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by **Ronald Stoeh** » Thu, 15 Oct 1998 04:00:00

> My Diamond Monster3d-II 12MB seems to stutter while panning a field of view.
> I mainly run racing simulations (F1RS, etc). Most of the time, the frame
> rate is smooth as silk. But when going thru a hairpin or other high "rate of
> turn", the image seems to stutter. I never noticed this with my Voodoo1 on a

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Interesting, I never had this with F1RS+V1/2, but now with MGPR2 (RS2 in
Germany)
and V2 SLI I have exactly the same problem. It's not on every track and
not
in every corner, but it's quite distracting...

l8er
ronny

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by **Your Nam** » Thu, 15 Oct 1998 04:00:00

have you tried turning off replay
this helps alot

by **Ronald Stoe** » Thu, 15 Oct 1998 04:00:00

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> Ronny,

> Yes... thats what I'm talking about. The stutter happens to me in the MGPRS
> (F1RS2) demo... most noticably in the last hairpin at Monaco... I get a big
> stutter there, as the scene is complex and the "panning rate" is high... also
> the scenery is at a close range...

> I would have thought that my 12MB voodoo2 would have flown thru this...

Well, I'm 100% sure it's the sim, as every other game/sim just flies on
my
P2-333 + V2 SLI!

We had some patches for F1RS, so why not for RS2 (the name in
Germany)... ;^)

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ronny

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by **Dave Ma** » Thu, 15 Oct 1998 04:00:00

>My Diamond Monster3d-II 12MB seems to stutter while panning a field of view.
>I mainly run racing simulations (F1RS, etc). Most of the time, the frame
>rate is smooth as silk. But when going thru a hairpin or other high "rate of
>turn", the image seems to stutter.

Don't really have an answer for you, but...

I'd noticed this same type of behavior at the Loew's hairpin at
Monaco. IMO not enough to really be a pain, or cause difficulties in
controlling the car, but to make me say "hmm, wish that was a little
smoother."

But, FWIW, I just for the first time tried the MGPRS (a.k.a. F1RS2)
demo last night, and the Loew's hairpin seems to be a *little*
visually smoother. Don't know if this is a function of improvements
in the sim, or because I had installed DirectX 6 (which I'm still not
sure if that's required to run the demo or not...some say yes, others
say no), or what. Hadn't changed any other system variables, really.

If you're not running DX6, I would not recommend that you "upgrade" to
it just to try and improve this, unless you're really desparate. You
may wind up causing a lot more problems than what you'd be trying to
fix.

My system is:
PII 300 (Dell Dimension XPS D300)
64MB RAM
Turtle Beach Montego soundcard
Orchid R3D-II 12MB card
Matrox Millennium II AGP videocard
CH GameCard3 dedicated gamecard
TSW wheel/pedals on dual brake/throttle axis
Win95 with DirectX 6 (dx6eng.exe)

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