GPL downgrade

Hi all, I just bought a Riva TNT2 to replace my old voodoo1 card in GPL, but when I first launched GPL I was shocked. The image quality was bad, the mirrors were flickering and the framerate dropped by 50%!!! I have been playing around with the OpenGL settings in control panel a bit, but can't get higher framerates than about 18fps. Also changing the desktop's refresh rate had no influence. If anyone knows of some secret settings to improve performance and image quality, please let me know, because if this is really all the TNT2 can do I might as well return it. btw. I'm running on a PII350 with 128Megs RAM and the voodoo card is stil present. Thanks for any help, Johan.

Hi Johan, For your performance problem, set mirrors to draw every 8 frames. See the readme or core.ini file for details. Jason.

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> Hi all, > I just bought a Riva TNT2 to replace my old voodoo1 card in GPL, but > when I first launched GPL I was shocked. The image quality was bad, the > mirrors were flickering and the framerate dropped by 50%!!! > Thanks for any help, > Johan.

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You might as well return it. I tried Opengl and it is terrible. Or get a V2 12MB PCI and have the best of both worlds. I'm not sure if you can run the V1 with the TNT2? If you can, go back to the V1 3dfx in GPL. Tore

Why dont you just keep your V1 in there and just use it for GPL. It should work fine with the TNT2.

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>You might as well return it. I tried Opengl and it is terrible. Or get a V2 >12MB PCI and have the best of both worlds. I'm not sure if you can run the >V1 with the TNT2? If you can, go back to the V1 3dfx in GPL. >Tore >> Hi all, >> I just bought a Riva TNT2 to replace my old voodoo1 card in GPL, but >> when I first launched GPL I was shocked. The image quality was bad, the >> mirrors were flickering and the framerate dropped by 50%!!! I have been >> playing around with the OpenGL settings in control panel a bit, but >> can't get higher framerates than about 18fps. Also changing the >> desktop's refresh rate had no influence. >> If anyone knows of some secret settings to improve performance and image >> quality, please let me know, because if this is really all the TNT2 can >> do I might as well return it. >> btw. I'm running on a PII350 with 128Megs RAM and the voodoo card is >> stil present. >> Thanks for any help, >> Johan.

Go to www.the-fastlane.com get the open GL Beta 2 patch. You must restart the game after choosing the open GL setting. Hope that is your problem.

Simply plug your Voodoo card into your TNT2 and go racing. That is, assuming you KEPT your Voodoo card. If you didn't, then pick up a Voodoo2 card and plug IT into your TNT2. They're cheap now and the best way to run GPL is with Glide. The opengl beta patch is stop-gap, at best. Jerry Morelock

>You might as well return it. I tried Opengl and it is terrible. Or get a V2 >12MB PCI and have the best of both worlds. I'm not sure if you can run the >V1 with the TNT2? If you can, go back to the V1 3dfx in GPL. yep, should work fine in conjunction. I have a V330 and a voodooII in my *** box, works great. uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany (52.0N/8h30mE) Ever wondered what's wrong with the world? http://bnetwork.com/ PGP Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

I do still have my V1, but if I'm going to return the TNT2 I might as well buy a new card. They're probably not going to give me my money back and beside that I really feel I could use a upgrade for GPL. I've been running the V1 too long. Does any one know if a V2 or V3 is a good improvement over a V1? And what about two V2's? Is that any good? // Johan

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> Why dont you just keep your V1 in there and just use it for GPL. It > should work fine with the TNT2. > >You might as well return it. I tried Opengl and it is terrible. Or get a V2 > >12MB PCI and have the best of both worlds. I'm not sure if you can run the > >V1 with the TNT2? If you can, go back to the V1 3dfx in GPL. > >Tore

The jump from a V1 to a V3 was huge for me. -- Don Burnette Dburn in N3 and Legends

>I just bought a Riva TNT2 to replace my old voodoo1 card in GPL, but >when I first launched GPL I was shocked. The image quality was bad, the >mirrors were flickering and the framerate dropped by 50%!!! I have been >playing around with the OpenGL settings in control panel a bit, but >can't get higher framerates than about 18fps. Also changing the >desktop's refresh rate had no influence. The TNT2 card isn't the best solution for GPL (the Voodoo 3 is). That said, did you install the OpenGL Beta 2 patch? It sounds like you're using the software renderer, since in general the OpenGL display quality is better then with the V3 or Rendition. The only problem is with the mirrors, but you can finetune them with CORE.INI parameters. Details are in the readme of the OpenGL patch. Be adviced, the results with TNT2 should be far better then with the V1... Remco

> The TNT2 card isn't the best solution for GPL (the Voodoo 3 is). That's why I've decided to try and change it for a V3 tomorrow. I did install the Beta 2 patch and the image quality gets better at resolutions of at least 1024x768. If you compare the 640x480 screens the V1 is definatly better, even in the menus you see the difference. I tried the mirror setting in core.ini, but the mirrors were messed up with all settings.

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