F1 2000 A/I cars vanish

Hello, Finally loaded F1-2000 tonight, so far so good. Just 2 questions; I notice cars ahead of me (pulling away) will suddenly vanish (completely), and it's abrupt. Not a "crushing problem" really, but being able to view another car ahead (even at long distance) helps driving style, driver aggression, etc. Is there any setting, that will lengthen (viewable) distance to A/I cars, before it completely vanishes? Or a setting so they will not vanish? (For MP play, this vanishing should be a very useful setting, but for solo play, I don't see any reason why cars should do this at all). Also there's some stuttering while driving, not much but noticeable. With a CL Geforce-2/GTS 64mb, I tried Nvidia 12.90 drivers (updating from 10.80's), but stutter is still there. Is this a common problem? Thanks much!, Matt

On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 06:38:44 GMT, teehole <holysmokes@[email hidden]> wrote: >Hello, > > Finally loaded F1-2000 tonight, so far so good. Just 2 questions; Sorry about that, I got the Topic -and- the title wrong. I'm asking about F1 -2001-, not F1k2. Thx, Matt

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> I notice cars ahead of me (pulling away) will suddenly vanish >(completely), and it's abrupt. Not a "crushing problem" really, but >being able to view another car ahead (even at long distance) helps >driving style, driver aggression, etc. > > Is there any setting, that will lengthen (viewable) distance to A/I >cars, before it completely vanishes? Or a setting so they will not >vanish? > > (For MP play, this vanishing should be a very useful setting, but for >solo play, I don't see any reason why cars should do this at all). > > Also there's some stuttering while driving, not much but noticeable. >With a CL Geforce-2/GTS 64mb, I tried Nvidia 12.90 drivers (updating >from 10.80's), but stutter is still there. Is this a common problem? > > Thanks much!, > > Matt

"Braddo" kindly posted THIS in an earlier thread describing the same problem: ------------------ Thanks to the High Gear forums and Todd Sorenson below here is the fix Here's what I did (and it worked!): To get better car detail and to avoid disappearing cars in front when driving in cockpit view, open default.cfg (save folder) with Notepad and change LODMultiplier in LocalCam=Cockpit section from 1.00 to 3.00 or even better to 4.00. This game really is awesome. Brad ------------------ teehole wrote in message ...

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>Hello, > > Finally loaded F1-2000 tonight, so far so good. Just 2 questions; > > I notice cars ahead of me (pulling away) will suddenly vanish >(completely), and it's abrupt. Not a "crushing problem" really, but >being able to view another car ahead (even at long distance) helps >driving style, driver aggression, etc. > > Is there any setting, that will lengthen (viewable) distance to A/I >cars, before it completely vanishes? Or a setting so they will not >vanish? > > (For MP play, this vanishing should be a very useful setting, but for >solo play, I don't see any reason why cars should do this at all). > > Also there's some stuttering while driving, not much but noticeable. >With a CL Geforce-2/GTS 64mb, I tried Nvidia 12.90 drivers (updating >from 10.80's), but stutter is still there. Is this a common problem? > > Thanks much!, > > Matt

Stutter: try bigger vcache settings, for example with Cacheman 5.0 DOK On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 06:38:44 GMT, teehole <holysmokes@[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Hello, > > Finally loaded F1-2000 tonight, so far so good. Just 2 questions; > > I notice cars ahead of me (pulling away) will suddenly vanish >(completely), and it's abrupt. Not a "crushing problem" really, but >being able to view another car ahead (even at long distance) helps >driving style, driver aggression, etc. > > Is there any setting, that will lengthen (viewable) distance to A/I >cars, before it completely vanishes? Or a setting so they will not >vanish? > > (For MP play, this vanishing should be a very useful setting, but for >solo play, I don't see any reason why cars should do this at all). > > Also there's some stuttering while driving, not much but noticeable. >With a CL Geforce-2/GTS 64mb, I tried Nvidia 12.90 drivers (updating >from 10.80's), but stutter is still there. Is this a common problem? > > Thanks much!, > > Matt

On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 06:38:44 GMT, teehole <holysmokes@[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Hello, > > Finally loaded F1-2000 tonight, so far so good. Just 2 questions; > > I notice cars ahead of me (pulling away) will suddenly vanish >(completely), and it's abrupt. Not a "crushing problem" really, but >being able to view another car ahead (even at long distance) helps >driving style, driver aggression, etc. > > Is there any setting, that will lengthen (viewable) distance to A/I >cars, before it completely vanishes? Or a setting so they will not >vanish? > > (For MP play, this vanishing should be a very useful setting, but for >solo play, I don't see any reason why cars should do this at all). > > Also there's some stuttering while driving, not much but noticeable. >With a CL Geforce-2/GTS 64mb, I tried Nvidia 12.90 drivers (updating >from 10.80's), but stutter is still there. Is this a common problem? > > Thanks much!, > > Matt

Racecraft answered your question regarding the cars disappearing and as to any stutter you will have to just lower your graphics selections lower and/or lower the res. I sometimes notice a slight stutter somtimes as new objects come into view. Maybe if they had used T&L we would have gotten better performance. It's not bad as it is, but it could be better.