Nascar and Matrox

I am new to Nascar Racing. Just purchased a matrox Millineum with 2 megs of Ram..I have a pentium 166 with 16 megs of EDO ram. I am currently playing with all the Graphics on and in SVGA mode. seems smooth as silk. I was wondering if anyone out there has played on the Matrox version and the regular off the shelf CD version with all graphics turned on with a similar machine? Is there a noticable difference between the two? I was also wondering is the Matrox version compatible with the network game play...say at Hawaii? Am interested in racing real opponants but no where experienced enough yet Would also like to find out info on where I can find network play. Like how do I find this Hawaii network Im reading about? Thanks for your replies if any.

Yes, both a friend and myself tried NASCAR with and without the Matrox accelearated version. It seems that you gain abot 10%-15% frame rate. The Matrox version works fine with Hawaii (multi.exe) for both of us. Hawaii can be downloaded via many sources, but try the sierra web page if you can't find it elsewhere (www.sierra.com). Good luck.

On Thu, 25 Jul 1996 13:21:01 -0700, wade hermes

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>I am new to Nascar Racing. Just purchased a matrox Millineum with 2 megs >of Ram..I have a pentium 166 with 16 megs of EDO ram. I am currently >playing with all the Graphics on and in SVGA mode. seems smooth as silk. >I was wondering if anyone out there has played on the Matrox version and >the regular off the shelf CD version with all graphics turned on with a >similar machine? Is there a noticable difference between the two? I was >also wondering is the Matrox version compatible with the network game >play...say at Hawaii? Am interested in racing real opponants but no >where experienced enough yet Would also like to find out info on where I >can find network play. Like how do I find this Hawaii network Im reading >about? Thanks for your replies if any.

With my millenium, the matrox version gives better framerates, with a 166 you can expect all detail always on except in HEAVY traffic. Hawaii uses multi.exe , not nascar.exe, so online you'll be using the non-accellerated version. According to Papyrus, there are no plans to add the specific 3d versions to nascar 1 , and they havnt decided if they're doing anything with version 2 yet, and thats what the "release" hawaii will use. It's understandable that they dont waste time re-compiling for us "beta testers" :-)

wade, Try going to http://www.thepits.com to get Hawaii.