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I recently bought a Packard Bell Pentium 150 with 24 meg of RAM. I can only run
Nascar in SVGA with only car detail and lines and skids. Anything more, my frame rate
drops to about 5fps. I can only run 6 ahead, 3 back, or it will go down even more.
What the hell is my problem? Do I need a new graphics card or something? Please help!
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more, my frame rate
something? Please help!

I would think your video card is a good place to start looking. PB is
known for using the cheapest components, not the best or fastest. You
don't say what video you have so a comment is hard to give. But these
games are very video dependent, and the faster the card, the better the
play.

Mike

: I recently bought a Packard Bell Pentium 150 with 24 meg of RAM. I can only run
: Nascar in SVGA with only car detail and lines and skids. Anything more, my frame rate
: drops to about 5fps. I can only run 6 ahead, 3 back, or it will go down even more.
: What the hell is my problem? Do I need a new graphics card or something? Please help!

It sounds like something is severly wrong with your system.  I have a
p5-90 and can run the detail you listed around 16-18 fps.  I can add a
few things and it will drop a little more.  I would check to see if your
motherboard has the right jumpers set for the CPU.  Also check the CMOS
setting and make sure that the cache is enabled and that the system
isn't in a "non-turbo" mode.

BTW:  I also have an ATI Mach64 video card which isn't considered to be
a performer in DOS.
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I don't know but probably. I am running P90 24meg ram, Diamond Stealth 3240
2meg Vram and I have ALL on except road details on. You firure it out. Good
luck.

Frank Morissette

something? Please help!

Depends, what video card are you using?  Are you sure PB has the
motherboard setup right?
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Please help!

Packard Bells are shitty computers.  If you knew anything about computers, you
would have bought something else.  Anything else...

Chris

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I don't think Packard Bells are quote "shitty,"  Packard Bells are pretty good.
It seems that practically no Pentium owner can run SVGA well unless they have:

1.  32 MB RAM
2.  1 GB HD SPACE
3.  3D Blaster Accelerator Card

I could be wrong.

Mark Fields

First, the ram thing.  I don't think that ram makes a whole heck of a
difference unless you are running GP2 under Win95 (God help you).  The
game uses a certain amount of ram to hold game data that is allocated at
the beginning of a run. I believe that extra ram is used to hold hot lap
data and the such.  This leads to number two.  1GB hard drive space has
nothing to do with it.  The game requires about 50Mb of space and will
only use about 10Mb extra in swap due to the hot lap data stuff.  This
can also be turned off if you don't have the space.  You couldn't use
1GB in this game if you copied the CD to your hard drive!

Third, what the heck is a 3D blaster accelerator thingee?  You may be
referring to the video cards by Creative.  If they are 3D accelerators
then they won't matter since GP2 doesn't use acceleration.  You just
need a good NAME BRAND video card (not some OEM junk).

What you need for GP2 is a good high-quality computer.  This usually
implies a decent cache, good chipset, and high-speed memory.  These
items make more difference in the upper-pentium range then pure
processor speed.

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P133 in a Motherboard with 512KB Pipe Burst Cache.
$49 PCI video card

I get 30 fps

Full field
FM sound
SVGA mode
Car textures on
All objects on but not textured
Horizon off

I can turn the horizon on AUTO and it will do 30 fps only when the field
thins out.  Until then, the horizon blinks.

My suspicion is that the Motherboard that Packard Bell uses is not good
for simulations.  Your P150 processor is probably wasted in it.  If
anyone out there is listening and is interested in purchasing a system
to run NASCAR on, take my advice and seriously look at the Motherboard
in the system that your are considering.  You can piecemeal a system
together that will run NASCAR very well for about $1600.  I personally
don't think any system under $1200 is going to be good enough to run
NASCAR, at least not NCR1.  When NCR2 comes out, these slow Pentiums
will be OK.

David Martin

You think Nascar Racing 2 is going to run faster/better than Nascar 1?  Aren't
they making the graphics better?  You don't think it's going to be like GP2?

Chris

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