Help on video for 486 and nascar2

I have an AMD 486 133 which I overclock to 160, with a Diamond Stealth 2meg dram, my question is which video card should I get to get a better frame rate on Nascar2, and will it work with my existing video card? Thanks in advance,

Stick with the card you have, and start saving for a Pentium. The change to a new card (coupled with the fact you have a 486) will only produce a slight improvement - money best spent elsewhere IMHO. The Diamond may not be the greatest, but it's still a very good card to have. Chips are cheap nowadays...a P150 would be around $120, and can easily be overclocked to 200. Just a few more items and you'll have a real hotrod. Cheers! Marc

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> >I have an AMD 486 133 which I overclock to 160, with a Diamond Stealth > >2meg dram, my question is which video card should I get to get a better > >frame rate on Nascar2, and will it work with my existing video card? > Stick with the card you have, and start saving for a Pentium. The > change to a new card (coupled with the fact you have a 486) will > only produce a slight improvement ]

Actually, Id have to disagree with the statement it has a slight improvement. I was running on a 486/133 with a cheap Trident video card with only 1 meg in it. With this, I could only run in VGA with only cars and wall textures on. I then kept the same computer, but upgraded to a Matrox Mistique video card with EIGHT megs of memory in it. From that, I could now run in SVGA mode car textures, walls, and objects on. Joe

Hi Joe, While the Diamond 2Mb card isn't one of the front-runners in the video dept., it's no slouch either. For you, the comparison was with a Trident 1Mb card (a slouch) and that of a souped-up (and very expensive) 8Mb card. My advice to him was to save for the faster CPU, which IMO would be more beneficial; especially when you consider the current prices of CPU's and M-boards. Cheers! Marc Marc J. Nelson Sim Racing Online / Sim Racing News / The Sim Project http://members.aol.com/simracing