🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Article #5444

Re: Need For Speed - direct.txt (0/1)

#5444
From: Marc Baime
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 00:00
13 lines
1104 bytes
alp...@hunterlink.net.au (James Wall) wrote:

>What really surprised me was that NFS in full detail SVGA is actually
>_faster_ than NASCAR in normal VGA with full detail on my system!  I
>couldn't believe it when I saw it going.
>

Maybe the code is doing less work.  You can't be looking out the window of the
car (inside view) and actually turn around (when you turn around you get an
outside view facing forward with car facing backwards) so I guess there's less
to keep track of.

Regards...Marc Baime
Technical Details
Message-ID: <43rtgt$46n@ceylon.gte.com>
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail
References: <430vb1$563@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> <810891001.15780@frimley.demon.co.uk> <43mk3e$f1k@ghostgum.hunterlink.net.au>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
From: Marc Baime <ma...@lore.gteds.gte.com>
Subject: Re: Need For Speed - direct.txt (0/1)
Date: 1995/09/21
Message-ID: <43rtgt$46n@ceylon.gte.com>
X-Deja-AN: 110500940
references: <430vb1$563@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> <810891001.15780@frimley.demon.co.uk> <43mk3e$f1k@ghostgum.hunterlink.net.au>
organization: GTE Data Services
x-url: news:43mk3e$f...@ghostgum.hunterlink.net.au
mime-version: 1.0
newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
x-mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/715)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit