Has anyone tried GPL with a AMD K6 300?

The title says it all, I try to find ways to use my old 'puter for another six months... And being able to run GPL with a few opponents... I do have a Rendition Stealth II, and a P 250Mhz (overclocked on 83 Mhz bus...), wonder if the AMD will make any difference... We're awaiting the GPL release here in Europe, words can't express our envy of you americans!!! We just have to dig out those drool buckets reading posts from you lucky ones... ---Asgeir---

I just upgraded to an AMD K-2 333 with a 100 bus motherboard and 128meg of SDRAM. I also have a 12 meg Diamond Voodoo2. GPL runs like a dream in 1024x768, but this is only the demo, I await the full game on Friday. I will see what AI does to it!! Scott

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> The title says it all, I try to find ways to use my old 'puter for > another six months... And being able to run GPL with a few opponents... > I do have a Rendition Stealth II, and a P 250Mhz (overclocked on 83 Mhz > bus...), wonder if the AMD will make any difference... > We're awaiting the GPL release here in Europe, words can't express our > envy of you americans!!! We just have to dig out those drool buckets > reading posts from you lucky ones... > ---Asgeir---

Yes I have a AMD K-6 2 3D Now/300 And GPL runs great with it, :o)

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> The title says it all, I try to find ways to use my old 'puter for > another six months... And being able to run GPL with a few opponents... > I do have a Rendition Stealth II, and a P 250Mhz (overclocked on 83 Mhz > bus...), wonder if the AMD will make any difference... > We're awaiting the GPL release here in Europe, words can't express our > envy of you americans!!! We just have to dig out those drool buckets > reading posts from you lucky ones... > ---Asgeir---

512 kb cache 64 megs sdram 800*600 (actually not any better fps at 640*480) 19 opponents detail almost all the way off (left) crowds off (haven't tried it on yet) driver's arms off (too distracting for me anyway) everything else on 32-34 fps w/ 3-4 cars near 36fps solid (I have seen it jump to 37. xx at times as others have posted) when alone Only gets noticeably slower when there's a wreck (mostly me ;) ) and there are alot of cars around ( I guess the ai gets pretty busy trying to avoid me), as low as 8-12 fps if it happens in the first Lesmo on the first lap w/ all the cars right there( I am able to pass quite a few before it happens, oh well. Brian

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>>The title says it all, I try to find ways to use my old 'puter for >>another six months... And being able to run GPL with a few opponents... >>I do have a Rendition Stealth II, and a P 250Mhz (overclocked on 83 Mhz >>bus...), wonder if the AMD will make any difference... >Frankly, I doubt that a K6 300 will show a lot of improvement over an >Intel P250. I guess you won't replace the mainboard, so you will still >be limited to 83MHz bus (and L2 cache) speed. The 50 extra MHz will >probably be eaten up by the K6's slightly inferior FPU performance. >At best, a K6 300 will do approx. 350MHz, so there's not a lot of >overclockability in that one either. But since I have neither the chip >nor the sim, this is pure (though informed) speculation. :) >-- >Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome.

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>The title says it all, I try to find ways to use my old 'puter for >another six months... And being able to run GPL with a few opponents... >I do have a Rendition Stealth II, and a P 250Mhz (overclocked on 83 Mhz >bus...), wonder if the AMD will make any difference... Frankly, I doubt that a K6 300 will show a lot of improvement over an Intel P250. I guess you won't replace the mainboard, so you will still be limited to 83MHz bus (and L2 cache) speed. The 50 extra MHz will probably be eaten up by the K6's slightly inferior FPU performance. At best, a K6 300 will do approx. 350MHz, so there's not a lot of overclockability in that one either. But since I have neither the chip nor the sim, this is pure (though informed) speculation. :) -- Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome.