Happy New Year everyone. I've been away from the frivolous playground
that is r.a.s. for some months now, but in the search for knowledge,
enlightenment and sheer banality I have decided to return.
I have a techie-question about Monster Truck Madness which I would be
grateful if anyone could answer. I have a reasonably high-powered P.C.,
Intel P200 with 24Mb EDO RAM and a 1.1Gb Mode 4 Hard Drive, yet loading
times in MTM are appallingly slow. This 'slow-down' occurs particularly
badly at the start of the race, with frame rates dropping to below 1 fps
while the hard drive has a fit! After a while things improve, but still
every so often things come to a complete standstill whilst something
else is read off the hard drive. Any ideas? Is there something wrong
with my Windows 95 set-up, or is the caching problem with MTM itself?
By the by, anyone else as impressed with Cyrix chips as I am? My brother
bought one for Christmas (a P150+), and the thing flies! It clocks
quicker than my P200 on Landmark 2, and it looks even better when you
consider the price differential. Good stuff, I reckon.
How many of you folks play MTM? I had it for Christmas, and I love it! I
think it is everything that Big Red Racing should have been - fast
(apart from the aforementioned disk-access problem), pretty and fun. I
love the handling and the other truck's AI, and I'm having some real fun
with it. The sound is perhaps a bit lame, but the graphics make up for
it. That and the fact that you can push the toilets into the lake! The
three new tracks on the MicroSoft Website are pretty cool too.
Finally, before I commit this overlong missive to the ether, what's the
story on the new F1 games that have been released? Are they any match
for GP2, or should I put up with poor framerates but better gameplay
from Sir Geoff's offering?
That's all for now, and boy is it good to be back (he said running for
cover...)
regards,
Paul.
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