Browsing through the FAQ I noticed some specs on various performances
for different machines and grahpics cards. Although not terribly
important, some people may interested in the difference I noted
between my two grahpics cards.
I have a P133 (Dell) which used to have a #9 Vision 300 card (S3 864
chipset). With this card the machine had a processor occupancy of
(typically) 10-15%.
I then "upgraded" to a #9 Imagine 128 card and my processor occupancy
shot up to 50-60%. The reason, I believe, is that the I128, while
being a damned fast Windows accelerator (using a #9 custom chipset),
has pretty meagre DOS performance (it uses a low-spec Cirrus Logic
chipsety for VGA/SVGA stuff).
The m***of the story is that the graphics card apparently makes a
HUGE difference.
I am now wondering if, P133 notwithstanding, I'll have the wellie to
run F1GP2. Any ideas?
Cheers, Ian
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I have heard there will be a Win95 version of F1GP2 released (probably next year) which will run great but the Dos version will suck.
My P100 has an occupancy of 25 to 33% with the # 9 Vission 330.
Its interesting to see the difference between the processors.
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version will suck.
> My P100 has an occupancy of 25 to 33% with the # 9 Vission 330.
> Its interesting to see the difference between the processors.
I dont believe this, my dads PC (DX2 66 8megs) runs F1GP max 35% occupancy, we need to set up a test in this
news group it seems we all need a better graphics card, no you can't have mine.
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