>> I just finished my first experience of CPR on my P166 MMX with 32megs of
>> ram and an ATI 3D 2mg board (which stinks). Anyway... as my subject
>> line indicates... CPR needs CPR. I hope the developement team along
>> with M$ are listening to everyone who has tested this product. There
>> are some nice features to the game. Graphics arent as bad as I
>> thought.. but from what ive seen wont come close to the Ubisoft F1 sim.
>> Framerate.... lets use an anology... The framerate in Winblows95 felt
>> like trying to suck a bowling ball through a 1/16th inch coffee straw.
>As long as you do not use a 3dfx card, this is the type of framerate to
>expect. With 3dfx you can max out the details in the Trial version and get
>over 20fps (type 'frame' while driving to find the framerate) as long as you
>keep the draw ahead (CNTL-F/CNTL-H) distance set to 15. The demo is
>actually quite fun then. But the graphics suffer from the short draw ahead
>distance. I have decided I can tolerate it in the Trial version. The real game
>with 20+ cars? Who knows how the performance will be? I really do not
>know what to expect.
>IMHO without 3dfx you have no hope of having a playable game even on
>a PII-266. A friend has such a machine with no 3dfx card, and I get better
>framerates with my P5-166/3dfx.
Greg, I am having a very different experience with CPR on my P166MMX
w/ a Pure 3d 3dfx/Voodoo. I have to turn just about every graphic
option off in order to sustain anywhere close to 25+ fps. I have also
found that if I want to rid myself of the miserable dips in fps, I
must turn off the dashboard/cockpit. I may be a bit spoiled but I just
can't race any where consistent with these types of drops which seem
related with "Direct 3d" performance. I bench over 40fps in GLQuake
and many other 3dfx ported games work very nicely on my system. I have
played around with the CTRL-F/H and have it at 15 to try to achieve my
goal of a sustained 25-30 fps which is what I need to sustain control
in simracing. I just don't see this happening with CPR and it is
really turning me away. I have re-installed the demo twice. I have
also re-installed the latest Canopus drivers with no improved results
in Direct 3d. BTW, if I actually "Max out" the details in CPR with my
3dfx, framerate is around a 18-20 fps with many dips as low as the
single digits. I am lost as to how a select few seem to be seeing much
higher performance from CPR using 3dfx. I'm still searching for the
answer...
Ron L.
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