s3spdup, fastvid, etc. advice wanted for GP2

Hi All. I've been racing (well, crashing mostly) around in GP2 and would like to speed up the game a bit like has been mentioned here before. Can anyone recommend which utility I should use? I have a Diamond Stealth 2201 (2MB DRAM PCI) and a P133 Triton board. I know utilities of this type can be potentially damaging to the system so I want to use to correct one. Thanks and happy racing. ken

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> Hi All. > I've been racing (well, crashing mostly) around in GP2 and would > like to speed up the game a bit like has been mentioned here > before. Can anyone recommend which utility I should use? > I have a Diamond Stealth 2201 (2MB DRAM PCI) and a P133 Triton > board. I know utilities of this type can be potentially damaging > to the system so I want to use to correct one. > Thanks and happy racing. > ken

FASTVID only works on a P6. It enables the write combining and linear frame buffering. Apparently Intel decided that the OS should do this on the P6, where it is enabled natively on a P5. So when you use FASTVID on a P6 you are simply turning "on" a feature that is disabled. It will NOT work on a P5 at all. JEB in Vegas

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>Hi All. >I've been racing (well, crashing mostly) around in GP2 and would >like to speed up the game a bit like has been mentioned here >before. Can anyone recommend which utility I should use? >I have a Diamond Stealth 2201 (2MB DRAM PCI) and a P133 Triton >board. I know utilities of this type can be potentially damaging >to the system so I want to use to correct one. >Thanks and happy racing. >ken

Okay, first of all, Fastvid only works with Pentium Pros. Good. As for S3SPDUP, I don't know. There have been reports in this group about the benefits (I have even seen one where the video speed jumped by about 150!). Obviously you need the S3 chipset to use it, which I think you have. ------------- Richard Sobey Are you browning your browns?

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> >Hi All. > >I've been racing (well, crashing mostly) around in GP2 and would > >like to speed up the game a bit like has been mentioned here > >before. Can anyone recommend which utility I should use? > >I have a Diamond Stealth 2201 (2MB DRAM PCI) and a P133 Triton > >board. I know utilities of this type can be potentially damaging > >to the system so I want to use to correct one. > >Thanks and happy racing. > >ken > Okay, first of all, Fastvid only works with Pentium Pros. Good. > As for S3SPDUP, I don't know. There have been reports in this group > about the benefits (I have even seen one where the video speed jumped > by about 150!). Obviously you need the S3 chipset to use it, which I > think you have. > ------------- > Richard Sobey > Are you browning your browns?

S3 speed up utility is quite impressive. It dropped my processor occupancy from 107% to 85% (just verified that at Monza pits). I've got a P133 and a Stealth 1MB DRAM (S3 Trio64). I run GP2 in SVGA. If I enable the "VGA mode 13" I get a huge improvement in the log file (video speed) index, but no true frames/s. If I enable VESA mode, I get no improvement in the log file index, but indeed I do get some very nice extra fps. Pekka

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>>Hi All. >>I've been racing (well, crashing mostly) around in GP2 and would >>like to speed up the game a bit like has been mentioned here >>before. Can anyone recommend which utility I should use? >>I have a Diamond Stealth 2201 (2MB DRAM PCI) and a P133 Triton >>board. I know utilities of this type can be potentially damaging >>to the system so I want to use to correct one. >>Thanks and happy racing. >>ken >Okay, first of all, Fastvid only works with Pentium Pros. Good. >As for S3SPDUP, I don't know. There have been reports in this group >about the benefits (I have even seen one where the video speed jumped >by about 150!). Obviously you need the S3 chipset to use it, which I >think you have.

Ok, ok. I give up, I picked up this thread very recently and need to know 2 things. Will it work on a 486 66 dx2-s with a stealth64 2mg vram card? If so where do I get it? Thanks Ron R II *********************************************** ** Keep the shiny side up & the hammer down ** *** Ron "Cougar" Riekens II *** **** Owner - Driver **** **** Medallion Motorsports/*** Photography **** *** NASS ARCA Series #96 Pontiac *** ***********************************************

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> > > > > > > >Hi All. > > > > >I've been racing (well, crashing mostly) around in GP2 and would > > >like to speed up the game a bit like has been mentioned here > > >before. Can anyone recommend which utility I should use? > > >I have a Diamond Stealth 2201 (2MB DRAM PCI) and a P133 Triton > > >board. I know utilities of this type can be potentially damaging > > >to the system so I want to use to correct one. > > > > >Thanks and happy racing. > > > > >ken > > > > Okay, first of all, Fastvid only works with Pentium Pros. Good. > > > > As for S3SPDUP, I don't know. There have been reports in this group > > about the benefits (I have even seen one where the video speed jumped > > by about 150!). Obviously you need the S3 chipset to use it, which I > > think you have. > > > > ------------- > > Richard Sobey > > Are you browning your browns? > > S3 speed up utility is quite impressive. It dropped my processor > occupancy from 107% to 85% (just verified that at Monza pits). I've got > a P133 and a Stealth 1MB DRAM (S3 Trio64). I run GP2 in SVGA. If I > enable the "VGA mode 13" I get a huge improvement in the log file > (video speed) index, but no true frames/s. If I enable VESA mode, I get > no improvement in the log file index, but indeed I do get some very nice > extra fps. > > Pekka

I have tried using s3spdup vesa, s3spdup vga, with and without the /load option, and all my computer does is hang when I run gp2. :( I have a Stealth 64 2MB PCI DRAM card and a P133 on a Triton board. Award BIOS, Video shadowing disabled. Any ideas???? ken