Built a new machine....come see.

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RAID 5
3
Block-level data striping with distributed parity
Best cost/performance for transaction-oriented networks; Very high performance, very high data protection; Supports multiple simultaneous reads and writes; Can also be optimized for large, sequential requests
Write performance is slower than RAID 0 or RAID 1
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Write and read performance of a raid 5 (in my experience) is at least on par with 1 and usually a lot faster... In the end it all boils down to your raid controllers XOR chip..
 
I see. Well, thats all a little confusing for me. I'll just stop asking. Haha, thanks anyway though Pako.

How can you afford such awesome stuff, though?
 
Here's some real time renderings from a ATI demo show some of the features of the Radeon 9800 chipset.
 

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and one more....
 

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Thats freakin cool. What kind of FPS do youget in NFS, and if you have such a kickin video card why don't you run NFS at a higher resolution?
 
Right now I have to run at 1280x1024 because of my crapy monitor. I got one hight res monitor, flat, 1600x1200 max res but it had a purple haze in one of the corners, so I'm waiting for a replacement. I'll be able to later today with the new monitor how it NFSU runs at 1600x1200 with everything at full.

How do you turn FPS display on in NFSU? All I have is FRAPS, and I think it only displays a max of 99 FPS, it seems no mater what I set the display to, it gets 99 FPS with FRAPS. We'll see I guess.
 
Well thats not fair. I get like.. 25-30 avg. :(

I didnt think you were running the graphics at that high of a resolution due to the screenshot you posted.. it was so tiny!

Man, this sucks.. My card can't even support the motion blur effect on the demo. I turn it on and then right when i hit the NOS button where i should normally get the blur effect, the scenery and surroundings dissapear and all i see is cars. :(

Damn this Radeon 9100. Grr.
 
Huh... Radeon 9100? I was running just yesterday with my 8500, not a problem...it was a little sticky, the screen would freeze for a sec then back to game play...but FPS were decent, definately playable at 1280x1024 resolutions.

Make sure you have the latest graphic drivers from ATI would be my only suggestion. You should be able to kick my 8500's performance....I would think.
 
radeon 9100 ended up getting lower benchmarks than the 8500. Still an awesome card, but just play with catalyst settings for high performance and you should be able to get better results. The 8500 had the better benchmarks because it was the best DirectX 8 card created...the 9100 was the entry level ATI made for the DirectX9 market - unfortunately it's hardware capabilities weren't the best around.

How much ram is on your 9100 though? my 8500 has 128 ddr and handles 1024x768 @ max graphic quality in the game with no problems. the occasional choppyness from a massive collision with the AI but that's about it
 
Mine runs horrible. It's running at 800x600 at medium and i still get choppyness.

I have 128mb DDR also... :(

Oh, and also, i have my card set for high quality. Do you have your's set to high performance, and that's why you're getting such good speeds?
 
Processor and Ram? i've got 512 megs of DDR and an athlonxp 1900+ ...it's odd that you're getting SUCH poor performance with the card. check if your Catalyst drivers are up to date. If they are, try going back to the previous release and see if that's of any help
 
I've got 512mb DDR and athlon xp 1800+. I just spend hours a few days ago downloading and installing the latest drives.. But then again, i havent tried the game since then. Here, i'll go test right now and let you know. :)
 
Oh, and also, i have my graphics set to Optimal quality.. Not high. (This is under the display properties in windows.)
 
Here's what i have my catalyst's Direct3d performance settings at. it's old but the basic features are the same (i haven't gotten around to updating drivers yet). Bring yours closer to performance and you should get what you're after. Mine's default but that's only because i never had much of a chance to play with it's settings.
 

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Ok, i'm Back with some results. Running at 1024x768 at high quality gives me some lag. It's almost really bad lag, but its okay. As for the motion blur, it's still screwy, along with the light blur effect (or whatever) also.

I was wrong about the 800x600 thing, it was actualy 1024x768. Sorry.
 
I forget what antisotrophic is. Most of those settings should be fine @ their defaults for NFSU. That's because the game handles the AA on it's own. You could also drop the Motion blur since that kills most cards as it is
 
Ok, i put my settings to default like yours and theres absolutely no lag at all. I turned on the light blur and motion blur and it all works fine now. Only thing is, the motion blur looks damn nasty.. It looks alot better on Ps2. :yuck:

As for AA, are you sure? It looks pixelated to me. :\
 
I never paid much attention to AA...I rarely do since i'm just looking for a nice and easy distraction on most days.
Now that you have the game running lag free, play with those settings and see how far you can push it for improving quality before lag sets in.
 
I barely turn on smoothvision and i hit lag.. Smoothvision is also the cause for the problem with mition blur and light trails.
 
No, it's supposed to make the game less pixelated.. Basically, it's AA. Anyway, i turned on antisotrophic filtering and seen that it really didnt do much to change how the game looked, so i'll just leave it as is..
 
Yay finally got my pc running! :D

Asus A7N8X-X
AMD Athlon XP2500+
512mb DDR400
Seagate 80gig
S3 Virge 2mb PCI video card :grumpy: which is only temporary, I might get a MX440 or something for the time being.

But it's sweet, the first time it booted it was running at 1100mhz (100mhzx11.0) so I upped the fsb to 166 (which is the default fsb for the 2500+) and I started at the 2500+ speed (which is 1.83ghz). Then I got a bit daring and changed the fsb to 200mhz, instant boot @ 3200+ I was so pleased :D

Now I'm off to let it idle for a while and get temperatures. It didn't like my current dsl modem, but I'm going to get a router this week and get both of them on the net 👍

[EDIT]Hot damn, 220 x 11 = 2.4ghz :D Just got to keep an eye on the temperatures. I tried 225 x 12 which would've given me 2.7ghz, but it didn't like windows :(
 

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