IGPS Nostalgia

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> -- Cheers! Graeme Nash

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> 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> > > -- > Cheers! > Graeme Nash >

I watch those replays all the time... Remember Monaco? Great finish... -- ========================================================= DeMONS/1 for Nascar Racing 3 & Nascar Legends http://www.paddedwall.org/demons DeMONS/2 for Nascar Racing 4 and 2002 Season (in development) http://www.paddedwall.org/demons2 RASCAR Roster http://www.paddedwall.org/rascar Redneck Techno-Biker & "programming deity" http://www.paddedwall.org/john Barbarian Diecast Collector (460+ cars and counting) http://www.paddedwall.org/diecast If you want to send me email, go to the first URL shown above & click "Send Me Mail" in the contents frame. =========================================================

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> > 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> > > > > -- > > Cheers! > > Graeme Nash > > > > I watch those replays all the time... > > Remember Monaco? Great finish... >

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

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

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

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. -- ========================================================= DeMONS/1 for Nascar Racing 3 & Nascar Legends http://www.paddedwall.org/demons DeMONS/2 for Nascar Racing 4 and 2002 Season (in development) http://www.paddedwall.org/demons2 RASCAR Roster http://www.paddedwall.org/rascar Redneck Techno-Biker & "programming deity" http://www.paddedwall.org/john Barbarian Diecast Collector (460+ cars and counting) http://www.paddedwall.org/diecast If you want to send me email, go to the first URL shown above & click "Send Me Mail" in the contents frame. =========================================================

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:27:11 GMT, John Simmons <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>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

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> On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:27:11 GMT, John Simmons <[email hidden]> wrote: > > > >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. -- ========================================================= DeMONS/1 for Nascar Racing 3 & Nascar Legends http://www.paddedwall.org/demons DeMONS/2 for Nascar Racing 4 and 2002 Season (in development) http://www.paddedwall.org/demons2 RASCAR Roster http://www.paddedwall.org/rascar Redneck Techno-Biker & "programming deity" http://www.paddedwall.org/john Barbarian Diecast Collector (460+ cars and counting) http://www.paddedwall.org/diecast If you want to send me email, go to the first URL shown above & click "Send Me Mail" in the contents frame. =========================================================

On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 16:32:35 GMT, John Simmons <[email hidden]> wrote: >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

Almost none of that applies to Win2K, or I've already tried it... :( In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...

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> On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 16:32:35 GMT, John Simmons <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >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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