Unusual Problem

[Dashman 0]

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.

[Dashman 0]

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

[BladeRunner 0]

Well, the version of DirectX included in WinXP (8.1) is the same version that you can download and install under Win2k/ME/98.

What happens if you run the game in Compatability Mode?

[Dashman 0]

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

[Yearout 0]

Sorry but it is not DirectX. I'v got a Geforce3 and a SB Audigy and Nascar 4 runs super fast. I know for a fact its the Sound card because philips, Herc, and a old SB live. When the SB live is in everything goes slow. The others work great.

[BladeRunner 0]

"The DirectX version might be the same but can you install Win2K DirectX in to WinME and visa versa"

 

Can you install the WinXP NVidia Drivers under WinME and vice-versa?

Of course the actual installation packages are different for each OS (An obvious difference in the Win2k package over the WinME one would be c:\winnt rather than c:\windows).

However the actual package (DirectX) is the same accross platform - the whole idea of a 'standard API'.

[Dashman 0]

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?