Which Geforce will give me GPL at 36FPS ?

I'm using a PIII overclocked to 1000 Mhz and currently have a Voodoo3 2000. I'm just wondering what is roughly the minimum Geforce card that will allow me to continue running GPL at 36 FPS. Thanks in advance.

"Incubus" wrote... > I'm using a PIII overclocked to 1000 Mhz and currently > have a Voodoo3 2000. > > I'm just wondering what is roughly the minimum Geforce > card that will allow me to continue running GPL at 36 > FPS. All of them if you don't go nuts on the 16-bit and 3D wheels stuff, I think. Jan. =---

Best buy is a GeForce Ti200 for $80 new. You can overclock it to the Ti500 specs easily. "Incubus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:%04i9.6217$[email hidden]... > I'm using a PIII overclocked to 1000 Mhz and currently have a Voodoo32000. > > I'm just wondering what is roughly the minimum Geforce card that willallow

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> me to continue running GPL at 36 FPS. > > Thanks in advance. > > > >

"Incubus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:%04i9.6217$[email hidden]... > I'm using a PIII overclocked to 1000 Mhz and currently have a Voodoo32000. > > I'm just wondering what is roughly the minimum Geforce card that willallow > me to continue running GPL at 36 FPS. > > Thanks in advance. My old Kyro2 ran GPL fine with plenty of addons, although a grid full of Ferraris slowed it down a bit (19fps at the start, solid 36 otherwise). It's got similar performance to an MX400 according to reviews. I've now got a gf4 4200 & it'll do 36fps even with full AA. If you're in the UK my Kyro2 is for sale. Mail me if you want the info (watch the 'typo' though). Malc.

"Incubus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:%04i9.6217$[email hidden]... > I'm using a PIII overclocked to 1000 Mhz and currently have a Voodoo32000. > > I'm just wondering what is roughly the minimum Geforce card that willallow > me to continue running GPL at 36 FPS. > > Thanks in advance. If you use the new OpenGL rasterizer that somebody on the Racesimcentral (http://forum.racesimcentral.com) boards hacked, just about anything will get you 36fps all the time, even with a ton of addons. Of course, this doesn't apply to the "back of the field at Monaco" test, but even so, the OpenGL driver feels smoother than D3D even when the framerate drops. I recently upgraded from a GF2GTS to a GF4 Ti4200, just to get the latest drivers working properly with OpenGL. With 4x AA and 8x anisotropic filtering at 1152x864, detail slider at about 95%, I'm running 30-36fps during qualifying on an Athlon 1GHz with the Ti4200 (overclocked to Ti4400 speeds). With all the updated cars and tracks, the game is absolutely gorgeous.

"Incubus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<%04i9.6217$[email hidden]>... > I'm using a PIII overclocked to 1000 Mhz and currently have a Voodoo3 2000. > > I'm just wondering what is roughly the minimum Geforce card that will allow > me to continue running GPL at 36 FPS. > > Thanks in advance. Resolution? Detail Bias? On your own or at the back of a Monza/Monaco grid? Base cars or 3D wheels? Too many possibilities, but I bet a GF2 of any type, as long as its not an MX, would do the trick. I'd avoid any MX models of any level of GeForce. A GF3 Ti200 would let you reasonably do 2xFSAA. HTH, Kendt

"Kendt Eklund" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > "Incubus" <[email hidden]> wrote in messagenews:<%04i9.6217$[email hidden]>... > > I'm using a PIII overclocked to 1000 Mhz and currently have a Voodoo32000. > > > > I'm just wondering what is roughly the minimum Geforce card that willallow

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> > me to continue running GPL at 36 FPS. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > Resolution? Detail Bias? On your own or at the back of a > Monza/Monaco grid? Base cars or 3D wheels? > Too many possibilities, but I bet a GF2 of any type, as long as its > not an MX, would do the trick. I'd avoid any MX models of any level > of GeForce. A GF3 Ti200 would let you reasonably do 2xFSAA.

To be honest, extra info like that isn't really needed for gpl, since it peaks at 36fps anyway. Unless you want to run at a huge resolution (I use 1152x864, big, but not huge) then most nVidia cards will be fine. I'd avoid an MX200 or TNT2 M64, but otherwise, more is better. Just get the best you can afford. GPL isn't a DX8 game, so the gf3 & 4 extra DX8 features won't make much difference, but extra speed will. Malc.

Moving from a GF3 to a GF4 Ti4600 didn't gave me much improvment in fps but, running at 4xsFSAA is what I was looking for. With GPL you need CPU, CPU, CPU unless you have a Voodoo5. With my old V5 I was doing 36fps on start at back of full grid with full detail everywhere. With my GF4 Ti4600 I have to settle for 24fps at start then 36 fps after first turn. This is unless you're ready to play down with the detail bias. If FSAA is important to you then you could go for GF4 Ti4200, if not a good GF3 will do the same. This is my experience on V5 -> GF3 -> GF4. CL "Incubus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:%04i9.6217$[email hidden]... > I'm using a PIII overclocked to 1000 Mhz and currently have a Voodoo32000. > > I'm just wondering what is roughly the minimum Geforce card that willallow

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The V3 might be the bottleneck, but... Reduce the detail bias slider to 30% get the mirror patch thingie and go for a refresh rate of only every 2nd or 3rd frame. This should give you a significant boost on your FPS. HTH JensSchumi On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 04:56:23 +1000, "Incubus" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>I'm using a PIII overclocked to 1000 Mhz and currently have a Voodoo3 2000. > >I'm just wondering what is roughly the minimum Geforce card that will allow >me to continue running GPL at 36 FPS. > >Thanks in advance. > > >

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