N3 and voodoo2

I just got the Voodoo2 1000 card for my Cyrix 300 mhz system. I get a framerate in the game of (usually) around 8-11 with everything on. I turned almost everything off (cept skids, smoke, that type of stuff) and didn;t notice any major diff in frame rate (maybe about 13 but that's it) is there something else I am not doing. I have it set to use the glide setting for graphics. I turned down cars drawn, reduce skid buffer, all that, game seems fairly smooth so it doesn't seem to be an issue. Even when the frame rate dropped to like 2 it was still smooth. Do I even need to worry about it if the game is flowing smooth? Just wondering, thanks Greg

Right. So I am wondering why the subject says "N3 & Voodoo2", like there are issues with N3 and Voodoo2. What a dork. haha. -- Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes. cisko [AT] ix [DOT] netcom [DOT] com >On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 02:13:52 -0700, >>I just got the Voodoo2 1000 card for my Cyrix 300 mhz system. I get a >>framerate in the game of (usually) around 8-11 with everything on. >Greg, your Cyrix processor is the worst processor for ***. It's just >a fact. You will not do very well in many new games unless you change the >processor to one that is better. I would recommend the Celeron chip, >for a low-cost solution to your problem. >Good luck! >-- >* rrevved at mindspring dot com >* unit.26 s.p.u.t.u.m. >* http://www.cabal.net

Do you mean the framerate counter says you have 2 frames per second, but that the game still runs smooth? That's what I understand when I read (the end of) your message. In that case I see no problem. Not with your hardware anyway. Maybe the Cyrix and the framerate counter don't work well together, but why worry if gameplay is smooth? Have fun! And don't let people like Geg Cisko bother you... There's only one dork in this newsgroup and that's.... yes, you guessed it! Jeroen

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> I just got the Voodoo2 1000 card for my Cyrix 300 mhz system. I get a > framerate in the game of (usually) around 8-11 with everything on. I turned > almost everything off (cept skids, smoke, that type of stuff) and didn;t > notice any major diff in frame rate (maybe about 13 but that's it) is there > something else I am not doing. I have it set to use the glide setting for > graphics. I turned down cars drawn, reduce skid buffer, all that, game seems > fairly smooth so it doesn't seem to be an issue. Even when the frame rate > dropped to like 2 it was still smooth. Do I even need to worry about it if > the game is flowing smooth? Just wondering, thanks > Greg

>Greg, your Cyrix processor is the worst processor for ***. It's just >a fact. You will not do very well in many new games unless you change the >processor to one that is better. I would recommend the Celeron chip, >for a low-cost solution to your problem. >Good luck! Or, if you're tight on budget and don't want to get a new motherboard for that Celeron chip, get an AMD K6-2, provided that your current motherboard supports it. Ricky

I wholeheartedly agree. I just built a cheap K6-2 350 system for my dad with 128mb RAM, with a Voodoo 3 2000 video card, and N3 runs like a charm with 29-30fps no matter what the traffic is like. I did notice during one horrific accident that the frame rate dropped to 27fps, but that's the lowest it's ever been. Greg

I just put a Voodoo2 in my AMD-6 system and it runs excellently on N3. And speaking of accidents, do the computer cars ever actually have accidents? Or do the only accidents occur when I whack someone? The only thing I see the computer cars do is randomly spin going in and out of corners, occasionally catching someone else in the process. In fact, in most races I've done in N3 so far, the spinning car doesn't even tag anyone else and the race goes completely without yellows. Does anything unusual ever happen? JMG ever

>And speaking of accidents, do the computer cars ever actually have >accidents? Or do the only accidents occur when I whack someone? The only >thing I see the computer cars do is randomly spin going in and out of >corners, occasionally catching someone else in the process. Sounds a lot like an accident to me, but what do I know... Other than the occasional cattle *** or alien ***, there's not much unusual going on in N3 that I can see. Trips

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>I just put a Voodoo2 in my AMD-6 system and it runs excellently on N3. >And speaking of accidents, do the computer cars ever actually have >accidents? Or do the only accidents occur when I whack someone? The only >thing I see the computer cars do is randomly spin going in and out of >corners, occasionally catching someone else in the process. In fact, in most >races I've done in N3 so far, the spinning car doesn't even tag anyone else >and the race goes completely without yellows. Does anything unusual ever >happen? >JMG

I started a Lowe's race and on the 3rd lap, Bill Elliot got loose and whacked the wall, catching 3 others too. On the 78th lap, massive (8 cars) pileup on front straight before turn 1.( I cut someone off coming out of the pits and he checked up I guess).

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> >And speaking of accidents, do the computer cars ever actually have > >accidents? Or do the only accidents occur when I whack someone? The only > >thing I see the computer cars do is randomly spin going in and out of > >corners, occasionally catching someone else in the process. > Sounds a lot like an accident to me, but what do I know... > >In fact, in most > >races I've done in N3 so far, the spinning car doesn't even tag anyone else > >and the race goes completely without yellows. Does anything unusual ever > >happen? > Other than the occasional cattle *** or alien ***, there's not > much unusual going on in N3 that I can see. > Trips

Alright, wise guy. Maybe I should clarify myself: do the idiotic computer cars ever cause accidents besides those they cause when the code decides to randomly spin a car? In other words, and I'll keep this simple, do the cars ever, for example, bang into each other on a long straightway, like in REAL LIFE, causing an accident. If not, that's pretty pathetic that the only thing they could program was a random spin every few laps, MAYBE catching another car, but usually not. JMG

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>> >And speaking of accidents, do the computer cars ever actually have >> >accidents? Or do the only accidents occur when I whack someone? The only >> >thing I see the computer cars do is randomly spin going in and out of >> >corners, occasionally catching someone else in the process. >> Sounds a lot like an accident to me, but what do I know... >> >In fact, in most >> >races I've done in N3 so far, the spinning car doesn't even tag anyone else >> >and the race goes completely without yellows. Does anything unusual ever >> >happen? >> Other than the occasional cattle *** or alien ***, there's not >> much unusual going on in N3 that I can see. >> Trips >Alright, wise guy. Maybe I should clarify myself: do the idiotic computer cars >ever cause accidents besides those they cause when the code decides to randomly >spin a car? In other words, and I'll keep this simple, do the cars ever, for >example, bang into each other on a long straightway, like in REAL LIFE, causing >an accident. If not, that's pretty pathetic that the only thing they could >program was a random spin every few laps, MAYBE catching another car, but >usually not.

Hey! Sounds just like N2. ;-) -- Peter Ives