For those who bought GPL.....

I want to know if its going to run well on my system, P200 mmx 32 megs of ram, and a Monster 3d. Those of you who have bought the game, what are you running it on?

Hello ram, and a Monster 3d. Those of you who have bought the game, what are you running it on<< Welcome to the club!!! I have a P200 mmx, 64 meg of ram, and a 4meg screamin 3d from Sierra. Plop GPL in and it runs DECENT (around 20 fps)at some road courses such as Katyama<sp>...but at Monaco its about 15fps. This is when I drive alone... When i have other cars around me....oh man...about 10-15 fps :( I'm going to get another video card and see if this improves anything. If not, WAAAAAA!!!!!! Ed

>Welcome to the club!!! I have a P200 mmx, 64 meg of ram, and a 4meg screamin >3d from Sierra. Plop GPL in and it runs DECENT (around 20 fps)at some road >courses such as Katyama<sp>...but at Monaco its about 15fps. This is when I >drive alone... >When i have other cars around me....oh man...about 10-15 fps :( >I'm going to get another video card and see if this improves anything. If not, >WAAAAAA!!!!!! For gamers, the Pentium should be officially obsolete at the turn of the year. Don't bother so much with a new video card, get a P2 board and fast CPU first.

Katayama was a F1 driver but Kyalami was a F1 circuit :-) Bart

I have a P233 MMX, 64MB ram, 8 meg voodoo 2. I get around 35fps with all the options on and driving by myself. with 19 cars its around 20 FPS.

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> On 1 Oct 1998 04:39:37 GMT, > >I want to know if its going to run well on my system, P200 mmx 32 megs of ram, > >and a Monster 3d. Those of you who have bought the game, what are you running > >it on? > Sorry. It won't run very well at all on your system. Not nearly enough horsepower. > Why not try the demo...

The Demo runs smooth on my P200 mmx 32 megs systems. But that seems to have nothing to do with the full release (with other cars and stuff). Lutz -- Home: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/8059

If you have L2 cache on your machine, GPL should run fairly well. See my GPL Hardware FAQ for an extensive discussion of GPL and hardware: http://nh.ultranet.com/~gpl/ Alison Remove the spam blocker NOSPAM to email me. http://www.nh,ultranet.com/~alison

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So I'm guessin my p-133 80 megs of ram, 1mb trident video card, and 3 hardrives (256mb, 1.6g, 4.3g) wouldn't work??? The Bad New York Rangers Page http://badnyr.homepage.nu http://members.aol.com/NYR2119935/index.html "Let's just kill everyone and let your Gods sort them out!!!!!!" Marilyn Manson

NYR2119935 wrote Unless you like racing in 320x200 at around 3fps (Im serious). 2 problems here... - P-133 (minimum is a P166, but I would guess a PII 233mhz is pretty enough) - 1mb trident video card. (at least upgrade this to a Rendition card) You could easily get what I said for... around 500$ ? (I might be wrong but it's close) - Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> Good race at the Brickyard! - Official Mentally retarded guy of r.a.s. - Excuse me for my English (I'm French speaking) - Sponsored by http://www.awpss.com/ on the NROS - "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."--

Seriously? What do you get on the starting line with 19 cars. rob. >I have a P233 MMX, 64MB ram, 8 meg voodoo 2. I get around 35fps with all the >options on and driving by myself. with 19 cars its around 20 FPS.

I don't think so. My P166 (overclocked to 200MHz) with Monster 3D runs GPL no problem with all details in practice, and racing is no problem as long as you limit the number of opponents or turn off some graphics. Motocross Madness and Colin McRae also work fine. So you can keep your old PC and spend the money on games and controllers instead!

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>rrevved wrote... >>>>I want to know if its going to run well on my system, P200 mmx 32 megs of >>>>ram, >>>>>and a Monster 3d. Those of you who have bought the game, what are you >>>>running >>>>>it on? >>Time to upgrade if you want to play *any* new game. >I don't think so. My P166 (overclocked to 200MHz) with Monster 3D runs GPL >no problem with all details in practice, and racing is no problem as long as >you limit the number of opponents or turn off some graphics. Motocross >Madness and Colin McRae also work fine. So you can keep your old PC and >spend the money on games and controllers instead!

I'm running GPL on a 200MMX oc to 225 with a Voodoo1 and 64MB of RAM. Running solo, the framerate is usually the max'ed 36 fps with everything but clouds on and the detail slider (which sets distance where extra detail is mapped) to 50% and mirrors on "cars only". Adding all the mirror detail subtracts a few fps. I usually run Monza races with 11 opponents, but have also run full 19 opponent races. I cut the track objects to "many" instead of "all". The framerate on the grid is the minimum I see, usually low ***s. In a full field, I find it useful to drop detail to "few" for the start only. Typical conditions are "many" and I see 20+ fps for the entire track (except the launch). But I must say that 20 doesn't feel as smooth here as it does in, say, a flight sim. I find I need more frames for smooth driving than for flying (not surprising). In one race, it bogged down to 3-5 fps for about 10 seconds. On replay, I saw that it corresponded to a ~ ten car pileup behind me!

> In one race, it bogged down to 3-5 fps for about 10 seconds. On replay, I saw > that it corresponded to a ~ ten car pileup behind me! true. the mirror detail setting have a pretty big effect on things too, so you may want to turn that down. flawless with _all_ options turned on at 800X600. 1024X768 is possible, and pretty, but unrealistic for racing against any number of opponents. i play 8X6 with 15 opponents at any track and seem to maintain anywhere from 25 to 40 fps.... nothing scaled back on the options. 333's are cheap. celerons even cheaper... amybe the new celeraon 'A' series is a possible upgrade (and you can overclock the living hell out of them). plus, the full speed cache on the chip makes it the equivalent of a baby Xeon processor. good luck, -jch

> It is framerate limited at 37fps. all apologies. i was paying more attention to the road and keeping my ass on it than the frame counter. -jch

I have a similar system 200 MMX, 64 Ram, Monster 3d 4Meg SBlive sound.iruns great even in 800x600 w/ a few graphics turned off. 640X480 no problems.

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> rrevved wrote... > >>>I want to know if its going to run well on my system, P200 mmx 32 megs of > >>>ram, > >>>>and a Monster 3d. Those of you who have bought the game, what are you > >>>running > >>>>it on? > >Time to upgrade if you want to play *any* new game. > I don't think so. My P166 (overclocked to 200MHz) with Monster 3D runs GPL > no problem with all details in practice, and racing is no problem as long as > you limit the number of opponents or turn off some graphics. Motocross > Madness and Colin McRae also work fine. So you can keep your old PC and > spend the money on games and controllers instead!