UKGPL Season 21 (2011) Specs - Brands Hatch (GP) - May 27

[BadBlood]

I'm happy to set up a test any time on UKGPL3 which despite being an optimised server is fairly lightly built with slow in built graphics and smallish RAM (4Gb with Windows Server 2008).

Let me know and if somebody could point me to the download and instructions that would help as well.

[Hristo Itchov]

Wouldn't it help if you set up core.ini for minimum graphics (i.e. texture/mip-file size) and also turn off graphic options inside GPL? I mean on the server.

[BadBlood]

Probably

[fpolicardi]

I asked Paul S. on SRMZ forum, and the culprit is the 45 3DO that are always loaded by the server vs. 20 of 66 mod and 7 for other mods.
He will see if he can subsitute the actual 3DO with something lighter. Graphic options and details don't affect a dedicated server.
Ciao

[BadBlood]

Or maybe not

[Hristo Itchov]

It's still useful to consider the texture size options, unless you mean a dedicated server doesn't load any textures at all (which I doubt).

[s2173]

I personally am not able to run 69X very well... a track like waltglen takes exacly 5 mins to load and i can run it only at 600x480 rezolution or otherwize it crashes while switching rezolutions... idk. Atleast default setups are good...

[blito]

from the sound of it i think 69x will be a no go for me (p4 with 1Gb ram).

[maddog]

from the sound of it i think 69x will be a no go for me (p4 with 1Gb ram).

Same spec. here, and it runs ok, with an extra 256mb of graphics in D3D.  I had to turn the detail down to 50%, and if that's not enough help, try lite, or Voodoo track addons.

[Cookie]

It's still useful to consider the texture size options, unless you mean a dedicated server doesn't load any textures at all (which I doubt).

On my dedicated server I can run GT races in 60fps. But I don't see them!
With this PC it would be impossible to drive GTs 
P3 700 with 384mb Ram and old NV GPU

[fpolicardi]

I have installed and tested on T7 server the last version of Brands67 fixed by Ginetto and reduced for Voodoo/Server by Achim.
Finger crossed 

[fpolicardi]

Hristo, a dedicated server has to load in RAM all the 3do cars and textures, but it doesn't show anything. Disabling all the textures and objects in Options doesn't change the amount of RAM needed cause it loads all anyway, infact you can disable/enable textures without exiting from GPL.
Please, can you point to the texture size options are you speaking?

Cookie can you check in Task Manager how much RAM uses GPL on your server once a track is loaded with GT Mod?
Thx

It's still useful to consider the texture size options, unless you mean a dedicated server doesn't load any textures at all (which I doubt).

On my dedicated server I can run GT races in 60fps. But I don't see them!
With this PC it would be impossible to drive GTs 
P3 700 with 384mb Ram and old NV GPU

[Hristo Itchov]

In core.ini, rasterizer section:

TossBiggestMips=0
MaxMipSize=0
MirrorSize= 0
DirectMirrorRendering=1
DrawMethod=2
ZBufferType=2
AnisotropicFiltering= 2
TrilinearFiltering=1
32Bit=1

Do these affect how textures are loaded or only how they're drawn?

[blito]

Only how they're drawn.
The only option as I see it is to replace the 3do files with something very much smaller in size.

[Tom van Ostade]

Hi Guys,

I'm pretty confident I've got the oldest PC out of everyone here, yet I actually helped to create the mod . PC Specs:

AMD Athlon 64 Processor
1.80 GHz
512 MB RAM
nVidia GeForce 5200 FX

Yes, it does take me a while to load a track, usually 3 or 4 minutes, then when I'm actually on the track and start to move I get tow or three little hiccups that freeze the screen for 3 or 4 seconds (although the sim keeps on running, you just can't see where you are going) whilst driving through the pitlane. After that I'm fine and the mod runs no different than any other mod in the time it takes to exit the pitlane. And that's with 512 MB RAM, I'm pretty sure nobody has less RAM than me. I can run the mod just fine.

Obviously, for me Montjuic is like driving GPL with a Viewmaster, but the mod isn't worse frame rate wise than the old 1969 mod. The GT mod is certainly much worse for me.

A server test as always a good thing with any new mod, however I'd hazard a guess that Fulvio's server will be just fine. It just takes a while to load the track, but that's it.

Tommie.