rec.autos.simulators

Hi all,

I just installed a Thriller 3-D 8 meg Rendition V-2200 PCI card in my PC.
Here is the pertinent info on my system:  Dell XPS-P200s (Pentium 200), 64
meg SD-RAM, 512k cache, 17" Dell monitor.  My old video card was a #9
Reality 332, 2 meg with Virge chip.  I obviously did not have a rendition
card before, and the Reality didn't do Direct 3-D either, so.... my frame
rates have gone WAY up in several sims!

Nascar2:
I set all graphics to "on" except grass-asphalt which was "off".  Crowd was
set to "auto" so that I had a frame rate reference.  I am drawing all 39
cars, and hear 3.  With the old card, I got the crowd flashing off at 20 fps
at California at the start of a race(green flag waving in turn 4) with my
car behind the pack.  With the Thriller, I set grass-asphalt to "on", and
adjusted the crowd auto frame rate to get the same effect as before.  I
ended up with the frame rate at 30, and it never did flash!! Remember that
is with grass-asphalt texturing that I didn't run before!  I also had tested
at Hickory, and with the same scenario got crowd flashing with the old card
at 17 fps, and the V-2200 at 28 WITH grass-asphalt on!  BTW, this is in a
DOS window, running under Window's 95.

SODA:
I didn't change any graphic detail for the Thriller yet.  The old 2-D card
was running at about 15 fps, while the V-2200 runs the same scenario at 27!

Flight Sim 98:
This sim used Direct 3-D, which my old card didn't support, so the frame
rates reflect 2-D to 3-D comparison.  I used the Lear sitting on the runway
at Meigs, with all scenery on dense, and using my Force Feedback joystick
(it uses some frame rate).

Forward view: old 6.5 new 13.8
Left side: old 7.3 new 19.0
Rear: old 8.6 new 21.0
Right side: old 9.3 new 25.0

So you can see that the Thriller seem to kick ***pretty well in Direct 3-D
also!!

Another surprise was the test results in WinTune '97.  My old "video speed"
was 24, and now its 37.  This is a 2-D test, and I really don't know what
WinTune does to generate their numbers, but I'm very pleased that my 2-D is
even faster!

Now if only I could get the ICR2 patch to run I'd be a happy guy!
--
Paul

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Please tell us where you purchased your card....I've been counting the
minutes waitng on this card to be available to the masses...can't find it
anywhere...CompUsa's web site says it's on backorder and I don't know who
else will carry this card.

Thanks

--
Derwin "Bud" Bird
TEN id: Budnes

web address: www.concentric.net/~Budnes

CompUSA stores on the west coast have them in stock.  CompUSA Direct
will be one of the last CompUSA stores to get them.  You might want to
check out one of the big mail order stores like NECX.  They are supposed
to get the Thriller in stock on 1/22.

--
Eric T. Busch

http://ebusch.akorn.net

Derwin,

I ordered my Thriller through a Comp USA store locally (Orange County CA).
I understand that some stores have them on the shelves now.

--
Paul

My "reply" e-mail address has been changed to
deter spammers.  My real address is:

ICQ UIN: 5692838