^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Huh? While I must admit I now have Win95 installed on my home machine,
it was only after I was dragged kicking and screaming to this point.
I appreciate the forced Win95 "upgrade" about as much as I appreciate
seat belt laws, helmet laws, and gun control. Win95 is/was a ***.
Where is Oliver Stone when you need him? ;-)
If you want a powerful OS, check out any of the semi-modern Unices.
Papyrus, when will the port of N2 to BSDI be ready? ;-)
SLG
(All spelling errors are intentional and are there to show new
and improved ways of spelling old words. Gramatical errors are
due to too many English classes/teachers)
| >Subject: Re: Will NASCAR2 work on a 486?
| >Date: 5 Jan 1997 15:49:03 -0700
| >On my 486dx4/100, 16MB RAM, 1MB S3/805 video machine, VGA runs OK with
| >asphalt/grass turned off, 8 drawn ahead, 1 behind. But after playing SVGA
| >in NASCAR1, I'm spoiled. SVGA on a 486 is completely out of the question.
| >If I want to take a nice tour of the SVGA scenery at the track, I can go to
| >that mode and sightsee.
| >Must get that Pentium....
Is there a video card that would solve most of your problem? Or is it
processor power that is the "bottom line" in the framerate?
I may one day decide to put a new card in my one remaining lousy ISA
slot.. fact is, I have no idea what card would make my 486 sing. Seems
crazy to spend $3000 on a new computer just to play racing sims...
Unless it's a VLBus slot, don't bother; no ISA card has the capability
to measurably improve your VGA/SVGA performance to acceptable levels
for fast action games. (Besides, a decent VLB card would be a
substantial fraction of a brand new P-90 machine... You could get a
reasonable machine for around $1250 probably. You've always got the
PSX... :-)
---Jim Sokoloff, Papyrus
> >On my 486dx4/100, 16MB RAM, 1MB S3/805 video machine, VGA runs OK with
By SVGA, I'm referring to 640x480. I run the game in 320x200 for now.
