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[Doorman]

Jeezus! Another one. Cadwell Park I'll not put it on the server until I get some feed back from you.

[Doorman]

Re: The conversation with Benny and Del this evening about Cadwell Park. Pretty much what I feel.

[Sn00ks]

The couple of laps I did I enjoyed. I would like to race on this with the lower powered cars, what with all the twists and dips it would give more opportunity for passing without having to nudge people off the track (Sorry Ron  :blush: )  :whistle:

[Doorman]

The guy has made a patch to cure the overly bumpy bits at Cadwell. Makes a good track even better! Cadwellcorners.

[Doorman]

And a cut-track fix

[Malcolm Reynolds]

I'm only getting around 10 fps on Cadwell  :roflmao: , with my cruddy old 9200 card so it's a no-no for me, as is Thruxton (finally got it working) Interlargos, Bathhurst, The mother, Brans Hatch, Silverstone, and a few others too. Strangely Suzuka works great at 30+fps, as does Kyalami, Sears Point & lots of others.
 Getting a 9800se in a week or so, not a brilliant card, but it's a stop gap to getting a pro, and it was only £40 quid. Hoping it'll make a reasonable difference, I have a 2.8 P4 and a gig of memory so with any luck....

[Doorman]

Originally posted by Malcolm Reynolds@Jun 4 2006, 04:42 PM
I'm only getting around 10 fps on Cadwell :roflmao: , with my cruddy old 9200 card so it's a no-no for me, as is Thruxton (finally got it working) Interlargos, Bathhurst, The mother, Brans Hatch, Silverstone, and a few others too. Strangely Suzuka works great at 30+fps, as does Kyalami, Sears Point & lots of others.
 Getting a 9800se in a week or so, not a brilliant card, but it's a stop gap to getting a pro, and it was only £40 quid. Hoping it'll make a reasonable difference, I have a 2.8 P4 and a gig of memory so with any luck....

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I'm sorry to hear that. Can you turn down the wick a bit? Nah, I guess you've tried that.

[Malcolm Reynolds]

Yeah, been there, done that. Just have to wait till I get my card :unsure:

[Doorman]

This one shouldn't cause you any angst. 6.6mb! Longbeach California. I was sceptical about this one but have to say it's extremely good!  :thumbsup2:. There is also Castle Combe but....meh. No-Grip.

[Malcolm Reynolds]

I over clocked my 9200 yesterday  :blink: by about 45%, and it's improved things alot. Thruxton is now running really well in the mid 30s, I'm getting late teens to mid twenties on Cadwell even. I'm getting 40 - 50s at Misano, Suzuka, Kyalami  etc
 Changed my order, getting a 9700 Pro next week, 8 pixel pipelines or something, 'stead a 4, so it should transform my framerates  
  Haven't dl'ed those 2 tracks yet, will do tonight, thanks for that.

[delanvital]

Originally posted by Malcolm Reynolds@Jun 6 2006, 02:08 PM
I over clocked my 9200 yesterday :blink: by about 45%, and it's improved things alot. Thruxton is now running really well in the mid 30s, I'm getting late teens to mid twenties on Cadwell even. I'm getting 40 - 50s at Misano, Suzuka, Kyalami etc
 Changed my order, getting a 9700 Pro next week, 8 pixel pipelines or something, 'stead a 4, so it should transform my framerates
 Haven't dl'ed those 2 tracks yet, will do tonight, thanks for that.

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I tried the same with my 9600XT. Gpu 500 -> 580 MHz, RAM 300 -> 380 MHz. In pit in Cadwell I went from 25 to 29 fps  <_<

I clocked the FSB and CPU up a bit via software as well 200 -> 208 MHz and I got up to 31  :eyebrow:

and ideas out there? I am prob. just in need of a new card I guess...

[JamesB]

Never have overclocked gfx cards often so I can't help, sorry.  I'm running an X850XT at the moment so I don't really need to.  I used to have an overclocked Voodoo5 and it worked very well.  I think a new card may be required to get the best out of GTL, in large fields of cars even my card struggles!

[suicidal_monkey]

tbh you want to be getting at least 10% in an overclock to get a noticeable result, 20% preferrably. The drivers I was using for my radeon (omega drivers?) came with an ati twearker thing that let me alter the memory and gpu clocks. Basically just made my card artifact... If you're down in the 30fps region you should be okay to play. It's not great but it's good enough to play! I mean, I think I play BF2 and CSSource at about 30fps a lot of the time! :unsure:

[Malcolm Reynolds]

Originally posted by delanvital@Jun 6 2006, 01:51 PM
I tried the same with my 9600XT. Gpu 500 -> 580 MHz, RAM 300 -> 380 MHz. In pit in Cadwell I went from 25 to 29 fps <_<

I clocked the FSB and CPU up a bit via software as well 200 -> 208 MHz and I got up to 31 :eyebrow:

and ideas out there? I am prob. just in need of a new card I guess...

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You may well have done all this, but have you tried disabling the trackside animations and enabling the high process priority, also removing the hands and feet from the steering wheel in the your plr file. They have varying effects on different tracks but the difference is always noticeable.

[delanvital]

Originally posted by Malcolm Reynolds@Jun 6 2006, 04:40 PM
You may well have done all this, but have you tried disabling the trackside animations and enabling the high process priority, also removing the hands and feet from the steering wheel in the your plr file. They have varying effects on different tracks but the difference is always noticeable.

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I have trackside off. Enabling high priority gave about 1fps. I have enabled the driver and wheel, with trackIR enabled I need that to orientate :blush:

What I did find out though... dropping to DX8 shader doubles the framerate (more really, from 25 to 61)... I think I need to see how much this matters in GTL, I does not seem to use it as well as in HL2?