F1 2001 thanks ELSA!

Elsa have released drivers for the Geforce 3 Gladiac 920 based on Nvidia's 4:21.81 driver set And finally F1 2001 works with a fairly up to date driver which I can keep for all my other games - no need to keep switching RESULTS 1600x1200x16bit colour noFSAA all graphic detail at max test day 50+ FPS quick race 40-45 FPS PROBLEMS and GLITCHES 1. My desktop has to match the resolution and colour depth to achieve stability 2. Still appears to refresh at default BIOS rate (60hz) unless it is my tired eyes :) F1 2001 gives u refresh rate options on my 3DFx 5500 based computer 3. The mirrors only show the shadows of the cars following 4. In race the FPS occasionally drops to 21-29 FPS I suspect it could be because of an incident somewhere else on the track Still it's a big leap forward from the 12.90 drivers and light years ahead my second computer using the 3DFx 5500 SPEC Intel P4 1.8Ghz ELSA Gladiac 920 512Mb RDRAM Intel 850GB mobo NOTE: Elsa's drivers based on Nvidia's 21.83 drivers are slower than the 21.81's and do not work for me with F1 2001

Elsa have released drivers for the Geforce 3 Gladiac 920 based on Nvidia's 4:21.81 driver set And finally F1 2001 works with a fairly up to date driver which I can keep for all my other games - no need to keep switching RESULTS 1600x1200x16bit colour noFSAA all graphic detail at max test day 50+ FPS quick race 40-45 FPS PROBLEMS and GLITCHES 1. My desktop has to match the resolution and colour depth to achieve stability 2. Still appears to refresh at default BIOS rate (60hz) unless it is my tired eyes :) F1 2001 gives u refresh rate options on my 3DFx 5500 based computer 3. The mirrors only show the shadows of the cars following 4. In race the FPS occasionally drops to 21-29 FPS I suspect it could be because of an incident somewhere else on the track Still it's a big leap forward from the 12.90 drivers and light years ahead my second computer using the 3DFx 5500 SPEC Intel P4 1.8Ghz ELSA Gladiac 920 512Mb RDRAM Intel 850GB mobo NOTE: Elsa's drivers based on Nvidia's 21.83 drivers are slower than the 21.81's and do not work for me with F1 2001

I haven't tried these new drivers yet, but think I may have an idea what is causing the low framerates at times. Try turning off broadcast overlays. It had a severe impact on framerates with 1 set of drivers I tried. Ian P PS, what are the rest of your system specs ? I run an Abit KT7A (not RAID) with a TBird 1.2, 256MB Crucial PC 150 RAM, SB Live 1024 and Elsa 920. I am having major stability problems with F1 2001, can hardly manage 3 laps without being chucked back to desktop. I have the 434 VIA 4 in 1 drivers installed as well as the latest SB Live drivers. Alan Coates wrote > 4. In race the FPS occasionally drops to 21-29 FPS I suspect it could be > because of an incident somewhere else on the track

This is exactly the time the framerate drops but... How do u turn off the broadcast overlays? The manual states it can be turned off under the heading 'Miscellaneous' but I don't have that option in the game interface. Alan "Ian P" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9rf5l7$tlq$[email hidden]... > I haven't tried these new drivers yet, but think I may have an idea whatis

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> causing the low framerates at times. > Try turning off broadcast overlays. It had a severe impact on framerates > with 1 set of drivers I tried. > > Ian P > > PS, what are the rest of your system specs ? > > I run an Abit KT7A (not RAID) with a TBird 1.2, 256MB Crucial PC 150 RAM,

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> Live 1024 and Elsa 920. I am having major stability problems with F1 2001, > can hardly manage 3 laps without being chucked back to desktop. I have the > 434 VIA 4 in 1 drivers installed as well as the latest SB Live drivers. > > > Alan Coates wrote > > 4. In race the FPS occasionally drops to 21-29 FPS I suspect it could be > > because of an incident somewhere else on the track > > >

Under display setup, you have 3 icons at the bottom. It's the icon on the right. I've just installed the new drivers and driven over 20 laps with no sign of a crash (well not a computer one anyway :) ) thanks for the tip !! I get a small amount of stuttering now when there are a few cars around and shadows only for cars in mirrors, but I can live with that until the patch arrives. -- Ian P <email invalid due to spam> Alan Coates <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:v5FC7.15651$[email hidden]... > This is exactly the time the framerate drops but... > How do u turn off the broadcast overlays? > The manual states it can be turned off under the heading 'Miscellaneous' but > I don't have that option in the game interface. > > Alan >

The Miscellaneous option is located in the options menu. Alan Coates <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:v5FC7.15651$[email hidden]... > This is exactly the time the framerate drops but... > How do u turn off the broadcast overlays? > The manual states it can be turned off under the heading 'Miscellaneous'but

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> I don't have that option in the game interface. > > Alan > > "Ian P" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:9rf5l7$tlq$[email hidden]... > > I haven't tried these new drivers yet, but think I may have an idea what > is > > causing the low framerates at times. > > Try turning off broadcast overlays. It had a severe impact on framerates > > with 1 set of drivers I tried. > > > > Ian P > > > > PS, what are the rest of your system specs ? > > > > I run an Abit KT7A (not RAID) with a TBird 1.2, 256MB Crucial PC 150

RAM, > SB > > Live 1024 and Elsa 920. I am having major stability problems with F12001, > > can hardly manage 3 laps without being chucked back to desktop. I havethe > > 434 VIA 4 in 1 drivers installed as well as the latest SB Live drivers. > > > > > > Alan Coates wrote > > > 4. In race the FPS occasionally drops to 21-29 FPS I suspect it couldbe > > > because of an incident somewhere else on the track > > > > > > > >

Not looking too good now, while they are stable in F1 2001 (Elsa 21.81 drivers) the framerate has taken a bit of a hit and I get serious graphics corruption when starting a quick race (very weird because it's fine when starting a race in Grand Prix). In Unreal Tournament, I usually get an average framerate of 90fps, with a maximum approaching 400, with the Elsa 21.81 drivers it drops to an average of 20 with a maximum of 30. So it looks like I'll have to use F1 2001 on my old Athlon 750 with ATI Radeon (BTW, the GF cards worked fine in that PC with the 12.90 drivers) EA have some serious problems with their testing procedure on games. -- Ian P <email invalid due to spam> Ian P <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9rfc3a$96k$[email hidden]... > Under display setup, you have 3 icons at the bottom. It's the icon on the > right. > > I've just installed the new drivers and driven over 20 laps with no sign of > a crash (well not a computer one anyway :) ) thanks for the tip !! > > I get a small amount of stuttering now when there are a few cars around and > shadows only for cars in mirrors, but I can live with that until the patch > arrives. > > -- > > Ian P > <email invalid due to spam> >

I've not tried other sims since running F1-2001 but 3DMark 2001 gives the ELSA 21.81 a score of approx 6800 which is about the same as the generic 21.85 drivers. I found 'misc' BTW and since turning the overlays off the framerate is a steady 38 -45 in races. No corruption anywhere (just the mirror prob.) I did find that if my desktop was less than 1600x1200x16 the corruption crept in. Weird. As I usually have my descktop at this res. it's not a problem. Alan "Ian P" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9rgng5$veb$[email hidden]... > Not looking too good now, while they are stable in F1 2001 (Elsa 21.81 > drivers) the framerate has taken a bit of a hit and I get serious graphics > corruption when starting a quick race (very weird because it's fine when > starting a race in Grand Prix). In Unreal Tournament, I usually get an > average framerate of 90fps, with a maximum approaching 400, with the Elsa > 21.81 drivers it drops to an average of 20 with a maximum of 30. So itlooks > like I'll have to use F1 2001 on my old Athlon 750 with ATI Radeon (BTW,the > GF cards worked fine in that PC with the 12.90 drivers) > EA have some serious problems with their testing procedure on games. > > -- > > Ian P