I've upgraded my computer. It's now a PIII 450, 64 ram, Vood 3-3K.
There is a dramatic improvement in grahics and handling. I drove for
months with a framerate between 5 and 7, before the upgrade. That was
difficult. Now getting 22 to 37 with almost all detail turned on,
except for mirrors. Now, I can see why so many of you enjoy this sim.
But, I am getting some small intermittent (1/4 or 1/2 second?) freeze
ups during driving and also in replays. How can I eliminate those
hiccups? Is this a ram issue? Increase to 128? Or should I reduce the
graphics? Or maybe a swap file adjustment needs to be made? Thank you
in advance for the help.
C. Beaudouin
Is there any way you can look at your hard disk activity light when you get the
freezes? Hard disk access is probably the problem, and that would confirm it.
You should take a look at your virtual memory (swap) settings. Set the min. and
max. amounts to be the same value, and a value of 128M should work well for your
system. Also, how much memory did you allocate for replay storage in GPL? You
can set this in one of the ini files, but I forget the syntax.
Keith.
> How can I eliminate those hiccups?
Don't know if this has anything to do with your problem, but found this
on VROC:
"Windows by default will take up to 33% of all free memory it finds for
file caching, and while it does "shrink" the cache when other programs
need the memory, if there is data in the cache, it has to write the
existing cache data to the hard drive to do this (or delete it if it was
just data that was read off the drive). All of this will make Windows
pause while it happens, and can cause those annoying little "hiccups" in
GPL."
Go to the Technical Notes section of www.vroc.net for the solution!
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Bye,
Leo
In an earlier post, it was suggested that the sound card might be causing
the hiccups.
GPL was having terrible hiccups (6-8 per lap at short tracks), when I
played it. I uninstalled the Live Ware 2.0 software for the SB Live Value
and installed Live Ware 3.0 (without the Creative Launcher). Now, GPL has
no hiccups and the frame rate is up dramatically.
(More information for TNT'ers who are having trouble with frame rates.)
Now, I'm GPL'ing and GP500'ing non-stop.
Keith Kramer
P3 500
Diamond Viper 770 TNT2
SB Live Value
128 MB
Windows95
