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From: John Moore <jmoore5@uswest.net>
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on a 300 you will need to turn detail bias to 50% and  turn off a couple of
textures
to get full fps, even at 400-450 its quite a load. can you overclock your cpu?


bo wrote:

> I've been running GPL for about a month now on the following machine:
>
> PII 300
> 12 meg Creative Labs voodoo2
> 64 meg ram
> etc.
>
> I have GPL installed fully to the harddrive.  When I'm playing, I can never
> get anything more than about 20fps.  It runs fine - usually -, but I've
> noticed lots of posts saying that comparable machines are hitting 36fps (and
> not having to worry about it getting choppy in traffic).
>
> I'm running the game with 19 other cars.  Is this the problem?  I'm also
> running at the maximum resolution.  Is this a bigger problem?  Or is there
> some other reason that I'm not getting the frame rate which I apparently
> should be?
>
> Thanks.

