I just recently purchased an Intergraph reactor and it is absolutely
incredible.
I have a Pentium 100 w/16 MB or Ram and a S3Trio card with 2 MB DRAM.
Before the upgrading I was running with almost no detail and the framerate
still was pretty bad. I think I only had on objects (low detail) Walls,
car texture and thats about it. Got the Rendition board today and kicked
the Ram up to 32 MB and now I run almost all the detail including assphalt
texture, drawing 10 ahead and 3 behind, it runs 27-30 frames almost all the
time. I leave some of the infield detail on auto, cant see it too much
anyway. I may not get 30 frames with all the detail on and 39 cars drawn
ahead and behind, but youd have to have one of those 500mHz machines to get
that. My frame rate is incredible compared to what it was and I am running
more detail then ever before. The Rendition ICR 2 is unbelievable. It
runs 30 Frames no problem except at the start of a race when the field is
bunched up. Lap times have also dropped as the car is much easier to
handle. I picked up 2mph at Atlanta and didnt change a thing.
Overall, I am very impressed. Installation was easy. Just took the old
board out, popped in the reactor and put the driver disk in when Win95
asked for it. One note, if your board doesnt support DMA, the improvement
is not so great. I tried the non DMA version and it only ran a little
better than before. But now its smoking. The game is completely different
at this speed and detail. Thanks to Eric Busch and Dave Sparks for the
info on the reactor card! It rocks!
Mark Roberts
