Upgrading for N4

I'm interested in upgrading to get more fps in N4. I do like the picture quality with the voodoo 5 card, but sometimes the frame rate takes a plunge. I'm not sure weather to upgrade the processor, and keep the voodoo card, or just change the video card to one of the new G-force cards. I'm currently running a PIII 550 overclocked to 825, with a Voodoo 5 card. At 800x600 resolution with 4x fsaa, in practice mode, I get about 28fps. When I get in a race with other cars around me, I get about 15-20 fps, that's not very good I know!! What do you guys think? thanks in advance

Juice wrote:

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> > I'm interested in upgrading to get more fps in N4. I do like the picture > quality with the voodoo 5 card, but sometimes the frame rate takes a plunge. > I'm not sure weather to upgrade the processor, and keep the voodoo card, or > just change the video card to one of the new G-force cards. I'm currently > running a PIII 550 overclocked to 825, with a Voodoo 5 card. > > At 800x600 resolution with 4x fsaa, in practice mode, I get about 28fps. > When I get in a race with other cars around me, I get about 15-20 fps, > that's not very good I know!! > > What do you guys think?

Bump the 4x FSAA down to 2x. Should help a bit. -- Fester

Get the V5 overclocker utility and disable v-synch under D3D. That will help a lot. "Juice" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:kEDh6.20707$[email hidden]... > I'm interested in upgrading to get more fps in N4. I do like the picture > quality with the voodoo 5 card, but sometimes the frame rate takes aplunge. > I'm not sure weather to upgrade the processor, and keep the voodoo card,or

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> just change the video card to one of the new G-force cards. I'm currently > running a PIII 550 overclocked to 825, with a Voodoo 5 card. > > At 800x600 resolution with 4x fsaa, in practice mode, I get about 28fps. > When I get in a race with other cars around me, I get about 15-20 fps, > that's not very good I know!! > > What do you guys think? > > thanks in advance > >

This is easy, try 2x FSAA or disable it entirely. For the most part, frame rates don't get killed moving from disabled FSAA to 2x FSAA. However, the frame rates take a large hit going from 2x to 4x. Try it out, you may find that you can't tell much difference between 2x and 4x. -- Philip D'Amato [email hidden] "Juice" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:kEDh6.20707$[email hidden]... > I'm interested in upgrading to get more fps in N4. I do like the picture > quality with the voodoo 5 card, but sometimes the frame rate takes a plunge. > I'm not sure weather to upgrade the processor, and keep the voodoo card, or > just change the video card to one of the new G-force cards. I'm currently > running a PIII 550 overclocked to 825, with a Voodoo 5 card. > > At 800x600 resolution with 4x fsaa, in practice mode, I get about 28fps. > When I get in a race with other cars around me, I get about 15-20 fps, > that's not very good I know!! > > What do you guys think? > > thanks in advance > >

how do you disable v-synch under d3d? "Dan Kaps" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:UGGh6.118666$[email hidden]...

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> Get the V5 overclocker utility and disable v-synch under D3D. That will > help a lot. > > > "Juice" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:kEDh6.20707$[email hidden]... > > I'm interested in upgrading to get more fps in N4. I do like the

picture > > quality with the voodoo 5 card, but sometimes the frame rate takes a > plunge. > > I'm not sure weather to upgrade the processor, and keep the voodoo card, > or > > just change the video card to one of the new G-force cards. I'mcurrently

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> > running a PIII 550 overclocked to 825, with a Voodoo 5 card. > > > > At 800x600 resolution with 4x fsaa, in practice mode, I get about 28fps. > > When I get in a race with other cars around me, I get about 15-20 fps, > > that's not very good I know!! > > > > What do you guys think? > > > > thanks in advance > > > > > >