N2: Upgrading system need help !!!!!!

I have a Pentium 75 computer which very slow. I have been running N2 with all the graphics turned off, except for car and wall textures. The frame rate is still choppy. I'm getting ready to upgrade the motherboard, processor, and the graphics card. Can anyone tell me what kind of motherboard, processor, and graphics card should I buy to run the full graphics mode (asphalt and grass textures on) with N2 and with the new NASCAR 99? There's a lot of options out there to buy , and along with the technology changing by the day. Please email me with your comments> Thanks, Joey

I think you would get more help in the alt.windows95 news group. Good luck.

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>I have a Pentium 75 computer which very slow. I have been running N2 with >all the graphics turned off, except for car and wall textures. The frame >rate is still choppy. >I'm getting ready to upgrade the motherboard, processor, and the graphics >card. >Can anyone tell me what kind of motherboard, processor, and graphics card >should I buy to run the full graphics mode (asphalt and grass textures on) >with N2 and with the new NASCAR 99? >There's a lot of options out there to buy , and along with the technology >changing by the day. Please email me with your comments> >Thanks, >Joey

Ernie

On Wed, 4 Nov 1998 16:29:55 -0500, "Joey & Harriet Millard"

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>I have a Pentium 75 computer which very slow. I have been running N2 with >all the graphics turned off, except for car and wall textures. The frame >rate is still choppy. >I'm getting ready to upgrade the motherboard, processor, and the graphics >card. >Can anyone tell me what kind of motherboard, processor, and graphics card >should I buy to run the full graphics mode (asphalt and grass textures on) >with N2 and with the new NASCAR 99? >There's a lot of options out there to buy , and along with the technology >changing by the day. Please email me with your comments>

If you want to run just N2/N99, a MMX Pentium (166-233MHz) will pretty much do the job, combined with either a Rendition V2x00 video card (Diamond Stealth S220 or Hercules Thriller 3D) or a 3Dfx Voodoo 1 or 2 video card. OTOH, next summer will bring NASCAR3, based on the GPL engine. I'd start looking at what the GPL requirements are. Basically, a Pentium II (preferably with 100MHz FSBus, ie: 350MHz CPU or higher) with either of the video cards mentioned above (support is slowly being added for Riva/TNT/OpenGL and Matrox G200/D3D, but it isn't fully supported yet). More video memory (at least 8 meg) and system memory (think about 128 meg) is preferred. If you're a do-it-yourselfer, the current hot set-up is the Intel Celeron 300A w/128k cache over-clocked to 450MHz on an Abit BX6 or BH6 motherboard, 64-128 meg of PC100 memory, and either a Hercules Thriller 3D/8 meg or Voodoo 2. NAR Northeast Regional Contest Board site - points and more...