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.25 to 1 MPH at Most Tracks

Don Wilsh

.25 to 1 MPH at Most Tracks

by Don Wilsh » Sun, 20 Jul 1997 04:00:00

Drivers:

Well I havent caused any problems lately, by simple
telling the truth, but I will tell you that in all
a SPEED SECRET from my experience of racing NASCAR 1 and 2.
I have always found that thier is a difference in speed
of at least .5 mph between VGA and SVGA mode.  To Many
people think just because someone is .5 mph faster that
he is cheating.  But this is just one example of something
each of you could have done.  We had this problem in
NASCAR 1 back when we raced on the BBS, we no about this
because as reported by several drivers in both FASTLAP
and RACE96 during all of last year.  Now we have been
racing HAWAII for over a year and I bet less than 30
people out of 5000 new that VGA was .5 mph faster
than SVGA.  Why its simple.  The less graphics NASCAR
has to deal with the faster you can go.  Now Im not
talking about the average joe here.  I am talking about
splitting milliseconds in the TOP 50 Drivers at HAWAII..

I havent tested this yet on NASCAR 2, but I dont see
any reason that it would have gotten fixed.

BOTTOM LINE:

        Less Graphics, Faster Speed, Better Traction.

        Its sort of a new twist on the old traction
        bug.

        VGA mode has different advantages depending
        on what type of track you are racing.  Some
        Times it outright straight-away speed, some
        times its traction getting off the corners..

Don Wilshe, IVGA

TOlson94

.25 to 1 MPH at Most Tracks

by TOlson94 » Sun, 20 Jul 1997 04:00:00

I think the same applies to having a faster computer..

Nigel Nichol

.25 to 1 MPH at Most Tracks

by Nigel Nichol » Mon, 21 Jul 1997 04:00:00


>I think the same applies to having a faster computer..

I would agree to some extent. Also I would say that the
players co-ordination is enhanced due to the faster graphics
update. The info they recieve from the graphics would more
fluent, so maybe the players reation time is that much more
co-ordinated.
--

Nigel of Lakewood Motorsports
(Memeber of the Nascar Offline Racing Series)
Nascar Coruba & Coke Chevy
Hamilton
New Zealand

Berg

.25 to 1 MPH at Most Tracks

by Berg » Mon, 21 Jul 1997 04:00:00



Ok....hmm, lets take C***te for just an example.  .5mph at
C***te is roughly 8 hundreths of a second.  If you can make two
perfect laps, one in VGA and another in SVGA then compare them, you
might have a valid point.  But I don't think that those '30 people'
can pull two laps down to the microsecond in order to do a scientific
comparison.  Maybe you have some special program to do this, in that
case I may be wrong...but if you have a program to run laps for you...

Berg

Don Wilsh

.25 to 1 MPH at Most Tracks

by Don Wilsh » Tue, 22 Jul 1997 04:00:00




> >Drivers:

> >Well I havent caused any problems lately, by simple
> >telling the truth, but I will tell you that in all
> >a SPEED SECRET from my experience of racing NASCAR 1 and 2.
> >I have always found that thier is a difference in speed
> >of at least .5 mph between VGA and SVGA mode.  To Many
> >people think just because someone is .5 mph faster that
> >he is cheating.  But this is just one example of something
> >each of you could have done.  We had this problem in
> >NASCAR 1 back when we raced on the BBS, we no about this
> >because as reported by several drivers in both FASTLAP
> >and RACE96 during all of last year.  Now we have been
> >racing HAWAII for over a year and I bet less than 30
> >people out of 5000 new that VGA was .5 mph faster
> >than SVGA.  Why its simple.  The less graphics NASCAR
> >has to deal with the faster you can go.  Now Im not
> >talking about the average joe here.  I am talking about
> >splitting milliseconds in the TOP 50 Drivers at HAWAII..

> Ok....hmm, lets take C***te for just an example.  .5mph at
> C***te is roughly 8 hundreths of a second.  If you can make two
> perfect laps, one in VGA and another in SVGA then compare them, you
> might have a valid point.  But I don't think that those '30 people'
> can pull two laps down to the microsecond in order to do a scientific
> comparison.  Maybe you have some special program to do this, in that
> case I may be wrong...but if you have a program to run laps for you...

> Berg

No Special Program, just 3 years of thousands of laps

don


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