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N3: How I am improved 14FPS

Kerry Gran

N3: How I am improved 14FPS

by Kerry Gran » Sun, 03 Oct 1999 04:00:00

I took the CD out of the CD Rom Drive
Doug

N3: How I am improved 14FPS

by Doug » Tue, 05 Oct 1999 04:00:00

What the hell are you talking about?!?!


Kerry Gran

N3: How I am improved 14FPS

by Kerry Gran » Tue, 05 Oct 1999 04:00:00

I improved 14 Frames Per Second in Nascar 3 by taking the CD ROM out of
the CD ROM Drive.


> He's talking about how much resources some IDE CDROM's hog.
> A crummy IDE CDROM with a small cache can knock the hell out of even a
> P2's performance. Losing 10-15 fps wouldn't surpise me a bit.
> Sounds like whatever he was running was accessing it all the time.


> >What the hell are you talking about?!?!



> >> I took the CD out of the CD Rom Drive

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MZ
Tim (fusio

N3: How I am improved 14FPS

by Tim (fusio » Wed, 06 Oct 1999 04:00:00

He's talking about how much resources some IDE CDROM's hog.
A crummy IDE CDROM with a small cache can knock the hell out of even a
P2's performance. Losing 10-15 fps wouldn't surpise me a bit.
Sounds like whatever he was running was accessing it all the time.


>What the hell are you talking about?!?!


>> I took the CD out of the CD Rom Drive


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