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1280x1024 res with GPL!!

9 posts by 7 people · 24 Oct 1998 - 26 Oct 1998

Vampy 24 Oct 1998#430094
Talk about some amazing resolutions. That new openGL patch allows my TNT to show this game at 1280x1024 resolution!!! The framerate is still showing up above 30FPS (outside car) The guys at Papyrus have already said that due to no optimization by Nvidia, their in car framerate is only in the ***s.. due to the mirror not being handled well with Nvidia's drivers. The outside car view is simply AMAZING!!! no voodoo 2 SLI could ever get up to this resolution. You can see EVERYTHING with the greatest detail and I'm STILL not at the highest resolution I can go... my monitor keeps me from going any higher. TNT owners!!! you have GOT to get this patch. The user interface needs work (due to STB drivers this time), but as long as you know where everything 'should be' you can find the options-resolution and go on up to 1280x1024. The quality is just too crisp compared to a voodoo card. The colors are REAL colors, not that washed out look. I have both a voodoo and a TNT and I only played on the voodoo because of the great speed I get... and the 3D effects. But now with this OpenGL patch, I get enough speed to enjoy it, and ALOT better quality.
Robert 24 Oct 1998#430095
1600x1200 is VERY detailed. Too bad your monitor won't handle it. It starts out in the <10 area, but picks up to >20 once the cars get going. VERY nice. >Talk about some amazing resolutions. That new openGL patch allows my TNT to >show this game at 1280x1024 resolution!!! The framerate is still showing up >above 30FPS (outside car) >STILL not at the highest resolution I can go... my monitor keeps me from >going any higher.
I agree with everything you say. I just finished a couple of laps at the "Ring" at 1280x1024 outside view and never saw the counter get below 34 when running by myself and never below the high 20s even in traffic, except at the start. (p2 400) I'm also switching back and forth between the V550 and a Monster 2, and even though the M2 shows higher in-cockpit frame rates, the V550's rendering seems to be less "jittery" even at its lower rates. (high 30s for the V2 compared with low to mid 20s for the TNT) Don't know if the card had anything to do with it, but right after installing the TNT drivers I promptly knocked more than a second off my best time at Spa, and beat my best at Monza by a couple of tenths. Besides this, the V2 suffers mightily in comparison to the TNT, even at the same resolution. Thanks to Papy for this gift, and let's push to get the mirror rendering problem fixed. When it is, boy oh boy! I've been pondering going SLI with my V2, but I think I'll wait--maybe permanently. Jerry Morelock >Talk about some amazing resolutions. That new openGL patch allows my TNT to >show this game at 1280x1024 resolution!!! The framerate is still showing up >above 30FPS (outside car) >The guys at Papyrus have already said that due to no optimization by Nvidia, >their in car framerate is only in the ***s.. due to the mirror not being >handled well with Nvidia's drivers. >The outside car view is simply AMAZING!!! no voodoo 2 SLI could ever get up >to this resolution. You can see EVERYTHING with the greatest detail and I'm >STILL not at the highest resolution I can go... my monitor keeps me from >going any higher. >TNT owners!!! you have GOT to get this patch. The user interface needs work >(due to STB drivers this time), but as long as you know where everything >'should be' you can find the options-resolution and go on up to 1280x1024. >The quality is just too crisp compared to a voodoo card. The colors are >REAL colors, not that washed out look. I have both a voodoo and a TNT and I >only played on the voodoo because of the great speed I get... and the 3D >effects. But now with this OpenGL patch, I get enough speed to enjoy it, >and ALOT better quality.
Besides this, the V2 suffers mightily Meant to say the V2 suffers mightily *in appearance* when running at the same res. And by "mightily" I mean that just about anyone seeing the two side by side with everything set the same will most assuredly say the TNT rendering looks better--it's really pretty easy to tell. Jerry Morelock
Destroy 24 Oct 1998#430098
Awe come on here. 800x600 on a 21in monitor is plenty high enough. 16x12 is just silly and starts showing the poly lines too much.
Quoted text (14 lines)> 1600x1200 is VERY detailed. Too bad your monitor won't handle it. It > starts out in the <10 area, but picks up to >20 once the cars get going. > VERY nice. > >Talk about some amazing resolutions. That new openGL patch allows my TNT > to > >show this game at 1280x1024 resolution!!! The framerate is still showing > up > >above 30FPS (outside car) > >STILL not at the highest resolution I can go... my monitor keeps me from > >going any higher.
GTIrace 25 Oct 1998#430334
WHAT? I hope you're joking. --GTIracer >Awe come on here. 800x600 on a 21in monitor is plenty high enough. 16x12 is >just silly and starts showing the poly lines too much.
Robert 25 Oct 1998#430335
Guess I am just lucky that I don't know what a poly line is. There is nothing showing at 1600x1200 that distracts from the view. Just detail and color. Why run the res. so low (800x600) on a 21" screen? Doesn't that look a little " Nintentoish "? Just asking. While the frame rate is " acceptable " at 1600x1200, I prefer the 1024x768 setting. And at this setting, and at any other, the colors with the TNT look much better than with the Cl VD2. >Awe come on here. 800x600 on a 21in monitor is plenty high enough. 16x12 is >just silly and starts showing the poly lines too much.
Bill Mette 25 Oct 1998#430336
Quoted text (7 lines)> Besides this, the V2 suffers mightily >>in comparison to the TNT, even at the same resolution. >Meant to say the V2 suffers mightily *in appearance* when running at the >same res. And by "mightily" I mean that just about anyone seeing the two >side by side with everything set the same will most assuredly say the TNT >rendering looks better--it's really pretty easy to tell.
Ok, with all this talk, let's post some screen caps folks! Does the PrtScreen function work with the OpenGL patch? If I can be convinced, I might consider a TNT card with my Christmas money. -Bill -- Bill Mette | "A person is smart. People are dumb." MCSNet, Chicago | - K MiB
>> Besides this, the V2 suffers mightily >>>in comparison to the TNT, even at the same resolution. Which TNT card are you guys talking about? Please give manufacturer etc etc...sorry for not knowing, but I am a busy guy. 8) - Todd - Todd Siechen - RealEyz Imaging - www.realeyz.com - ICQ# 12011473 - Reply by removing "SPAMFREE" from address

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