Dashman

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.

I have a dual boot system running WinME and WinXP. When playing NASCAR 4 in WINME with the sound option turned up full I have no frame rate problems but using the same settings in WINXP I have bad frame rate problems. So from this you would think that the problem lies software and not hardware then?

The DirectX version might be the same but can you install Win2K DirectX in to WinME and visa versa. System: Abit SA6R Intel I815 E Chipset Apon 300 watt full tower Intel Pentium III 1Ghz 256 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 Sony CD-RW CRX175E ATA 100 Secondary Intel Master Poineer DVD 106 DVD Rom ATA 100 Secondary Intel Slave

Solved the problem Promblem is with Windows XP DirectX When multiple voices is enabled in NASCAR 4 the frame rate drops dramatically, this does not happen in Windows ME with either DirectX 8 or 8.1