rec.autos.simulators

>> I'm not sure why your performance is so bad with the Rendition.

>Somewhere out there is a ' Eat Crow ' message I sent.  Turned out that my
>BIOS was outdated, and it made all the diff in the world.  But, In ICRII I
>get great framerates with all cars and graphics, where in N2 I have to
>limit the number of cars to between 6-10, depending on the track, to get
>the same rate as in ICRII. But, this I can live with.

> Daman
>  I too have a mudduck computer, In fact its one of them retarded P90's
> . Sorry to hear you have all those problems with graphics. Like the
> others that replyed here,Im running it with everything on except the
> grass and asphalt. And I have and ATI card with 2 megs dram on it.
> like the other guys here I agree,if it is on the motherboard,its
> crap.Plain and simple. I did hear of a few cases where some one with a
> pukard smells has bought a 3d card,plugged it in and whamo it was up
> and running. You may want to check into this more.This maybe your only
> salvation or like they said replace the motherboard or the whole
> computer. Yea I know,it sucks.

>                 Paul

> >No Daman I also have a P 100 16 meg computer and I have all the graphics
> >turned on and all the cars onand it runs very smooth and perfect oh yeah by
> >the way I only have a one meg video card.THe problem I see is that I have a
> >Trident computer (motherboard and video card ) nothing is intergrated onto
> >the mother board the first think I would suggest is to get a different
> >computer because any computer tech will tell ya that a Pacard Bell is a
> >piece of ***because everything is intergrated on to the mother board.

> >Robert

> >> I did a full install on a packard bell pentium 100 (16 meg).  It ran
> >aweful.
> >> It was choppy even during preseason testing with one car.  I turned most
> >all
> >> graphics off for a race and it still was aweful.  What could be the
> >problem?
> >> Is  pentium 100 still not enough for this sim?

> >> DaMan

> >> I'm not sure why your performance is so bad with the Rendition.

> >Somewhere out there is a ' Eat Crow ' message I sent.  Turned out that
my

> You are using RENDDMA and not N2REND, yes? There's a dramatic difference
> between the two in terms of frame rate.

>>I did a full install on a packard bell pentium 100 (16 meg).  It ran aweful.
>>It was choppy even during preseason testing with one car.  I turned most all
>>graphics off for a race and it still was aweful.  What could be the problem?
>>Is  pentium 100 still not enough for this sim?

>>DaMan

>LOL!!!   Do you know Which video card comes with a crapard Bell?
>a 2 MEg CIRUS LOGIC 5430.
>That video card is so old, even a Reactor in MODEX without RENUTIL
>woudlnt be able to go THAT low!
>Unless you changed it, or specifically asked for a different one, you
>woudnt be able to run VGA games at decent speeds.
>Go get yourself a Tseng 6000, or a Millenium, then come back and see
>if it still runs slow.

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>God help us all.."

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