now. I'm using the 6.50 drivers. Have allot of glitchy text when I'm in
windows reading the newsgroups! Strange happenings when in Nascar4, sudden
freezes while I'm in the game, etc. etc. I didn't get that at all with the
V5! I'm running a P3-550e o'clocked to 825. That equals a 150fsb. Does the
Geforce not like an overclocked system? The V5 handled it well!
I'm also going to be upgrading the processor to a 1Ghz p3 on Monday. I
wonder if this will improve things.
The main reason for the upgrade is because I love nascar4, and wasn't
getting very good framerates in the game with the V5, so I thought I'd
upgrade the processor and Video card. I'm also running 128mb of 133mhz cas2
ram, and getting another 128mb to increase that also.
In Nascar4, at the opening lap in traffic, with a 30 car field, I used to
average about 12-15 fps. I did some reading in the newsgroups, and others
were reporting no less than 45-50 fps in that warm up lap. So, I figured
after the cars would stretch out some, the framerate would increase
obviously. When I got the card in, the first thing I noticed was a
degradation in picture quality vs. the fsaa of the V5. But, I kind of
expected that in exchange for the supposedly awesome framerate of the ultra
card. When I set up the race, and started the half lap before green, I
averaged about 18-20 fps!!!! What the hell!! Did more reading, and turned
of the vsync in opengl, and tweaked it like some other readers on this group
mentioned, and I'm still getting really low framerates!! Although the
framerates were very acceptable when cars were not bunched up together a
little later in the race, and at certain points on the track.
I'll keep working on it, in conjunction with more ram, and a faster
processor, but if this keeps up, I'll go back to my V5 that had the most
incredible picture quality I've seen.
Any particular drivers you guys recommend, or other tweaks I'm not aware of?
thanks in advance