Re: Heat and AMD K62 CPU

JB, Your post helped me..thanks. Now i know it should work on that CPU. Mike

I am in a major hold up with NASCAR heat. is there anyone out there with a AMD K62 CPU able to get NASCAR heat to run? Mike Dunn

Hi k6-2 550, voodoo 3, sb live 1024, 128 ram No probs cheers Martin "Mike Dunn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I am in a major hold up with NASCAR heat. is there anyone out there with a > AMD K62 CPU able to get NASCAR heat to run? > > Mike Dunn > >

In article <[email hidden]>, "Mike Dunn" <[email hidden]> wrote: >I am in a major hold up with NASCAR heat. is there anyone out there with a >AMD K62 CPU able to get NASCAR heat to run? > >Mike Dunn > >K6 2 475mhz, VooDoo 3, SB live, 128 megs RAM. No problems yet. WarriorSpirit

What are your system specs? I have a K6-2 400 with 64 MB of RAM and a 16 MB Voodoo Banshee card, and I get 18 - 20 fps with no problems. I also just found a nice little performance-booster called "Cacheman," which optimizes memory and disk cache. Memory managers have never done squat for performance for me in the past, but this one is truly GREAT. I gained 2 - 4 fps in NASCAR Heat just by running Cacheman. The real kicker for me is that before I ran Cacheman, NASCAR Heat was showing my video card to be a "bottleneck" (the CPU was listed as "good"), but after installing Cacheman and using it to optimizing my system, it upgraded my video card rating to "fair," which seems like a substantial improvement (my polygon throughput rating in NASCAR Heat's benchmark test improved significantly thank to Cacheman). You can find Cacheman here: http://www.tweakfiles.com/memory/cacheman.html If you can't get it to run in the first place, this won't help much, I don't think, but once you get it running, it does help a lot. -- JB In article <[email hidden]>, "Mike Dunn" <[email hidden]> wrote: > I am in a major hold up with NASCAR heat. is there anyone out therewith a > AMD K62 CPU able to get NASCAR heat to run? > > Mike Dunn > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

Glad to help, Mike -- post your system specs (RAM, video card, CPU speed, etc.), and we might be able to offer more advice. -- JB In article <[email hidden]>, "Mike Dunn" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> JB, > > Your post helped me..thanks. Now i know it should work on that CPU. > > Mike > >

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JB, I have a post in the NASCAR heat forum on the official web page. Currently its 85 messages and still no fix for my PC to get heat to run. www.nascarheat.com I have had everyone from Hasbro employees, to really helpfull guys trying to fix it..no luck. If you really want to help, read it. I dont want to start all over agian with the saga<G> Its all there.Please take a look at it. Its called NASCAR heat locks up ( thread name in the Q and A section) Mike * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find related Web Pages, Images, Audios, Videos, News, and Shopping. Smart is Beautiful

The demo runs fine for me on a AMD K6-2 450. Running at 800X600 on my Voodoo2 or 1024X768 on my TNT2 I have experienced no lockups. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

In article <[email hidden]>, Mike Dunn <[email hidden]> writes >I am in a major hold up with NASCAR heat. is there anyone out there with a >AMD K62 CPU able to get NASCAR heat to run? > >Mike Dunn > > Just caught this thread (been on holiday you see) and I too am having difficulties with my k6-2 450. If I try to run in 800x600 then I cannot finish a race at Richmond before I get screen lockup but sound keeps going. If I drop it down to 640x480 then I can at least get a race in, generally, but not always. It seems to be work related, in that the more work my comp has to do then the more likely it is to happen, though not always because it has crashed on a menu screen after a race also. No probs with my only other 3d game I play though, GPL. Used to get similar probs when I had a V2, but since upgrading to a V3 2000 things have been fine. I too have cacheman, though my system my already be optimised with it, as I haven't noticed any improvement. Cannot understand where they get my 3d card as the bottleneck though. Surely the AMD chip, with its poor floating point etc, would be that. I think that the game just takes the proc speed as the basis for its rating, without it really knowing the type of processor, ie P2 P3 celeron or AMD etc. I've now tried overclocking my 3d card - up to 135Mhz at the mo - to see if the bottleneck ranking will change, but it's still saying it. Oh well. BTW was getting lockups when card was at its standard 120Mhz setting, before any overclocking attempts. System Spec: AMD K6-2 450 128Meg Ram@100mhz Voodoo 3 2000 PCI graphics ISA AWE 64 sound card DirectX 7a Haven't yet read your problem on nascar message board. Will check later. -- Peter Ives - (AKA Ivington) Remove ALL_STRESS before replying No person's opinions can be said to be more correct than another's, because each is the sole judge of his or her own experience.