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