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Piss poor FPS in F1CS2k starts

Careful with that axe, Nic

Piss poor FPS in F1CS2k starts

by Careful with that axe, Nic » Fri, 29 Jun 2001 08:20:50

I just purchased a brand new Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 card.  This is a
64mb card.  Even with htis new card I cannot get good FPS during starts
in F1CS2k.  The FPS is absolutely awful, and does not pick up until 2 or
3 laps into a race.  Even then it could be better.  I've tried different
settings and such, but I can't get the FPS up.  I have the latest
drivers, and my old 16mb Nvidia card is completely off my registry.
What can I do?  Anyone else out there have this same card?  What do you
do to get the best performance out of it?

Thanks in advance,

Nick

BTW, starts in SCGT are pretty poor too, but not as bad.

Alan Bernard

Piss poor FPS in F1CS2k starts

by Alan Bernard » Fri, 29 Jun 2001 08:59:05



It would be nice to know your computer specs.  Put any graphics card in a
p400 and you'll always get poor fps with these high-end racing games.

Alanb

TRUSRS

Piss poor FPS in F1CS2k starts

by TRUSRS » Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:03:26

Make sure you have the formation lap ON! It precaches the track before the
race. Give it a go!

Careful with that axe, Nic

Piss poor FPS in F1CS2k starts

by Careful with that axe, Nic » Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:04:54

Oops, knew I forgot something.  :)

Athlon AMD 750mhz
64megs of RAM (someone just told me this may be the problem, I need more)

Nick




> > I just purchased a brand new Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 card.  This is a
> > 64mb card.  Even with htis new card I cannot get good FPS during starts
> > in F1CS2k.  The FPS is absolutely awful, and does not pick up until 2 or
> > 3 laps into a race.  Even then it could be better.  I've tried different
> > settings and such, but I can't get the FPS up.  I have the latest
> > drivers, and my old 16mb Nvidia card is completely off my registry.
> > What can I do?  Anyone else out there have this same card?  What do you
> > do to get the best performance out of it?

> It would be nice to know your computer specs.  Put any graphics card in a
> p400 and you'll always get poor fps with these high-end racing games.

> Alanb

Dave Henri

Piss poor FPS in F1CS2k starts

by Dave Henri » Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:11:11

  use the R key,,(i hope it's the R key) to turn off the mirrors until the
framerate comes back up.  Somebody suggested preloading all the sounds but i
haven't seen how to do that so i can't comment on whether it works or not.
dave henrie
  make sure you use enditall to kill as many tsr programs as possible.



chainbreake

Piss poor FPS in F1CS2k starts

by chainbreake » Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:30:54



 I don't know exactly how much more RAM will help matters, but it will
assuredly help some.  IMO, if you're going to partake of the latest racing
and flying sims you need 128megs minimum, quickly heading to 256.  OTOH,
things are a little slow on my machine at the start of races in F1CS2K as
well, and it has 256mb RAM and a Geforce3.  Even if you upgrade memory,
you'll have to decide on a tradeoff.  If you want extremely smooth starts
you'll have to back off on the graphics options somewhere.  And like has
already been mentioned, always run that formation lap.

Or you could try GP3, which I have graphically maxed out at 1280x on my
system, and if there's a slowdown at the start or anywhere else, I sure
can't detect it.

Jerry Morelock

Careful with that axe, Nic

Piss poor FPS in F1CS2k starts

by Careful with that axe, Nic » Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:46:44

I would definently take GP3 over F1CS2k, but GP3 does not work with the Kyro II
chipset.

Nick




> > Oops, knew I forgot something.  :)

> > Athlon AMD 750mhz
> > 64megs of RAM (someone just told me this may be the problem, I need more)

> > Nick

>  I don't know exactly how much more RAM will help matters, but it will
> assuredly help some.  IMO, if you're going to partake of the latest racing
> and flying sims you need 128megs minimum, quickly heading to 256.  OTOH,
> things are a little slow on my machine at the start of races in F1CS2K as
> well, and it has 256mb RAM and a Geforce3.  Even if you upgrade memory,
> you'll have to decide on a tradeoff.  If you want extremely smooth starts
> you'll have to back off on the graphics options somewhere.  And like has
> already been mentioned, always run that formation lap.

> Or you could try GP3, which I have graphically maxed out at 1280x on my
> system, and if there's a slowdown at the start or anywhere else, I sure
> can't detect it.

> Jerry Morelock

chainbreake

Piss poor FPS in F1CS2k starts

by chainbreake » Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:55:24



A shame.  And I see I forgot to mention my machine is a P3/800.

Jerry Morelock


1. GPL , poor FPS problem

2. Poor FPS with N42K demo and XP

3. Piss-poor Sony amp

4. Return of the piss-poor Sony amp (long)

5. piss poor

6. GP2: 25 fps is *much* better than 15 fps

7. INS Will Start Season Soon. DRIVERS NEEDED!!!!!!

8. pissed on, pissed OFF!

9. GPL with GeForce 3 ~ 25 fps at start, Normal?

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