>> There are a variety of reasons to add memory to your machine,
>> including dirt cheap memory prices right now, but N2 probably isn't
>> one of the primary reasons...
>> ---Jim, Papyrus
>My machine P133-overclocked to 166--83mhz bus speed runs n2 much better
>with only 16 meg memory. Can run everything on--all cars in front--and
>min frame rate is 25. With 32 meg Things shut down at several tracks--ie
>martinsville. I assume its because of the 16 bit cars vs 8 bit. Any way
>to get only 8bit cars with 32 meg ram. would be nice for replays.
I'll presume you've got a Rendition card, in which case you are for
the moment better off with 16 MB, as it will use the 4-bit cars
instead of the 8-bit cars, which are a good deal faster... I believe
that's going to be addressed by the patch (adding a command line
option to force 4-bit cars, regardless of memory available), so you'll
be able to use the fast cars and get a long replay. (I didn't want to
needlessly confuse the issue with this special case in my previous
post...)
---Jim Sokoloff, Papyrus