rec.autos.simulators

Upgrading for N4

Juic

Upgrading for N4

by Juic » Tue, 13 Feb 2001 06:39:28

I'm interested in upgrading to get more fps in N4.  I do like the picture
quality with the voodoo 5 card, but sometimes the frame rate takes a plunge.
I'm not sure weather to upgrade the processor, and keep the voodoo card, or
just change the video card to one of the new G-force cards.  I'm currently
running a PIII 550 overclocked to 825, with a Voodoo 5 card.

At 800x600 resolution with 4x fsaa, in practice mode, I get about 28fps.
When I get in a race with other cars around me, I get about 15-20 fps,
that's not very good I know!!

What do you guys think?

thanks in advance

Uncle Feste

Upgrading for N4

by Uncle Feste » Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:18:07


> I'm interested in upgrading to get more fps in N4.  I do like the picture
> quality with the voodoo 5 card, but sometimes the frame rate takes a plunge.
> I'm not sure weather to upgrade the processor, and keep the voodoo card, or
> just change the video card to one of the new G-force cards.  I'm currently
> running a PIII 550 overclocked to 825, with a Voodoo 5 card.

> At 800x600 resolution with 4x fsaa, in practice mode, I get about 28fps.
> When I get in a race with other cars around me, I get about 15-20 fps,
> that's not very good I know!!

> What do you guys think?

Bump the 4x FSAA down to 2x.  Should help a bit.

--

Fester

Dan Kap

Upgrading for N4

by Dan Kap » Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:07:00

Get the V5 overclocker utility and disable v-synch under D3D.   That will
help a lot.


Philip D'Amat

Upgrading for N4

by Philip D'Amat » Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:29:39

This is easy, try 2x FSAA or disable it entirely.  For the most part, frame
rates don't get killed moving from disabled FSAA to 2x FSAA.  However, the
frame rates take a large hit going from 2x to 4x.  Try it out, you may find
that you can't tell much difference between 2x and 4x.

--
Philip D'Amato


Todd

Upgrading for N4

by Todd » Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:49:43

how do you disable v-synch under d3d?


> Get the V5 overclocker utility and disable v-synch under D3D.   That will
> help a lot.



> > I'm interested in upgrading to get more fps in N4.  I do like the
picture
> > quality with the voodoo 5 card, but sometimes the frame rate takes a
> plunge.
> > I'm not sure weather to upgrade the processor, and keep the voodoo card,
> or
> > just change the video card to one of the new G-force cards.  I'm
currently
> > running a PIII 550 overclocked to 825, with a Voodoo 5 card.

> > At 800x600 resolution with 4x fsaa, in practice mode, I get about 28fps.
> > When I get in a race with other cars around me, I get about 15-20 fps,
> > that's not very good I know!!

> > What do you guys think?

> > thanks in advance


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