The floating point capability of the older AMDs aren't quite as good as AMD
would have liked you to belive.. myself included... that's more of what's
bogging it down.
If you have an AWE 64 i suggest finding sbwsgupd.exe that should improve
gameplay as the AWE 64's older drivers didnt use wavesytnth well in floating
point intensive (quake, gpl, etc) games.
Floating point, in a nutshell, is the processors ability to do 3d images (in
this case basically games) CPUs with better FPL will do better with such
games than others... the Cyrix's and AMD's of the world have inferior FPL
capabilities than even older INTEL pentium chips.
i'm no real intel fan but I'm just telling it like it is... Consider (if
money is a problem) picking up a PENTIUM 233mmx chip (mmx doesnt do anything
in GPL or most games for that matter) I believe it should run ok on that
board... or even a classic P200.... if you know someone who has one borrow
his chip and you should see a large difference. I hate to be the bearer or
bad news but the AMD's and Cyrix's aren't quite as "competitive" (in the
*** market anyway they're PERFECT for usual tasks like web browsing and
2d *** and such). Even the AMD K62's with 3dNow! (again 3dNow does
nothing for GPL) have better FPL but still inferior. Again.... if money's a
problem but you really wanna upgrade further than a 233 or Intell 200...
consider a Celeron...board and chip, quite a bit cheaper than intel's PIIs
and.... the performance is virtually identical. Intel is soon going to
try to make the celerons worse though cause its seems they made them too
good for too cheap :p
Hope this helps although I'm sure its not what you wanted to hear... btw..
more ram always helps :)
-----Original Message-----
Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators
Date: Thursday, February 18, 1999 10:46 PM
Subject: GPL framerates
>I have an AMD K-6 200 with a 4 meg voodoo 1. I didn't expect blinding
>performance from this system, but even in trainer mode with everything off but
>the track, minimum resolution and sounds, I'm averaging around 30 frames at
>Watkins Glen. Is this normal? With so much turned off, I guess I expected a
>little better. Training is margional at best, racing is impossible.
