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F1 2001 det drivers?

Alan Coate

F1 2001 det drivers?

by Alan Coate » Thu, 25 Oct 2001 03:26:02

just got F1 2001 today

It's ***y aweful at the moment. I think it's the Detonator drivers I'm
using (21.85). Anyone get it to work and if so which drivers?

System
P4/1.8Gh
Elsa Geforce 3

Alan

Iain Mackenzi

F1 2001 det drivers?

by Iain Mackenzi » Thu, 25 Oct 2001 03:42:24

See dozens of other posts on this.  For me, 12.90s work best.
Iain


Heiko & Verena Thoma

F1 2001 det drivers?

by Heiko & Verena Thoma » Thu, 25 Oct 2001 04:48:17

Tried lots of drivers, version 7.58 works fine and is very fast!

Heiko



Txl

F1 2001 det drivers?

by Txl » Thu, 25 Oct 2001 06:34:32

21.88 out

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

didn't try them yet....have fun and let me know



Alan Coate

F1 2001 det drivers?

by Alan Coate » Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:44:24

Well what can I say?
I've spent all evening trying a whole range of detonator drivers, from Elsa
original thro 12.90, 21.81, 21.83, 21.85

I don't know what the hype is about but this game does nothing for me.

Look at my system which beautifully and smoothly runs N4 and GPL at
1600x1200 with all the above drivers.

I think ***programming is behind all the graphic gliches, no mirrors with
any drivers (yes, I have tried turning mirrors on despite this should be on
by default). Most drivers produce disastrous graphic problems with F1 2001.
Only 12.90 runs but jerkily even at a lowely 1024x768 and still no mirrors
and tyre grooves constantly disapearing and sloppy graphic gliches during
running.

Gameplay when I got it going is very unreal. Like the wheel skid in bends
sound like rubbing a carpet. The dreadful AI which happily boots you off the
grey stuff. Catching a car in front on one piece of curcuit only for that
car to go into hyperdrive on another part. And as they get a few yards ahead
they dissapear. Weird?

I've got GP3, I don't play GP3 but it's better than this!

Knowing EA there won't be any real updates unless your gotta buy them.

No wonder it is so cheap (19.98)

Probably EB have had too many returns.

Thank God for Papyrus...

Alan


Iain Mackenzi

F1 2001 det drivers?

by Iain Mackenzi » Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:26:54

To be honest, you can't really give an informed opinion on the game till you
get the graphics problem sorted out.  Initially I felt the same as you, but
after gettting it to run properly, and understanding that the default setups
are VERY bad all the control issues and back end problems disappeared.
Iain


> Well what can I say?
> I've spent all evening trying a whole range of detonator drivers, from
Elsa
> original thro 12.90, 21.81, 21.83, 21.85

> I don't know what the hype is about but this game does nothing for me.

> Look at my system which beautifully and smoothly runs N4 and GPL at
> 1600x1200 with all the above drivers.

> I think ***programming is behind all the graphic gliches, no mirrors
with
> any drivers (yes, I have tried turning mirrors on despite this should be
on
> by default). Most drivers produce disastrous graphic problems with F1
2001.
> Only 12.90 runs but jerkily even at a lowely 1024x768 and still no mirrors
> and tyre grooves constantly disapearing and sloppy graphic gliches during
> running.

> Gameplay when I got it going is very unreal. Like the wheel skid in bends
> sound like rubbing a carpet. The dreadful AI which happily boots you off
the
> grey stuff. Catching a car in front on one piece of curcuit only for that
> car to go into hyperdrive on another part. And as they get a few yards
ahead
> they dissapear. Weird?

> I've got GP3, I don't play GP3 but it's better than this!

> Knowing EA there won't be any real updates unless your gotta buy them.

> No wonder it is so cheap (19.98)

> Probably EB have had too many returns.

> Thank God for Papyrus...

> Alan



> > just got F1 2001 today

> > It's ***y aweful at the moment. I think it's the Detonator drivers I'm
> > using (21.85). Anyone get it to work and if so which drivers?

> > System
> > P4/1.8Gh
> > Elsa Geforce 3

> > Alan

Ian

F1 2001 det drivers?

by Ian » Fri, 26 Oct 2001 00:44:34

I've got an AMD Athlon 1.2 with Elsa Gladiac 920 GeForce 3. I find the game
runs very well at 1024 x768 with 12.90 drivers. I haven't tried any others
since I reformatted my HD. I do however get the game crashing back to
desktop quite often. Fraps 1.4 seems to help, Fraps 1.5 makes it worse.
Theres definitely some work to be done with the game to make it stable, but
IMO it's a blast while it's working
For example, I was in a race at Suzuka, I took the 130R behind Montoya, ran
a little wide from the loss of downforce, caught him on the run up to the
chicane then made a last minute dash for the inside, I got the corner, he
left room for me to go through and pulled in behind me for the run up the
start finish straight. (A bit of defensive positioning helped me keep my
position <G>) In all I have found the AI in this to be exemplary, sure they
make mistakes, but not of the kind you don't see every other Sunday on TV ;)


> To be honest, you can't really give an informed opinion on the game till
you
> get the graphics problem sorted out.  Initially I felt the same as you,
but
> after gettting it to run properly, and understanding that the default
setups
> are VERY bad all the control issues and back end problems disappeared.
> Iain



> > Well what can I say?
> > I've spent all evening trying a whole range of detonator drivers, from
> Elsa
> > original thro 12.90, 21.81, 21.83, 21.85

> > I don't know what the hype is about but this game does nothing for me.

> > Look at my system which beautifully and smoothly runs N4 and GPL at
> > 1600x1200 with all the above drivers.

> > I think ***programming is behind all the graphic gliches, no mirrors
> with
> > any drivers (yes, I have tried turning mirrors on despite this should be
> on
> > by default). Most drivers produce disastrous graphic problems with F1
> 2001.
> > Only 12.90 runs but jerkily even at a lowely 1024x768 and still no
mirrors
> > and tyre grooves constantly disapearing and sloppy graphic gliches
during
> > running.

> > Gameplay when I got it going is very unreal. Like the wheel skid in
bends
> > sound like rubbing a carpet. The dreadful AI which happily boots you off
> the
> > grey stuff. Catching a car in front on one piece of curcuit only for
that
> > car to go into hyperdrive on another part. And as they get a few yards
> ahead
> > they dissapear. Weird?

> > I've got GP3, I don't play GP3 but it's better than this!

> > Knowing EA there won't be any real updates unless your gotta buy them.

> > No wonder it is so cheap (19.98)

> > Probably EB have had too many returns.

> > Thank God for Papyrus...

> > Alan


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