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ICR2: Rendition Question Please help !

William Dahm

ICR2: Rendition Question Please help !

by William Dahm » Sat, 18 Jan 1997 04:00:00

I just finished installing My Screamin 3D and I am puzzled.  I have
found the fps to be equal or worse than before, even with the 4 bit
carset and grass, ground, and car textures off.  I know because when I
used those same settings before and then turned one of those three from
off to "Auto" it would not come on at the beg. of a race, it would
flicker on occasionally on the pace lap (of course, this was with min
and max set to 30) (also remember I'm talking about 20+ cars on the
screen including the rear view mirrors).  Now in the Rendition version I
have been runing with those three textures "off" and the rest of the
textures on as before.  I turn the fps counter on during a pace lap and
the fps is below 30.  There should be at least some improvement right?
        I know there is nothing wrong with the card because quake runs great at
640X480.  With quake I had to apply a patch before I got the performance
improvement.  I didn't notice anything like that for ICR2.  I have tried
the indycar, indyfast, and the third one for older comps.  I suppose the
problem has to be in the mode or I need to apply some other patch but I
can't find anything like that.  BTW, I do get the white "Rentition
Ready" screen at the beginning.  I'm running on a Dell P Pro 200.
        Many thanks to anyone who has some advice to offer.

William Dahm

ICR2: Rendition Question Please help !

by William Dahm » Sat, 18 Jan 1997 04:00:00


> I just finished installing My Screamin 3D and I am puzzled.  I have
> found the fps to be equal or worse than before, even with the 4 bit
> carset and grass, ground, and car textures off.  I know because when I
> used those same settings before and then turned one of those three from
> off to "Auto" it would not come on at the beg. of a race, it would
> flicker on occasionally on the pace lap (of course, this was with min
> and max set to 30) (also remember I'm talking about 20+ cars on the
> screen including the rear view mirrors).  Now in the Rendition version I
> have been runing with those three textures "off" and the rest of the
> textures on as before.  I turn the fps counter on during a pace lap and
> the fps is below 30.  There should be at least some improvement right?
>         I know there is nothing wrong with the card because quake runs great at
> 640X480.  With quake I had to apply a patch before I got the performance
> improvement.  I didn't notice anything like that for ICR2.  I have tried
> the indycar, indyfast, and the third one for older comps.  I suppose the
> problem has to be in the mode or I need to apply some other patch but I
> can't find anything like that.  BTW, I do get the white "Rentition
> Ready" screen at the beginning.  I'm running on a Dell P Pro 200.
>         Many thanks to anyone who has some advice to offer.

I already solved this, no need to reply.
Eric T. Busc

ICR2: Rendition Question Please help !

by Eric T. Busc » Sun, 19 Jan 1997 04:00:00

Are you running the indyfast.bat file?  If so, get the DMAtest program
from my web page and report back your score.

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dhen..

ICR2: Rendition Question Please help !

by dhen.. » Tue, 21 Jan 1997 04:00:00


writes:

  Just for future reference, what was wrong and how did your correct it..
Also, how is that Dell Ppro for gamming??
Dave Henrie


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