rec.autos.simulators

Now I'm thinking it can't possible get any better that this. But I was
wrong.  While playing with different graphics settings I went into the
sounds options. I did not realize that I did not have hardware accelerated
sound on nor did I have the highest quality selected.  EAX really makes this
game sound awesome. Now these changes didn't make as much of a difference as
my HEADPHONES !!!!  I read a post a couple months ago by someone expounding
the glory of GPL with headphones and have wanted to try them for a while but
I didn't own any until this week. It was really late last night and I was
trying not to wake the kids so I plugged in my $9.99 Jensen
headphones and I WAS BLOWN AWAY !!! The sound is absolutely incredible.(Cue
angelic choir singing AHHHH!!) If you own headphones stop reading this and
plug them in ,start the game jump in the GT2 and head out on the Autobahn.
You will be amazed.
 This morning with everyone else gone to church I tried something else. I
kept 2 of my regular speakers and my subwoofer turned on and still used the
headphones. AMAZING !!! You can actually feel the car with the subwoofer
pumping. I must say that the sounds for the GT2 car that I downloaded are
the best. The in car view is not as muted with this one as the ones that
came with the game are.

Next it was time to try new wheel settings. I have a MSFF wheel. I set the
return to center and FF effects to high in the Sidewinder properties. I
think the "return to center "being on high made the biggest difference.
Bingo----perfection !!!!! I can honestly say I am totally happy with every
aspect of NFS-PU.
 I must say this is the best looking , sounding and feeling racing title I
have ever played since my recent tweaks.

Here are my in game settings:

GRAPHICS
Glide 1024x768
All options set to highest except lens flare turned off and sky to medium
(who looks up?)

SOUND
3D sound=ON
Quality=HIGH
Sound effects 80%
Engine 100%
Speech 50%
Ambient world sounds 70%

FORCE FEEDBACK SETTINGS
Stick volume 85%
Road effects 0%
Collision 70%
Engine 75%
Road Grip 100%

MY SYSTEM SPECS.
PII350
128 MB Ram
SBLive! Value
FPS 2000 Digital speakers
12 meg V2 SLI
Viewsonic PS790  19"
MSFF wheel

Doug

Now I'm thinking it can't possible get any better that this. But I was
wrong.  While playing with different graphics settings I went into the
sounds options. I did not realize that I did not have hardware accelerated
sound on nor did I have the highest quality selected.  EAX really makes this
game sound awesome. Now these changes didn't make as much of a difference as
my HEADPHONES !!!!  I read a post a couple months ago by someone expounding
the glory of GPL with headphones and have wanted to try them for a while but
I didn't own any until this week. It was really late last night and I was
trying not to wake the kids so I plugged in my $9.99 Jensen
headphones and I WAS BLOWN AWAY !!! The sound is absolutely incredible.(Cue
angelic choir singing AHHHH!!) If you own headphones stop reading this and
plug them in ,start the game jump in the GT2 and head out on the Autobahn.
You will be amazed.
 This morning with everyone else gone to church I tried something else. I
kept 2 of my regular speakers and my subwoofer turned on and still used the
headphones. AMAZING !!! You can actually feel the car with the subwoofer
pumping. I must say that the sounds for the GT2 car that I downloaded are
the best. The in car view is not as muted with this one as the ones that
came with the game are.

Next it was time to try new wheel settings. I have a MSFF wheel. I set the
return to center and FF effects to high in the Sidewinder properties. I
think the "return to center "being on high made the biggest difference.
Bingo----perfection !!!!! I can honestly say I am totally happy with every
aspect of NFS-PU.
 I must say this is the best looking , sounding and feeling racing title I
have ever played since my recent tweaks.

Here are my in game settings:

GRAPHICS
Glide 1024x768
All options set to highest except lens flare turned off and sky to medium
(who looks up?)

SOUND
3D sound=ON
Quality=HIGH
Sound effects 80%
Engine 100%
Speech 50%
Ambient world sounds 70%

FORCE FEEDBACK SETTINGS
Stick volume 85%
Road effects 0%
Collision 70%
Engine 75%
Road Grip 100%

MY SYSTEM SPECS.
PII350
128 MB Ram
SBLive! Value
FPS 2000 Digital speakers
12 meg V2 SLI
Viewsonic PS790  19"
MSFF wheel

Doug

Slot

And here is the Sli Fix:

"The reason you get only 800x600 is because NFS5PU
is not recognizing SLI - it's using only 1 of the cards! Fortunately
there's an easy solution to this. Edit your registry under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Electronic Arts\Need For Speed - Porsche
Unleashed and change the "Thrash Driver" from "dx" to "voodoo2"
Enjoy the higher fps and 1024x768!"
Encipherator

Andre

At any rate, I've always felt that headphones are the way to go -- even
when I'm the only one at home, it just doesn't "sound" right to me when
I've tried using my PC speakers, versus using headphones.  Of course,
when I'm at home by myself, the Aura Interactor really DOES add to the
experience -- but that's another story (and a noisy one at that). <G>

-- JB

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Before you buy.

are the onscreen menu words stuck that way with the fix/no alternative other
than going back to the original set up...

& why is my res not getting to 1024?

thanks

TP

reply here or remove NOSPAM

Do you have 1 V2 or 2?  I think you need SLI for 1024x768.

Kinbote

in fact a 3k edges out the SLI combo.

I wonder if 2 V2's SLI are better than 1 V3 3500??

TP