Upgrading banshee to V3000

I'm considering upgrading a Voodoo Banshee to a V3000. My system is a Celeron O/C'd to 458MHz with plenty o' memory. Do people reckon that GPL would be improved by the change of graphics card? With my current system on the Banshee I can run at 800x600 with most stuff turned on - however, it's very dark on all glide apps and adjusting the glide gamma balance doesn't seem to help. How's GPL with a V3000? Anyone have a comparable system? Will the "too dark" problem go away? Thanks in advance. Richard -- Richard G. Clegg Only the mind is waving Networks and Non-Linear Dynamics Group Dept. of Mathematics, Uni. of York www: http://manor.york.ac.uk/top.html

Hi Guillemot FF Wheel, and I get 36fps all the time at 800x600 with "detail bias" in the middle and all other stuff turned on max ,no problem adjusting the "gamma settings". P.Ivar

: Hi : Guillemot FF Wheel, and I get 36fps all the time at 800x600 with "detail : bias" in the middle and all other stuff turned on max ,no problem adjusting : the "gamma settings". Will it run at 1024x(whatever that number is) with any decent speed? -- Richard G. Clegg Only the mind is waving Networks and Non-Linear Dynamics Group Dept. of Mathematics, Uni. of York www: http://manor.york.ac.uk/top.html

1024x768? yes, but it sometimes goes down to 33-34fps (with a lot of other cars around you) P.Ivar > : Hi SBLive / > : Guillemot FF Wheel, and I get 36fps all the time at 800x600 with "detail > : bias" in the middle and all other stuff turned on max ,no problem adjusting

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> : the "gamma settings". > Will it run at 1024x(whatever that number is) with any decent speed? > -- > Richard G. Clegg Only the mind is waving > Networks and Non-Linear Dynamics Group > Dept. of Mathematics, Uni. of York > www: http://manor.york.ac.uk/top.html

Richard, Go for it. The Voodoo3 3000 wins hands down. Joel Willstein

What kind of frame rates do you get in 800x 600? My Banshee (oclocked to 127mhz) gives consistent 35-37 fps in training, but poor with other cars, due to my k6-2 300 cpu. I'll be upgrading to a celeron soon, primarily for gpl, but I'll probably be sticking with the Banshee for a while, and would like to know what performance I'd be getting with a full grid of cars. At the very least, make sure you o'clock the banshee, the jump in performance is quite good, so long as you have a fan on the heatsink. I haven't had any dramas at all with glide apps being dark, some need some gamma correction, but most are fine. Maybe your monitor doesn't allow you to use enough brightness?? Regards R Mc

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> I'm considering upgrading a Voodoo Banshee to a V3000. My system > is a Celeron O/C'd to 458MHz with plenty o' memory. Do people > reckon > that GPL would be improved by the change of graphics card? With my > current system on the Banshee I can run at 800x600 with most stuff > turned on - however, it's very dark on all glide apps and > adjusting the > glide gamma balance doesn't seem to help. > How's GPL with a V3000? Anyone have a comparable system? Will > the > "too dark" problem go away? > Thanks in advance. > Richard > -- > Richard G. Clegg Only the mind is waving > Networks and Non-Linear Dynamics Group > Dept. of Mathematics, Uni. of York > www: http://manor.york.ac.uk/top.html

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: What kind of frame rates do you get in 800x 600? My Banshee (oclocked : to 127mhz) gives consistent 35-37 fps in training, but poor with other : cars, due to my k6-2 300 cpu. I'll be upgrading to a celeron soon, : primarily for gpl, but I'll probably be sticking with the Banshee for a : while, and would like to know what performance I'd be getting with a : full grid of cars. At 800x600 a full grid of cars tends to be jerky with my celeron oc'd to 460. I suspect the Banshee is the bottleneck for my system - but I may be wrong. -- Richard G. Clegg Only the mind is waving Networks and Non-Linear Dynamics Group Dept. of Mathematics, Uni. of York www: http://manor.york.ac.uk/top.html