Nascar 4 computer requirements?

Does anyone have an idea what the computer requirements will be for the upcoming Nascar 4? Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

The Papyrus news release claims a PII 266 minimum with a PII 400 the target cpu. I "REALLY" have a hard time accepting that....I'd guess with how cpu intensive GPL is....that N4 with it's much larger fields must put a greater strain on a cpu. I'd be pleased as punch if you could run a PII 400 well, but I'm betting that will only get you 16 bit color and reduced # of cars drawn. This is totally speculation on my part, I don't have any info to back it up other than what I said above. I wouldn't be suprised if a PIII 600-800mhz would be necessary for turning on most of the options. Remember too, the sim is capable of 32 bit color and T&L so you should also be thinking about your video card capabilites.... Fortunately we have almost 6 months til the scheduled release so there is plenty of time to digest what recomendations are accurate and plan on buying new equipment. I wouldn't make purchases now and expect them to be on target for a sim that won't be released til Xmas. dave henrie [email hidden] wrote: > > Does anyone have an idea what the computer requirements will be for the > upcoming Nascar 4? > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy.

How's this: I have a PII 333 with 128MB RAM and a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP, and Nascar 3 gives 25-31 fps at 1024x768 on long tracks and 800x600 on short tracks, with about half the screen goodies turned off, and 12 ahead, 3 behind. Antialiasing turned off. I would consider my PC the "minimum" acceptable for N3. I bet N4 won't run well until you get into the PIII 500 range at least. "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> The Papyrus news release claims a PII 266 minimum with a PII 400 the > target cpu. I "REALLY" have a hard time accepting that....I'd guess > with how cpu intensive GPL is....that N4 with it's much larger fields > must put a greater strain on a cpu. I'd be pleased as punch if you > could run a PII 400 well, but I'm betting that will only get you 16 bit > color and reduced # of cars drawn. > This is totally speculation on my part, I don't have any info to back > it up other than what I said above. I wouldn't be suprised if a PIII > 600-800mhz would be necessary for turning on most of the options. > Remember too, the sim is capable of 32 bit color and T&L so you should > also be thinking about your video card capabilites.... > Fortunately we have almost 6 months til the scheduled release so there > is plenty of time to digest what recomendations are accurate and plan on > buying new equipment. I wouldn't make purchases now and expect them to > be on target for a sim that won't be released til Xmas. > dave henrie > > [email hidden] wrote: > > > > Does anyone have an idea what the computer requirements will be for the > > upcoming Nascar 4? > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > > Before you buy.

On Fri, 26 May 2000 16:12:28 -0700, "Rob" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>How's this: I have a PII 333 with 128MB RAM and a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP, and >Nascar 3 gives 25-31 fps at 1024x768 on long tracks and 800x600 on short >tracks, with about half the screen goodies turned off, and 12 ahead, 3 >behind. Antialiasing turned off. > >I would consider my PC the "minimum" acceptable for N3. I bet N4 won't run >well until you get into the PIII 500 range at least.

I have the same amount of memory and graphics card, but I have a PII 400. I have antialiasing on, all graphics on, maxxed cars ahead and 3 behind. I run at 800x600 and get 25-31 fps Im betting that with Nascar 4, their PII400 recommendation will not cut it if you want the majority of graphics on and an acceptable frame rate. If my system now cant keep a steady 31fps in N3, then there's no way nascar 4 will run smooth without having to turn most graphics options off, which to me isnt even an option. :) Im guessing a PIII 600+ with 128mb ram and one of the latest graphics cards with at least 32mb of memory to run N4 nicely. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Skotty Flynn "skotty20" Nascar-Racing-Sims.Com: http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com The Ultimate Sim Racing Directory: http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com/directory/ Member of The Sports Gaming Network: http://www.sports-gaming.com

In article <8gmatb$eg5$[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says... >Does anyone have an idea what the computer requirements will be for the >upcoming Nascar 4? > If it were me (and it will be in December), I'd get the fastest CPU and D3D/OpenGL capable video card that I could possible afford. Nothing less that a P3/800 (or AMD equivalant)... -- ========================================================= Redneck Techno-Biker (Zerex12) http://www.members.home.net/jms1/index.html Barbarian Diecast Collector (420+ cars and counting) http://members.home.net/jsimm/diecast_index.html DeMONS Scheduler for N3 and NL http://www.paddedwall.org/demons If you want to send me email, go to the first URL shown above & click "Send Me Mail" in the contents frame. =========================================================

On Sat, 27 May 2000 13:39:06 GMT, [email hidden] (John Simmons) wrote:

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>In article <8gmatb$eg5$[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says... >>Does anyone have an idea what the computer requirements will be for the >>upcoming Nascar 4? >> > >If it were me (and it will be in December), I'd get the fastest CPU and >D3D/OpenGL capable video card that I could possible afford. Nothing less >that a P3/800 (or AMD equivalant)...

I agree. I'm running a P3-600 now, and I really doubt it will be enough to run N4 with all the bells and whistles enabled. As someone else pointed out with GPL, we will have more cars with N4, and a much higher poly count on the cars. It would be awesome if it would run on a P2-400, but I wouldn't count on that. I did read somewhere that they had refined the engine quite a bit, so who knows. Andy Please use [email hidden] for all email replies