On Wed, 4 Nov 1998 16:29:55 -0500, "Joey & Harriet Millard"
>I have a Pentium 75 computer which very slow. I have been running N2 with
>all the graphics turned off, except for car and wall textures. The frame
>rate is still choppy.
>I'm getting ready to upgrade the motherboard, processor, and the graphics
>card.
>Can anyone tell me what kind of motherboard, processor, and graphics card
>should I buy to run the full graphics mode (asphalt and grass textures on)
>with N2 and with the new NASCAR 99?
>There's a lot of options out there to buy , and along with the technology
>changing by the day. Please email me with your comments>
If you want to run just N2/N99, a MMX Pentium (166-233MHz) will
pretty much do the job, combined with either a Rendition V2x00 video
card (Diamond Stealth S220 or Hercules Thriller 3D) or a 3Dfx Voodoo 1
or 2 video card.
OTOH, next summer will bring NASCAR3, based on the GPL engine. I'd
start looking at what the GPL requirements are. Basically, a Pentium
II (preferably with 100MHz FSBus, ie: 350MHz CPU or higher) with
either of the video cards mentioned above (support is slowly being
added for Riva/TNT/OpenGL and Matrox G200/D3D, but it isn't fully
supported yet). More video memory (at least 8 meg) and system memory
(think about 128 meg) is preferred.
If you're a do-it-yourselfer, the current hot set-up is the Intel
Celeron 300A w/128k cache over-clocked to 450MHz on an Abit BX6 or BH6
motherboard, 64-128 meg of PC100 memory, and either a Hercules
Thriller 3D/8 meg or Voodoo 2.
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