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Tom Pabst! Thank You!

Therron Thoma

Tom Pabst! Thank You!

by Therron Thoma » Fri, 13 Apr 2001 23:12:12

Thanks to Tom my new GeForce Prophet has now moved from
16-20 FPS in N4 to 85-90 FPS during quals and 35-40 during
40 Car Races.

I cannot think of words to describe how incredibly thankful I am sir.

YOU ARE THE MAN!!

Just got back from Bible Class and we talked about loving your neighbor and
good Samaritans.

How applicable!

Thanks again!

Tom Pabs

Tom Pabst! Thank You!

by Tom Pabs » Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:45:01

Therron...

I appreciate you taking a moment to say, "thank you."  Its seems to be a
gesture more often forgotten these days than is necessary.....and it was
nice to know you got some value from the information I posted.

I should point out that I can not take any credit for that information.  All
I did was gather it together in one place.....but it was given to me in
parts from others.  I didn't "invent" any of it.......so the credit goes to
those "unknown techies"....that went before us!

Regards,

Tom

Doug Hoo

Tom Pabst! Thank You!

by Doug Hoo » Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:11:44

    Well heres to the "unknown techies" of the world and you too Tom. I too
applied those same tweaks and man what a difference.
     I would also highly recommend Chad "shpanky" Sparks Soundpack version
1.5 . This is an incredible simulation that absolutely rocks on my new
system:

Abit KT7A raid
AMD T-bird 1.2 ghz c (266 fsb) o'ced to 1.4 ghz
256 meg crucial pc 133 (cas2)
Antec case w/ 300 watt PS
4 Case Fans
Windows 98 SE
(2) Maxtor 30 gig 7200 rpm ata 100 in Raid 0
(1) Maxtor 20 gig 7200 rpm ata 100
Geforce 2 GTS 64 meg (Leadtek Winfast)
Plextor 12x10x32 cd-rw
Pioneer 16x dvd
Sb Live! value
Cambridge FPS 2000 Digital Speakers
19" Viewsonic PS 790
3com USB nic
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Microsoft Sidewinder FF Wheel
Microsort Sidewinder FF Joystick

I think it's time to use up some "sick" days !!!!!!



Ben Colema

Tom Pabst! Thank You!

by Ben Colema » Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:37:38

You guys and your freakin' systems....constantly reminding me that I'm
overdue for an upgrade!

Every now and then I turn all the details on in GPL and it's like a new
game....a new slideshow actually.  I'm looking forward to running it that
way!  Soon, soon...

Ben...P2-300


>    Well heres to the "unknown techies" of the world and you too Tom. I too
>applied those same tweaks and man what a difference.
>     I would also highly recommend Chad "shpanky" Sparks Soundpack version
>1.5 . This is an incredible simulation that absolutely rocks on my new
>system:

>Abit KT7A raid
>AMD T-bird 1.2 ghz c (266 fsb) o'ced to 1.4 ghz
>256 meg crucial pc 133 (cas2)
>Antec case w/ 300 watt PS
>4 Case Fans
>Windows 98 SE
>(2) Maxtor 30 gig 7200 rpm ata 100 in Raid 0
>(1) Maxtor 20 gig 7200 rpm ata 100
>Geforce 2 GTS 64 meg (Leadtek Winfast)
>Plextor 12x10x32 cd-rw
>Pioneer 16x dvd
>Sb Live! value
>Cambridge FPS 2000 Digital Speakers
>19" Viewsonic PS 790
>3com USB nic
>Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
>Microsoft Sidewinder FF Wheel
>Microsort Sidewinder FF Joystick

>I think it's time to use up some "sick" days !!!!!!



>> Therron...

>> I appreciate you taking a moment to say, "thank you."  Its seems to be a
>> gesture more often forgotten these days than is necessary.....and it was
>> nice to know you got some value from the information I posted.

>> I should point out that I can not take any credit for that information.
>All
>> I did was gather it together in one place.....but it was given to me in
>> parts from others.  I didn't "invent" any of it.......so the credit goes
>to
>> those "unknown techies"....that went before us!

>> Regards,

>> Tom

Aviato

Tom Pabst! Thank You!

by Aviato » Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:35:21


Ben, might I suggest an AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1 GHz, in an Asus A 7 V, with
256 MB of RAM.  I upgraded to this level, as it was not as expensive as a
number of other options.

You would probably find that you would have fewer problems, if you stopped
drooling when your keyboard

:-)



> >    Well heres to the "unknown techies" of the world and you too Tom. I
too
> >applied those same tweaks and man what a difference.
> >     I would also highly recommend Chad "shpanky" Sparks Soundpack
version
> >1.5 . This is an incredible simulation that absolutely rocks on my new
> >system:

> >Abit KT7A raid
> >AMD T-bird 1.2 ghz c (266 fsb) o'ced to 1.4 ghz
> >256 meg crucial pc 133 (cas2)
> >Antec case w/ 300 watt PS
> >4 Case Fans
> >Windows 98 SE
> >(2) Maxtor 30 gig 7200 rpm ata 100 in Raid 0
> >(1) Maxtor 20 gig 7200 rpm ata 100
> >Geforce 2 GTS 64 meg (Leadtek Winfast)
> >Plextor 12x10x32 cd-rw
> >Pioneer 16x dvd
> >Sb Live! value
> >Cambridge FPS 2000 Digital Speakers
> >19" Viewsonic PS 790
> >3com USB nic
> >Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
> >Microsoft Sidewinder FF Wheel
> >Microsort Sidewinder FF Joystick

> >I think it's time to use up some "sick" days !!!!!!



> >> Therron...

> >> I appreciate you taking a moment to say, "thank you."  Its seems to be
a
> >> gesture more often forgotten these days than is necessary.....and it
was
> >> nice to know you got some value from the information I posted.

> >> I should point out that I can not take any credit for that information.
> >All
> >> I did was gather it together in one place.....but it was given to me in
> >> parts from others.  I didn't "invent" any of it.......so the credit
goes
> >to
> >> those "unknown techies"....that went before us!

> >> Regards,

> >> Tom

Lero

Tom Pabst! Thank You!

by Lero » Fri, 13 Apr 2001 16:16:32

Sorry, but where to find these tweaks and that soundpack? Please give url's

Thanks

oz

Tom Pabst! Thank You!

by oz » Fri, 13 Apr 2001 16:41:32

would the same settings work well on a geforce ddr (not gf2)
oz.
Andre Warrin

Tom Pabst! Thank You!

by Andre Warrin » Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:08:15



Tom, could you post here or mail me what you told Therron? I'm quite
curious how he got such a major improvement!

Andre

vailma

Tom Pabst! Thank You!

by vailma » Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:32:04

All right technophyles why is this?

I had a TNT2 V770 32 meg card and was getting 32 FPS on N4.

Bought a 3D Prophet Geforce 64 meg card and now I get about
24 FPS?

What gives?

Rest of my system:
WIN ME
900mhz athlon
256 megs PC100
23 gigs HD available
SBlive
44X cd

Using Liveware 3.0 with ME patch
detonator drivers and hercules drivers both about the same.

Suggestions?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You don't have your video card installed or configured properly.......

Go through this check list....then try it again:

*********GeForce 2 (MX, GTS, ULTRA) Tweaks and Settings for N4***********

       **Desktop Color:  Set to 16-bit color for N4 and all games.

       **DirectX: Make sure you are using a DX 8.0 compatible driver (Nvidia
Ref drivers versions 7.0 or higher)

       **For N4:  Run OpenGL (not D3D) in "XXXX"x16 (you must use a screen
res compatible with your CPU speed and ram).

       ** Monitor:  Make sure you have downloaded the latest drivers for
your monitor...DO NOT USE "Plug and Play" Monitor drivers!  Set your refresh
rate at the highest setting you are allowed for your monitor at the specific
screen res you want to run N4 at.

       **Advanced Settings Tab For OpenGL:
           In The Scroll Down Box:
                 Enable Buffer Region Extension (checked)
                Allow the dual planes extension to us local video memory
(checked)
                Use fast linear-mipmap-linear filtering (checked)
                ****all others are unchecked****

            Default Color Depth for Textures:  Always Use 16 bpp
            Buffer Flipping Mode:  Use page flip
            Vertical sync: Always off
            Full Scene Antialiasing Method: Always off

            Use up to [62] MB of system memory for textures in PCI mode

    **Mother Board BIOS Settings:
            Video BIOS Shadow = "Disabled"
            Video BIOS Cache = "Disabled"
            Palette Snoop = "Disabled"
            AGP Turbo (or x4) = "Enabled" (if your mobo supports
it....disabled or 2x or 1x if it does not)
            PnP Aware OS = "Yes"
            AGP Aperture Size = 128 mb (only if you have 128 mb or
more...which you should)
            Resources Controlled by = "Auto"
            Assign IRQ to VGA = "Yes"

Tom
Pabst -Racing.com

Paul Jage

Tom Pabst! Thank You!

by Paul Jage » Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:59:13

I don't understand
'Use up to [62] MB of system memory for textures in PCI mode'.
I have  Gforce 2 Hercules 64mb card but can only choose upto 30mb for
textures in the options. What is wrong, or have I misunderstood? (I have an
Athlon 900 with 256mb ram).

PJ


Jon Wille

Tom Pabst! Thank You!

by Jon Wille » Fri, 13 Apr 2001 20:20:55

"I don't get it (new video card)," 10 April 2001.  Search on Deja for
tom pabst geforce opengl n4.  (Of course, now this message will
match.)  The main recommendation was to run in 16-bit OpenGL with the
latest drivers.




>Tom, could you post here or mail me what you told Therron? I'm quite
>curious how he got such a major improvement!

--
Jon Willeke <j dot willeke at verizon dot net>
Thom j

Tom Pabst! Thank You!

by Thom j » Fri, 13 Apr 2001 22:50:24

Ditto!! Tia.. Thom_j.



| Tom, could you post here or mail me what you told Therron? I'm quite
| curious how he got such a major improvement!
|
| Andre

Andre Warring

Tom Pabst! Thank You!

by Andre Warring » Sat, 14 Apr 2001 00:59:51



>"I don't get it (new video card)," 10 April 2001.  Search on Deja for
>tom pabst geforce opengl n4.  (Of course, now this message will
>match.)  The main recommendation was to run in 16-bit OpenGL with the
>latest drivers.

Ow.. I knew that, but thanks :)

Andre




>>Tom, could you post here or mail me what you told Therron? I'm quite
>>curious how he got such a major improvement!

Doug Hoo

Tom Pabst! Thank You!

by Doug Hoo » Sat, 14 Apr 2001 10:38:07

Here is the sound pack from Blackhole Motorsports. This is the best
soundpack I have ever heard.

http://www.bhmotorsports.com/n4_utilities/cs_engine_sound.zip


Tom Pabs

Tom Pabst! Thank You!

by Tom Pabs » Sun, 15 Apr 2001 12:24:28

Thank you , Vailman....I was about to repost the answer to Therron
Thomas......

Tom Pabst


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