Frames rate in GP2

I would like to know if it's normal. I have a pentium 90 with 40 Megs of ram with a Stealth 3D 2000 XL with 2 Megs and i can't put all the details to the highest configuration with GP2. If i do that, the frame rate is under 20. To have a frame rate over 20, i can only put 2 or 3 things for the details. Thanks in advance.

On Fri, 29 Nov 1996 12:52:24 -0500, Pascal =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dor=E9?=

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>I would like to know if it's normal. I have a pentium 90 with 40 Megs of >ram with a Stealth 3D 2000 XL with 2 Megs and i can't put all the >details to the highest configuration with GP2. If i do that, the frame >rate is under 20. To have a frame rate over 20, i can only put 2 or 3 >things for the details. >Thanks in advance.

The most important thing to look at is PROCESSOR OCCUPANCY. To do this, while you are in the game, press "O" (the letter) and it'll tell you the percentage. If you're running under 100%, you're running in real time. Meaning that a lap that takes 1:21 will actually take 1:21. If you run over 100%, the computer has to slow EVERYTHING down to make your lap time correct. So a lap of 1:21 might take 1:28 in real time, but the computer sees it as 1:21. But if you'd change your proccessor to a p-120 or p-133, you'd proabbly get great results because they calculate MUCH faster. Marc

> The most important thing to look at is PROCESSOR OCCUPANCY. To do > this, while you are in the game, press "O" (the letter) and it'll tell > you the percentage. If you're running under 100%, you're running in > real time. Meaning that a lap that takes 1:21 will actually take 1:21. well actually not ! when i run 1:16 in adelaide on my pc, the 'real' stopwatch says 1:09. when a friend of mine runs 1:16 in adelaide on his pc the stopwatch says 1:11, and both of the pc's are running below 100%. ok this is not the topic of this thread, but its a problem, and i wonder, whether lap times of different pc's are really compareable. any ideas ? addie

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>On Fri, 29 Nov 1996 12:52:24 -0500, Pascal =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dor=E9?= >>I would like to know if it's normal. I have a pentium 90 with 40 Megs of >>ram with a Stealth 3D 2000 XL with 2 Megs and i can't put all the >>details to the highest configuration with GP2. If i do that, the frame >>rate is under 20. To have a frame rate over 20, i can only put 2 or 3 >>things for the details. >>Thanks in advance. >The most important thing to look at is PROCESSOR OCCUPANCY. To do >this, while you are in the game, press "O" (the letter) and it'll tell >you the percentage. If you're running under 100%, you're running in >real time. Meaning that a lap that takes 1:21 will actually take 1:21. >If you run over 100%, the computer has to slow EVERYTHING down to make >your lap time correct. So a lap of 1:21 might take 1:28 in real time, >but the computer sees it as 1:21. >But if you'd change your proccessor to a p-120 or p-133, you'd >proabbly get great results because they calculate MUCH faster. >Marc

Hi, Forget lot's of details with "slow" Pentiums The difference between P120 and P133 is PEANUTS I have a Pentium 200 with 32 Mb Edo Ram , HX chipset, 512 Kb Level II pipeline burst cache and Matrox Mystique VERY fast SVGA card and still I can NOT display all details. This means : no SKY (takes extra 4 frames per second) Not all details in the mirrors (only about 50% on) So frame rate = 23.2 frames per second If I put everything ON(with SKY) I have a framerate of 14 So we really have to wait till Microprose reprograms the graphics (in 3D please) of GP2 or to wait for 400 or 500 Mhz processors Marc Biesmans, Essen, Belgium

So is Microprose reprogramming the damn thing?? If so, when, and how will we existing owners get it?

Maybe for you it's "peanuts", but for someone with a P-120 the difference is substantial. Faster CPU, faster motherboard, graphics, PCI, hard disk access and memory. Sounds good to me.... _________________________________ __ _____| |_____ __ ________| |__| :| 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