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[Zdemon29958]

Whenever I find a car i've just put in it always lags or sometimes freezes (I only have 2 modded things at a time). Is it something to do with the polys? I don't think so Because I put a 360 spider in and that works perfectly, but then I put a suzuki bike in it always lags whenever i'm near this bike. Can anyone help me? thanks <

[82_Z28]

pick some lower detail cars (less polygons)
Keep in mind these were designed for PC.  Some where made for high end PCs.  

One thing I'd like to know is if a memory upgrade for the xbox would help this issue?
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[quiksilver_kid]

As far as I know MS xbe's are designed to only use the original memory, I think the only way for it to be able to use additional memory would be to hack the xbe to use it. <

[82_Z28]

I actually remember seeing a way to remove the 64mb flag from games on the HDD but I don't have the memory:(
plus I REALLY suck at soldering... <

[Zdemon29958]

I guess it was lagging b/c the bike was like 60000 polys or something. lol, is there a tool to check the polys of a car or bike? <

[82_Z28]

it should AT LEAST mention it in the release notes.  (in a perfect world...)
I ussually don't go any higher than 20,000 polygons with traffic cars.  The cars that have more polygons are better suited for a car that only appears once like the sabre turbo ect. <

[Zdemon29958]

yeah, i found that for the ferrari enzo. i replaced it with the cheetah and got 4 of them in a row, you can imagine how slow it went. it was 40k or 50k in polys i think.

This post has been edited by Zdemon29958: Mar 30 2005, 08:44 AM

[jdsun1]

QUOTE(82_Z28 @ Mar 30 2005, 02:20 AM)

it should AT LEAST mention it in the release notes.  (in a perfect world...)
I ussually don't go any higher than 20,000 polygons with traffic cars.  The cars that have more polygons are better suited for a car that only appears once like the sabre turbo ect.

Ive got some high res. models such as a lexus, toyota supra, and a saleen s7 and I just replaced the bloodrings and sabre turbo with these ones because you dont really see them that much and things seem to work alright, unless you go by sunshine autos of course.

Im still looking for a way to put in a skyline or viper into the game but I think I maxed everything out at about 20 cars. Anymore and the game would lag too much.

[Zdemon29958]

does yours lag at all? <

[82_Z28]

anything below 10,000 (and yes there are cars like these, just look for them)
and they should be a easy swap with a original car.  You should notice no performance change.

Note: so far I've only found one car under 10,000 that I actually like,  the 911 model from NFS hot persuit 2.
But like I said, there out there <

[Zdemon29958]

Thanks for your help

[jdsun1]

QUOTE(Zdemon29958 @ Mar 30 2005, 02:54 AM)

does yours lag at all?

Yeah my game lags, but only bad in certain places like near sunshine autos and also around lil haiti because I put in a chevy lowrider which is high poly. Other than that it is very playable and Ive played for 6 hours without the game freezing.(this is after putting in about 20 cars which are all pretty much sport or exotic cars)

Like it was said there are nice cars that are low poly, you just have to find them on one of the sites.

[B2oba]

You need to replace only the cars that have well known spawn points like the Hermes, Banshee or Cheetah, then tweak the file to make sure you will be the only one driving them, the game lags way less that way.
And yes, low polys vehicles are better choices. <

[Zdemon29958]

How do you tweak the file to make it that your the only one driving it? <