Best 3D card for P166 & GPL

Hi ras! I've a P166, 32 Mb, and I'm thinking buy a 3D card for play GPL, network play with my P2 & TNT. What 3D card is better for a P166? I read that Banshee uses less CPU power through Glide. Anyone playing GPL with P166 and Banshee? what fps and resolution get? Thanks! Javier Fernandez --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---

I have that config.... 333 and Voodoo 2.. solid.. with only a few cars... Network works GREAT!!!! I have too wheels.. and it rocks. just need somone else who can play :-) buzz me for the settings for GPL . there are a few tricks you can do to imporve FPS.. James Pickard, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

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> Hi ras! > I've a P166, 32 Mb, and I'm thinking buy a 3D card for play GPL, > network play with my P2 & TNT. > What 3D card is better for a P166? I read that Banshee uses less CPU > power through Glide. > Anyone playing GPL with P166 and Banshee? what fps and resolution get? > Thanks! > Javier Fernandez > --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- > ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---

Get a Rendition board. You can get a Diamond Stealth S220 4mb for $30 or a Hercules Thriller 3D 8mb for around $80. For a P166 Rendition will give the best bang for your buck. On my P200 I went from 20fps on a V1 to a solid 36fps on the Thriller with more eye candy. Scottie

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>Hi ras! >I've a P166, 32 Mb, and I'm thinking buy a 3D card for play GPL, >network play with my P2 & TNT. >What 3D card is better for a P166? I read that Banshee uses less CPU >power through Glide. >Anyone playing GPL with P166 and Banshee? what fps and resolution get? >Thanks! >Javier Fernandez >--== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- >---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---

>I've a P166, 32 Mb, and I'm thinking buy a 3D card for play GPL, >network play with my P2 & TNT. >What 3D card is better for a P166? I read that Banshee uses less CPU >power through Glide. With an iP166(MMX?), the best solution would be to try and get a (used) Rendition based card, preferably with 8MB memory. Those cards depend least on CPU power. The second best option would be a VooDoo1 add-on card, if you turn off the mirrors. But on a 166, neither will be entirely satisfying. Stay away from nVidia cards for such a slow system. I managed to install GPL on an AMD K6 200 with a Riva 128 (4MB) card: it looks good, but the framerate is real bad - around 12 fps while driving alone. I don't know how things are looking with a Banshee in this kind of system, but I would guess that this card will not perform at its best with such a slow processor. -- Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome.

I use a P200 w/ Voodoo1 and I can race with 5 other cars, but any more than that and the framerate drops to low (even with 5 it would sometimes drop to single digits). My brother-in-law had a P166 w/ Redition and he was not able to race with any cars but himself. He just got a new P3 though . . . I would suggest a faster CPU and a Rendition, if GPL is going to be your primary game. SLG

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>Hi ras! >I've a P166, 32 Mb, and I'm thinking buy a 3D card for play GPL, >network play with my P2 & TNT. >What 3D card is better for a P166? I read that Banshee uses less CPU >power through Glide. >Anyone playing GPL with P166 and Banshee? what fps and resolution get? >Thanks! >Javier Fernandez >--== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- >---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---

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>They certainly were not bruce. All you needed was a mid spec PII and a plain >old Voodoo graphics card for a decent frame rate. I even had it working fine >on a P166 with 32mb and a Voodoo Graphics!. >I have the full version working fine on my Pentium 166 with 32MB of >RAM and a 12MB Voodoo2. With all the detail turned on I get around >20-25fps, on virtually all the tracks. >solid.. with only a few cars...

How can this be? I'm running a P200 with 64 MB and a Voodoo I and I rarely see 20 FPS with any other cars. Rarely see 36 in training, often see 8 on the starting grid. >I use a P200 w/ Voodoo1 and I can race with 5 other cars, but any more >than that and the framerate drops to low (even with 5 it would >sometimes drop to single digits). >My brother-in-law had a P166 w/ Redition and he was not able to race >with any cars but himself. He just got a new P3 though . . . Thank god, this sounds more like what I see. Don McCorkle Libertarian Motorsports

Forget a 'used' Rendition....pick up a $30 Stealth II S220 (Make sure its the S220, not the lame G460 or whatever the Intel chipset version is) and it will do you VERY well. Plus you have enough dough left to buy a cheap Voodoo for non-Papyrus games. -- Kirk Lane ICQ: 28171652 >>I've a P166, 32 Mb, and I'm thinking buy a 3D card for play GPL, >>network play with my P2 & TNT. >>What 3D card is better for a P166? I read that Banshee uses less CPU >>power through Glide. >With an iP166(MMX?), the best solution would be to try and get a >(used) Rendition based card, preferably with 8MB memory. Those cards >depend least on CPU power. The second best option would be a VooDoo1 >add-on card, if you turn off the mirrors. But on a 166, neither will >be entirely satisfying. Stay away from nVidia cards for such a slow >system. I managed to install GPL on an AMD K6 200 with a Riva 128 >(4MB) card: it looks good, but the framerate is real bad - around 12 >fps while driving alone. I don't know how things are looking with a >Banshee in this kind of system, but I would guess that this card will >not perform at its best with such a slow processor. >-- >Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome. cancellation warned.

>Anyone playing GPL with P166 and Banshee? what fps and resolution get? >Thanks! >Javier Fernandez I've been playing with P166MMX 64MB and Banshee lately - other machine is dead - using latest reference drivers and Banshee patch The best settings I've come up with for framerate ar as follows: 800x600 resolution turned off all mirror textures except car texture turned off ahead textures for terrain, objects, crowds, clouds - this still gives good visual clues trackside for braking points, etc turned off dynamic lighting and specular highlights detail bias 1/4 in from the left mirrors refresh every third frame sounds at 4 All this gives 28-36 fps when racing online - lowest rate I've seen on a grid is about 14

Thanks to all for the replys. Regards. Javier Fernandez --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---