 640x480 and it seems to stay at 36fps and is actually playable now. But I'd like to get is up to 1024x768. I'm runing a Duron 850 so I doubt there should be a problem doing this.

On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 14:40:07 -0400, zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 17:14:37 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> >wrote: > >> >>"zzzzzzzzzz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >>news:[email hidden]... >>> On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 16:14:06 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > Dou you have the D3d patch installed and enabled ??? >>> >>> I've installed it. It says the video setting is "Direct3d7". >>> 800x600, minimum detail. >>> >> There should be a readmed3d.txt in your gpl folder now that covers the d3d >>patch. There are some lines of text that can be changed in the core.ini >>file that might/should improve how your card performs. Hopefully that will >>cover it for you. >>good luck >> >>dave henrie >> > > >I switched it down to 640x480 and it seems to stay at 36fps and is >actually playable now. But I'd like to get is up to 1024x768. I'm >runing a Duron 850 so I doubt there should be a problem doing this.

I also flashed my video card with new firmware. I'm not sure if it will help out but its worth a try.

On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:55:49 -0400, zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> wrote: >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36. >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card? How do I find out what services are running in the background on WinME? I am thinking that something is running in the background. Now I"m at 640x480 and it still drops down to 10FPS.

try a utility called enditall2. This will shut down most of your background tasks. Makesure tho...if you have a wheel that needs a program running, like thrustmapper or Wingman Profiler, that you protect those (easy to do in the util) so they don't get shut down as well. dave henrie "zzzzzzzzzz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:55:49 -0400, zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> > wrote: > > >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36. > >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any > >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card? > > > How do I find out what services are running in the background on > WinME? I am thinking that something is running in the background. > Now I"m at 640x480 and it still drops down to 10FPS.

On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 12:44:35 -0400, zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 16:14:06 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> > wrote: > >> Dou you have the D3d patch installed and enabled ??? > > I've installed it. It says the video setting is "Direct3d7". > 800x600, minimum detail. > >

check to see if your gfx board shares the IRQ with another card, and if it does, play a round of pci poker to make sure all cards have their own unique interrupt. This helped solving my network problem I described earlier. All the best, uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E) PGP Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:05:14 +0200, Uwe Schuerkamp <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 12:44:35 -0400, zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> wrote: >> On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 16:14:06 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> >> wrote: >> >>> Dou you have the D3d patch installed and enabled ??? >> >> I've installed it. It says the video setting is "Direct3d7". >> 800x600, minimum detail. >> >> > >check to see if your gfx board shares the IRQ with another card, >and if it does, play a round of pci poker to make sure all cards >have their own unique interrupt. > >This helped solving my network problem I described earlier. >

My network card was running on the same IRQ as my video card. I changed ports and removed another card (TV). I now see that the video card is running on IRQ#10 along with the "ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering". I don't know if this is a problem or not. It seems to hang in there pretty good past the first lap. But when I get more than 5 cars on the screen (start of a race), I get poor performance.

On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:55:49 -0400, zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> wrote: >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36. >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card? Here's an update on the card. It still sucks in GPL. I've changed the setting in the core.ini file a few times according to the readme. but it still locks up. I've also played PCI Poker with all my cards. I only have a NIC, modem and sound card installed right now. I thought perhaps it was the sound card that conflicts with the video card but no. On grid in 20th at Silverstone I get 22FPS. At Monza its 24FPS. During racing it will occasionally lock up and other times it will dip down to 10 or 15 FPS for a couple seconds. My old Voodoo 3 2000 ran 36FPS everywhere!!! So now what? I've given up! Its either get a new video card (any recommendations?) -or- retrieve my old Voodoo3-2000 from my brother. What should I do. PS the system is a Duron 850 w/ABIT motherboard, 128MB, SB64PCI, an old ISA modem and 1 Realtek8139 NIC.

did you get the D3D patch from papy.com?.... zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:55:49 -0400, zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> > wrote: > > >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36. > >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any > >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card? > > > Here's an update on the card. It still sucks in GPL. I've changed > the setting in the core.ini file a few times according to the readme. > but it still locks up. I've also played PCI Poker with all my cards. > I only have a NIC, modem and sound card installed right now. I > thought perhaps it was the sound card that conflicts with the video > card but no. > > On grid in 20th at Silverstone I get 22FPS. At Monza its 24FPS. > During racing it will occasionally lock up and other times it will dip > down to 10 or 15 FPS for a couple seconds. My old Voodoo 3 2000 ran > 36FPS everywhere!!! > > So now what? I've given up! Its either get a new video card (any > recommendations?) -or- retrieve my old Voodoo3-2000 from my brother. > What should I do. > > > PS the system is a Duron 850 w/ABIT motherboard, 128MB, SB64PCI, an > old ISA modem and 1 Realtek8139 NIC.

On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 03:49:37 +0100, "David Powell" <DavidPowell@<nospam>clara.co.uk> wrote: >did you get the D3D patch from papy.com?.... Before I even installed the game :) Of course I installed the game. Then installed the patch :) And read/applied the readme file. Tried both the Geforce2 setup and the TNT1 setup. Neither was better than the other.

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> > >zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:[email hidden]... >> On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:55:49 -0400, zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> >> wrote: >> >> >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36. >> >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any >> >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card? >> >> >> Here's an update on the card. It still sucks in GPL. I've changed >> the setting in the core.ini file a few times according to the readme. >> but it still locks up. I've also played PCI Poker with all my cards. >> I only have a NIC, modem and sound card installed right now. I >> thought perhaps it was the sound card that conflicts with the video >> card but no. >> >> On grid in 20th at Silverstone I get 22FPS. At Monza its 24FPS. >> During racing it will occasionally lock up and other times it will dip >> down to 10 or 15 FPS for a couple seconds. My old Voodoo 3 2000 ran >> 36FPS everywhere!!! >> >> So now what? I've given up! Its either get a new video card (any >> recommendations?) -or- retrieve my old Voodoo3-2000 from my brother. >> What should I do. >> >> >> PS the system is a Duron 850 w/ABIT motherboard, 128MB, SB64PCI, an >> old ISA modem and 1 Realtek8139 NIC. >

get the VROC software, get in the chat room and ask someone questions, no doubt there might be a remedy.... zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 03:49:37 +0100, "David Powell" > <DavidPowell@<nospam>clara.co.uk> wrote: > > >did you get the D3D patch from papy.com?.... > > Before I even installed the game :) > > Of course I installed the game. Then installed the patch :) > And read/applied the readme file. Tried both the Geforce2 setup and > the TNT1 setup. Neither was better than the other. > > > > > > > >zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> wrote in message > >news:[email hidden]... > >> On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:55:49 -0400, zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> > >> wrote: > >> > >> >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36. > >> >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any > >> >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card? > >> > >> > >> Here's an update on the card. It still sucks in GPL. I've changed > >> the setting in the core.ini file a few times according to the readme. > >> but it still locks up. I've also played PCI Poker with all my cards. > >> I only have a NIC, modem and sound card installed right now. I > >> thought perhaps it was the sound card that conflicts with the video > >> card but no. > >> > >> On grid in 20th at Silverstone I get 22FPS. At Monza its 24FPS. > >> During racing it will occasionally lock up and other times it will dip > >> down to 10 or 15 FPS for a couple seconds. My old Voodoo 3 2000 ran > >> 36FPS everywhere!!! > >> > >> So now what? I've given up! Its either get a new video card (any > >> recommendations?) -or- retrieve my old Voodoo3-2000 from my brother. > >> What should I do. > >> > >> > >> PS the system is a Duron 850 w/ABIT motherboard, 128MB, SB64PCI, an > >> old ISA modem and 1 Realtek8139 NIC. > > >

I'm running GPL on a GF2 MX400 card on a PIII 500, and have none of your fps problems. EIther you have a dud card, or you have some settings that are incorrect. But on that system, as with mine you will almost never get 36fps on or near the back of the grid as you did with the Voodoo card. Mine goes to 36 right after the start, so its a non-issue for me at least. You should also try the new OpenGL rasterizer posted at the racesim forum, but you have to be running 30.30 detonators or higher I believe(at the OpenGL part). -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:55:49 -0400, zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> > wrote: > > >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36. > >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any > >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card? > > > Here's an update on the card. It still sucks in GPL. I've changed > the setting in the core.ini file a few times according to the readme. > but it still locks up. I've also played PCI Poker with all my cards. > I only have a NIC, modem and sound card installed right now. I > thought perhaps it was the sound card that conflicts with the video > card but no. > > On grid in 20th at Silverstone I get 22FPS. At Monza its 24FPS. > During racing it will occasionally lock up and other times it will dip > down to 10 or 15 FPS for a couple seconds. My old Voodoo 3 2000 ran > 36FPS everywhere!!! > > So now what? I've given up! Its either get a new video card (any > recommendations?) -or- retrieve my old Voodoo3-2000 from my brother. > What should I do. > > > PS the system is a Duron 850 w/ABIT motherboard, 128MB, SB64PCI, an > old ISA modem and 1 Realtek8139 NIC.

What's this new OpenGL rasterizer? I'm running a GF2 GTS, will it help?Why do I need 30.30 detonators? Chris G. "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:yGY99.3123$p%[email hidden]... > I'm running GPL on a GF2 MX400 card on a PIII 500, and have none of yourfps problems. EIther you > have a dud card, or you have some settings that are incorrect. But onthat system, as with mine you > will almost never get 36fps on or near the back of the grid as you didwith the Voodoo card. Mine > goes to 36 right after the start, so its a non-issue for me at least. Youshould also try the new > OpenGL rasterizer posted at the racesim forum, but you have to be running30.30 detonators or higher

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> I believe(at the OpenGL part). > -- > Biz > > "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand > alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and > the....." - Ash > > > zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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> > On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:55:49 -0400, zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> > > wrote: > > > > >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36. > > >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any > > >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card? > > > > > > Here's an update on the card. It still sucks in GPL. I've changed > > the setting in the core.ini file a few times according to the readme. > > but it still locks up. I've also played PCI Poker with all my cards. > > I only have a NIC, modem and sound card installed right now. I > > thought perhaps it was the sound card that conflicts with the video > > card but no. > > > > On grid in 20th at Silverstone I get 22FPS. At Monza its 24FPS. > > During racing it will occasionally lock up and other times it will dip > > down to 10 or 15 FPS for a couple seconds. My old Voodoo 3 2000 ran > > 36FPS everywhere!!! > > > > So now what? I've given up! Its either get a new video card (any > > recommendations?) -or- retrieve my old Voodoo3-2000 from my brother. > > What should I do. > > > > > > PS the system is a Duron 850 w/ABIT motherboard, 128MB, SB64PCI, an > > old ISA modem and 1 Realtek8139 NIC. > >

Here's the link, you can read all about it for yourself. http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37496 -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash ChrisG27 <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:%K5a9.197559$[email hidden]... > What's this new OpenGL rasterizer? I'm running a GF2 GTS, will it help?Why > do I need 30.30 detonators? > > Chris G. > > > "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:yGY99.3123$p%[email hidden]... > > I'm running GPL on a GF2 MX400 card on a PIII 500, and have none of your > fps problems. EIther you > > have a dud card, or you have some settings that are incorrect. But on > that system, as with mine you > > will almost never get 36fps on or near the back of the grid as you did > with the Voodoo card. Mine > > goes to 36 right after the start, so its a non-issue for me at least. You > should also try the new > > OpenGL rasterizer posted at the racesim forum, but you have to be running > 30.30 detonators or higher > > I believe(at the OpenGL part). > > -- > > Biz > > > > "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand > > alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and > > the....." - Ash > > > > > > zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > > On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:55:49 -0400, zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > >I'm trying to play GPL but the frame rate fluctuates from 10fps to 36. > > > >I prefered the steady 36FPS of my old Voodoo card. Are there any > > > >settings I could tweak? Or am I looking at a new vid card? > > > > > > > > > Here's an update on the card. It still sucks in GPL. I've changed > > > the setting in the core.ini file a few times according to the readme. > > > but it still locks up. I've also played PCI Poker with all my cards. > > > I only have a NIC, modem and sound card installed right now. I > > > thought perhaps it was the sound card that conflicts with the video > > > card but no. > > > > > > On grid in 20th at Silverstone I get 22FPS. At Monza its 24FPS. > > > During racing it will occasionally lock up and other times it will dip > > > down to 10 or 15 FPS for a couple seconds. My old Voodoo 3 2000 ran > > > 36FPS everywhere!!! > > > > > > So now what? I've given up! Its either get a new video card (any > > > recommendations?) -or- retrieve my old Voodoo3-2000 from my brother. > > > What should I do. > > > > > > > > > PS the system is a Duron 850 w/ABIT motherboard, 128MB, SB64PCI, an > > > old ISA modem and 1 Realtek8139 NIC. > > > > > >

"zzzzzzzzzz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:55:49 -0400, zzzzzzzzzz <[email hidden]> > wrote:<snip> > Here's an update on the card. It still sucks in GPL. I've changed > the setting in the core.ini file a few times according to the readme. > but it still locks up. I've also played PCI Poker with all my cards. > I only have a NIC, modem and sound card installed right now. I > thought perhaps it was the sound card that conflicts with the video > card but no. I have the exact same card - no problems, 36fps pegged. I am running an Athlon 1.4 but I've tested same card on a XP2000+ and it's about the same. Make sure Anti-Aliasing is off. GeForce cards suck lots of power - how good is your PSU? I had to upgrade to a 450W for stability with Athlon and a geforce2 card. iksteh