: BOTTOM LINE:
: For all of its improvements, I was mildly disappointed by this release.
: Electronic Arts has traded a prettier game shell and easier programming
: via DirectX for an in-game framerate that sucks. If you have a 200mhz
: Pentium, you'll probably love NFS2. With anything less you'll likely admit
: that "I told you so!"
Hio, just thought I'd pop in here and say a few words about the speed
issue. Having never played NFS1 I'm not terribly qualified to speak, but
that's never stopped me before ;) I was actually suprised at the
preformance of the game, I allways race out of the car, far back as
possible. I have all the grapics options set to full, optimal 16bit
sound, and no music. It seems to me to fly... Is there anyway to get an
actual FPS frome the game itself?
Now a word about my system:
Asus P55T2P4 MB, at 83 MHz bus <-- Big factor?
Intel p166 MMX <-- Possible MMX support that's not mentioned?
ATI 3D Pr Turbo w/4MB <-- OK, I know this isn't the reason for the good
perfomance...
AWE32 <-- so what...
WD AC22100 HDD <-- but seeing as the drive is never touched... so what
again
4X piece of ***Mitsumi CD-ROM <-- but then again it's all on the HDD, so
again, so what...
Win95 OSR2B with DirectX 3.0a
Draw whatever conclusions you like from this. Only possible reasons I see
for my great performance are the OCed MB, and MMX acceleration (but I
doubt it, otherwise it'd be hyped). Of course, maybe I'm just blind...
Oh, BTW, I play with the full grid, in an F1, of course ;)
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