FPS Killer-CM2

Posted a message some days ago regarding the poor frame rate in Colin McRae 2 during the rainy stages. This was particularly gaoling as I've recently upgraded my machine to an Athlon 1.4 with Hercules Geforce 2 Ultra graphics card (plus 512mb ram). After a bit of investigation, and endless tweaks of my computer, I have discovered the unfortunate answer; its the in-cockpit view that massively lowers the FPS while its raining; bright or cloudy weather and the frames are a consistent 40-50ish (1024 res and 32 bit colour), but once those heavens open it then dives in certain places on a stage to 17-20. Change the view to an outside one and the frames increase immediately back up to 50ish. No further graphics tweaks in-game (or using external software like Geforce Tweak Utility, or a change of graphics drivers) will make any difference to this problem (or messing around with force feedback settings in game). Hope this helps anyone with a similar problem. PJ

Run in 16-bit, turn off cubic environmental mapping, reduce draw distance. Typically for a game that's expected to make three quaters of it's sales on the PS/PS2, the 3D engine in the PC version is very poor. Then there's the stuttering.... "Paul Jager" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:XCFj7.3715$[email hidden]... > Posted a message some days ago regarding the poor frame rate in ColinMcRae > 2 during the rainy stages. This was particularly gaoling as I've recently > upgraded my machine to an Athlon 1.4 with Hercules Geforce 2 Ultragraphics

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> card (plus 512mb ram). After a bit of investigation, and endless tweaks of > my computer, I have discovered the unfortunate answer; its the in-cockpit > view that massively lowers the FPS while its raining; bright or cloudy > weather and the frames are a consistent 40-50ish (1024 res and 32 bit > colour), but once those heavens open it then dives in certain places on a > stage to 17-20. Change the view to an outside one and the frames increase > immediately back up to 50ish. > > No further graphics tweaks in-game (or using external software like

Geforce > Tweak Utility, or a change of graphics drivers) will make any differenceto

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> this problem (or messing around with force feedback settings in game). > > Hope this helps anyone with a similar problem. > > > PJ > >

...or even quarters "Simon Brown" wrote in message > three quaters of it's sales