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I have a few questions about thefast.com... How can increasing bios video speed effect the nascar frame rate? Surely nascar does not use bios for its video? I don't know - comments? I installed thefast.com and noticed no difference in framerate. Comptest reported a significant increase in bios video speed though. The best ways I have found of getting greater fps with detail is by clean booting the machine (very effective), using FM sound and decreasing the number of opponents. BTW. I get 10-11 fps on my dx4/100 with 8MB and VLB ET4000/w32p video in SVGA with FM sound and up to about 25 opponents. The only detail loss is the road texture. Getting a higher frame rate than this involves cutting back lots more on the graphics details. Richard Miles

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>I have a few questions about thefast.com... >How can increasing bios video speed effect the nascar frame rate? Surely >nascar does not use bios for its video? I don't know - comments? >I installed thefast.com and noticed no difference in framerate. Comptest >reported a significant increase in bios video speed though. >The best ways I have found of getting greater fps with detail is by clean >booting the machine (very effective), using FM sound and decreasing the >number of opponents. >BTW. I get 10-11 fps on my dx4/100 with 8MB and VLB ET4000/w32p video in >SVGA with FM sound and up to about 25 opponents. The only detail loss is >the road texture. Getting a higher frame rate than this involves cutting >back lots more on the graphics details.

I don't kow the technical answer to your question, but I just set up thefast on my DX4-100 w/ 16 mgs RAM, Cirrus 1mg VLB card. I noticed that the gradstands now appear in replays where I used to lose that detail before. I also found a very substantial improvement when I started using QEMM and increased my available conventional memory to 630 k. Tom -- ______________________________________________________ St. Louis, MO. USA Visit My Homepage: http://www.icon-stl.net/~tweber _____________________________________________________

I have seen the notion of using FM sound mentioned several times in association with better performance of Papyrus NASCAR. How exactly do you change to FM from digital. I have a Pro Audio Spectrum Sound card and NASCAR uses it as a SoundBlaster. No drivers are actually loaded. It uses the environment variables (or auto-detect) to find the card. David G. Martin BBB EEE EEE N N CC OO U U N N TTT RRR Y Y 354 Burnette-Womack B B E E NN N C C O O U U NN N T R R Y Y CB# 7075 UNC-CH BBB EEE EEE N NN C O O U U N NN T RRR Y Chapel Hill B B E E N N C C O O U U N N T R R Y NC 27599-7075 B B E E N N C C O O U U N N T R R Y 919-966-5203 BBB EEE EEE N N CC OO UU N N T R R Y

David, I asked just that same question a couple of days ago. To run NASCAR in FM mode type 'nascar -f' when executing the program. This will use FM sounds instead of digital. I found that it really helped speed things up on my poor old 386/40. You'll notice that the sounds are quite different (i.e. engine noise, skids, etc.). Hope that helps. Mark

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>I have seen the notion of using FM sound mentioned several times in >association with better performance of Papyrus NASCAR. How exactly do >you change to FM from digital. I have a Pro Audio Spectrum Sound card >and NASCAR uses it as a SoundBlaster. No drivers are actually loaded. >It uses the environment variables (or auto-detect) to find the card. >> >The best ways I have found of getting greater fps with detail is by clean >> >booting the machine (very effective), using FM sound and decreasing the >> >number of opponents. >> >BTW. I get 10-11 fps on my dx4/100 with 8MB and VLB ET4000/w32p video in >> >SVGA with FM sound and up to about 25 opponents. The only detail loss is >David G. Martin BBB EEE EEE N N CC OO U U N N TTT RRR Y Y >354 Burnette-Womack B B E E NN N C C O O U U NN N T R R Y Y >CB# 7075 UNC-CH BBB EEE EEE N NN C O O U U N NN T RRR Y >Chapel Hill B B E E N N C C O O U U N N T R R Y > NC 27599-7075 B B E E N N C C O O U U N N T R R Y >919-966-5203 BBB EEE EEE N N CC OO UU N N T R R Y

Hi, I run nascar on a 486/33 with only 8 meg of RAM. So I was wondering will thefast.com improve even my setup? Its pretty choppy there now! But still playable with some detail left out. I'm waitng to upgrade. Thanks in Advance :-) David Brideau

>> BTW. I get 10-11 fps on my dx4/100 with 8MB and VLB ET4000/w32p video in >> SVGA with FM sound and up to about 25 opponents. >Can you actually play the game with the frame rate that slow. For me, 16 FPS is minimal, anything less and >I consider it waaay tooo jerrrky (way to jerky at 10fps). : ) How do you get your number for FPS?

Whenever I try this, I only hear shrill whining from the speakers during the announcement, and while racing. Any help? P590, ATI Mach64/2M, whatever the latest drivers were as of early June. Is there a more recent driver? Is my Ensoniq at fault? Thanks for any help. Chris -- Christopher M. Meier Software Engineer PPT Vision Voice: (612) 942-5747 Fax: -5752 10321 West 70th Street

Can you actually play the game with the frame rate that slow. For me, 16 FPS is minimal, anything less and I consider it waaay tooo jerrrky (way to jerky at 10fps). : )