rec.autos.simulators

For any responses.  I am a hooked auto sim junky, but I prefer GPL, Nascar
4, and F12001 (more realistic sims).  I also like Falcon 4 with all of the
upgrades that have been incorporated.  My problem is my overclocked Celeron
450 and Voodoo 3 can no longer handle all of the improvements that have been
made to all of the above sims.  I have not heard much in the way of
performance of all the the sims mentioned above with the system that I am
considering below .  I'm finally ready to take the plunge and purchase a new
system.  I am thinking about an Athlon 2100 and a Gforce 4 4600 but haven't
heard much in the way of specific performance of this combination.

Can someone share their experience with the above or refer me to a report on
performance with the mentioned sims?  I am interested in resolutions vs.
graphics settings (antialiasing and anisotropic filtering) vs. framerates.

Thanks in advance,

Wayne

  The performance of that combo will be sooooo far ahead of your old system,
it won't matter if it's not 100% compatible.   Make sure you get plenty of
ddr ram and the BEST heatsink fan you can find.  Good luck.
dave henrie

HI there Wayne,

I've a AMD 1.4Ghz, with 500+memory, and a GeForce 2GTS (
64mb ddr ) and have also looked at getting a GeForce 4
Ti4600, the only problem is the amount in the uk as there
are 0..........? as yet....
The specks you mention will be fine, make sure the AGP port
on the mainboard is x2,x4 as the Geforce 4 isnt x1 agp
speed, if its a new one...it should have that, i use the
ABit mainboards as they are the fastest and most stable...
dont get anything like a Lexmainboard or something with on
board sound... ok.
More depends on the operating systerm, and this again is a
touchy subject, i have all the OS's but have gone back to
Win98SE as i find thats the most stable for F1-2001.
Nascar 4 flys on it....and GPL is good to, my frame counter
sits at 36fps.all the time, even with the hi-res updates...
Im not sure if anything really uses anisotropic filtering,
well only x-boxs games, and thats what they are (games).
Your system will fly... make sure you get a huge monitor
ie..20" or above..ive got a 21" and can play F1-2001 in
1280x1024 very easily, yet again with all the latest hi res
car skins.
Ive got Falcon 4 but have never really tried it to be
honest, what sort of upgrades do they do....
Oh yeah as for fans... try www.overclockers.com  as they are
a good UK based company........get the silent fans though as
ive some monster ones and they have drove me nuts... so im
now in the process of making my case quiter.. ie a trip to
halfords and bought some Dynmat.........very good

Also worth getting is a Wheel and pedal set...if you mad
about sims you may have one already, Ive built my own
***pit to ( sad ) but my other half moans about it all the
time...lol

Paul.

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Just replaced an OC'ed Celery 300A/450-V3 box with an XP1800/Abit
KR7A-KT266A/LeadtekGF4-4400/SBAudigy/256MB, and it flies on anything I've
run it on so far.  Don't have everything installed on it yet, but GPL,
NR2002, Nascar Heat and SBK2000 look and work great; you certainly won't be
disappointed.

Colors are a bit too vivid for my taste ATM, but I'll get that toned down.
Generally running stuff in D3D at 12X10 (12X9 in NR2002), 16bit color, with
Qunicinux AA and AF level of 4, with most or all in-game settings at max.
No FPs problems, stuttering, or anything.  Using the 28.32 drivers with a
fixed 512MB swapfile on the "D" partition (98SE on 2GB "C").

Only thing I've noticed is some popup at long draw distances, even with full
draw distance set in the games.  Don't remember this from the V3; anyone
know of a way to get rid of this with an Nvidia Tweak?

Thx,

SB

If you can, wait a bit (around mid - late May) for the new .13 AMD
XPs
to come out,  they will run a bit cooler & won't be as picky about
cooling as the current batch is.  The price won't be much higher
than the 2100 is now if
you can wait a while.

Then again, you could get this same advice in a month & wait for
the next big
deal... & never buy one at all. ;(

That said, if "I" were going to upgrade now I would wait for the
.13 & build a system around it.

HTH,
Brian

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:29:56 GMT, "B Farmer"

Yeah, it's like "Weird Al" Yankovic says in "It's All About the
Pentiums," ....."my new computer's got the clocks, it rocks...but it
was obsolete before I opened the box!"