I have a problem with hardware when playing Nascar 4.
I get realy poor frame rates when playing Nascar 4 (2 - 15 fps)
I have tried: Reinstalling XP
Up [censored] Video Drivers
Replaced RAM
Used the latest drivers for all of my hardware
Replaced the Sound Card
Replaced Hard Drives
Replaced Video Card
Note some of this was due to up[censored] my system but could not fix the problem.
However I did find one solution which is useless. This being disable the sound card. I then get 25 - 65 fps.
System: Abit SA6R Intel I815 E Chipset
Apon 300 watt full tower
Intel Pentium III 1Ghz
128 x 2 mg Hyundai PC 133 SDRAM
GeForce 3 Ti200 64mg DDR AGP
Sound Blaster Value Live PCI
Surecom 100BaseT NIC PCI
ATA100 Raid onboard (HiPoint 370)
Western Digital 40Gig ATA 100 7200 Primary Raid Master
Western Digital 40Gig ATA 100 7200 Primary Raid Slave
Quantun 5Gig ATA33 Secondary Raid Master
Quantun 5Gig ATA33 Secondary Raid Slave
Western Digital 20Gig ATA 66 7200 Primary Intel Master
Poineer DVD 106 DVD Rom ATA 66 Secondary Intel Master
Latest SBLive Drivers
nVidia 21.83 Drivers
Default DirectX for XP
Onboard Sound, Video and Modem optoins diabled in bios
Memory set to bios defaults
Raid set as boot device after floppy
AGP set to default in bios
Note there is no video card bios displayed on boot up
Monitor set to 1024 X 768 at 85Hz
I emailed the video card vendor SPARKLE and they were yapping on about installing the motherboard agp vxd driver and for me to contact Abit for the .VXD Driver?
To my knowledge my installation of XP has only one .VXD (dsound.vxd) and the nVidia drives for XP do not have any .VXD in the installation files.
Anybody got any better ideas.