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GP3 timing gone stoopid

Started by Orac , Oct 18 2002 09:13

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#1 Orac

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Posted 18 October 2002 - 09:13

I haven't played GP3 for quite some time, because I've discovered the true wonder that is Grand Prix Legends. I recently upgraded my machine (now an AMD XP2000+ with a GF4/TI4400) and reinstalled GP3. For some reason the timing of the game isn't even close to being right. When you're accelerating the car is going up through the revs about as quickly as my wife's Mazda 323. Everything is running in slow motion. The lap times reflect the slow running too - at Australia the computer cars will lap in 1'35s, which I think is about 18 seconds off the pace.

Has anyone else experienced this? It's not worth playing when it runs this badly. I've considered buying GP4, but unless this is a known bug in GP3 that GP4 is known to fix I'm loathe to splash out AU$95.

As I said, I haven't played GP3 for some time, so I don't know at exactly what stage in the last 3 months of machine upgrades and service packs and video card upgrades it went stupid.

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#2 Daniel Lester

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Posted 18 October 2002 - 09:37

I have a very similar computer and it runs perfectly (i.e Max graphics). The pole time in Aus fro Gp3 should be around 1:30 at the highest difficulty.
Check the PO by pressing o, if it's over 100 then the game runs slow, reduce the graphics level and try again.

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#3 Orac

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Posted 18 October 2002 - 09:50

Originally posted by Daniel Lester
I have a very similar computer and it runs perfectly (i.e Max graphics). The pole time in Aus fro Gp3 should be around 1:30 at the highest difficulty.
Check the PO by pressing o, if it's over 100 then the game runs slow, reduce the graphics level and try again.

Hmmm... I thought Australia was a quicker lap than that.

Anyway - pressing "O" while the game is running shows a CPU use that flickers between 35% and 41% with the game running at 1280x1024. It's over half idle.

Interesting, though, is that this machine is a dual monitor machine, and I had the Win2K performance monitor running on the 2nd monitor while GP3 ran on the first. GP3 reported the low figures I mentioned above, yet the Win2K performance trace showed 100% CPU use.

When I drop graphics to 800x600 the CPU use flickers between 15% and 23%. It's still just as slow.

Maybe the game has just always been this way, and I'm so used to GPL these days that it's just plain dull in comparison. I remember it being much more exciting.