GPL - Voodoo 2 advanced options

I thought I saw a post about this recently, but I can't seem to find it... What options in Voodoo 2 advanced menu should be checked for optimum GPL performance, i.e. speed, not eye-candy? Does "Limit texture memory to 2Mb for glide apps" affect GPL and if so, how? Thanks in advance, From SpeedFreek

That all depends on your system. By limiting the memory for Glide applications you're telling your system to "don't draw things that would eat up more then 2 meg". The more memory that's taken for drawing things, the less there is for other things associated with the Sim. **But then again... I'm no expert** and I'm sure someone will help me understand the true idealism behind it. To find out if it works for your system, try this.. Go to your favorite track. While in the pits, press "ALT-F". Mark down the number shown on the bottom of the screen. Go back and select that option under Advanced and do the same thing again. If that number is higher, then you do want it. If it's lower, Then you don't. The downfall to selecting this is that you will see a "tare" in the screen every now and then. It'll look just like you're at the movie theater and the screen suddenly tares then repairs it self a second later. Or there is a flaw in a couple frames in the film. It wont harm your system at all. It will either improve the frame rate or it wont. I have it selected as it gave me 8fps more. Mike Barlow

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> I thought I saw a post about this recently, but I can't seem to find it... > What options in Voodoo 2 advanced menu should be checked for optimum GPL > performance, i.e. speed, not eye-candy? > Does "Limit texture memory to 2Mb for glide apps" affect GPL and if so, how? > Thanks in advance, > From SpeedFreek

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>Checking 'Dont sync buffer swaps' will allow higher framerate in certain >situations, by not making the framerate depend on how your monitor >is being refreshed. It can also cause 'tearing' of the images. Try it, >you will probably like it, for most things. >'Limit texture memory' should be UNCHECKED. It will make your >programs think that you have much less video memory than you >have. It is used mostly for compatibility with older Glide games. >-- >// rrevved posts from mindspring dot com

Hi there.... I can't find 'Dont sync buffer swaps' anywhere in advanced onptions in the 3dfx voodoo 2 tab in display properties. Where is it? Do I need to update my drivers? I'm using glide 2.54 with 2.53 in GPL dir. Thanks, from SpeedFreek.