VROC and winmodem

Hello, I've read a lot about throwing the winmodem out the window down on the highway so a big truck can run over it if I am going to race on VROC. I tried a race a few days ago, and i got during a race at monza 33-36 fps at 800x600 with full detail, and cars and track in mirror. My system is a PIII 450, 128 MB ram and a CL V2 12 MB card. I found this not to be bad at all, so the question is: What impacts do the winmodem have on the system. Is it framerate hit or is it latency hit? -- Olav K. Malmin remove spam when replying

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> Hello, > I've read a lot about throwing the winmodem out the window down on the highway > so a big truck can run over it if I am going to race on VROC. > I tried a race a few days ago, and i got during a race at monza 33-36 fps at > 800x600 with full detail, and cars and track in mirror. > My system is a PIII 450, 128 MB ram and a CL V2 12 MB card. > I found this not to be bad at all, so the question is: > What impacts do the winmodem have on the system. Is it framerate hit or is it > latency hit?

I'm playing with a WinModem as well, and I didn't have any problems once I installed a PDPI card and a SoundBlaster Live Value card. My guess is that the biggest problem with the WinModem is long interrupt latency, so as long as there are no other devices needing long interrupts (eg. sound card and analogue joystick), it's actually OK. My system is a P233 with 32mb, Voodoo Banshee at 1024x768 (but I do need to turn the detail down low and have few trackside objects).

> I've read a lot about throwing the winmodem out the window down on the highway > so a big truck can run over it if I am going to race on VROC. To be honest, you should do this whether or not you want to race on VROC, period. Thomas Ford "Please remove NOSPAMMING from e-mail address to reply"

Yep the bottom line is win modems use the cpu for modem processing where as non-winmodem modem's have all the circuitry for communications on them. Sorta like a 2d card vs a 3d card. BH > >Hello, > >I've read a lot about throwing the winmodem out the window down on the highway

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> >so a big truck can run over it if I am going to race on VROC. > my 2cents worth: > i understand the winmodem cant deal with the signal so it sends to the > cpu...even in micro-seconds its still a delay....what i have done to > help ( and since doing see no il-effects) is go into the modem > settings and zero the 2 buffer lines (a slide bar taht defaults to 16 > on top and 14 on bottom) i know so little about this i dont even know > what top & bottom lines refer to, but after sliding to left (zero) > there is no delay signal to cpu... > make any sense to you wiz-kids?

>Hello, >I've read a lot about throwing the winmodem out the window down on the highway >so a big truck can run over it if I am going to race on VROC. my 2cents worth: i understand the winmodem cant deal with the signal so it sends to the cpu...even in micro-seconds its still a delay....what i have done to help ( and since doing see no il-effects) is go into the modem settings and zero the 2 buffer lines (a slide bar taht defaults to 16 on top and 14 on bottom) i know so little about this i dont even know what top & bottom lines refer to, but after sliding to left (zero) there is no delay signal to cpu... make any sense to you wiz-kids?

Here is a useful short description of what a winmodem is all about: http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,371247,00.html ~dx