Slightly OT but...record for hardware?

Is it my imagination, or have PC games (and racing/driving sims, my personal favourites) reached a hardware requirement watershed? Just for the record, for the last 18 months my setup has been exactly the same: Pentium II 350 64Mb RAM Old Sound Blaster 16 16Mb Voodoo Banshee PCI graphics ...and all the games (Driver, Midtown Madness 1 and 2, Viper Racing, GPL, Nascar Legends, Dirt Track Racing, Colin McRae 1 and 2, and most of the NFS series including Porsche Unleashed/2000) have all run at a very respectable FPS rate, with no "jerking". All run in 640x480 or higher. Is this some kind of record? I wonder how much longer my old Dell will hold out, but it's done me proud up to now...!

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:52:37 -0000, "richard.welfare" <[email hidden]> thus spoke:

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>Is it my imagination, or have PC games (and racing/driving sims, my personal >favourites) reached a hardware requirement watershed? > >Just for the record, for the last 18 months my setup has been exactly the >same: > >Pentium II 350 >64Mb RAM >Old Sound Blaster 16 >16Mb Voodoo Banshee PCI graphics > >...and all the games (Driver, Midtown Madness 1 and 2, Viper Racing, GPL, >Nascar Legends, Dirt Track Racing, Colin McRae 1 and 2, and most of the NFS >series including Porsche Unleashed/2000) have all run at a very respectable >FPS rate, with no "jerking". All run in 640x480 or higher. > >Is this some kind of record? I wonder how much longer my old Dell will hold >out, but it's done me proud up to now...! > > >

Until all sims run at a *constant* 60fps with full details we are no where near hitting a plateau.

richard.welfare <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:U8H56.43616$[email hidden]... > Is it my imagination, or have PC games (and racing/driving sims, mypersonal

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> favourites) reached a hardware requirement watershed? > > Just for the record, for the last 18 months my setup has been exactly the > same: > > Pentium II 350 > 64Mb RAM > Old Sound Blaster 16 > 16Mb Voodoo Banshee PCI graphics > > ...and all the games (Driver, Midtown Madness 1 and 2, Viper Racing, GPL, > Nascar Legends, Dirt Track Racing, Colin McRae 1 and 2, and most of the

NFS > series including Porsche Unleashed/2000) have all run at a veryrespectable > FPS rate, with no "jerking". All run in 640x480 or higher. > > Is this some kind of record? I wonder how much longer my old Dell willhold > out, but it's done me proud up to now...! Wow. That's a bit less than my setup, and while older games play fantastically (like Network Q Rally) with all visuals set to on, SCGT gets rather chunky, but ONLY when qualifying and driving on the last 1/8th of the track. I'm downloading Nurburgring right now... hmm....

F12000 & F1CS2000, case closed... buy a 1 gigahurts(techy term sorry) or better....:) dave henrie "richard.welfare" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:U8H56.43616$[email hidden]... > Is it my imagination, or have PC games (and racing/driving sims, mypersonal

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> favourites) reached a hardware requirement watershed? > > Just for the record, for the last 18 months my setup has been exactly the > same: > > Pentium II 350 > 64Mb RAM > Old Sound Blaster 16 > 16Mb Voodoo Banshee PCI graphics > > ...and all the games (Driver, Midtown Madness 1 and 2, Viper Racing, GPL, > Nascar Legends, Dirt Track Racing, Colin McRae 1 and 2, and most of the

NFS > series including Porsche Unleashed/2000) have all run at a veryrespectable > FPS rate, with no "jerking". All run in 640x480 or higher. > > Is this some kind of record? I wonder how much longer my old Dell willhold > out, but it's done me proud up to now...! > > >

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:52:37 -0000, "richard.welfare" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Just for the record, for the last 18 months my setup has been exactly the >same: > >Pentium II 350 Pentium II-233 purchased in late 1997. >64Mb RAM 64MB also (EDO of course). >Old Sound Blaster 16 SBLive Value (Dang. Points docked for being somewhat up-to-date.) >16Mb Voodoo Banshee PCI graphics Voodoo3 2000 (my motherboard doesn't have an AGP slot) >...and all the games (Driver, Midtown Madness 1 and 2, Viper Racing, GPL, >Nascar Legends, Dirt Track Racing, Colin McRae 1 and 2, and most of the NFS >series including Porsche Unleashed/2000) have all run at a very respectable >FPS rate, with no "jerking". All run in 640x480 or higher. Getting the V3-2000 allowed me to race GPL online (at a smooth enough rate to set personal bests [not due to warp!]) at 800x600 with the detail slider in the middle. I run two different carsets for training and racing, though. >Is this some kind of record? I wonder how much longer my old Dell will hold >out, but it's done me proud up to now...! We need a judge (or someone to claim running GPL on a 386SX)! Unfortunately, I fear the end is near for both our computers. It's looking like runing WSC would cause my rig to smoke, spark and sputter 'Does not compute...Does not compute...' in true 1960s sci-fi fashion. Martin Long Live Nigel Mansell!

"richard.welfare" <[email hidden]> wrote in <U8H56.43616$[email hidden]>:

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>Is it my imagination, or have PC games (and racing/driving sims, my >personal favourites) reached a hardware requirement watershed? > >Just for the record, for the last 18 months my setup has been exactly >the same: > >Pentium II 350 >64Mb RAM >Old Sound Blaster 16 >16Mb Voodoo Banshee PCI graphics > >...and all the games (Driver, Midtown Madness 1 and 2, Viper Racing, >GPL, Nascar Legends, Dirt Track Racing, Colin McRae 1 and 2, and most of >the NFS series including Porsche Unleashed/2000) have all run at a very >respectable FPS rate, with no "jerking". All run in 640x480 or higher. > >Is this some kind of record? I wonder how much longer my old Dell will >hold out, but it's done me proud up to now...! > > >

I've got a celeron 400a / 128mb ram, tnt2 pro, and i'm finding that some of the modern games are starting to get a bit jittery at times! (Insane, and GP3 are a bit dodgy!) It is pretty much impossible to keep up to speed with the latest technology! - brian

>>Just for the record, for the last 18 months my setup has been exactly the >>same: Going on 30+ months here, except for the just-purchased 40 Gig HD. >>Pentium II 350 > > Pentium II-233 purchased in late 1997. Pentium 233mmx. >>64Mb RAM > > 64MB also (EDO of course). 64 DRAM. >>Old Sound Blaster 16 > > SBLive Value (Dang. Points docked for being somewhat >up-to-date.) _Very_ old SB16--only one of my ISA slots has enough surrounding room for the damn thing. >>16Mb Voodoo Banshee PCI graphics > > Voodoo3 2000 (my motherboard doesn't have an AGP slot) Nor mine. I have a Stealth 2 s220 and a Voodoo2.

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>>...and all the games (Driver, Midtown Madness 1 and 2, Viper Racing, GPL, >>Nascar Legends, Dirt Track Racing, Colin McRae 1 and 2, and most of the NFS >>series including Porsche Unleashed/2000) have all run at a very respectable >>FPS rate, with no "jerking". All run in 640x480 or higher. > > Getting the V3-2000 allowed me to race GPL online (at a smooth >enough rate to set personal bests [not due to warp!]) at 800x600 with >the detail slider in the middle. I run two different carsets for >training and racing, though.

Hrm. GP2, ICR2, Nascar 99, now SCGT. I can't get the new stuff, but the old stuff works fine and still offers great experience. I'll live. > We need a judge (or someone to claim running GPL on a 386SX)! >Unfortunately, I fear the end is near for both our computers. It's >looking like runing WSC would cause my rig to smoke, spark and sputter >'Does not compute...Does not compute...' in true 1960s sci-fi fashion. Sorry, no judge. I seem to win so far. Of course, that's nothing to celebrate. -Tim

Richard, Did you know you can probably update that PC w/ a 750 or 850 mHz processor? I just upgraded my Dell XPS R450 to an 850 w/ no problems. That should get me another 18 months out of this machine, which will also be a record for me. Check out the DellTalk Hardware Upgrade forums at www.dell.com for more info. Regards, Gordon "richard.welfare" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:U8H56.43616$[email hidden]... > Is it my imagination, or have PC games (and racing/driving sims, mypersonal

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> favourites) reached a hardware requirement watershed? > > Just for the record, for the last 18 months my setup has been exactly the > same: > > Pentium II 350 > 64Mb RAM > Old Sound Blaster 16 > 16Mb Voodoo Banshee PCI graphics > > ...and all the games (Driver, Midtown Madness 1 and 2, Viper Racing, GPL, > Nascar Legends, Dirt Track Racing, Colin McRae 1 and 2, and most of the

NFS > series including Porsche Unleashed/2000) have all run at a veryrespectable > FPS rate, with no "jerking". All run in 640x480 or higher. > > Is this some kind of record? I wonder how much longer my old Dell willhold > out, but it's done me proud up to now...! > > >