Is an upgrade for GP2 with Network support due in Jan'97, or not?
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On the contrary, network play should be significantly faster as you
don't need to poll up*** times a second as with a serial port. And
the data transmission rate is 80x better. I have a number of network
games and they all work fine. Other serial games exhibit the same
problems as GP2 (like Transport Tycoon), polling and low data rates
are a real killer.
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> >Is an upgrade for GP2 with Network support due in Jan'97, or not? > Alex, GP2 runs so poorly even in direct link mode on a couple of > Pentium 100's with Tseng ET-4000 video cards, not to mention modem > mode, that I seriously doubt a LAN mode would even be useable. > Unless/until they can make serial link mode work without a 50% > degradation in frame rate I wouldn't even want to try a less efficient > link mode. This is really sad... > Rgds, > MarkAlex, GP2 runs so poorly even in direct link mode on a couple of
Pentium 100's with Tseng ET-4000 video cards, not to mention modem
mode, that I seriously doubt a LAN mode would even be useable.
Unless/until they can make serial link mode work without a 50%
degradation in frame rate I wouldn't even want to try a less efficient
link mode. This is really sad...
Rgds,
Mark
