GPL: Frame Rate question

Hi, and a voodoo card. The graphics acceleration is done by the voodoo. If i'm in the arcade view i get constant 36 fps with my display settings, but in the driving view, which i prefer, i get about 20-30 fps. I know that there are some problems with***pits and voodoos. The graphics card seems to be the bottleneck. What kind of upgrade would you suggest? Rendition v2200 or voodoo 2, would that help? thanks, Joachim

Hi Jo, >What kind of upgrade would you suggest? >Rendition v2200 or voodoo 2, would that help? For P2-300 and below: The Rendition 2200. Above the P2-300 you could consider a Voodoo2. I've a Celeron 450 with a Rendition 2200 and Voodoo2 SLI. I prefer the Rendition. Remco

IMO definitely the rendition. If GPL is your main concern then get an 8meg thriller. If you also play games requiring 3dfx then... well... voodoo banshee is great. As Remco said the rendition is the best for slower cpu's. As someone who had a 200 with the 8meg thriller I must say that even though the video upgrade will help that GPL is a huge cpu hog and I wasn't really satisfied until I upgraded to a 450. Now it is freaking unbelievable. JM

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> Hi, > and a voodoo card. The graphics acceleration is done by the voodoo. > If i'm in the arcade view i get constant 36 fps with my display > settings, but in the driving view, which i prefer, i get about 20-30 fps. > I know that there are some problems with***pits and voodoos. > The graphics card seems to be the bottleneck. > What kind of upgrade would you suggest? > Rendition v2200 or voodoo 2, would that help? > thanks, > Joachim

If you plan on upgrading to a new PC in the next few months, you might want to get a Voodoo2. This way you can move the Voodoo2 to the new PC and have your choice of the latest greatest cards (running at 200+ MHz, 4x AGP) as the primary video card. Brian >and a voodoo card ... >What kind of upgrade would you suggest? >Rendition v2200 or voodoo 2, would that help?

Hi John, I am currently running a 3dfx addon board. In comparison to my current setup, will the thriller produce better fps? thanks, Joachim

I think your problem is the cpu. I have a celeron overclocked to 374mhz and 128 mb of ram. I have a voodoo 1 card and i get 35-36 fps in the***pit with all the graphics on.