Hi all,
Just wondering how many are running N2 with the asphalt textures on.
When I have them on it's a choppy day at the races. I'm starting to
wonder if it's my system or something that many are encountering. I'm
running N2 on a P-Pro 150, 32 edo ram, 2 megs video, Win95 (running N2
from DOS). My video card is upgradable to 4 megs...If I make this
upgrade will it make a noticeable difference (improvements) in N2?
> Hi all,
> Just wondering how many are running N2 with the asphalt textures on.
> When I have them on it's a choppy day at the races. I'm starting to
> wonder if it's my system or something that many are encountering. I'm
> running N2 on a P-Pro 150, 32 edo ram, 2 megs video, Win95 (running N2
> from DOS). My video card is upgradable to 4 megs...If I make this
> upgrade will it make a noticeable difference (improvements) in N2?
God Bless,
Steve
I run it with FULL detail on. I have a Hewlett Packard Pavillion p166
w/ 16 megs of RAM, 16x CDROM, and MMX. Slow loading in DOS, but once
it is loaded it flies.
Mike Frazer
#11 American Airlines/STP/MBNA Ford, IGN
Prime Time Motorsports
I am running the pavement texture and I don't see any noticeable
slowdown on my system. I have a P-166 with 32 megs RAM and 1 meg
Stealth 64 video card. I usually run in DOS as well, but I have run
in 95 without any difference in frame rate whatsoever.
Upgrading your video card to 4 megs will not make any difference at
all in the performance of your video. The only thing that more memory
on your video card does is that it allows you to display more colors
at higher resolutions in Windows. For example, if you have 2 meg
right now and you can display 256 colors at 1280x1024, upgrading to 4
meg may let you display 16 million colors at the same resolution (I
know these exact numbers are not right, but you get the point). It
will do NOTHING for your video performance so don't waste your time
and money.
Todd Walker
I have two computers a old trident 2 p 100 16 meg of ram 1 meg video card
and a 4x cdrom no MMX and the game ran fine with full detail all cars and
everyting set to max and grass and asphalt on.I also just bought my second
computer it's a trident 3 p 166 32 meg ram 2 meg video card 12x cdrom and
MMX and it loads quick and flies real good.
Robert
> Mike Frazer
> #11 American Airlines/STP/MBNA Ford, IGN
> Prime Time Motorsports
> >Hi all,
> >Just wondering how many are running N2 with the asphalt textures on.
> >When I have them on it's a choppy day at the races. I'm starting to
> >wonder if it's my system or something that many are encountering. I'm
> >running N2 on a P-Pro 150, 32 edo ram, 2 megs video, Win95 (running N2
> >from DOS). My video card is upgradable to 4 megs...If I make this
> >upgrade will it make a noticeable difference (improvements) in N2?
Yes. I run with everything on 32Mb EDO iP133 with Intergraph Reactor.
Smooth, virtually constant 30fps most tracks, Martinsville being the
notable exception.
Before changing to the Intergraph, same system delivered 22 (est.
average) fps runnning same detailwith an AOpen 2Mb EDO S3 765 (V+)
running univbe 5.3a or S3VBE20.
If N2 on your system is "choppy", (let's be quantitive here 8^)
running say less than 25fps with an iP6-150 and 2Mb (fast?) video,
then there is most likely some configural problem.
* "The demand for certainty is one that is
* an intellectual vice."
* -Bertand Russell (1872-1970)
> I run it with FULL detail on. I have a Hewlett Packard Pavillion p166
> w/ 16 megs of RAM, 16x CDROM, and MMX. Slow loading in DOS, but once
> it is loaded it flies.
> Mike Frazer
> #11 American Airlines/STP/MBNA Ford, IGN
> Prime Time Motorsports
> >Hi all,
> >Just wondering how many are running N2 with the asphalt textures on.
> >When I have them on it's a choppy day at the races. I'm starting to
> >wonder if it's my system or something that many are encountering. I'm
> >running N2 on a P-Pro 150, 32 edo ram, 2 megs video, Win95 (running N2
> >from DOS). My video card is upgradable to 4 megs...If I make this
> >upgrade will it make a noticeable difference (improvements) in N2?
Ligwoc
In my experience, the asphalt/grass texture feature drags down the fps more
than any other feature in the sim. Even more than car textures, horizon,
grandstands or any of them. The sim is impossible for me to run with the
texture on. I use a P90, with 32megs of ram, a Diamond Stealth video card
with 2megs. I also have the Univbe 5.3 installed.
--
Regards,
Ed Medlin
> >>Hi all,
> >>Just wondering how many are running N2 with the asphalt textures on.
> Yes. I run with everything on 32Mb EDO iP133 with Intergraph Reactor.
> Smooth, virtually constant 30fps most tracks, Martinsville being the
> notable exception.
> Before changing to the Intergraph, same system delivered 22 (est.
> average) fps runnning same detailwith an AOpen 2Mb EDO S3 765 (V+)
> running univbe 5.3a or S3VBE20.
> >>When I have them on it's a choppy day at the races. I'm starting to
> >>wonder if it's my system or something that many are encountering. I'm
> >>running N2 on a P-Pro 150, 32 edo ram, 2 megs video, Win95 (running N2
> >>from DOS). My video card is upgradable to 4 megs...If I make this
> >>upgrade will it make a noticeable difference (improvements) in N2?
> If N2 on your system is "choppy", (let's be quantitive here 8^)
> running say less than 25fps with an iP6-150 and 2Mb (fast?) video,
> then there is most likely some configural problem.
> * "The demand for certainty is one that is
> * an intellectual vice."
> * -Bertand Russell (1872-1970)
Get a Rendition based card and you can run with all graphics on at most
tracks.
> Mike Frazer
> #11 American Airlines/STP/MBNA Ford, IGN
> Prime Time Motorsports
> >Hi all,
> >Just wondering how many are running N2 with the asphalt textures on.
> >When I have them on it's a choppy day at the races. I'm starting to
> >wonder if it's my system or something that many are encountering. I'm
> >running N2 on a P-Pro 150, 32 edo ram, 2 megs video, Win95 (running N2
> >from DOS). My video card is upgradable to 4 megs...If I make this
> >upgrade will it make a noticeable difference (improvements) in N2?
