VSYNC = Off!
and btw how the hell are ya Timster?!!!
Mark McCuen
www.hooters-racing.com
VSYNC = Off!
and btw how the hell are ya Timster?!!!
Mark McCuen
www.hooters-racing.com
Burke
> IMPORTANT: The difference between the low end cards and the high end cards
shows
> up more at higher resolutions.
> There may be very little difference in performance at 640X480 between a
$95 card
> and a $400 card. But the higher you go in resolution, the bigger the
difference
> until at some point the high end card might produce more than twice the
FPS of
> the low end card.
> It is tempting to want a 64MB Ultra because it is the best of the best.
> However, at normal N4 display resolutions, I'm pretty sure the small
increase in
> frame rate is no where near worth the huge increase in price.
> In my humble opinion (which believe me, is not worth much) the best
compromise
> between cost and performance lies with a 32MB GeForce2 GTS (I believe all
of
> them have DDR memory). HOWEVER, if cost is the major concern, then the
GeForce
> 2 MX is the ticket.
> Good place to buy video cards? Try: www.sg3d.com
> There is a TON of information about GeForce cards on the various hardware
> sites. Check out www.sharkeyextreme.com , www.anandtech.com ,
> www.tomshardware.com , etc. Take a few hours and study up for yourself.
Good
> luck!
> -Tony-
> > I was thinking about buying a Geforce 2 card to replace my 3
3000,
> > simply for the hopeful performance boost for Nascar 4.... I've been
looking
> > around at prices at www.pricewatch.com.... What's the difference between
the
> > Geforce 2 GTS and the Geforce 2 MX? I know nothing about Nvidia cards,
but I
> > assume the GTS is better and THE one to get for N4, simply because it's
> > almost twice as expensive as the MX..... Feel free to straighten out my
> > info, though....
> > Burke
>Burke
PS Warning: Don't wear the 3D glasses when other people are around.
Together with a wheel in your hands and headphones on, you'll look a
little bit nerdy.. :)
Andre
Here are two things that might help:
Try setting fast write for AGP in your BIOS, and running AGP4x.
And check DMA for your disks in the device manager.
Bart Westra
> > I was having the same flickering problem. I disabled the vsync for OpenGL
> > and that solved it. Unfortunately, I now get a series of one- to two-
> > second pauses at the beginning of a race, as if N4 was still loading
> > textures or whatnot. It goes away after 20 seconds or so, and it doesn't
> > really come back again unless I switch tracks, but it's pretty annoying
> > while it lasts.
> Here are two things that might help:
> Try setting fast write for AGP in your BIOS, and running AGP4x.
> And check DMA for your disks in the device manager.
> Bart Westra
Jim
> > > I was having the same flickering problem. I disabled the vsync for OpenGL
> > > and that solved it. Unfortunately, I now get a series of one- to two-
> > > second pauses at the beginning of a race, as if N4 was still loading
> > > textures or whatnot. It goes away after 20 seconds or so, and it doesn't
> > > really come back again unless I switch tracks, but it's pretty annoying
> > > while it lasts.
> > Here are two things that might help:
> > Try setting fast write for AGP in your BIOS, and running AGP4x.
> > And check DMA for your disks in the device manager.
> > Bart Westra
> Thanks, I'll give it a try.
> Jim
Jim