N4 - GeForce 3 - P4 1.5 frame rates

Hey there, For those of you who might be interested here are some FPS numbers from N4 and my new system. My system Asus P4T Motherboard P4 1.5 Ghz Visiontek GeForce 3 512 RAMBUS I am using the latest nVidia drivers. N4 - 1024 x 768 x 32 All options on All details full. 20 cars drawn ahead and 6 behind. World detail full Draw ahead distance - 75% Mirror - 25% Without any FSAA on I get 75 FPS 98% of the time. However, when in turn 4 of a big track with a lot of cars around me it may briefly dip down to 50. Another situation where the FPS drops of some is at the start of a race with all the cars bunched up. If I use 2x FSAA then its a solid 37 which may briefly dip to 25 in that same graphically intensive instances mentioned above. If I use nVidia's Quincunx FSAA its the same FPS as above but looks as good as 4X. Looks amazing actually! The FSAA really makes a massive difference in N4. I have raced some big races online and found the FSAA not to be a problem during those brief drops in FPS. In fact 25 FPS on my new system feels a heck of a lot smoother than 25 FPS on my old P2 400 with a GeForce 1. Either way, the drop is so brief it not even noticeable if you are focussed on the race. If I was going to race some super serious competition I might turn the FSAA to have max frame rates but so far it feels really smooth 98% of the time and looks awesome. I must say I am really blown away by N4. I was waiting until I got a GF3 before I bought it. such a vast improvement of the previous Papy Nascar games. My hats off to the guys at Papyrus. Thanks for going with Open GL guys, I am not a huge fan of D3D. nVidia rules!!! If you would like a specific benchmark to be made in N4 I would be happy to get it for you. Adios

I wish I could say the same, I have had nothing but trouble since upgrading from the GF2 Ultra, to the G3. I can not use FSAA at all anymore and could run it @ 4x with the GF2. Are you doing D3D or Opengl. I have tried every possible combo of setting and have finally stayed with 1600x1200 in opengl with no fsaa. using 12.60 drivers, have tried all of them I think. FPS is around 30 most of the time with a full field and will see 50 when they thin out, but I really miss the FSAA, everything looks to blurry now, when I turn it on. "El Mandaito" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:eKNZ6.35184$[email hidden]...

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> Hey there, > > For those of you who might be interested here are some FPS numbers from N4 > and my new system. > > My system > Asus P4T Motherboard > P4 1.5 Ghz > Visiontek GeForce 3 > 512 RAMBUS > > I am using the latest nVidia drivers. > > N4 - 1024 x 768 x 32 > All options on > All details full. > 20 cars drawn ahead and 6 behind. > World detail full > Draw ahead distance - 75% > Mirror - 25% > > Without any FSAA on I get 75 FPS 98% of the time. However, when in turn 4

of > a big track with a lot of cars around me it may briefly dip down to 50. > Another situation where the FPS drops of some is at the start of a racewith > all the cars bunched up. > > If I use 2x FSAA then its a solid 37 which may briefly dip to 25 in that > same graphically intensive instances mentioned above. > If I use nVidia's Quincunx FSAA its the same FPS as above but looks asgood

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> as 4X. Looks amazing actually! > The FSAA really makes a massive difference in N4. > > I have raced some big races online and found the FSAA not to be a problem > during those brief drops in FPS. In fact 25 FPS on my new system feels a > heck of a lot smoother than 25 FPS on my old P2 400 with a GeForce 1. > Either way, the drop is so brief it not even noticeable if you are

focussed > on the race. > > If I was going to race some super serious competition I might turn theFSAA

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> to have max frame rates but so far it feels really smooth 98% of the time > and looks awesome. > > I must say I am really blown away by N4. I was waiting until I got a GF3 > before I bought it. such a vast improvement of the previous Papy Nascar > games. My hats off to the guys at Papyrus. Thanks for going with Open GL > guys, I am not a huge fan of D3D. > > nVidia rules!!! > > If you would like a specific benchmark to be made in N4 I would be happy

to > get it for you. > > Adios > > >

Hey dude, When you say you can't run FSAA anymore why is that? Do you mean the option is not available, the game crashes when you have it enabled, its just blurry like you said or the frame rate goes to hell. Please specify. I really don't know why you would be having this problem but as a long shot suggestion, you could try doing a clean install of the video drivers. You would have to select a default display adapter driver then reboot. Once you reboot, you have to do a file search for nv*.* Delete all the nvidia files that reside in the windows and windows/system folders. Do not delete the any driver files you may have stored on your hard drive elsewhere. Then go to the display properties and update the driver for the display adapter. select your latest nVidia driver and when prompted, reboot. This will ensure that you have not mixed any driver files of previous versions with your current drivers. In the past this has cleared up weird problems for me. I am running N4 in openGL mode. It's definitely not blurry. Good Luck!!