Nascar 2 and Diamond Stealth II 220

As the DS II 220 is Verite based (V2100), does Nascar 2 benefit from it, or are there as many problems with N2 as there seem to be with ICR2 ? John -- John Hartridge | FUJIFILM Electronic Imaging Ltd Senior Software Engineer | Three Cherry Trees Lane, Internal phone 3282 | Hert HP2 7RH

From my experience, the S220 works very well with N2....I can run 39 cars with everything on, and only get a rare framerate drop. The rest of the time it's like butter..... And this with a P166.......

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>As the DS II 220 is Verite based (V2100), does Nascar 2 >benefit from it, or are there as many problems with N2 >as there seem to be with ICR2 ? >John >-- >John Hartridge | FUJIFILM Electronic Imaging Ltd >Senior Software Engineer | Three Cherry Trees Lane, >Internal phone 3282 | Hert HP2 7RH

Hey John....some(not all but some!) of the DSII's are V2200! Anyhow, I have the V2100 and did have some problems getting ICR2 to work, but there are ways to do it and I'm about 99% satisfied with those workarounds. N2 hasn't given me a*** of trouble. Some people have had problems running from dos but it seems to run fine for me. I've run N2 from the win95 menu, from a dos session in win95 and booting straight to dos all without problems. Not sure why but it works for me....and YES both N2 and ICR2 do benefit GREATLY from a Verite`. Graphic Quality is up and Frame Rate improves as well. It's not ARCADE perfect in speed, but it is dang close. Also, there is a 3dfx patch now availible, it only works for N2 but some people have reported good speed with it although slightly blurry compared to the Rendition 3d. dave henrie

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> As the DS II 220 is Verite based (V2100), does Nascar 2 > benefit from it, or are there as many problems with N2 > as there seem to be with ICR2 ? > John > -- > John Hartridge | FUJIFILM Electronic Imaging Ltd > Senior Software Engineer | Three Cherry Trees Lane, > Internal phone 3282 | Hert HP2 7RH

wrote... Just don't fool with Win98 until Diamond does new drivers! I had to take my S220 back. I'm content with my M3D and the N2 3DFX patch for now... Devon

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> wrote... > > From my experience, the S220 works very well with N2....I can run 39 cars > > with everything on, and only get a rare framerate drop. The rest of the time > > it's like butter..... > > And this with a P166....... > Just don't fool with Win98 until Diamond does new drivers! I had to take > my S220 back. I'm content with my M3D and the N2 3DFX patch for now... > Devon

Hey! I didn't bother downloading the 3DFX patch because I've got a Matrox M3D, which is of course a Power VR chip card. The 3DFX patch works with an M3D? How? -- Mike Koenecke to reply, change "nowhere" to "***ramp"

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> > Just don't fool with Win98 until Diamond does new drivers! I had to take > > my S220 back. I'm content with my M3D and the N2 3DFX patch for now... > > Devon > Hey! I didn't bother downloading the 3DFX patch because I've got a > Matrox M3D, which is of course a Power VR chip card. The 3DFX patch > works with an M3D? How?

Sorry - Monster 3D (3DFX) by Diamond. Devon

John, For what it's worth, I bought the Diamond Stealth II 220 to run NASCAR2, after trying DS 3D 2000, adding memory, upgrading processor from 100 to 166MHz (pre-MMX)...and it seems to work! (Why didn't Papyrus/Sierra tell me right off to get a rendition card???) Much improved frame rate and I don't experience problems that I can identify to video card (only TEN crash/connection problems). Good luck.