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Yet another Rally Trophy thread.

Heckler 2oo

Yet another Rally Trophy thread.

by Heckler 2oo » Fri, 22 Mar 2002 05:53:44

Just got this today (Only cost me 9[$13])

I've downloaded the patch from the site and installed that, I've tried
running the game and can run the first 2 stages in Russia, but when I hit
enter to take me to the next stage it crashes back to the desktop everytime.

Also frame rates are a bit sluggish, I'm running 1024x768x32 no FSAA, using
the creative EAX surround sound, all levels maxed. I can run F1 2001 at
1280x1024x32 with everything maxed and not get the slowdown I do here, is RT
that more graphics intensive?

My system specs are:
Athlon 1.4
KT7A-Raid
256MB Crucial ram.
Voodoo5
Win2K (SP2)
SB Live 5.1

Any ideas, I've scanned through a few Rally Trophy threads, but hadn't seen
anyone with this problem.

Incidentally I had no problems at all configuring my controller like some
people had, using a split axis.

Heckler

Andi Col

Yet another Rally Trophy thread.

by Andi Col » Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:16:50

Your best bet for a solution is Jowoods RT forum.

Set the sound to 'miles fast'.

Andi.


jeepcj

Yet another Rally Trophy thread.

by jeepcj » Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:43:17

It could be the vodoo card, had lots of trouble with mine. What drivers are
you using? I gave up and installed a geforce card.

> Your best bet for a solution is Jowoods RT forum.

> Set the sound to 'miles fast'.

> Andi.



> > Just got this today (Only cost me 9[$13])

> > I've downloaded the patch from the site and installed that, I've tried
> > running the game and can run the first 2 stages in Russia, but when I
hit
> > enter to take me to the next stage it crashes back to the desktop
> everytime.

> > Also frame rates are a bit sluggish, I'm running 1024x768x32 no FSAA,
> using
> > the creative EAX surround sound, all levels maxed. I can run F1 2001 at
> > 1280x1024x32 with everything maxed and not get the slowdown I do here,
is
> RT
> > that more graphics intensive?

> > My system specs are:
> > Athlon 1.4
> > KT7A-Raid
> > 256MB Crucial ram.
> > Voodoo5
> > Win2K (SP2)
> > SB Live 5.1

> > Any ideas, I've scanned through a few Rally Trophy threads, but hadn't
> seen
> > anyone with this problem.

> > Incidentally I had no problems at all configuring my controller like
some
> > people had, using a split axis.

> > Heckler

Steve Smit

Yet another Rally Trophy thread.

by Steve Smit » Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:07:41

Heck,

RT's frame-rate slowdowns are wierd.  You can be blasting along, great fps,
and STUTT-STUTT-STUTT everything slows to a crawl, for no apparent reason,
then just as mysteriously speeds up again in the middle of nowhere.  It
happens at the same point every time, so it's obviously a gfx bottleneck,
but it doesn't seem to be dependent upon the density/complexity of the
scenery.

Rally Championship, which had a great frame rate *most* of the time came
absolutely unglued when there was another car in the frame (which only
happened with wheel-to-wheel multiplay, something the developers obviosuly
didn't, um, develop).

Give me consistency or give me...oh well, never mind.

--Steve


Heckler 2oo

Yet another Rally Trophy thread.

by Heckler 2oo » Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:20:32


Seems the problem was with the voodoo card and the patch. Turn off geometry
assist for voodoo 3/4/5 cards. and I also manually installed the patch file
by file. This seems to have cured the problem, I don't think the install
worked properly the first time around.

Heckler

Tim Mise

Yet another Rally Trophy thread.

by Tim Mise » Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:19:21

Try the Arcade mode with max settings and opponents.  That brings my Athlon
XP 2100+ Radeon 8500 to it's knees.  I don't think a 4 Ghz cpu could handle
that!

-Tim


> Heck,

> RT's frame-rate slowdowns are wierd.  You can be blasting along, great
fps,
> and STUTT-STUTT-STUTT everything slows to a crawl, for no apparent reason,
> then just as mysteriously speeds up again in the middle of nowhere.  It
> happens at the same point every time, so it's obviously a gfx bottleneck,
> but it doesn't seem to be dependent upon the density/complexity of the
> scenery.

> Rally Championship, which had a great frame rate *most* of the time came
> absolutely unglued when there was another car in the frame (which only
> happened with wheel-to-wheel multiplay, something the developers obviosuly
> didn't, um, develop).

> Give me consistency or give me...oh well, never mind.

> --Steve



> > Just got this today (Only cost me 9[$13])

> > I've downloaded the patch from the site and installed that, I've tried
> > running the game and can run the first 2 stages in Russia, but when I
hit
> > enter to take me to the next stage it crashes back to the desktop
> everytime.

> > Also frame rates are a bit sluggish, I'm running 1024x768x32 no FSAA,
> using
> > the creative EAX surround sound, all levels maxed. I can run F1 2001 at
> > 1280x1024x32 with everything maxed and not get the slowdown I do here,
is
> RT
> > that more graphics intensive?

> > My system specs are:
> > Athlon 1.4
> > KT7A-Raid
> > 256MB Crucial ram.
> > Voodoo5
> > Win2K (SP2)
> > SB Live 5.1

> > Any ideas, I've scanned through a few Rally Trophy threads, but hadn't
> seen
> > anyone with this problem.

> > Incidentally I had no problems at all configuring my controller like
some
> > people had, using a split axis.

> > Heckler


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