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Mobil 1 Rally Championship Graphics?

Peter Blackmo

Mobil 1 Rally Championship Graphics?

by Peter Blackmo » Fri, 10 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Recently purchased Mobil 1 Rally Championship. Excellent game, but I
cannot get 1024 x 768 graphics from my Creative Banshee Voodoo2 card.
Anyone figured out how to get hi-res out of this game?

Thanks,
Peter

Cliff Roma

Mobil 1 Rally Championship Graphics?

by Cliff Roma » Fri, 10 Mar 2000 04:00:00

A V2 card can not do 1024.x768 graphics unless you have 2
of them running in SLI mode.

The best you can do with a Single V2 card is 800x600


(Raymond, ACT LABS

Mobil 1 Rally Championship Graphics?

by (Raymond, ACT LABS » Fri, 10 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Hello,

I had a Banshee card not that long ago.  You are not going to get good
fps on that game with your Banshee card unless you drop the res a lot.
I have a TNT2 Ultra now and still don't get good framerates.  The rest
of my system is P2450, 320 Megs of RAM, etc.  

Raymond



>Recently purchased Mobil 1 Rally Championship. Excellent game, but I
>cannot get 1024 x 768 graphics from my Creative Banshee Voodoo2 card.
>Anyone figured out how to get hi-res out of this game?

>Thanks,
>Peter

Raymond
ACT LABS
Jon Anderse

Mobil 1 Rally Championship Graphics?

by Jon Anderse » Sat, 11 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Yo!

Don't bother with the 1024x768 resolution. Framerate drops big time. With my
old PII350 + Geforce Pro I didn't get a descent framerate in 1024x768. Don't
bother. Use 800x600 and have fun.

Jon


ymenar

Mobil 1 Rally Championship Graphics?

by ymenar » Sat, 11 Mar 2000 04:00:00


<cough> it can if the rasterizer doesn't do Z-buffering.  Example : GPL.

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Han

Mobil 1 Rally Championship Graphics?

by Han » Sat, 11 Mar 2000 04:00:00

id be at 1280x760 if my monitor could do it.  1170x860 or somthin like that
is almost awesome.  I  kinda hate the game though..  It seems more real
watching replays than it does driving the car.. graphics look crummy till
higher/highest res,  and the bumper cam gives a way better sense of speed
than incar.


***w. really bad ai.


>Yo!

>Don't bother with the 1024x768 resolution. Framerate drops big time. With
my
>old PII350 + Geforce Pro I didn't get a descent framerate in 1024x768.
Don't
>bother. Use 800x600 and have fun.

>Jon



>> Recently purchased Mobil 1 Rally Championship. Excellent game, but I
>> cannot get 1024 x 768 graphics from my Creative Banshee Voodoo2 card.
>> Anyone figured out how to get hi-res out of this game?

>> Thanks,
>> Peter

Peter Nilss

Mobil 1 Rally Championship Graphics?

by Peter Nilss » Sat, 11 Mar 2000 04:00:00

SLI mode does _not_ double available graphics RAM.
Two 8Mb cards in SLI still gets you only 8Mb capabilities.
IIRC, the image to be rendered is mirrored on both cards RAM area and
each card renders every other line.

/petern



>A V2 card can not do 1024.x768 graphics unless you have 2
>of them running in SLI mode.

>The best you can do with a Single V2 card is 800x600



>> Recently purchased Mobil 1 Rally Championship. Excellent game, but I
>> cannot get 1024 x 768 graphics from my Creative Banshee Voodoo2 card.
>> Anyone figured out how to get hi-res out of this game?

>> Thanks,
>> Peter

daxe

Mobil 1 Rally Championship Graphics?

by daxe » Sat, 11 Mar 2000 04:00:00


You are correct, sir.  SLI stands for "Scan Line Interleaving' which is
exactly what you are describing.

~daxe

Peter Blackmo

Mobil 1 Rally Championship Graphics?

by Peter Blackmo » Sun, 12 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Thanks for all the responses. I'm running a PIII-500 w/ 128-MB RAM.
Unfortunately, my V2 has only 4-MB RAM and that's the problem.

No, Modil 1 Rally Championship is _nowhere_ near the quality of GPL; it's
a different type of game. But dammit, someone, somewhere, has to take up
the challenge and try to match GPL's high standard. I keep trying to find
one (based on game reviews), but I ain't been satisfied do far.

Tahanks again,
Peter



> id be at 1280x760 if my monitor could do it.  1170x860 or somthin like that
> is almost awesome.  I  kinda hate the game though..  It seems more real
> watching replays than it does driving the car.. graphics look crummy till
> higher/highest res,  and the bumper cam gives a way better sense of speed
> than incar.


> ***w. really bad ai.


> >Yo!

> >Don't bother with the 1024x768 resolution. Framerate drops big time. With
> my
> >old PII350 + Geforce Pro I didn't get a descent framerate in 1024x768.
> Don't
> >bother. Use 800x600 and have fun.

> >Jon



> >> Recently purchased Mobil 1 Rally Championship. Excellent game, but I
> >> cannot get 1024 x 768 graphics from my Creative Banshee Voodoo2 card.
> >> Anyone figured out how to get hi-res out of this game?

> >> Thanks,
> >> Peter


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