Anyone else having huge problems with N3?

First, there are random screen freezes. For example, the dogleg at Lowes almost totally stops the game. I see 3 frames maybe through the whole thing. One second I am running fine, the next car is against the wall. Second, 4 lockups within 2 hours. Impressive. I have a celeron 400/128MB/Banshee which certainly is not state of the art but it should at least let me play the game. Instead my car randomly takes off for the wall. I thought it might be due to new physics but the game drops 10-20 frames easily per second when this happens. Also the random crashes seem to occur when loading tracks. The game is utterly unplayable this way.

I've been running it all day without any problems

Something ain't right. I'm running a celery 300a at 450, and with all detail on and track drawn at 6, maintain consistantly between 25-30 fps, and I only have 64 mb ram , and am running the V3000 card. -- Don Burnette Dburn on Ten http://members.home.net/d.burnette/Sportsman%204.htm

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>First, there are random screen freezes. For example, the dogleg at >Lowes almost totally stops the game. I see 3 frames maybe through the >whole thing. One second I am running fine, the next car is against the >wall. >I have a celeron 400/128MB/Banshee which certainly is not state of >the art but it should at least let me play the game. Instead my car >randomly takes off for the wall. I thought it might be due to new >physics but the game drops 10-20 frames easily per second when this >happens. Also the random crashes seem to occur when loading tracks.

I think your Banshee is the problem; it's probably overheating. Things to Try : Underclock the card a little; it'll run a lot cooler and more stable. And not with a major fps hit.Try www.voodooextreme.com for some clocking utils. Next, go into the directX folder on the CD and find the program DXDIAG and run all the tests and see if any fail. That might point you in the right direction. I have a P400 with a V3 3000 and have everything on and have no problems(seeing the backstrech from the frontstrech is great!). My brother has a P233 with a DiamondV2 12m and with everything turned on it gets a little choppy passing the pits while all the other cars are still pitted, but nothing more. Good luck, Mark Gums

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> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:34:37 -0400, > >First, there are random screen freezes. For example, the dogleg at > >Lowes almost totally stops the game. I see 3 frames maybe through the > >whole thing. One second I am running fine, the next car is against the > >wall. > >Second, 4 lockups within 2 hours. Impressive. > >I have a celeron 400/128MB/Banshee which certainly is not state of > >the art but it should at least let me play the game. Instead my car > >randomly takes off for the wall. I thought it might be due to new > >physics but the game drops 10-20 frames easily per second when this > >happens. Also the random crashes seem to occur when loading tracks. > >The game is utterly unplayable this way. > I haven't seen this at all, but it sounds like either a heat problem > (remove cover?), or a soundcard problem (drivers, type?). > --

I have seen this but not to this extreme. Ocassionally while leaving my pit box on pit road, I will have 3 or 4 frames take about 1fps. It seems like the graffics engine is trying to catch up. After that every thing is fine. I have not raced Lowes yet, so I will go and see if I get the same problem there too. Colin