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You could turn off the sun and it wouldn't help, you need a good 3d card
minimum.
Thriller 8 meg will get you decent frame rates with minimum cars and
graphics.
To get the full effect in GPL you need a 350-400 cpu.
I upgraded and it was worth every penny.
JM

Dan-o wrote:

> I've seen a message in the past about a program that you can easily shut
> down programs running in the background ....ala Ctr+Alt+Del .........to
> free up system resources.  If anyone has a program or knows of a program
> please let me know! I have heard all you need running is Explorer and
> one other. I would like to optimize my aging P200 system so i can get
> the most out of GPL & F1RS etc... :-)



