Forgive my igorance but I've been out of the loop for a while. It seems F1
2001 is getting lots of praise here and since my only experience with EA's
PC F1 sims is with F1 2000, I have some reservations. My biggest concern is
performance. How does it run? F1 2000 was a dog on my Celeron 700, TNT2
combo. I currently have an AMD 1.33ghz with a GF2 MX 32 meg card and 256 meg
of system ram. Will this setup allow me to run the game at 30-40+ fps in
800x600 or 1024x768 with most details set to high during a race? Also, did
the latest patch improve performance at all? Thanks.
carl
I am getting 15fps at the start and 26 ~28 full field
everything max
with a cel450....
still ok to race,
what sort of fps are you getting now ???
did you use FRAP1.7 ?
it is less load on the system
"Carl Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Forgive my igorance but I've been out of the loop fora while. It seems F1
> 2001 is getting lots of praise here and since my onlyexperience with EA's
> PC F1 sims is with F1 2000, I have some reservations.My biggest concern is
> performance. How does it run? F1 2000 was a dog on myCeleron 700, TNT2
> combo. I currently have an AMD 1.33ghz with a GF2 MX32 meg card and 256 meg
> of system ram. Will this setup allow me to run thegame at 30-40+ fps in
> 800x600 or 1024x768 with most details set to highduring a race? Also, did
> the latest patch improve performance at all? Thanks.
>
>
>
>
Sounds like you have a good system for it.
F1 2001 runs pretty good on my 1600+ (1.4Ghz)
AMD/GF3 Ti200/512ram/Win98SE.
I have it set to max at 1024x768.
After upping the LOD values for a better
view of cars at a distance, the only frameiness
I get is right at the start of a race.
I should pick something to reduce so that will stop.
BTW, I had F12KCS, and I could never
get it running properly on this AMD or a
733Mhz PIII. I eventually gave up.
Luckily, I only wasted about $15 from
ebay, instead of the $40-50 in a store.
But it made it hard to buy F1 2001.
I found it in a store for $17.95, I figured
that it was worth the risk for the FIA-GT mod.
Also, I didn't notice any frame rate
improvement with the patch.
But I've only had F1 for about 2 months,
so I haven't really played it much without
the patch.
Good luck with it...
"Carl Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Forgive my igorance but I've been out of the loop for a while. It seems F1
> 2001 is getting lots of praise here and since my only experience with EA's...snipped....
F1 2001 runs dramatically better on a GF3+ than on a GF2. You'll have to
turn the detail down a little for an MX, but it's really CPU that affects
the speed at the start of a race (unless you have smoke turned on) I've got
everything set on medium with my XP2000+ and GF2MX400 and it looks fairly
good and is quite smooth (~40fps).
P.S. The Ti 4600 is in transit... ; )
I have a full field and pretty much everything maxed out or set to high, at
1024 X 768, running on a 1.4 GHZ ATHLON with a VooDoo 5 with 2X antialiasing
turned on, and it generally runs about 35 FPS, dipping into the 20's at the
start of a race. Looks awesome.
"Damien Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> F1 2001 runs dramatically better on a GF3+ than on a GF2. You'll have to
> turn the detail down a little for an MX, but it's really CPU that affects
> the speed at the start of a race (unless you have smoke turned on) I'vegot
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> everything set on medium with my XP2000+ and GF2MX400 and it looks fairly > good and is quite smooth (~40fps). > > P.S. The Ti 4600 is in transit... ; ) > > >Okay, thanks for everyone's feedback on this!
I think I'll pick up a copy since my rig should be able to run it at a
reasonable frame rate. And maybe it's time to get a GF3 Ti... ;-)
"Carl Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Forgive my igorance but I've been out of the loop for a while. It seems F1
> 2001 is getting lots of praise here and since my only experience with EA's
> PC F1 sims is with F1 2000, I have some reservations. My biggest concernis
> performance. How does it run? F1 2000 was a dog on my Celeron 700, TNT2
> combo. I currently have an AMD 1.33ghz with a GF2 MX 32 meg card and 256meg
