Kyro II and GPL: Quick Fix

In an article for the Danish simracing site, simracing.dk, I have previously explored the possibilities of making my Hercules Prophet 4500 work with GPL and VROC. I did make it work, but there were a number of issues, notably: * Transparent chat window (lap times et al visible at the same time) * Missing buttons in replay window * Occasional extreme stuttering in "In car view" in replay. * Extreme stuttering using Latrency/Quality meters online. Old article: http://news.simracing.dk/anmeldelser/hardware/kyro2_gpl/kyro2_gpl.htm Using Kyro Tools XP 1.0.2.86 (found at http://pvr.gamestats.com/Dynamic/Standard.shtml?/kyrotools/kyrotools ) I have been fooling around with additional settings and have come up with fixes for most. Until I have time to update the article completely, I have decided to post the fixes here. Please let me know if they work for you as well as they did for me. To implement you should start by creating a "default" D3D game specific GPL setting. Then copy the contents listed below to a new file called gpl.reg . You can run this file by double-clicking it,- don't worry about the warning, it is quite safe. (If you trust me that is. :-) ) When you next run GPL, you should find that all but one of the issues mentioned above have been fixed. I still haven't been able to completely fix the Online Meters, but instead of running at 0.5 fps you can run GPL at 25 (or so) fps with the meters enabled. I still leave them off. ;-) And incidentally as far as I can tell, the sim runs a little bit faster, which I attribute to using compressed textures and fast trilinear filtering. I have 36 fps everywhere (*) running at 1024*768 with 80% detail bias using jc-carste with show-off wheels. (*) At the rear of a full Monaco AI grid the fps will drop to 32 for a couple of second right after the start. Cheers, Jens -----[ gpl.reg begins here]----- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\PowerVR\KYRO\Game Settings\D3D\GPL.EXE] "UISettingType0"="0" "UIDummySSControl"="2" "EnableSceneSS"="1" "DisableXSS"="1" "DisableYSS"="0" "NoVSYNCLock"="1" "DoNotDisableFastTLF"="1" "ISPHalfOffset"="0" "DisableMidSceneRender"="1" "ForceLargeTexToDXT1"="1" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\PowerVR\KYRO\Game Settings\D3D\GPL.EXE\defaults] "UISettingType0"="0" -----[ gpl.reg ends here]----- My relevant core.ini settings: [ Direct3D7 ] D3DDevice = 0 TossHighestMip = 0 DoubleMirrorResWidth = 1 DoubleMirrorResHeight = 1 DirectMirrorRendering = 1 DisableZBuffer = 0 AlphaThreshold = 1 TransparentMipsDrawOrder = 1 TrilinearFiltering = 1 AnisotropicFiltering = 0 LODBias = -50

Thanks for posting Jens. I'll update you on what it did for me :) Jason. "Jens H. Kruuse" wrote:

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> > In an article for the Danish simracing site, simracing.dk, I have previously > explored the possibilities of making my Hercules Prophet 4500 work with GPL and > VROC. I did make it work, but there were a number of issues, notably: > * Transparent chat window (lap times et al visible at the same time) > * Missing buttons in replay window > * Occasional extreme stuttering in "In car view" in replay. > * Extreme stuttering using Latrency/Quality meters online. > > Old article: > http://news.simracing.dk/anmeldelser/hardware/kyro2_gpl/kyro2_gpl.htm > > Using Kyro Tools XP 1.0.2.86 (found at > http://pvr.gamestats.com/Dynamic/Standard.shtml?/kyrotools/kyrotools ) I have > been fooling around with additional settings and have come up with fixes for > most. Until I have time to update the article completely, I have decided to post > the fixes here. Please let me know if they work for you as well as they did for > me. >

-- Jason Monds http://www.proracingclub.com - Pro Racing Club! (N4, GPL, Fun Run Sims) http://www.racersdomain.com - Race hosting. (Please remove 'no extra spork' when replying)

OMG, your settings made a difference like night and day on my machine! Just using the REGEDIT4 stuff I went from 36 to 18 fps but using the core.ini changes put it back to 36 fps at 1024x768 2xFSAA. It does drop to ~30 fps at the start when your deep in the pack, but it reaches 36 very quickly -- certainly drivable AND I can read the font and see the replay buttons! Online should be maxed all the time because you can't see that many other drivers. Thank you, Jens. Jason. "Jens H. Kruuse" wrote:

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> > Please let me know if they work for you as well as they did for > me. > > To implement you should start by creating a "default" D3D game specific GPL > Cheers, > Jens > > -----[ gpl.reg begins here]----- > REGEDIT4 > > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\PowerVR\KYRO\Game Settings\D3D\GPL.EXE] > "UISettingType0"="0" > "UIDummySSControl"="2" > "EnableSceneSS"="1" > "DisableXSS"="1" > "DisableYSS"="0" > "NoVSYNCLock"="1" > "DoNotDisableFastTLF"="1" > "ISPHalfOffset"="0" > "DisableMidSceneRender"="1" > "ForceLargeTexToDXT1"="1" > > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\PowerVR\KYRO\Game Settings\D3D\GPL.EXE\defaults] > "UISettingType0"="0" > -----[ gpl.reg ends here]----- > > My relevant core.ini settings: > [ Direct3D7 ] > D3DDevice = 0 > TossHighestMip = 0 > DoubleMirrorResWidth = 1 > DoubleMirrorResHeight = 1 > DirectMirrorRendering = 1 > DisableZBuffer = 0 > AlphaThreshold = 1 > TransparentMipsDrawOrder = 1 > TrilinearFiltering = 1 > AnisotropicFiltering = 0 > LODBias = -50

-- Jason Monds theCLAPPER in Kali http://www.proracingclub.com - Pro Racing Club! (N4, GPL, Fun Run Sims) http://www.racersdomain.com - Race hosting. (Remove 'no spork' when replying)

>"Jason Monds" <[email hidden]> wrote > OMG, your settings made a difference like night and day on my machine! > Just using the REGEDIT4 stuff I went from 36 to 18 fps but using the > core.ini changes put it back to 36 fps at 1024x768 2xFSAA. It does dropto > ~30 fps at the start when your deep in the pack, but it reaches 36 very > quickly -- certainly drivable AND I can read the font and see the replay > buttons! Online should be maxed all the time because you can't see that > many other drivers. Yep, I replied to him via email that indeed it's a great fix. I wouldn't say a fix, it's more an unlocked door to the real secret of that video card ;-) -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.ymenard.com/ -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimato Dominguez Corporation - helping America into the New World...