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From John Silva above:

> Here is the info Randy popsted a few months back, thanks again Randy.

>We use a conservative heuristic to determine how large a replay buffer
to
>allocate to reduce the likelihood of paging during gameplay.  GPL will
>always allocate a replay buffer of at least 2M, however, even if the
>heuristic says that's too much.  On a 64M machine, you'll pretty much
>always be in this 2M zone.  You're welcome to experiment with larger
replay
>buffers, but I found that even doubling the buffer to 4M on a 64M
machine
>lead to significant paging.
>
>Play with this at your own risk.
>In the same directory as the gpl.exe program, use Notepad (or another
plain
>text editor) to create a text file named core.ini   In this file, add
the
>following two lines:
>
>[ Replay ]
>replayMemoryOverride = X
>
>where X is the number of Kbytes of memory you want to dedicate to the
>replay buffer.
>
>Randy


For example:

[ Replay ]
replayMemoryOverride = 4000                ; 4MB of replay - the default
is 2000=2MB

As long as you terminate all extra programs, I've had my HD power down
during long races (33 laps at the 'Glen :) so swapping to the drive
should not be a problem.  I use 4000 but have changed it to 6000 for
further testing :)

Jason.

Dave Golding wrote:

> Does anyone know how to adjust the length of replay saved in GPL.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave

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