Have I made the right choice for GPL?

I used to play GPL (the demo) with an AMD K6 200, 48Mb ram, Voodoo 1 and a gravis analogue joystick; Yes, this was pretty slow. Ia€?m now playing the full version with a Celeron 433, 64Mb ram, Voodoo 3 2000, Soundbalster PCI64 and a Microsoft FF wheel. I may drive slower than Tora Takagi with three wheels and two broken legs, but Ia€?m happy nethertheless. Months of practice and an unhappy girlfriend here I come. Have I made a good choice, though? Perhaps more RAM or an SBLive! is required? * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!

> I used to play GPL (the demo) with an AMD K6 200, 48Mb ram, Voodoo 1 and > a gravis analogue joystick; Yes, this was pretty slow. > Ia€?m now playing the full version with a Celeron 433, 64Mb ram, Voodoo 3 2000, Soundbalster PCI64 and a Microsoft FF wheel. I may drive slower than Tora Takagi with three wheels and two broken legs, but Ia€?m happy nethertheless. Months of practice and an unhappy girlfriend here I come. > Have I made a good choice, though? Perhaps more RAM or an SBLive! is required? SBLive made a big difference for me, but the old sound card was an on-board cheapo thing so it may have been worse than your existing one.

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>> I used to play GPL (the demo) with an AMD K6 200, 48Mb ram, Voodoo 1 and >> a gravis analogue joystick; Yes, this was pretty slow. >> Ia€?m now playing the full version with a Celeron 433, 64Mb ram, >Voodoo 3 2000, Soundbalster PCI64 and a Microsoft FF wheel. I may drive >slower than Tora Takagi with three wheels and two broken legs, but Ia€?m >happy nethertheless. Months of practice and an unhappy girlfriend here I come. >> Have I made a good choice, though? Perhaps more RAM or an SBLive! is >required? >SBLive made a big difference for me, but the old sound card was an >on-board cheapo thing so it may have been worse than your existing one.

SBLive made a big difference to me also - full sounds instead of the minimum, and my previous card was a SB16 -- Mike Buckley Cotswold Pig Development Co Ltd Tel: +44 (0)1472 371591 Fax: +44 (0)1472 371208 http://www.toastyhamster.freeserve.co.uk

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> writes > >> I used to play GPL (the demo) with an AMD K6 200, 48Mb ram, Voodoo 1 and > >> a gravis analogue joystick; Yes, this was pretty slow. > >> Ia€?m now playing the full version with a Celeron 433, 64Mb ram, > >Voodoo 3 2000, Soundbalster PCI64 and a Microsoft FF wheel. I may drive > >slower than Tora Takagi with three wheels and two broken legs, but Ia€?m > >happy nethertheless. Months of practice and an unhappy girlfriend here I come. > >> Have I made a good choice, though? Perhaps more RAM or an SBLive! is > >required? > >SBLive made a big difference for me, but the old sound card was an > >on-board cheapo thing so it may have been worse than your existing one. > SBLive made a big difference to me also - full sounds instead of the > minimum, and my previous card was a SB16

Oh yes, and I forgot to mention that with my old onboard sound system the replacement engine sounds were just awful, whereas with the SBLive they are superb! I guess that's why the inbuilt sounds were fairly mediocre - they must have been designed with low-end sound cards in mind.

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>> >SBLive made a big difference for me, but the old sound card was an >> >on-board cheapo thing so it may have been worse than your existing one. >> SBLive made a big difference to me also - full sounds instead of the >> minimum, and my previous card was a SB16 >Oh yes, and I forgot to mention that with my old onboard sound system >the replacement engine sounds were just awful, whereas with the SBLive >they are superb! >I guess that's why the inbuilt sounds were fairly mediocre - they must >have been designed with low-end sound cards in mind.

ooh, interesting, i tried the replacement sounds with my SB16 and couldn't work out what all the fuss was about, i binned them straight away. I'll try them again now i have my Live installed. -- Mike Buckley Cotswold Pig Development Co Ltd Tel: +44 (0)1472 371591 Fax: +44 (0)1472 371208 http://www.toastyhamster.freeserve.co.uk

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>I used to play GPL (the demo) with an AMD K6 200, 48Mb ram, Voodoo 1 and >a gravis analogue joystick; Yes, this was pretty slow. >Ia€?m now playing the full version with a Celeron 433, 64Mb ram, >Voodoo 3 2000, Soundbalster PCI64 and a Microsoft FF wheel. I may drive >slower than Tora Takagi with three wheels and two broken legs, but >Ia€?m happy nethertheless. Months of practice and an unhappy girlfriend >here I come. >Have I made a good choice, though? Perhaps more RAM or an SBLive! is >required?

I don't think either would make much difference. I'm running almost the same setup without FF. When I went from a Soundblaster Pro (ISA) to my PCI64, the difference was quite large. Live would sound a little better, but I doubt it would improve frame rate or control smoothness. You've got a pretty good system there, any remaining problems are your fault :-) Don McCorkle