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   > >If you are having problems with the SVGA speed, make sure that you tried

   > >choosing in the setup to install the univbe.drv it makes a big
difference.  
   > >  
   > >I was so surprised with the improvement that I went and FTP'ed the full
   > >UNIVBE51 product to see if it would do the same for Nascar. No it didn't
   > >improve it much and the FTP'ed univbe51 version was actually slower with
   > >ICR2.0 than the univbe.drv that papyrus includes with the demo, so maybe
   > >they really tweaked out the SVGA modes in their version, but whatever
   > >papyrus did, it is the fastest SVGA performance on my system of any game
I
   > >have seen so far.
   >
   > Could someone please explain just what UNIVBE is?  (I do understand that
   > it's got something to do with a fast video driver.)  What's UNIVB51?
   > Does this stuff require a particular type of hardware?  It seems
critically
   > important to those of us who are, uh, "hardware-challenged" :-)
   >
   > Brian Wong                              Systems Engineering Group (Servers)

   >
       Hey Brian, good question.  I have no idea what Univibe is execpt
that is included with the ICR2 demo and it works.  I'm guessing it's a
universal driver implemented for speed.  It works with your video card.
Not all cards are supported but my old S3 803(?) was.  I tried with ICR2
demo and it did improve the graphic performance.  (i'm guessing 15 to 25%)
       Still couldn't go full graphics but got the stands and cars and
track paint,(not texture) with fairly good smoothness.  I think I reduced
the field to 26 cars so next I'll start adding cars to see how much
difference they make.
Dave Henrie

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   > >    
   > I have tried the demo on my Pentium 90 2MB Diamond Stealth (DRAM) and  
   > 8 MB RAM.   In NASCAR I have to turn off most of the graphics - grass,  
   > asphalt, wall texture, horizon, grandstand detail and crowd.   The
   > IndyCar Demo had all these on - including grass and asphalt and it
   > just flowed.   Have Papyrus 'cleaned up' the program to make it more
   > efficient?   I did not count the number of cars.   Could this be the
   > answer?
   >
   > It took me 2.5 hours to download the demo (14.4 kbs) but it was well
   > worth it.   I have the money...get the game in the shops...please.
   >
   > Cheers,
   >
   > Craig
   >
       If your dloading with a bbs and zmodem, at 14.4 it should only
take about 70-75 minutes if you have the v42.biz fully configured.
Dave Henrie(ps I have no clue what the transfer rate of FTP is so the net
dloads may be waaaay differnt.  In fact I had so much trouble with
Netscape's downloading I have almost dropped the net entirely.
Dave Henrie

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