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GeForce

6 posts by 5 people · 26 Dec 1999 - 28 Dec 1999

I'd like to hear about peoples experiences with the new GeForce cards when running GPL, GP2 or any other sims for that mattter. I have heard of a few problems with GPL. Also, does anyone know enough about GP3 to determine if it will support OpenGL, Glide, or D3D, etc. I have checked most of the GP3 sites and really can't find the answer to that one. I've read a lot about the GeForce cards from the Quake and Unreal Tournament crowd, and I'd like an opinion from the auto Sim crowd. Anyone???? I've been out of the Sim/hardware scene for a while, so I guess i'm kind of a newbie here. So you help would be most appreciated. TIA Emil Garcia
Slick 27 Dec 1999#510734
Gpl sucks with it, SOS even worse (but thats the games fault, is this a pre test engine for GP3?) Wouldn't know about Nascar sims but they have d3d option so that should work well. -- Oli BeoRocket Racing http://www.beorocket.co.yu/
Carl 27 Dec 1999#510735
I used the GeForce/PIII-600 with Nascar3 and Nascar legends and always got frame rates at 30fps with all details, full field, full audio, etc, etc in D3D mode, but just installed a Voodoo 2 12mb, because the graphics are better with those sims and 3DFX.
Brian Wo 28 Dec 1999#510893
should work well. if "sucks" means "only runs in 640x480" then this is correct. however, it runs as smoooth as silk and doesn't get in the way. noticably but not radically better than my previous ati rage pro. all this is on gpl. on n3, i'm running > 25 fps all the time in 1024x768 except at the start of a race. per my posting from yesterday, i'm pretty impressed with the geforce (i have an elsa erazor X). it's saving me probably six months on my cpu--it's that much better than the rage pro.
Quoted text (9 lines)> -- > Oli > BeoRocket Racing > http://www.beorocket.co.yu/ > > I'd like to hear about peoples experiences with the new GeForce
cards > > when running GPL, GP2 or any other sims for that mattter. I have heard
Quoted text (13 lines)> > of a few problems with GPL. Also, does anyone know enough about > > GP3 to determine if it will support OpenGL, Glide, or D3D, etc. I > > have checked most of the GP3 sites and really can't find the answer > > to that one. I've read a lot about the GeForce cards from the Quake > > and Unreal Tournament crowd, and I'd like an opinion from the auto > > Sim crowd. Anyone???? > > I've been out of the Sim/hardware scene for a while, so I guess i'm > > kind of a newbie here. So you help would be most appreciated. > > TIA > > Emil Garcia
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Slick 28 Dec 1999#510894
No Brian I had the GeForce running at 1024*768 and it gave 21fps in practice... (PIII-600 128MB...) -- Oli BeoRocket Racing http://www.beorocket.co.yu/ > > Gpl sucks with it, SOS even worse (but thats the games fault, is this > a pre > > test engine for GP3?) > > Wouldn't know about Nascar sims but they have d3d option so that > should work well. > if "sucks" means "only runs in 640x480" then this is correct. > however, it runs as smoooth as silk and doesn't get in the way. > noticably but not radically better than my previous ati rage pro. > all this is on gpl. > on n3, i'm running > 25 fps all the time in 1024x768 except at > the start of a race. per my posting from yesterday, i'm pretty > impressed with the geforce (i have an elsa erazor X). it's > saving me probably six months on my cpu--it's that much better > than the rage pro.
I replaced an original TNT card with a GeForce (wanted the GeForce for my animation software, but GPL has to run on any graphics card I put in the machine), and the improvement, while not dramatic, is quite noticeable. Where I was running 1024X768 with the TNT, I'm now running at 1280X1024, consistently 35-37fps, on a Celeron 450. This is by myself on the track - I'm not really a hotlapper per se, but I don't tend to run races. I'm running fairly recent nvidia Detonator drivers. It's probably not worth the price difference over a TNT2 Ultra for GPL, but since it has big benefits with my animation software, it was worth it to me. Rick

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