GPL: FF framerate hit

Hi all, Several people on this NG mentioned they are running GPL with FF enabled without any major framerate hit. How is that possible? I have a PII 350 and with FF enabled it becomes nearly undrivable. Yesterday I went over to my brother's to temporary steal his PIII 500 and even now FF makes for horrible driving. And even though the framerate isn't too bad (although 5FPS lower), the sound gets all twitchy and it just doesn't feel right. Is there anything I'm missing here? I have installed the 3.02 version of the sidewinder software for my MSFF wheel and updated GPL to 1.2. Is there more to be done? Thanks fo any sugestions, Johan.

Have not seen any fps drop back using FF in GPL, but using FF in DTR drop bak the FPS from 30fps to 15fps !!!! i'm using -Celeron 338Mhz -128mb -MSFF Wheel -TNT2 ultra -3.02 sidewinder drivers -GPL 1.2 -DTR Demo

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> Hi all, > Several people on this NG mentioned they are running GPL with FF enabled > without any major framerate hit. How is that possible? I have a PII 350 > and with FF enabled it becomes nearly undrivable. Yesterday I went over > to my brother's to temporary steal his PIII 500 and even now FF makes > for horrible driving. And even though the framerate isn't too bad > (although 5FPS lower), the sound gets all twitchy and it just doesn't > feel right. Is there anything I'm missing here? I have installed the > 3.02 version of the sidewinder software for my MSFF wheel and updated > GPL to 1.2. Is there more to be done? > Thanks fo any sugestions, > Johan.

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i have a thrustmaster force gt and a pIII 450 with tnt card from creative. If there is any drop in frame rate it must be litle cause i don't experience it. It prob must be somethinng with the drivers for the ms wheel. Andre Amsterdam Johan Foederer heeft geschreven in bericht

The Logitech uses USB so I haven't seen any framerate losses. DTR did show problems in the demo. But I haven't determined if FF was the culprit. dave henrie

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> Hi all, > Several people on this NG mentioned they are running GPL with FF enabled > without any major framerate hit. How is that possible? I have a PII 350 > and with FF enabled it becomes nearly undrivable. Yesterday I went over > to my brother's to temporary steal his PIII 500 and even now FF makes > for horrible driving. And even though the framerate isn't too bad > (although 5FPS lower), the sound gets all twitchy and it just doesn't > feel right. Is there anything I'm missing here? I have installed the > 3.02 version of the sidewinder software for my MSFF wheel and updated > GPL to 1.2. Is there more to be done? > Thanks fo any sugestions, > Johan.

I havent noticed much impact with FF enabled on my MSFF wheel. I have a lap - does drop down to low 30's from time to time when in traffic.

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>Hi all, >Several people on this NG mentioned they are running GPL with FF enabled >without any major framerate hit. How is that possible? I have a PII 350 >and with FF enabled it becomes nearly undrivable. Yesterday I went over >to my brother's to temporary steal his PIII 500 and even now FF makes >for horrible driving. And even though the framerate isn't too bad >(although 5FPS lower), the sound gets all twitchy and it just doesn't >feel right. Is there anything I'm missing here? I have installed the >3.02 version of the sidewinder software for my MSFF wheel and updated >GPL to 1.2. Is there more to be done? >Thanks fo any sugestions, >Johan.

Johan, For starters,what graphics card are you using? I'm running a AMD K6-450 and a Voodoo3 3000. I get max frame rates with all graphics on exept track/cars only in the mirrors. Joel Willstein

Same here .. . . except! the other other day I did a clean re-install of win98 and when it came time to install DTR I didn't install DX 7.0 ( stayed with 6.1 ). No FF slowdown. Just out of interest, and to be certain, I then installed DX 7.0 and the drastic slowdown was back. I have since done another re-install. Cheers, Andrew bak the FPS from 30fps to 15fps !!!!

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I'm using that good old Voodoo 1. My graphics settings are: no dynamic lighting or specular highlights, mirrors to track and cars only without track texture, 5 sounds mixed and the detail bias set to somewhere between the words 'detail' and 'bias'. btw are you also using the Sidewinder wheel? // Johan

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> Johan, > For starters,what graphics card are you using? > I'm running a AMD K6-450 and a Voodoo3 3000. I get max frame rates with > all graphics on exept track/cars only in the mirrors. > Joel Willstein