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How can I play GP2 on WinNT 4.0? Uwe vcard.vcf < 1K Download

you can't. Craig >How can I play GP2 on WinNT 4.0? >Uwe

Craig Marcho skrev i meddelandet t>... >>How can I play GP2 on WinNT 4.0? >you can't. On a similar note, I'm considering a switch to NT4. Would a DirectX game such as F1RS work better, worse or just the same as under 95? --- Jon Petersson (http://user.tninet.se/~rdv654m/Jon.html) I support Sarah-K and the rasf1 cars (http://www.sarah.org/rasf1/)

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I thought you *could* play GP2 under NT, but you just don't get any sound? *Peter* 8-) (NB: remove asterix to e-mail)

I don't think F1RS will work under NT 4.0, because NT is only DX3 and I think F1RS requires DX5......I haven't tried it yet, though......Maybe I'll try it and see... Craig

Craig Marcho skrev i meddelandet t>... Thanks for the info. I will not go back to DX3, so I guess I'll wait a bit with NT. --- Jon Petersson (http://user.tninet.se/~rdv654m/Jon.html) I support Sarah-K and the rasf1 cars (http://www.sarah.org/rasf1/)

Well, it does. I run it on PII-266/64/MilleniumII 4MB/ NT4 SP3 (DX3), but it really crawls:( BR Alex Tourkin UIN 9653376 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ General Protection Fault: Couldn't enter Windows, try doors!

The biggest reason for that is video hardware acceleration is software emulated under NT 4.0. Under NT 5.0 video acceleration really is DMA and should be fast. I plan to run this and several other games on my multi-proc under 5.0 when I get the chance. I doubt if they were written as multi-threaded applications however. -Paul >>I don't think F1RS will work under NT 4.0, because NT is only DX3 and I >Well, it does. I run it on PII-266/64/MilleniumII 4MB/ NT4 SP3 (DX3), but it

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>really crawls:( >BR >Alex Tourkin >UIN 9653376 >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >General Protection Fault: >Couldn't enter Windows, try doors!

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>>I don't think F1RS will work under NT 4.0, because NT is only DX3 and I >Well, it does. I run it on PII-266/64/MilleniumII 4MB/ NT4 SP3 (DX3), but it >really crawls:( >BR >Alex Tourkin >UIN 9653376 >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >General Protection Fault: >Couldn't enter Windows, try doors!

Well, it's in sync with the rest of that "OS" then, wouldn't you agree? ;-) Uwe -- Spam-proof e-mail: Uwe Schuerkamp <hoover at telemedia . de> http://www.telemedia.de/~hoover ////// Phone: +49-5241-80-10-66 Best of Scottish Folk: http://home.pages.de/~nsg >>> Blue Ribbon Campaign: Support Free Speech on the Internet <<<

Uwe Schuerkamp skrev i meddelandet Hell no! NT4 is the first good OS Microsoft ever produced, IMO. It simply wasn't designed with games in mind. I don't think F1RS runs very well under Unix either. ;-) --- Jon Petersson (http://user.tninet.se/~rdv654m/Jon.html) I support Sarah-K and the rasf1 cars (http://www.sarah.org/rasf1/)

I have seen people claim that they managed to by running in VGA and without sound. Not that this is a big help :-) JoH Please remove *anti-spam* from the email when replying. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= When everything else failed, we can still become im- mortal by making an enormous blunder.... John Kenneth Galbraith =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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>Uwe Schuerkamp skrev i meddelandet >>>Well, it does. I run it on PII-266/64/MilleniumII 4MB/ NT4 SP3 (DX3), but >it >>>really crawls:( >>Well, it's in sync with the rest of that "OS" then, >>wouldn't you agree? ;-) >Hell no! >NT4 is the first good OS Microsoft ever produced, IMO. It simply wasn't >designed with games in mind. >I don't think F1RS runs very well under Unix either. ;-)

Would you be surprised to find out that the 3dfx version of Quake II for Linux suffers only 3-5% performance loss from real multitasking compared to the windows version? Couple that with the fastest tcp/ip stack on this planet, and I guess you'd have a great environment for multiplayer racing games over the net. With the growing popularity of Linux I would not be surprised at all to see some companies taking note like corel did the other day. Regards, Uwe -- Spam-proof e-mail: Uwe Schuerkamp <hoover at telemedia . de> http://www.telemedia.de/~hoover ////// Phone: +49-5241-80-10-66 Best of Scottish Folk: http://home.pages.de/~nsg >>> Blue Ribbon Campaign: Support Free Speech on the Internet <<<

Uwe Schuerkamp skrev i meddelandet Not at all. I'm surprised it isn't faster. Difference: "Quake II for Linux" isn't written for Windows 95. F1RS is, and NT isn't Windows 95. No offense, but you're sounding a bit like I did when I tried to convince everyone that OS/2 was the OS of the future. Sad as it may be, Linux is not going to be a *** platform, ever. --- Jon Petersson (http://user.tninet.se/~rdv654m/Jon.html I support Sarah-K and the rasf1 cars (http://www.sarah.org/rasf1/

>No offense, but you're sounding a bit like I did when I tried to convince >everyone that OS/2 was the OS of the future. Sad as it may be, Linux is not >going to be a *** platform, ever. Hmmm, would you like to bet on it? One could argue that Linux/Unix has been the first ever *** platform in history, with old beauties like sail, Nethack, xblast, xtrek, or xpilot about, especially in the networked game area. The current pre*** of Windows doesn't mean it'll stay that way forever, and with competitors like BeOS and Linux entering the market I find it as hard to believe that nt x.0 (remember the big merger ;-) is ever going to be a *** platform more than the others will be. Only time and consumers will tell. BTW, I really like the fact F1RS II will be out for the N64. Uwe -- Spam-proof e-mail: Uwe Schuerkamp <hoover at telemedia . de> http://www.telemedia.de/~hoover ////// Phone: +49-5241-80-10-66 Best of Scottish Folk: http://home.pages.de/~nsg >>> Blue Ribbon Campaign: Support Free Speech on the Internet <<<