GP2 - frame rate - Thanks to John Wallace and all in R.A.S.

Thanks to all of those who post relevant info that permits us to get every bit of juice out of our machines to play that wonderful game, I just tweaked my bios with the info I found in Sim Racing News, and with that, enabled the PCI burst mode, and BINGO my video speed went from 169 to 464, I'm running on a P150 overclocked to 166 with 16mg EDO ram, and a Matrox Millenium 2mb (with bios v2.0) curiously enough I get better frame rate under Win95 than from Dos, perhaps this is due to the blazing perfomance under Win by the Matrox (I don't know) And with those changes I can now run every circuit but not Monaco :-( in SVGA at a frame rate of 23,? (that is the one I set) the one given by the program is 25,6 and that is with curbs, fences,track, verges,bank, hills, trackside object (all and with texture), smoke. In the mirror I keep curbs, fences, track, and smoke. And with all that new speed I just finished my second race of the season in 6th place, the keyword is "finished" in Brasil I was forced to retire after 12 laps, transmission failure... It's good for the ego to be in the points ( even only one... :-) ) So again thanks to all of those who help and especially to you John Wallace, long life to your Sim Racing News. John.

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>Thanks to all of those who post relevant info that permits us to get every bit >of juice out of our machines to play that wonderful game, I just tweaked my >bios with the info I found in Sim Racing News, and with that, enabled the PCI >burst mode, and BINGO my video speed went from 169 to 464, I'm running on a >P150 overclocked to 166 with 16mg EDO ram, and a Matrox Millenium 2mb (with >bios v2.0) curiously enough I get better frame rate under Win95 than from Dos, >perhaps this is due to the blazing perfomance under Win by the Matrox (I don't

This *may* be true. I know that I run WIN95 without a config.sys & autoexec.bat. All of the CDrom, sound & mouse drivers are WIN95 drivers. I can run GP2 from WIN95 without a DOS re-boot & it runs (same performance as in DOS). This means that GP2 is using the WIN95 CDrom, soundcard & mouse drivers. Who says that GP2 wouldn't use the Video Drivers? It just might...

I'm glad I could help, and thanks for taking the time to let us know your success! :) After so many e-mails regarding Sim News being delayed this month, it was nice to see a friendly e-mail for a change ;) Nice race at Brazil, but don't be too confident - your next race should be TI-Aida....LOTS of fun - not! Cheers! John _________________________________ __ _____| |_____ __ ________| |__| :| John Wallace | |__| |________ \ :| |::| :| Team WW Racing TSW | |::| | / > :| |::| :|_________________________________| |::| | < / :|__|::|____/ * Sim Racing News * \____|::|__| \ /______:/ \::/ http://sneezy.dcn.ed.ac.uk/simnews/index.htm \::/ \._____\ http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~harmon/simnews