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Gpl & Voodoo 2

9 posts by 7 people · 25 Jun 1998 - 28 Jun 1998

Hi Everybody, Right now I have a 200mmx o/c to 225 with a Matrox Millennium video card and the game play with GPL is very poor. I was thinking of buying the A Voodoo 2 video card to help matters. Would the new voodoo card actually help matters or should I just wait and buy a fast system later. Thanks In Advance, Ralph
. I was thinking of buying the A Ralph.... i asked the same uqestion somedays ago on the forum at The Apex... Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com and check out the forum... i got some good relies to my question so i guess its worth reading... Best, Edwin Solheim Check out The Paddock - a legendary site... for some cool Grand Prix Legends stuff and tips! (http://home.c2i.net/thepaddock)
Sean Graha 25 Jun 1998#412366
Quoted text (10 lines)> Hi Everybody, > Right now I have a 200mmx o/c to 225 with a Matrox Millennium video card > and the game play with GPL is very poor. I was thinking of buying the A > Voodoo 2 video card to help matters. Would the new voodoo card actually > help matters or should I just wait and buy a fast system later. > Thanks In Advance, > Ralph
I have the exact configuration you are talking about...Pentium 225 with 64 megs and a 12 meg Voodoo II card...I can run the demo at 800 x 600 and the thing flies...mind you there are no other cars around, so there could be some slowdown in a full field. I have a feeling it will still rock however. later Sean
Thanks for the help, maybe this weekend. ralph
Quoted text (19 lines)> > Hi Everybody, > > Right now I have a 200mmx o/c to 225 with a Matrox Millennium video card > > and the game play with GPL is very poor. I was thinking of buying the A > > Voodoo 2 video card to help matters. Would the new voodoo card actually > > help matters or should I just wait and buy a fast system later. > > Thanks In Advance, > > Ralph > I have the exact configuration you are talking about...Pentium 225 with > 64 megs and a 12 meg Voodoo II card...I can run the demo at 800 x 600 > and the thing flies...mind you there are no other cars around, so there > could be some slowdown in a full field. I have a feeling it will still > rock however. > later > Sean
Not only will a Voodoo2 card "help matters"....it will blow your ***y socks off when it comes to providing excellent screen refresh rate in GPL!! :o)
Quoted text (10 lines)> Hi Everybody, > Right now I have a 200mmx o/c to 225 with a Matrox Millennium video card > and the game play with GPL is very poor. I was thinking of buying the A > Voodoo 2 video card to help matters. Would the new voodoo card actually > help matters or should I just wait and buy a fast system later. > Thanks In Advance, > Ralph
-- Regards, Bruce. ---------- The GP Legends Historic Motor Racing Club is located at:- http://www.netspeed.com.au/brucek/legends/
MTB60 27 Jun 1998#412506
the code for gpl as well as icr2,n2 and n3 is optimized for rendition chip based cards. the voodoo2 is great but i would look for a card based on the rendition v2200 chip. of course 8meg ram is better than 4. the july issue of computer shopper has a complete list of cards. I use a hercules thriller 8 meg and it rips!
It's "optimised" for both. > the code for gpl as well as icr2,n2 and n3 is optimized for rendition chip > based cards. the voodoo2 is great but i would look for a card based on the > rendition v2200 chip. -- Regards, Bruce. ---------- The GP Legends Historic Motor Racing Club is located at:- http://www.netspeed.com.au/brucek/legends/
As I understand it, the Voodoo 2 is optimized for running with Pentium 2 cpus, so I wouldn't expect much more improvement than you would get with a standard Voodoo 1 3d card. If you intend to keep your current system for a while, you might just try to get a Rendition or a Voodoo 1 card which I believe you can get pretty cheap now. Patrick Gilmore
Actually Voodoo 2 needs a fast CPU to be faster than Voodoo 1, so it doesn't have to be a P2, a K6-2 is quite adequate. It's even as fast or faster than the P2 at the same clock speed when the game supports 3DNow!, which Quake 2 does and Unreal will, and I hope GPL will too. /Christer -- http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-41236/ (Read all about the "Global online racing"-proposal under "For developers")

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