Need for Speed - How much PC required?
Neves Carlos
>Hi all!
>
>I've been watching people play this game at the shops for a while now, and
>it looks great. However, I'm somewhat apprehensive about forking out the
>money for it as I don't know how the game will run on my PC. You see, the
>guys in the shops are all using 120 Mhz Pentiums, and all I've got is a
>486DX33 :( I've got 8 Mb of RAM, a double speed CD ROM and a VESA
>accelerator video card which I'm not sure will come in handy. Is there
>anyone out there who's got a similar setup playing the game alright? I'm
>asking this because the last game I bought (a flight sim game) told me I
>only needed a 386 to run it, but it crawled on my 486, with screen
>refreshes that were so slow that I've never played it enjoyably.
>
>I look forward to some good news!
>
>
>Thanks
>
>
>Christopher Tan
>
>
I'm sorry but I have bad news for you.
I've tried Need For Speed on my 486 DX2-66 but it crawled on it.
Same thing for Flight Unlimited or Action Soccer.
A Tchauu, bonsoir. . .
Carlito Ilano
>Hi all!
>I've been watching people play this game at the shops for a while now, and
>it looks great. However, I'm somewhat apprehensive about forking out the
>money for it as I don't know how the game will run on my PC. You see, the
>guys in the shops are all using 120 Mhz Pentiums, and all I've got is a
>486DX33 :( I've got 8 Mb of RAM, a double speed CD ROM and a VESA
>accelerator video card which I'm not sure will come in handy. Is there
>anyone out there who's got a similar setup playing the game alright? I'm
>asking this because the last game I bought (a flight sim game) told me I
>only needed a 386 to run it, but it crawled on my 486, with screen
>refreshes that were so slow that I've never played it enjoyably.
>I look forward to some good news!
>Thanks
>Christopher Tan
The demo didn't run well at all on my 486DX2-66 with 16mb RAM.
Carlito Ilano
Kristian Halskov
>chri...@technet.sg (Christopher Tan) wrote:
>>Hi all!
>>Thanks
>>Christopher Tan
>Carlito Ilano
Need for Speed runs in two screen-modes: Ordinary VGA and Super VGA.
In ordinary VGA, the game sucks - it's no better - actually its worse,
than many other racing games.
But in Super VGA, it's great with brilliant graphics never seen
before. But You need at least a Pentium 75 and a very fast
PCI-videocard to run the game in Super VGA.
Kristian Halskov
Rob Snow
I don't think u will be getting any good news :(
TEO NAN SHING
: Need for Speed runs in two screen-modes: Ordinary VGA and Super VGA.
: In ordinary VGA, the game sucks - it's no better - actually its worse,
: than many other racing games.
: But in Super VGA, it's great with brilliant graphics never seen
: before. But You need at least a Pentium 75 and a very fast
: PCI-videocard to run the game in Super VGA.
: Kristian Halskov
Actually, the demo ran pretty well in SVGA on my Dx4-100, 8 Megs ram,
stealth64 dram 2 megs. And the retial version is supposed to be faster
than the demo, right?
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> Kristian Halskov (Jy...@po.ia.dk) wrote:
>
> : Need for Speed runs in two screen-modes: Ordinary VGA and Super VGA.
> : In ordinary VGA, the game sucks - it's no better - actually its worse,
> : than many other racing games.
> : But in Super VGA, it's great with brilliant graphics never seen
> : before. But You need at least a Pentium 75 and a very fast
> : PCI-videocard to run the game in Super VGA.
>
> : Kristian Halskov
>
> Actually, the demo ran pretty well in SVGA on my Dx4-100, 8 Megs ram,
> stealth64 dram 2 megs. And the retial version is supposed to be faster
> than the demo, right?
I don't think so. As I recall, it runs about the same (it's been a
while since I ran the demo). If anything, the demo could be slightly
faster...
You *don't* need a Pentium to run it in SVGA. I'm running it on
a DX4-100 with 8 Mb and an "ancient" Genoa 1 Mb VLB accelerator. It
runs fairly well, but I wouldn't want it to be any slower. With
the Stealth you should be ok, all other things being equal. This
isn't to say that it wouldn't run smoother on a Pentium, but you don't
*need* a Pentium to run it. The accelerator makes a huge difference.
Just my $0.02.
Craig
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