I have a 75mhz Pentium with 16megs of ram (maybe 24meg if the 3d card would
be worth it). With 39 cars, min frame rate at 11, and max at 20, the
grandstands and objects come one when no one is in front of me (at
Talladega). Otherwise everything stays off. I'm thinking about getting a
Reactor card in January to run Nascar2, icr2, and mtm. What I'm wondering
is will this let me see more graphics, or just make the occasional
flickering grandstands smoother?
Upgrading to a 200mhz is not an option. My car is sucking down all my
money.
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Brian Fox
The Fox Den: Nascar and ICR2
http://www.4w.com/pages/fox
[link lost in import]
Stress - That confusion created when one's mind overrides the bodies basic
desire
to ***the living s**t out of some a**hole who desperately needs it.
I'm not sure of exact framerates, but a Rendition video card will be
the best bang for the buck performance increase you will ever see for
your computer. BTW, get the 24megs of RAM (better yet get 32). 8meg
SIMMs are only like $40.
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Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/
I have a 75mhz Pentium with 16megs of ram (maybe 24meg if the 3d card
would
be worth it). With 39 cars, min frame rate at 11, and max at 20, the
grandstands and objects come one when no one is in front of me (at
Talladega). Otherwise everything stays off. I'm thinking about
getting a
Reactor card in January to run Nascar2, icr2, and mtm. What I'm
wondering
is will this let me see more graphics, or just make the occasional
flickering grandstands smoother?
The Reactor would be a worthwhile improvement, IMHO. On my P133, I
get a 30% frame rate increase in NASCAR2 in Rendition DMA mode vs.
VESA SVGA. One question is whether your machine can do video DMA on
the PCI bus. I'm not sure if it will work without the Verite card,
but look for the DMADIAG program on David Sparks' WWW site. That
should tell you what your machine is capable of. If it can't to DMA,
I'd think twice about it.
A second point, the Reactor is on special at $149 until December
31. List price is $199. Buying one in January is not recommended.
Third, do you have to do all of your posts in MIME? A 20-line
posts gets padded out to 66 lines. Maybe I'm using the wrong
newsreader (Forte Free Agent), but MIME does nothing for me (aside
from wasting space). :(
Good luck with your upgrade.
Pick one or more: Model Rockets (competition-NERCB) / PCs (even Atari!) /
Papyrus ICR-ICR2-NCR / Who needs a life when you have multiple non-lives?
I am returning my reactor tomorrow because my motherboard is only pci
2.0 compatible not 2.1. (P120). The reactor had some problems and
games kept on crashing when trying to use video dma, even though
dmadiag ran fine (with verite card installed).
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>>I have a 75mhz Pentium with 16megs of ram (maybe 24meg if the 3d card would >>be worth it). With 39 cars, min frame rate at 11, and max at 20, the >>grandstands and objects come one when no one is in front of me (at >>Talladega). Otherwise everything stays off. I'm thinking about getting a >>Reactor card in January to run Nascar2, icr2, and mtm. What I'm wondering >>is will this let me see more graphics, or just make the occasional >>flickering grandstands smoother? > The Reactor would be a worthwhile improvement, IMHO. On my P133, I >get a 30% frame rate increase in NASCAR2 in Rendition DMA mode vs. >VESA SVGA. One question is whether your machine can do video DMA on >the PCI bus. I'm not sure if it will work without the Verite card, >but look for the DMADIAG program on David Sparks' WWW site. That >should tell you what your machine is capable of. If it can't to DMA, >I'd think twice about it. > A second point, the Reactor is on special at $149 until December >31. List price is $199. Buying one in January is not recommended. > Third, do you have to do all of your posts in MIME? A 20-line >posts gets padded out to 66 lines. Maybe I'm using the wrong >newsreader (Forte Free Agent), but MIME does nothing for me (aside >from wasting space). :( > Good luck with your upgrade. >Pick one or more: Model Rockets (competition-NERCB) / PCs (even Atari!) / >Papyrus ICR-ICR2-NCR / Who needs a life when you have multiple non-lives?Get the 3D Blaster. It runs Indy2 3D better than the reactor.
It also sports the best drivers and bios upgrades.
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>I am returning my reactor tomorrow because my motherboard is only pci >2.0 compatible not 2.1. (P120). The reactor had some problems and >games kept on crashing when trying to use video dma, even though >dmadiag ran fine (with verite card installed). >>>I have a 75mhz Pentium with 16megs of ram (maybe 24meg if the 3d card would >>>be worth it). With 39 cars, min frame rate at 11, and max at 20, the >>>grandstands and objects come one when no one is in front of me (at >>>Talladega). Otherwise everything stays off. I'm thinking about getting a >>>Reactor card in January to run Nascar2, icr2, and mtm. What I'm wondering >>>is will this let me see more graphics, or just make the occasional >>>flickering grandstands smoother? >> The Reactor would be a worthwhile improvement, IMHO. On my P133, I >>get a 30% frame rate increase in NASCAR2 in Rendition DMA mode vs. >>VESA SVGA. One question is whether your machine can do video DMA on >>the PCI bus. I'm not sure if it will work without the Verite card, >>but look for the DMADIAG program on David Sparks' WWW site. That >>should tell you what your machine is capable of. If it can't to DMA, >>I'd think twice about it. >> A second point, the Reactor is on special at $149 until December >>31. List price is $199. Buying one in January is not recommended. >> Third, do you have to do all of your posts in MIME? A 20-line >>posts gets padded out to 66 lines. Maybe I'm using the wrong >>newsreader (Forte Free Agent), but MIME does nothing for me (aside >>from wasting space). :( >> Good luck with your upgrade. >>Pick one or more: Model Rockets (competition-NERCB) / PCs (even Atari!) / >>Papyrus ICR-ICR2-NCR / Who needs a life when you have multiple non-lives?Kinda tough to run ICR2 with the 3D Blaster as it doesn't come with it.
BTW, Intergraph's drivers are faster then Creative's.
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Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative
Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/
The Reactor (Intense) 3D card runs fantastic on my Gateway P5-75. Indy Car
2 and NASCAR 2 are awesome....the reason I bought the Reactor in the first
place. I can run virtually all graphics on (limit cars running however to
around 12-14) and get decent frame rates. The $ 150 I spent was well worth
it. Chuck
It helped my P75 immensely. I can enjoy the game instead of fight it.
Will Marshall
