NASCAR Racing 2003 Season

Nascar 2003 – Direct3D

Notes

While in the real world, the NASCAR season has kicked into high gear, things aren’t quite so merry in the PC world. EA has the sole rights to the PC brand, and their latest title, NASCAR Thunder 2004, was released last year. Because of this, for the time being we’re going to continue to use NASCAR Racing 2003 Season to represent racing (as Need for Speed: Underground doesn’t offer demo playback functionality for testing with FRAPS). We’ve found that NASCAR performs best on nForce2 systems with ATI graphics cards, for some reason our 3.2GHz/875P rig lags significantly behind Athlon XP 3200+/nForce2. Perhaps we’ll move the testbed up to an Athlon 64 3400+/K8T800 in the near future and see what happens.

In any case, performance is essentially unchanged from the previous CATALYST release across all boards.