NFS:PU Online frame rates

I finally tried the Internet racing with PU and it seems like it would be pretty cool, but my frame rates are killing me. It seems to be mostly when there are other cars around, my fps just drops to the floor. What's baffling to me about this is I don't have much of a problem offline. Slight slowdowns against the AI in Evolution, hardly any in Factory Driver, except maybe when there's a cop around, but online it's virtually unplayable. I don't know if somehow ping times are causing this, or what it could be. I'm using adsl and my pings pre-race seem to be as good or better then most. It seems like it has to be related to the connection more then to my system, but here's my stats anyway. Anyone got any clues? PII-350 128 MB non-PC100 Abit BX6 MB Voodoo3 3K MSFF wheel (FF resolution seems to go off when FPS drops too, could FF be a factor?) Bellsouth ADSL, Alcatel modem, 3-com 905btx NIC -- Then again, I could be wrong! Ed Benson personal.lig.bellsouth.net/~edbenson

This is really strange. I played online last night for the first time and I was very pleasantly surprised by the smoothness. With your DSL connection, you should have no problem. I noticed virtually no difference in frame rates between playing online and playing single player. Here are my system stats: Celeron 300A oc'ed to 450Mhz 64 megs PC100 RAM Abit BH6 Voodoo Banshee 16 meg video US Robotics Sportster 56k modem (connecting at 49,200) TW On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 00:41:25 -0400, Ed Benson <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>I finally tried the Internet racing with PU and it seems like it would >be pretty cool, but my frame rates are killing me. It seems to be mostly >when there are other cars around, my fps just drops to the floor. >What's baffling to me about this is I don't have much of a problem >offline. Slight slowdowns against the AI in Evolution, hardly any in >Factory Driver, except maybe when there's a cop around, but online it's >virtually unplayable. I don't know if somehow ping times are causing >this, or what it could be. I'm using adsl and my pings pre-race seem to >be as good or better then most. >It seems like it has to be related to the connection more then to my >system, but here's my stats anyway. Anyone got any clues? > >PII-350 >128 MB non-PC100 >Abit BX6 MB >Voodoo3 3K >MSFF wheel (FF resolution seems to go off when FPS drops too, could FF >be a factor?) >Bellsouth ADSL, Alcatel modem, 3-com 905btx NIC

Todd Walker twalker294 at earthlink.net

Well, I'm playing on a Celeron 300 O/C to 450, 128Mb and a TNT1 card. I host games via cable modem (most I've had connected is 4) and the game runs like a dream at 1024x768 16bit. I mean no slowdows, warping, lag, etc and I have questioned all the other players (all friends) and they are the same. Pings to all players are under 150mS. I cant say about the FF as I dont have it, but have you tried turning it off? - Brian

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>I finally tried the Internet racing with PU and it seems like it would >be pretty cool, but my frame rates are killing me. It seems to be mostly >when there are other cars around, my fps just drops to the floor. >What's baffling to me about this is I don't have much of a problem >offline. Slight slowdowns against the AI in Evolution, hardly any in >Factory Driver, except maybe when there's a cop around, but online it's >virtually unplayable. I don't know if somehow ping times are causing >this, or what it could be. I'm using adsl and my pings pre-race seem to >be as good or better then most. >It seems like it has to be related to the connection more then to my >system, but here's my stats anyway. Anyone got any clues? > >PII-350 >128 MB non-PC100 >Abit BX6 MB >Voodoo3 3K >MSFF wheel (FF resolution seems to go off when FPS drops too, could FF >be a factor?) >Bellsouth ADSL, Alcatel modem, 3-com 905btx NIC > >-- > >Then again, I could be wrong! > >Ed Benson > >personal.lig.bellsouth.net/~edbenson > >

I'll try that next time I log on and let you know. Anyone know if any EA people lurk here or where I would send bug/problem reports? [email hidden] wrote: > I cant say > about the FF as I dont have it, but have you tried turning it off? > > - Brian > -- Then again, I could be wrong! Ed Benson personal.lig.bellsouth.net/~edbenson

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 23:16:24 -0400, Ed Benson <[email hidden]> wrote: >Well, i couldn't find a way to turn off FF completely, but I zeroed all of >the sliders and that seemed to do the trick. I might try raising just the >road grip slider back up some and see what that does. I seem to recall a post a while back that said that in certain cases, the MS wheel causes slowdowns due to its FF algorithms. Can't give you more than that, but maybe a search through old posts to this newsgroup would reveal something. Good luck, --mK (I haven't gotten NFSPU online racing to work yet, but I have a LWFF wheel anyway)

Well, i couldn't find a way to turn off FF completely, but I zeroed all of the sliders and that seemed to do the trick. I might try raising just the road grip slider back up some and see what that does. Ed Benson wrote:

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> I'll try that next time I log on and let you know. Anyone know if any EA > people lurk here or where I would send bug/problem reports? > > [email hidden] wrote: > > > I cant say > > about the FF as I dont have it, but have you tried turning it off? > > > > - Brian > > > > -- > > Then again, I could be wrong! > > Ed Benson > > personal.lig.bellsouth.net/~edbenson

-- Then again, I could be wrong! Ed Benson personal.lig.bellsouth.net/~edbenson