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I was wondering - I have ICR and i love the gameplay but the vga gfx looks
like ***put bluntly. DOes NASCAR have svga? I've seen a posting that says
only the cdrom version of NASCAR RAcing can do SVGA, is this true?
Could someone plez tell me what I should get but they have to meet these specs

SVGA! MUST BE SVGA!

thats all!
hehe
Mike Muir

: I was wondering - I have ICR and i love the gameplay but the vga gfx looks
: like ***put bluntly. DOes NASCAR have svga? I've seen a posting that says
: only the cdrom version of NASCAR RAcing can do SVGA, is this true?
: Could someone plez tell me what I should get but they have to meet these specs

: SVGA! MUST BE SVGA!

: thats all!
: hehe
: Mike Muir

Get the CD.....and you had best have a Pentium :-)
Rich

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Give it up. To run NASCAR in SVGA with any appreciable speed, you'll need to
get at least a P5-750 :)

 - Rich

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SVGA is only on the CD version.

Never mind what they say about a pentium being necessary. Nascar runs fine on
my DX2-66. Turn off asphalt and grass texture, disable digitized sound, and it
runs respectably well. Buying a pentium won't help more than a few small
percentage points; my P5-90 doesn't do appreciably better in frame rate than
my older DX2.

 NASCAR -f -h
starts the game in svga, fm sound modes.

Mike.

I have a 486DX66 with 8megs of ram and 1mb of video ram (VL35)
is this good enough?
and doe sthe floppy version have SVGA?

I'd say you'll have to wait for the 80686 before it will work well!
Anyone know if it'll run on a Silicon Graphics Workstation?  :)
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You need a fast video card if you didn't see much difference.
Try a PCI bus ET4000.  I did try a P5-90 motherboard that
was a real dog.  Do you have 3dbench?  You should get
around 70 fps out of 3dbench with a P5-90 and fast video.
I get 71.4 fps with 3dbench.
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-> I was wondering - I have ICR and i love the gameplay but the vga gfx
-> looks like ***put bluntly. DOes NASCAR have svga? I've seen a
-> posting that says only the cdrom version of NASCAR RAcing can do
-> SVGA, is this true? Could someone plez tell me what I should get but
-> they have to meet these specs
-> SVGA! MUST BE SVGA!

What's the big deal about SVGA.  I would rather play VGA at 25 fps than
play SVA at 5 fps.  It is *much* more enjoyable to race.  I look at it
this way:  I am out there to race, not to sightsee.

Brad, You should get 83.3 out of 3-d Bench with a current Intel Motherboard
90mhz pentium and (for example) a Diamond 64 bit pci bus video card.

Jeff

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Don't be silly. Stirling Moss attributed his success decades ago to his
uncannily sharp eyes. If your system can support it, SVGA gives you far more
and better distance and depth cues. The best case in point that comes to
mind is turning in on the tri-oval at Phoenix. You can see the turn precisely in
SVGA. Using VGA mode, I'm forced to guess where the corner is from the
fuzzy skid marks signifying the groove; the corner is not visible.

Mike.