Re: [Speed-dreams-devel] txchange needs images!

On Friday 19 Feb 2010 17:19:15 Brian Martin wrote:
> Nepal - google wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 Feb 2010 06:07:51 hj- schuessler wrote:
> >> Am Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:38:26 +0100 schrieb Nepal - google
> >> 
> >> <[email protected]>:
> >>> I have tried all the links for both tracks and cars. There are
> >>> many that show the above message and go nowhere. So far I have
> >>> downloaded and have working Buzzard0Raceway, greenhell, jumper.
> >>> Zandy dumps me out of the program and I cant get
> >>> street-noris-V04 to show in the selections.
> >> 
> >> Hi Nepal,
> >> I read your Problems and will try to help: First, all Links in
> >> NBR-Collektion are now okay! I have uploaded Zandy new, try
> >> again! For "street-noris" you have to build in road a Folder
> >> named street-noris an extract all files in it. The V04 is only
> >> a sign for the newest Version (also in hhr-classic)
> >> 
> >> Wish much Fun!
> >> 
> >> Cheers
> >> 
> >> Jürgen (h-j-s)
> > 
> > Hi Jürgen,
> > 
> > NBR - yes.
> > 
> > Zandy - yes.
> > 
> > street-noris - yes.
> > 
> > They are all now included and work. Thankyou very much for those
> > too.
> > 
> > :)
> > 
> > I now have too many tracks. ;)
> > 
> > unless I miscounted, I have 72 tracks now!
> > 
> > and 45 cars.
> > 
> > I am having some difficulties with S-D and framerates, and for
> > some reason it happens mostly with your tracks. I cannot play
> > hhr-classic as the frames start at under 30 and often will drop
> > below double figures. The tracks with lots of texture seem to be
> > most affected. By comparison, the F1 tracks provided by
> > Manfariel (not including the new F1orza) work great often at
> > framerates above 200, but there is a great deal of variation to
> > it all.
> > 
> > AFAIU my graphics card is supposed to be reasonable for gameplay.
> > It is an Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS (I am led to believe is an
> > above average card) and the latest 195 driver. With all the
> > recent updates to Kubuntu and various kernels, I wonder if I
> > should recompile S-D?
> > 
> > still, many thanks for your help and the tracks, I will certainly
> > have fun getting familiar with those I can play on for now.
> > 
> > nepal.
> > 
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>     You may be able to improve frame rate on the problem tracks
>     by adding the line:
> 
>     <attnum name="fov factor" val="0.6"/>
> 
>     to the tracks *.xml "Graphics section".  Smaller numbers reduce
>     field of view and increase frame rate.

Thanks for that tip Brian, I will try it. Although the bigger problem 
is how the rate slows dramatically on some tracks, but perhaps it is a 
problem with trying to play with a wide-view screen. It happens more 
often on S-D compared to torcs and is generally worse, i.e. some 
tracks that are not a framerate slowing problem with torcs but are 
with S-D. I can still have plenty of fun on others though.

nepal.

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