<<I just bought a Packard Bell Pentium 150mhz with 24 meg RAM. The
frame rate in my CD-ROM version of Nascar is about 5 fps. That is with
only car textures and skids/paint turned on. The opponents are set to
11. Any more the frame rate drops. And I can only run 4 ahead, 2 behind,
and 1 heard, any more the frame rate will drop even more. If I swith to
VGA mode it only goes to about 7 fps. Please help!! Do I need a new
graphics card?>>
Yow! Man, you must be suffering from some pretty rude migraines
h-a-v-i-n-g t-o p-l-a-y- t-h-e g-a-m-e l-i-k-e t-h-i-s. Before anyone
makes suggestions concerning your card (heck, even a cheesy Cirrus Logic
card with 1mb DRAM could do better on a DX2 66) what card do you have
now? Are you playing from straight DOS? I may be barking up the wrong
tree though because your current hardware is more than enough to run the
game perfectly in SVGA.
Nick
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> I just bought a Packard Bell Pentium 150mhz with 24 meg RAM. The frame rate in my > CD-ROM version of Nascar is about 5 fps. That is with only car textures and > skids/paint turned on. The opponents are set to 11. Any more the frame rate drops. > And I can only run 4 ahead, 2 behind, and 1 heard, any more the frame rate will > drop even more. If I swith to VGA mode it only goes to about 7 fps. Please help!! Do > I need a new graphics card? > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Mark Light --- Mark's Nascar Page | > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------I just bought a Packard Bell Pentium 150mhz with 24 meg RAM. The frame rate in my
CD-ROM version of Nascar is about 5 fps. That is with only car textures and
skids/paint turned on. The opponents are set to 11. Any more the frame rate drops.
And I can only run 4 ahead, 2 behind, and 1 heard, any more the frame rate will
drop even more. If I swith to VGA mode it only goes to about 7 fps. Please help!! Do
I need a new graphics card?
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> > I just bought a Packard Bell Pentium 150mhz with 24 meg RAM. The frame rate in my
> > CD-ROM version of Nascar is about 5 fps. That is with only car textures and
> > skids/paint turned on. The opponents are set to 11. Any more the frame rate drops.
> > And I can only run 4 ahead, 2 behind, and 1 heard, any more the frame rate will
> > drop even more. If I swith to VGA mode it only goes to about 7 fps. Please help!! Do
> > I need a new graphics card?
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> Something is definately wrong here. My setup is similar except for > 166Mhz and Matrox card with 16Meg. I can pull off 23FPS with everything > on in SVGA (full opponents). The only way you could be getting that bad > a frame rate is if you have some sort of strange hardware conflict. I > would start by trying different VESA drivers, disable joystick, disable > sound, etc. until I saw some Unbelievable frame rate increase. > -- > *********************************************************** > * Jonathan A. Robinson * > * National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center * > * Mississippi State, MS * > * http://www.erc.msstate.edu/~jon * > ***********************************************************If your playing in Win95.....Stop! Go to MS-DOS mode, not the Dos Prompt in
95
says...
Some of the PB models don't have any Level-2 Cache. This will cause
horrible performance in games. make sure you DO have this cache.
If you don't see if you can get an upgrade.
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Lannie Schafroth
