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I'm trying out the F1RC demo, and find that I get LOUSY framerates on my Voodoo5 system. In fact, it's very much a slide show -- unplayable. I know that there must be something wrong, as all others have agreed that the graphics and framerate, at least, are excellent. (....even though they don't agree on much of anything else). So can anyone offer any suggestions on how to get this to run right? My system is a Celeron 566@850, 256 Megs RAM, Voodoo5, DX7.0a (maybe that's the problem?) I have turned off all background processes. All my other sims run smoothly, even F12KCS. If anyone with a Voodoo5 is successfully running this demo, what graphic settings are you using (within Control Panel and within the demo). Thanks. -- Bert

Turn off environtment mapping it makes most pc's run like a slide show. BRH <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> I'm trying out the F1RC demo, and find that I get LOUSY framerates on my > Voodoo5 system. In fact, it's very much a slide show -- unplayable. I > know that there must be something wrong, as all others have agreed that > the graphics and framerate, at least, are excellent. (....even though > they don't agree on much of anything else). > > So can anyone offer any suggestions on how to get this to run right? > > My system is a Celeron 566@850, 256 Megs RAM, Voodoo5, DX7.0a (maybe > that's the problem?) I have turned off all background processes. All > my other sims run smoothly, even F12KCS. > > If anyone with a Voodoo5 is successfully running this demo, what graphic > settings are you using (within Control Panel and within the demo). > > Thanks. > -- > Bert > > >

Install DirectX 8.0a, it should solve your problem. I am running the Voodoo5 1600x1200 at 2x FSAA with all details maxed out with F1RC and the performance is great. Also, 4x FSAA and 32bpp color don't run too well in resolutions of 1280x1024 and above. "BRH" <[email hidden]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[email hidden]...

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> I'm trying out the F1RC demo, and find that I get LOUSY framerates on my > Voodoo5 system. In fact, it's very much a slide show -- unplayable. I > know that there must be something wrong, as all others have agreed that > the graphics and framerate, at least, are excellent. (....even though > they don't agree on much of anything else). > > So can anyone offer any suggestions on how to get this to run right? > > My system is a Celeron 566@850, 256 Megs RAM, Voodoo5, DX7.0a (maybe > that's the problem?) I have turned off all background processes. All > my other sims run smoothly, even F12KCS. > > If anyone with a Voodoo5 is successfully running this demo, what graphic > settings are you using (within Control Panel and within the demo). > > Thanks. > -- > Bert > > >

Not suprising - 4x FSAA @ 1280 x 1024 would mean on-board rendering of 5120 x 4096 or something - or is it half that - it's a lot anyways Doug "Glzmo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:7niw6.89970$[email hidden]... > Install DirectX 8.0a, it should solve your problem. I am running theVoodoo5

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> 1600x1200 at 2x FSAA with all details maxed out with F1RC and the > performance is great. Also, 4x FSAA and 32bpp color don't run too well in > resolutions of 1280x1024 and above. > > "BRH" <[email hidden]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > news:[email hidden]... > > I'm trying out the F1RC demo, and find that I get LOUSY framerates on my > > Voodoo5 system. In fact, it's very much a slide show -- unplayable. I > > know that there must be something wrong, as all others have agreed that > > the graphics and framerate, at least, are excellent. (....even though > > they don't agree on much of anything else). > > > > So can anyone offer any suggestions on how to get this to run right? > > > > My system is a Celeron 566@850, 256 Megs RAM, Voodoo5, DX7.0a (maybe > > that's the problem?) I have turned off all background processes. All > > my other sims run smoothly, even F12KCS. > > > > If anyone with a Voodoo5 is successfully running this demo, what graphic > > settings are you using (within Control Panel and within the demo). > > > > Thanks. > > -- > > Bert > > > > > > > >

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:16:24 GMT, "Berno" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Turn off environtment mapping it makes most pc's run like a slide show. That's off by default in the demo. I'm guessing he needs to turn off 32bit colour and use 16bit. It was slow on my V5 until I did that too. FSAA and 32bit is a bit much for a V5.

Environment Mapping is off and color is already set to 16 bit, but I still get the slide show effect. I experimented a bit more tonight and found that the slide show is most pronounced at Spa near the S/F line. After that things smooth out nicely. Is this normal? I would think that running a full field would be unplayable at the start. Also, I find that Monaco runs more smoothly than Spa, which is pretty surprising to me. Thanks to all for the suggestions. Jagg wrote:

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> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:16:24 GMT, "Berno" <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >Turn off environtment mapping it makes most pc's run like a slide show. > > That's off by default in the demo. I'm guessing he needs to turn off > 32bit colour and use 16bit. It was slow on my V5 until I did that too. > FSAA and 32bit is a bit much for a V5.

-- Bert

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 21:56:47 -0500, BRH <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Environment Mapping is off and color is already set to 16 bit, but I still >get the slide show effect. I experimented a bit more tonight and found that >the slide show is most pronounced at Spa near the S/F line. After that >things smooth out nicely. Is this normal? I would think that running a >full field would be unplayable at the start. > >Also, I find that Monaco runs more smoothly than Spa, which is pretty >surprising to me. > >Thanks to all for the suggestions.

Yea, I noticed that in the demo too. Spa is slow at the start. I'm hoping it's just a demo problem.