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Well, as you may have guessed GPL won't run very nicely on a 166. To get
reasonable frames rates you would need to turn all the graphic options off
and it won't look very good. You won't be able to run against more than a
few ai cars either. It really needs a 300 to run well and with a 450 it is
brilliant. I had a 200 with 64 meg ram and a rendition video card and it
barely cut it so I built a celeron 450 and it was worth every penny.
JM

Travis Kallner wrote:

> Well, I'm thinking about buying GPL at the beggining of the month, but
> I'm wondering, would this system be able to run GPL with a good
> framerate (With some graphic settings turned off)
>
> Pentium 166 (Ok, you can stop laughing...please?)
> 32 megabytes RAM (Do I still hear that laughter?)
> Voodoo Banshee (Ok, laughing stopped there, although I do know the
> Banshee isn't the best)
>
> Was just wondering if anyone thought it would be worth buying GPL. I
> wanna see why people are still talking about it. :) (Ok, that sounded
> like a cheap marketing ploy, eh? <G> By the way, if this sounds weird, I
> didn't get any sleep last night.)



