rec.autos.simulators

I have an AT&T Globalyst 375TPC with 100mhz Pentium
16kb internal cache (slot available to add ext. cache)
S3 - Trio64 VGA with 1MB of VDRA memory (upgradeable to 2meg)
16meg of ram (upgradable to 192)
1.6 gig HD and 4X CD.
Telemetry 32 w/telephone sound/modem 14.4 card

Any help on what type (s) of upgrades would directly benefit my system
in games performance would be greatly appreciated!
I am becoming a HUGE nascar fan but seem to be experiencing alot of
lag in the graphics/screen drawing is jumpy at times in different
tracks and I have to turn off the grass and road textures to even make
it playable but still some lag occurs. I have read some of the tips in
the manual and web pages and they just seem to refer to turning these
options off but I would really like to speed up/"tweak" my system to
handle these better.

P.S./ Anyone else have an AT&T computer with these specs. ?

Thanks...

My experience is that the biggest factor in frame rate is the graphics
card. (I'd like to hear what others think)

I had a chance to run NASCAR on two different machines with the same
graphics card. Both had an ATI Mach 64.

The machines were a 486/66 with a Vesa local bus and a Pentium 60
with a PCI bus. The 486 was only about 10% slower on frame rate (this
was with most of the texture maps turned off on both).

On the other hand last year at the Games Developer Conference I saw
NASCAR running at 60 frames a second with all the graphics on,  
running on a Pentium (don't know the speed of the machine). That was
with some next generation display chip set. Sure was cool.

Also, at that show, a manufacturer was showing a joystick with
servo motors built in to provide force feedback, running NASCAR. The demo
unit was a coin-op quality unit in a desktop box. It was great! When
you went into a drift you could feel it and when you hit the wall, you
could REALLY feel it. It also worked on Doom so that you had recoil when
you fired a weapon. The manufacturer claimed then that he would be shipping
by Spring '96 for a price point of about $129 street price. My reaction
was "yeah right" and I haven't heard anything since. Too bad. He said they
were also going to do a steering wheel version. My feeling was that
it was so cool that it would be worth it at three times the price.

Bill

Mike

|> >
|> >Does anyone have any knowledge on what would improve framerates,
|> >graphics drawing ect... in speed intense games such as Nascar, Indy,
|> >ect... as far as upgrading my system?
|> >
|> >I have an AT&T Globalyst 375TPC with 100mhz Pentium
|> >16kb internal cache (slot available to add ext. cache)
|> >S3 - Trio64 VGA with 1MB of VDRA memory (upgradeable to 2meg)
|> >16meg of ram (upgradable to 192)
|> >1.6 gig HD and 4X CD.
|> >Telemetry 32 w/telephone sound/modem 14.4 card
|> >
|> >Any help on what type (s) of upgrades would directly benefit my system
|> >in games performance would be greatly appreciated!
|> >I am becoming a HUGE nascar fan but seem to be experiencing alot of
|> >lag in the graphics/screen drawing is jumpy at times in different
|> >tracks and I have to turn off the grass and road textures to even make
|> >it playable but still some lag occurs. I have read some of the tips in
|> >the manual and web pages and they just seem to refer to turning these
|> >options off but I would really like to speed up/"tweak" my system to
|> >handle these better.
|> >

|> >
|> >P.S./ Anyone else have an AT&T computer with these specs. ?
|> >
|> >Thanks...
|> >
|>
|> If I was you, I'd upgrade my video card. This is what controls the
|> graphics. Look at a Matrox Millineum.

I would add some external cache first. It is cheaper, provides more per-
formance, and it doesn't involve selling an old card.

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Lannie Schafroth

1) GET EXTERNAL CACHE (256K) and make sure it is enabled in the BIOS.
2) GET Matrox Millenium Video Card (2MB standard will be fine)
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In my experience the best DOS *** card for the money is the Hercules
Stingray Pro.  $139 for the 1 MB card.  You only needed 1 MB for SVGA in
NASCAR.  I have a Millenium (4 MB) in a P133 and a Herc (1 MB) in a DX4-100.  
The difference in NASCAR (hi-res) is that to get the same smoothness (realllll
smooth) I only have to turn the grandstand to auto on the 486.  Just my
experience.

Lee