Lately in this newsgroup there has been several complaints about a
severe slowdown to ab. 2 fps in GP2 for 2 sec:s. I had this problem, and
systematically started to trace it. I haven't figured out what was the
original reason, but the problem is gone!! Here is what I did:
1) Re-installed Windows95, and left out the driver for Gravis
Ultrasound. This driver has been causing an announcement "Static device
resource problem" in startup sequence in my PC.
2) Changed the IRQ:s from 5,5 to 7,7. Check first, that these IRQ:s are
OK with Ultrasnd setup.
3) Changed Ultrasnd address frome 220 --> 230.
4) Run Ultrasnd setup with new values skipping the Windows installation.
5) Run GP2 setup for sound card.
6) Last, but not least, I downloaded a REPLAY, not a hot lap, of a
crash. This seemed to bring back the grass texture automatically, and
suddenly everything was OK.
I have bo idea why, but these things ( or more likely one of them) fixed
my problems. The slowdown is gone, and I think the game runs even faster
than before (and my times are improving too... 1.22.2xx Monza with
joystick:-))
/Harri Vainio
/LM Ericsson, Finland
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You really should not try GP2 from within Windows(3.1/95), or most other
DOS games for that matter, it's always faster booting directly into DOS
instead of having any possible overhead from Windows.
Rob.
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]\obert ])oyle WWW: http://alf2.tcd.ie/~doyler Channel: #amiga
3rd Year Computer Science Student, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
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>>Lately in this newsgroup there has been several complaints about a >>severe slowdown to ab. 2 fps in GP2 for 2 sec:s. I had this problem, and >>systematically started to trace it. I haven't figured out what was the >>original reason, but the problem is gone!! Here is what I did: >>1) Re-installed Windows95, and left out the driver for Gravis >>Ultrasound. This driver has been causing an announcement "Static device >>resource problem" in startup sequence in my PC. >[steps deleted] >>I have bo idea why, but these things ( or more likely one of them) fixed >>my problems. The slowdown is gone, and I think the game runs even faster >>than before (and my times are improving too... 1.22.2xx Monza with >>joystick:-)) >You really should not try GP2 from within Windows(3.1/95), or most other >DOS games for that matter, it's always faster booting directly into DOS >instead of having any possible overhead from Windows. > Rob.> Lately in this newsgroup there has been several complaints about a
> severe slowdown to ab. 2 fps in GP2 for 2 sec:s. I had this problem, and
> systematically started to trace it. I haven't figured out what was the
> original reason, but the problem is gone!! Here is what I did:
> etc etc
Really spooky. I restarted in DOS mode everytime after reading comments on this newsgroup but
still had the problem for while. Over the last week or so its gone..... (hopefully for good). I
made no other config changes.
Terry Stacy
On Mon, 09 Sep 1996 19:50:42 +0100, Terry Stacy
I play GP2 on both a notebook and a desktop PC, and the only slowdown
I experienced was when I tried to enable "trickle power consumption"
which kills the frame rate. Other than that, I'd like to hear about
what other people are seeing out there...
Kyle
