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N3 framerates

3 posts by 3 people · 24 Nov 1999 - 25 Nov 1999

Is there any reason why I can't get a decent frame rate with a P2 350, 128mb RAM, Voodoo2 8mb, AWE64, MS FF wheel? If you look at the road everything looks nice and fast, but if you glance to the side i.e grandstands, pit lanes etc. you can see is jerk badly! I have all detail turned up, since no setting (except maybe track drawn ahead) affects the frame rate. I am the type of person that has to have at least 30fps at the expense of fancy graphics when it comes to racing games. I have come to the conclusion that the engine just isn't built for silky smooth action... Another thing that really bugs me is the way the AI cars seem to bob around so much as if I were racing online with ***latency. I have turned off FF (that really slows things down) and I can't think what else to try. The game is brilliant, I only wish it had the fluidity of SCGT... P.S. Does anyone have a fix for the FF slowdown thing, as it affects quite a few games. (N3, GPL, SCGT, Driver, but not Midtown Madness or TOCA 2)
Robocat 25 Nov 1999#505496
I have a P3 500 Voodoo3 and 128meg and MS FF wheel the game runs fairly smooth with everything turned on but occasionally there is some jerkiness to the graphics i still really like this game and play it quite often, i am hoping for a patch to work on the slight lag but it is still very playable, i have noticed the FF is a bit of a power hog but am willing to take the hit on framerate just to get that feeling of FF control i have been craving for in Nascar since N1, i have also notice the bobing of the Ai cars and hope there may be a fix for this in the future, i also have an AMD K6-2-400, Voodoo2 ,128meg and Ms FF wheel and i have the graphics tuned back a little bit on that machine to keep the framerate up but it still runs Ok.(Not Great) but Ok. Robocat
wode.. 25 Nov 1999#505497
Yesterday I just installed a VooDoo2 in a system where I had been running Nascar3 w/ software-only graphics (333MHZ AMD). After re-installing Nascar3 (not sure if I deleted all of the old version first) I found that my desktop shortcut STILL pointed to the software-only executable. I had to manually change it to "C:\SIERRA\NR1999\NASCAR Racing 1999 Edition 3DFX.exe" so that it ran the proper hardware accelerator executable. One other very minor irritant that was solved was that on exiting the software-only N3 back to my 800x600 desktop always knocked my right-most row of desktop shortcuts back to the left as switching to 640x480 resolution always does --- the hardware accel version doesn't do this. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

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