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NASCAR too slow - help?

4 posts by 4 people · 12 Jul 1995 - 21 Jul 1995

Hey, Can anybody give my some ideas of how to make NASCAR run faster? I have been trying it in SVGA mode and it seems really slow. I'm used to playing Indycar and it seems like NASCAR is much slower. Also is there anyway to tell what frame rate you're getting? I know you can set the minimum and the max., but can you tell the actual? I'm using a Gateway p5-60 w/ 8M ram and 2M on the STB video card. Thanks for any ideas or help you can give me. Brian R. Lohiser
George Lem 13 Jul 1995#303287
I am also getting a slow game condition in SVGA mode. It is much faster on VGA, but looks worse! Also, do you still have sound? When I went from VGA to SVGA I lost sound for the game, I played with it, but no dice.
grogn.. 13 Jul 1995#303288
Brian, I don't know that there is anything you can really do besides tweak your bootdisk setup or lower the graphics detail. I'm running SVGA on a Pentium 120 with 24 MB of RAM and a Diamond Stealth VRAM card with 2 MB of memory and still have to cut back on the detail levels to keep the animation smooth (i.e., no grass textures, no track textures, grandstand detail off) I don't think the system has been built (for home use anyway) that can handle SVGA on this game with all the detail pushed to the max. Hope this doesn't discourage you, too much.
KFrak 21 Jul 1995#303534
Sounds like you have too many graphics running at once. Try it with everything off except skids/paint, objects, cars and ???. The pavement and grass are the memory "HOGS!". Try turning on other graphics one at a time untill you get a good setup for your system. I can ru high resolutioin graphics with a boot disk on a 486dx280 with most of the grphics turned off! Let me know if this helps.

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