GPL compatible video cards?

My PC has a Voodoo3 3DFX video card, and as I'm only really interested in GPL, since I installed the glide patch, thats been fine for me. I now want to upgrade to a 21st century card, so I can try Vice City ( hardly the same I know, but I enjoyed playing it with my cousin at Christmas on his PS2), but I dont want to buy a card which isnt backwards compatable with GPL. Any experience with these newfangled Geoforce cards or similar would be appreciated, thankyou. Mr Davo

Geforce cards work perfect in gpl with either opengl or d3d dan "MrDavo" <Davo@upyoursspam> wrote in message news:3eca3bc1$0$11383$[email hidden]...

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> My PC has a Voodoo3 3DFX video card, and as I'm only > really interested in GPL, since I installed the glide patch, thats > been fine for me. > > I now want to upgrade to a 21st century card, so I can try Vice > City ( hardly the same I know, but I enjoyed playing it with my cousin at > Christmas on his PS2), but I dont want to buy a card which isnt backwards > compatable with GPL. Any experience with these newfangled Geoforce > cards or similar would be appreciated, thankyou. > > Mr Davo > > >

"MrDavo" <Davo@upyoursspam> wrote in message news:3eca3bc1$0$11383$[email hidden]...

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> My PC has a Voodoo3 3DFX video card, and as I'm only > really interested in GPL, since I installed the glide patch, thats > been fine for me. > > I now want to upgrade to a 21st century card, so I can try Vice > City ( hardly the same I know, but I enjoyed playing it with my cousin at > Christmas on his PS2), but I dont want to buy a card which isnt backwards > compatable with GPL. Any experience with these newfangled Geoforce > cards or similar would be appreciated, thankyou. > > Mr Davo > > >

There is a D3D patch available. Says it works with all GF cards. I have it and it works fine with my GF4 Ti4400.

GPL runs well with the D3D patch on my ATI 9700 Pro and is soooo pretty. However, the game runs too fast and the exagerated joystick sensitivity makes the cars undrivable. Geez, they were hard enough to control before........ "gordo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:baemef$3s3$[email hidden]... > > "MrDavo" <Davo@upyoursspam> wrote in messagenews:3eca3bc1$0$11383$[email hidden]... > > My PC has a Voodoo3 3DFX video card, and as I'm only > > really interested in GPL, since I installed the glide patch, thats > > been fine for me. > > > > I now want to upgrade to a 21st century card, so I can try Vice > > City ( hardly the same I know, but I enjoyed playing it with my cousinat > > Christmas on his PS2), but I dont want to buy a card which isntbackwards

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> > compatable with GPL. Any experience with these newfangled Geoforce > > cards or similar would be appreciated, thankyou. > > > > Mr Davo > > > > > > > There is a D3D patch available. > Says it works with all GF cards. > I have it and it works fine with my GF4 Ti4400. > >

<[email hidden]> wrote in message news:bakpcr$esh$[email hidden]... > GPL runs well with the D3D patch on my ATI 9700 Pro and is soooo pretty. > However, the game runs too fast and the exagerated joystick sensitivity > makes the cars undrivable. Geez, they were hard enough to control > before........ Have you applied the CPU fix? Malc.

Not yet, does it help a lot? The descriptions don't say, they just say it fixes "issues" with fast PC's. -- Doug "Malc" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:pDnza.24898$[email hidden]... > <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:bakpcr$esh$[email hidden]... > > GPL runs well with the D3D patch on my ATI 9700 Pro and is soooo pretty. > > However, the game runs too fast and the exagerated joystick sensitivity > > makes the cars undrivable. Geez, they were hard enough to control > > before........ > > Have you applied the CPU fix? > > Malc. > >

Hi again Malc, Never got around to the patch. I had about 80 games to sort out after my upgrade and basically just checked to see if it still ran. It did, so it stayed out of the discard pile, but about 12 others didn't. Just installed the CPU fix and yes it helps. Gets GPL back to its normal state of uncontrollability. I would prefer a controller patch to make the cars less jittery and keep the high graphics speed, makes it more exciting like the modern racing games instead of the usual deceptive slowness which lets you think you're going to get around the corner easily, but don't. GPL is not high on my list of games to play, too much like hard work for little gain and not much fun. I was mostly interested in playing online but wasn't making significant progress and got tired of the guys bitching about 'that warping Fer", thanks to my high ping. It can stay on my PC awhile longer until I need the space. "doug.d" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3ecfe590$0$[email hidden]...

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> Not yet, does it help a lot? The descriptions don't say, they just say it > fixes "issues" with fast PC's. > Doug > "Malc" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:pDnza.24898$[email hidden]... > > <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:bakpcr$esh$[email hidden]... > > > GPL runs well with the D3D patch on my ATI 9700 Pro and is soooo

pretty. > > > However, the game runs too fast and the exagerated joysticksensitivity

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> > > makes the cars undrivable. Geez, they were hard enough to control > > > before........ > > > > Have you applied the CPU fix? > > > > Malc. > > > > > >

"doug.d" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3ecfeda3$0$[email hidden]...

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> Hi again Malc, > > Never got around to the patch. I had about 80 games to sort out after my > upgrade and basically just checked to see if it still ran. It did, so it > stayed out of the discard pile, but about 12 others didn't. > > Just installed the CPU fix and yes it helps. Gets GPL back to its normal > state of uncontrollability. I would prefer a controller patch to make the > cars less jittery and keep the high graphics speed, makes it more exciting > like the modern racing games instead of the usual deceptive slowness which > lets you think you're going to get around the corner easily, but don't. > > GPL is not high on my list of games to play, too much like hard work for > little gain and not much fun. I was mostly interested in playing online

but > wasn't making significant progress and got tired of the guys bitchingabout > 'that warping Fer", thanks to my high ping. > > It can stay on my PC awhile longer until I need the space. Glad you got it working anyway ;-) There are ways to 'tune' your connection to help reduce warp, and it takes practice to get the most out of gpl, but it is worth the effort if you're interested in racing. Have you tried lfs? http://lfs.racesimcentral.com/ It's alot of fun, online racing is very good although currently not as well organised as gpl (5 year head start ;-)) and the cars are relatively easy to drive. Malc.

On Tue, 20 May 2003 21:57:43 -0400, "gordo" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> >"MrDavo" <Davo@upyoursspam> wrote in message news:3eca3bc1$0$11383$[email hidden]... >> My PC has a Voodoo3 3DFX video card, and as I'm only >> really interested in GPL, since I installed the glide patch, thats >> been fine for me. >> >> I now want to upgrade to a 21st century card, so I can try Vice >> City ( hardly the same I know, but I enjoyed playing it with my cousin at >> Christmas on his PS2), but I dont want to buy a card which isnt backwards >> compatable with GPL. Any experience with these newfangled Geoforce >> cards or similar would be appreciated, thankyou. >> >> Mr Davo >> >> >> >There is a D3D patch available. >Says it works with all GF cards. >I have it and it works fine with my GF4 Ti4400. >

I tried it with a GF2-MX400 and wasn't too happy with it. Voodoo graphics were much more clear and crisp and much more pleasing to the eye.

"someone" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > I tried it with a GF2-MX400 and wasn't too happy with it. Voodoo > graphics were much more clear and crisp and much more pleasing to the > eye. Try adjusting the parameters to match the capabilities of your card, especially the LOD slider setting in a tweaking program like RivaTuner. Also I highly recommend using the tweaked OpenGL patch available from RSC forum since you have a GF card. Of course you happen to be using one of the absolute rock bottom GF cards still available new as well, which doesnt help. B4 you rant, I have one too, so don't think I'm trying to criticize you. :)

I should have added that I upgraded from a Voodoo card as well, and being able to use all the bigger textures makes GPL look so much nicer than it ever did on my Voodoo card.. "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:RTsGa.5024$[email hidden]...

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> > "someone" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > > > I tried it with a GF2-MX400 and wasn't too happy with it. Voodoo > > graphics were much more clear and crisp and much more pleasing to the > > eye. > > Try adjusting the parameters to match the capabilities of your card, especially the LOD slider > setting in a tweaking program like RivaTuner. Also I highly recommend using the tweaked OpenGL > patch available from RSC forum since you have a GF card. Of course you happen to be using one of > the absolute rock bottom GF cards still available new as well, which doesnt help. B4 you rant, I > have one too, so don't think I'm trying to criticize you. :) > >