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>I'm running it on a Pentium II 450 with 128mb RAM and a Voodoo 2
>card and whilst free practice runs without any problems, as soon
>as you get other cars on the track, the FPS drops to an
>unacceptably crappy level. The only way I can speed it up is to
>turn down the number of visible cars to about 5 which is
>completely shite.

>800x600 works fine in practice mode, and i've tried 640x480 in
>race mode to try and speed things up, but it's no good.

>I don't think it's playable at its current FPS.

>This is the first game of my PC which has caused it any kind of
>slowdown, everything else is great. Is the graphics engine just
>a load of rubbish?

>Any ideas?

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> works OK with a bit of tweaking.  Turning off mirrors made a *massive*
> difference, but also try lowering all detail levels...  I've since seen it

> tho.

> Also, try playing the first couple of laps using nose-cone view.  (Pass me
> the *** simracer flame-proof suit, Robin).

> have to launch F12000 first to prevent a kernel error.

> Cheers,

> Nigel

> > Is it just me or is F1 2000 REALLY SLOW?

> <snip>

> It can get bad during the start of a race as you have seen. Especially
> if you have the smoke & dust turned on (even to just low). If you
> haven't gone to www.fraps.com and gotten fraps, you should. You
> will then be able to see the framerate and be able to directly tell
> what is helping your framerate or hurting it.

> > I'm running it on a Pentium II 450 with 128mb RAM and a Voodoo 2
> > card and whilst free practice runs without any problems, as soon

> Agreed. I get 21 fps in test/practice and I have the same hardware.

> > as you get other cars on the track, the FPS drops to an

> I haven't seen this in practice. In fact when I practice/test with
> a bunch of cars on the track, it stays at a solid 20 fps. It will
> make small dips for a second or so to 15fps, but last night
> it was a solid 20-21fps mostly (800x600).

> > unacceptably crappy level. The only way I can speed it up is to
> > turn down the number of visible cars to about 5 which is
> > completely shite.

> I did a quick race last night and started in the rear. At the start
> the framerate was 9 which of course is not acceptable. But after
> things sorted out, the framerate was a solid 17fps. However if you
> cannot start reasonably I agree it is bad.

> > 800x600 works fine in practice mode, and i've tried 640x480 in
> > race mode to try and speed things up, but it's no good.

> > I don't think it's playable at its current FPS.

> For the most part the starts are not. But if you can make it through
> the start, the rest of the race would be alright. F1RS was like this
> when it was first released, when things were very slow through
> the first corner.

> > This is the first game of my PC which has caused it any kind of
> > slowdown, everything else is great. Is the graphics engine just
> > a load of rubbish?

> > Any ideas?

> The only reason I can see for this is the lack of Glide support.
> This game is 100% DirectX/Direct3D which is not very efficient
> at all.

> I am trying to fix the problem by upgrading from my P2-450
> to a P3-600E. This CPU will just pop in my current mother-
> board so I shouldn't lose anything and just have a CPU which
> is 25% faster. Hopefully then I will be able to edit the system
> rating in the F1 2000 config.ini file to 5 and get better per-
> formance.

> Have you tried this edit yet? It works wonders for some. It
> decreased performance for me though :-(

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> >I have a P3 450 Mhz - 128 Mo RAM and a poor ATI 16 Mo but
> >i always play at 1024 X 768 with 95 % of the graphics options ON
> >and my framerate is acceptable (50 Fps in qualifs alone and 20 in race)
> >One thing very important (but a lot here forget it) is to prepare your PC
> >for high performance.
> >Tweak the virtual memory, erase tons of polices, disable antivirus, scanner
> >, etc... and all others programs in Windows, etc..... will increase a lot
> >Framerate.
> >believe me.

> Erase policies?  In win95?

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> > Is it just me or is F1 2000 REALLY SLOW?

> > I'm running it on a Pentium II 450 with 128mb RAM and a Voodoo 2
> > card and whilst free practice runs without any problems, as soon
> > as you get other cars on the track, the FPS drops to an
> > unacceptably crappy level. The only way I can speed it up is to
> > turn down the number of visible cars to about 5 which is
> > completely shite.

> Within 5 minutes of loading up SCGT I knew that ISI had some serious
> problems with their graphics driver. They have now done a somewhat more
> ambitious sim, using basically the same engines.

> Meanwhile, SBK2K is the first thing I've seen that makes me think there's
> life beyond Papy's graphics, and it runs like a champ on my pII-400 voodoo2.

> Personally, I think that EA should have their developer who knows what the
> hell they are doing sit down and have a chat with the one that dosn't seem
> to have a clue.

> But then, that's just my opinion.