Gp2 - CPU Increase over Modem (Arghhhh!!)

Hi, last night I played for the first time over the modem with one of my friends and the cpu was so struggling with the settings we thought were comfortable in single mode that we had to totally remove all textures (I'm talking about svga here) and leave maybe one bar of detail levels. I cant believe this hasnt been fix from F1gp1, ok maybe the increase is slightly lower than in gp1 but for instance we played Indycar2 over 15 hours and never had to remove textures... Now please if it is possible fix this in the hopefully upcoming patch. thanks

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> Hi, last night I played for the first time over the modem with one of > my friends and the cpu was so struggling with the settings we thought > were comfortable in single mode that we had to totally remove all > textures (I'm talking about svga here) and leave maybe one bar of > detail levels. > I cant believe this hasnt been fix from F1gp1, ok maybe the increase > is slightly lower than in gp1 but for instance we played Indycar2 over > 15 hours and never had to remove textures... > Now please if it is possible fix this in the hopefully upcoming patch. > thanks

i have had the same trouble but decreaseing detail didnt seem to increase speed .is it a problem with the modems not being able to handle the transfer of info or the cpu .i have tried 38400 baud which does work with my usr 28800 but i cant connect with 57000

Yep haveing the same promblems here too,both machines P100 & P166 Can connect at 57600 ok both US Robotics modems. SVGA 1 bar no textuers on ,my Occ is at 150- 300% all the time other machine is fine. In VGA both machines slow down more :( figure that one out?.Considering Indy2 plays like a dream over the modem, this is a dead duck for modem play , Funny thing is in graphic detail on P100 with everything off i get 21.5Fps on the scale in modem play and 18Fps in ordinary play ?. My Zeke A6M5a Likes To Eat Greens for Breakfast Purples For Lunch Red's Fot Tea Who Said Kiwi's cant Fly

There is an option to enable the 16550 UART that may improve your performance on serial connections. Have you guys tried it out yet? I'm curious to see if this will solve your problems. Do a "GP2 /?" to give you a list of args for the program. There is a "use16550" option. I also noted a nortscts option, so make sure your serial cable allows for hardware handshaking.