I have bought GP2 today in Husum (nothern Germany).
It is a full German version.
Graphics and sounds are really fantastic. On a P166 SVGA is really cool,
but you must turn off the sky-textures. On a P100 SVGA is not playable.
But also VGA looks quite fine (much better than ICR2).
But now: I am going to make Damon crashing ... again!
"Schumi"
Does SVGA work on a pentium 133mhz
: I have bought GP2 today in Husum (nothern Germany).
: It is a full German version.
: Graphics and sounds are really fantastic. On a P166 SVGA is really cool,
: but you must turn off the sky-textures. On a P100 SVGA is not playable.
: But also VGA looks quite fine (much better than ICR2).
SVGA IS playable with a P100 on 17 to 23 fps. It's MUCH nicer than
the pixelated VGA. Even with most of the graphics turned off, some tracks
look better than ICR2.
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Martin
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My system is a P133 16Mb with ET4000 W32/p. I can run GP2 comfortably
(18-20fps) in SVGA with no textures except trackside objects, curbs,
smoke and cars (the latter of which you can't turn off anyway). This is
true for all circuits except Monaco, which is so lush in graphical
splendour that you either have to turn the overall detail level down (4
levels to choose from, I normally use max) or go back to VGA. Yes then,
it does work, nicely, on a P133 so long as you don't mind losing a few
textures. It doesn't detract from the game at all. In fact, framerate is
even more important in this game than any other I have played. At
anything less than 15fps, you feel as if you are crawling from the grid.
You can use more textures than those I listed above, but the framerate
drops below 18fps when there are many cars on screen. If you can put up
with that a few times every lap, then you can have more eye candy.
Hope this helps,
Paul
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Yes.. But read on..
I'm running a Pentium 133, 16Mb EDO, 2Mb ATI and 256k PBC.
I ignore the potential fps the GP2 gives me as on my current graphic
setting I am told i will get an est of 13fps, to my eyes it must be
faster than that as it is smooth enough for me with the following
selected
SVGA, full texture on all except sky
Mirrors, No texture, smoke, track, kerb selected
Full detail on trackside objects.
I have to tweak this at Monaco but overall you shouldn't be
disappointed.
Personally, I find the look of the sim spoilt if you don't put any
detail in the mirrors as those two blue rectangles distract from the
game and it looks very odd when you see a car floating in the air
behind you if nothing else is selected.
When you use the Directors cameras the display is much slower than
when you are behind the wheel dut to all the extra stuff to map but
still looks reasonably kewl..
Go get it vroom vroom.
Hy Rparr28922 (??),
on 17 Jul 96 you wrote in an article concerning
"Re: Grand Prix 2 in Germany!":
It works on my P100, so it should work on a P133 also.
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