For those of you who remember me whining about my total loss of FPS after upgrading at great expense to win xp and a radeon 9700 pro- I'm back.
GP4 chugs along now at fps of 30-45. I set it at 38. I am running at 1280x1024 AA on x2 and AF x2. Quality textures, mipmapping or not makes no difference so quality is on and most eye candy including haze but static em.
What did I do? I switched mother boards took the Epox mentioned below in my sig. Why? Because the Asus board, I had just bought, did not allow me to change AGP voltage. With the new board and voltage set to 1,7 (instead of 1,5) , at least GP4 works- so far. My 3d Mark2001 is still missing at least 2000 marks, but that may be win xp??
However my recent hotlap in Monaco at 1m18s7xx looks fine up until the swimming pool, when the car goes totally nuts. The way it does if you mess with physics settings. odd? I'll have to make a few more hotlap saves and see if this repeats itself.
BTW: If anyone else has a similar board and graphix card, .The Smart agp or whatever will not set fastwrites (enabled in BIOS) or allow agp x8 (also enabled in BIOS).- odd? It doesn't message anything, just ignores me.
Larry
AMD 3000+,Epox EP-8RDA,Ram 1536mb 333 DDr, Rad 9800 pro omega 2.4.96, dx9b, Audigy, MOMO FF,winxp