N4 and Older pc's FYI, and question

Hey for what it is worth. I'm running Nascar4 by papyrus, on a Celeron 400, 64 meg ram, Hercules Thriller 4meg & Monster2 voodoo2 12meg card, using DX80a, selecting the voodoo2 card of course... at 800 x 600, with middle "world" setting, medium car detail and mirror on, but not on highest, I get about 19 fps, except when smoke is around, then it craps out down to less than 10 & sometimes down to 5. I could turn down the gfx, get more fps, but hey it is livable Barely ... when I race offline, with 10 cars (fair amount of cars, I mean it gets you some passing practice without killing the cpu) it is at 16-19 depending on track. Online with my modem, we raced 5 other players (Dover) with what appeared to be very little warp. there was some, but the cars behaved more like an erratic driver rather than just popping into course corrected attitudes/positions. I think few others could stand this game that been holding back thinking New computer 1st... But I know if you wait a while, the Game price will come down, and by then Ill have Higher rankings LOL :) I cant help but think that the voodoo3 (3000 or better) and with AGP would be a lot nicer than what I have setup right now. I'm going to Overclock the celery 400 as High as it will go now, and find me a upgrade Video card, I should be a lot more happy. NOW THE Questions I been wondering about the Geforce (NON version 2) or the tnt2 cards, they are getting cheap, but would I not gain much? Mainly wondering about the older version Geforce, seen 32 meg ddr-chipped cards for less than 100. SO, would IT be, maybe more than 1/2 the gain I would get from the geforce2 32meg sdr (non mx) cards? so does anyone have an guidance for maybe a Low-buck card, to go along with another 64 megs memory to juice up my computer for n4? Trying to guess, bang for buck wise upgrade. Thanks, and any replies to me at Yahoo are appreciated

The GeForce2 MX (32MB) can be had for ~$100 and it will make a big difference for you. I highly recommed it. With that card an a PII 450, I can run in 1152x840 and get a fairly solid 30fps with 6 cars drwawn and detail set to 50%. -/-WW "Stingre" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3a95633c$[email hidden]... > Hey for what it is worth. I'm running Nascar4 by papyrus, on a Celeron400, > 64 meg ram, Hercules Thriller 4meg & Monster2 voodoo2 12meg card, using > DX80a, selecting the voodoo2 card of course... >

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:06:22 -0600, "Stingre" <[email hidden]> wrote: >I'm going to Overclock the celery 400 as High as it will go now, and find me >a upgrade Video card, I should be a lot more happy. The GeForce2MX was good advice. I wasn't clear if you have an AGP slot, but I *think* there's a 2MX with PCI if necessary. N4 really likes CPU. Assuming your motherboard (and maybe peripherals) can handle it, 83MHz FSB (500 MHz) or 100MHz FSB (600MHz) may be possible. Preferrably 100/600, as you are only overclocking the CPU at that speed (not PCI bus as well). I've got a C300A @ 450MHz, 128meg, V5AGP and really need some more CPU... "But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark

Hey, update for any others in my shoes... Overclocking the celery went like crap, only setting that booted windows was 450 mhz. I got the Hercules Prophet2 MX board, 32 meg ram... looks good in Nascar4 but all of my old games look like SHEEIT. got me 2 sticks of pc133 (generic) ram for 31 + shipping and that made the biggest help for n4 and the lowly cpu. The card is forsale BTW... "Stingre" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3a95633c$[email hidden]... > Hey for what it is worth. I'm running Nascar4 by papyrus, on a Celeron400, > 64 meg ram, Hercules Thriller 4meg & Monster2 voodoo2 12meg card, using > DX80a, selecting the voodoo2 card of course... > > at 800 x 600, with middle "world" setting, medium car detail and mirroron, > but not on highest, I get about 19 fps, except when smoke is around, thenit > craps out down to less than 10 & sometimes down to 5. I could turn downthe > gfx, get more fps, but hey it is livable Barely ... > when I race offline, with 10 cars (fair amount of cars, I mean it gets you > some > passing practice without killing the cpu) it is at 16-19 depending ontrack. > > Online with my modem, we raced 5 other players (Dover) with what appearedto > be > very little warp. there was some, but the cars behaved more like anerratic > driver rather than just popping into course corrected attitudes/positions. > > I think few others could stand this game that been holding back thinkingNew > computer 1st... But I know if you wait a while, the Game price will come > down, and by then Ill have Higher rankings LOL :) > > I cant help but think that the voodoo3 (3000 or better) and with AGP would > be a lot nicer than what I have setup right now. > I'm going to Overclock the celery 400 as High as it will go now, and findme

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> a upgrade Video card, I should be a lot more happy. > > NOW THE Questions > > I been wondering about the Geforce (NON version 2) or the tnt2 cards, they > are getting cheap, but would I not gain much? Mainly wondering about the > older version Geforce, seen 32 meg ddr-chipped cards for less than 100. > SO, would IT be, maybe more than 1/2 the gain I would get from the > geforce2 32meg sdr (non mx) cards? so does anyone have an guidance for > maybe a Low-buck card, to go along with another 64 megs memory to > juice up my computer for n4? > Trying to guess, bang for buck wise upgrade. > > Thanks, and any replies to me at Yahoo are appreciated > > > > > > >