Jumping into the fastest car and most difficult as a beginner it doesn´t suprise me they can´t handle it. Bad car choice.

Even a AMD 3800x2 is faster than your 2800+ using just one core. The increased memory bandwidth secures that the cpu is getting data to process. By the way I can´t think about using a quad core cpu nowadays without wasting money. What you´re up to ? Watching HDTV + Downloading + Playing LFS + Converting Videos... at the same time?
Go for a dualcore, Coreduo 6550-6750, it will be sufficient. By the way the quad will need more power.

A tad below and left or right isn´t that good, because of the horizontal and vertical color shifting at the same time.

Just tilt the screen towards you will help
someway.

Last edited by NikLaw, Tue 18 Sep 2007, 14:09.

2 inches are 2 inches... the advantage of a 22 " is the vertical space you get compared to a 20 " TFT.
Besides, running at 1680x1050 deserves 22"!

Changing colors on TN panels isn´t such a big deal. Mine (Acer2216W) doesn´t change the colors much. Why should you shift your head from left to right all the time?

Last edited by NikLaw, Tue 18 Sep 2007, 13:51.

Just a thought, could it be the multiplayer setup misc/car draw/lod reduction?

If you can race in single player, why should it be the gc in multiplayer? The card doesn´t do anything else. Check your network connection, ports, firewalls etc.

What about other online games? Do they run?

by the way (you can kick me for that...) there is a word that´s spelled "ridiculous" not redicolus or redecolus. Hurts to read these!

1 GB cache? I won´t overclock my notebook, because of the risk of overheating. In case you insist doing so, you should really know what you are doing, so read through multiple technichal manuals.


What about selling your notebook and getting a desktop pc, which will be much faster?

My first thought was:

Quad core? What for?

Firetron 1.0

3D Simulatoin of Tron!

http://www.miscproject.com/blog/firefox-game-firetron/

Kick the IE:

http://www.mozila.pl/blog/kick-ie-game/

Firetron 1.0!

Simulation of Tron in 3D solo and multiplayer:

http://www.miscproject.com/blog/firefox-game-firetron/

The problem with pentium 4s is its inefficiency. Don´t let yourself fool by the 2,6 Ghz. Even my Athlon 3200+ running at 2,4 Ghz is a lot faster and that´s an old cpu. At least it gives framerates 50-60 in full grid.

Just an idea: What refresh rate are you running? May be 70 or 75 Hz? Set it to 60 Hz. And check if you don´t override the rate via the control panel or river tuner.

The 8800 GTS will run like hell! 1280x1024 is a rather low resolution for such a card. You can even play the most games at 1650x1080 4AA/8AA 16AF.

I abandonded my 5.1 set from my desk, because I started to think I´m getting deaf! The surround speakers were to near to my ears, so it would almost hurt after a while. Problem is, I just got one set of ears...

Good PC Sound Speakers are expensive. I changed my audio equipment to a cheap amp + 2 Magnat 100w + passive Subwoofer and it´s fine for gaming and hearing music.

Best racing game ever using surround sound was Burnout 3 on PS2. The sound of passing cars was very realistic and you could hear cars behind you coming.

Turn up AA to 16x, gamma correct AA=true, Transparency AA=supersampling, AF to 16x to get rid of the awful aliasing effects!

So what did you buy it for? Too much money?

I guess milliseconds aren´t possible, because of the 100 FPS limit. The place a car is on track can be only measured a 100 times a second. Milliseconds would mean measuring the car position a 1000 times per second.

Other games giving milliseconds often give the same times again and again, I think that´s because, the measured times are not real, but simulated.

Quote from Slidaaaa :

HOLYROBSTER thats very nice of you....

Robster you serious about giving the DFP?! Omg you people are indeed rich,if my computer wasnt messed up i would make one hell of a cool video, the best i would ever think about making in my life =P since i would be soo inspired i wouldnt be able to sleep anymore till done (DFP! YAY! DFP!) if u consider someones vid better i would make others till you say its better : D

Those are around 370.00 U$D here, see http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-56096627-_JM for example.

Hell, 370 USD! You can get a new one at ebay for 48 €~65 USD at ebay germany. Ok, just checked ebay america 85 USD.

I have a knoppix live cd, but though I installed the nvida driver, Beryl doesn´t work.

When I go back to XP, I have to reboot 5 times until windows loads.

I know it´s a fake, but unitl now I am not convinced of linux. I don´t need it for internet and games. And installing the drivers via command line is really out of date, even if you get more control. I can remember the old DOS days and I am glad these times are over.

Have you tried to set a desktop background for every site of the cube? You will have to do it only once.

You can see it in my video that it´s working.

3620 posts in a year...Becky Rose is the forum, 10 posts a day, that´s legendary!

Why doesn´t it work? I have now 4 desktops which I can change very fast, there haven´t been any crashes yet. For me it works perfectly. I don´t need 3D Windows, because this is mere eye candy.

Ok, I didn´t mean it is as good as beryl. But what´s the main difference?

There´s a freeware useful 3D Desktop for Windows XP similar to Linux Beryl.
Here´s a demonstration:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KC2Q2647

What´s the best, it´s freeware, it´s only 1,16 MB and doesn´t need much system resources.

Download:
http://chsalmon.club.fr/fichiers/yodm3D/yodm3D.zip