N3 framerate stutters...

Anyone experiencing frame skipping when running close to the AI cars in a race? The skipping goes away as soon as the cars get beyond 4 car lengths from your front bumper. P2-333 o/c'ed 400MHz 192Mb Ram Voodoo3 3500TV o/c'ed to 200MHz Vsync Off MX300 Sound Card 40.8Gb HD MS FF Steering Wheel (FF disabled in game) Using 1024x768 resolution, Glide, with 10 AI cars, all graphics set to maximum. Very apparent on the front straight at Bristol-Night.

I have the same problem. The only solution is to run at 640X480.....then it is silky smooth with all options maxed. In 800X600 with every graphic option off (and track draw to 0) it still stutters. My system is a P2-400, 64ram, Voodoo3 3000. I've seen posts from people with P3-550 and voodoo boards describing the same problem, so obviously it's not a lack of cpu muscle. Please post if you find a solution. My only problem with an otherwise incredible game.

Sounds like a variation on the GPL 1.1 slo-mo problems..... Marc. > I have the same problem. The only solution is to run at 640X480.....then it > is silky smooth with all options maxed. In 800X600 with every graphic > option off (and track draw to 0) it still stutters. > My system is a P2-400, 64ram, Voodoo3 3000. I've seen posts from people > with P3-550 and voodoo boards describing the same problem, so obviously it's

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> not a lack of cpu muscle. > Please post if you find a solution. My only problem with an otherwise > incredible game. > > Anyone experiencing frame skipping when running close to the AI cars > > in a race? The skipping goes away as soon as the cars get beyond 4 > > car lengths from your front bumper. > > P2-333 o/c'ed 400MHz > > 192Mb Ram > > Voodoo3 3500TV o/c'ed to 200MHz Vsync Off > > MX300 Sound Card > > 40.8Gb HD > > MS FF Steering Wheel (FF disabled in game) > > Using 1024x768 resolution, Glide, with 10 AI cars, all graphics set to > > maximum. Very apparent on the front straight at Bristol-Night.

same problem here: p2 400 64meg ram vodoo3 2000 pci I also get the "frog hopping" effect. Rik Anthrax - - "trust the government?? what are you, some kind of moron?"

I had a similar problem, may or may not be related to yours. My PIII 450 with 128 megs ram would occasionally stutter. When this happened, I also had excess hard drive activity. I changed my virtual memory settings to min and max of 100 megs. This helps keep the system from using too much hard drive as ram and slowing the frame rates. I actually disabled virtual memory, rebooted, defragged my drive, then set it to 100 meg. This will make the 100 megs in one block on the HD for faster access. This is with Win95. No experience with 98 though... Hope this helps... JTRIV

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> same problem here: > p2 400 > 64meg ram > vodoo3 2000 pci > I also get the "frog hopping" effect. > Rik Anthrax > - > - > "trust the government?? what are you, some kind of moron?"

I'm beginning to wonder if this is a Voodoo3 problem. Has anyone tried different drivers? I am using the most recent drivers (4.11.01.1224).

>I'm beginning to wonder if this is a Voodoo3 problem. Has anyone tried >different drivers? I am using the most recent drivers (4.11.01.1224). I'm wondering too since it is fine with my P2-450, 128MB ram and 12MB V2 card. -- Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes. cisko [AT] ix [DOT] netcom [DOT] com

Does anyone know if it is possible to run a Voodoo 2 and a Voodoo3 together? I still have my old 12meg Voodoo 2 and would be interested to see if I used as a pass-thru card if it would make any differences in the frame rate chop problem.

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> >I'm beginning to wonder if this is a Voodoo3 problem. Has anyone tried > >different drivers? I am using the most recent drivers (4.11.01.1224). > I'm wondering too since it is fine with my P2-450, 128MB ram and > 12MB V2 card. > -- > Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes. > cisko [AT] ix [DOT] netcom [DOT] com

This stutter is not related to hard drive activity. Although harddrive activity during gameplay can cause stuttering, this stutter is occuring with no harddrive access at all. I did get stuttering also on a friend's P3-450 with TNT.

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>I have the same problem. The only solution is to run at 640X480.....then it >is silky smooth with all options maxed. In 800X600 with every graphic >option off (and track draw to 0) it still stutters. >My system is a P2-400, 64ram, Voodoo3 3000. I've seen posts from people >with P3-550 and voodoo boards describing the same problem, so obviously it's >not a lack of cpu muscle. >Please post if you find a solution. My only problem with an otherwise >incredible game. >> Anyone experiencing frame skipping when running close to the AI cars >> in a race? The skipping goes away as soon as the cars get beyond 4 >> car lengths from your front bumper. >> P2-333 o/c'ed 400MHz >> 192Mb Ram >> Voodoo3 3500TV o/c'ed to 200MHz Vsync Off >> MX300 Sound Card >> 40.8Gb HD >> MS FF Steering Wheel (FF disabled in game) >> Using 1024x768 resolution, Glide, with 10 AI cars, all graphics set to >> maximum. Very apparent on the front straight at Bristol-Night.