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Performance is a lot more demanding than I expected with 19 cars, having
to run 800x600 no AA/AF with settings set to medium just to get a
playable framerate at the start (i.e. framerate above single figures)
leaves GTR looking... well, very messy and very jaggy.

The AI seems to suffer from multiple personality disorder, once in front
of you they are aggressive in the extreme (great!) - however once behind
you they wimp out, to the point where there were areas of the track I
could slow down to 50 mph and have a trail of cars tailing me not even
trying to pass. (oh...)

Admittedly it's only semi-pro (Another disappointment) in this demo, but
I cannot for the life of me fathom why. It leaves me thinking why didn't
they want us to see the improvements made to sim mode... are there
any?... etc. etc.

Hopefully this is just over-hype expectations coming down to ground
level, but I do think that this demo may well turn some people off GTR.

Time to run through Frazier Wells in my virtual Subaru again, after that
I'll try the demo again with fresh eyes.

Your thoughts so far?

How would you know?

Martin.

After a second spin around Spa I'm starting to warm to it a little.

and around 25-35fps while "solo" - Yet I can't actually SEE where this
game is demanding graphically, it looks at these settings about on par
with Nascar 2003, yet with 1/2 to 1/3 the framerate :/

AI has shown some interesting moments, but the "won't overtake you even
at 50mph" still rears it's head often, it's almost as if once a car is
so close to your backend he's tailgating you he sticks there, regardless
of you slowing down and waving the arm out the window :P. (I recall this
happening in F1C too.)

Given the kind of rig needed to play this at acceptable settings is
beyond my current budget I think I'll wait on RAS & RSC reports before
buying.

Still, With RBR still to master, Half-Life 2 weeks away AND Pro
Evolution 4 on the horizon I think I'll have plenty to play regardless
of how long I wait :|

Andi.

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1 Gigabyte RAM (TwinMos PC2700)
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600XT 128Mb "Fireblade" w/4.9 Catalyst Drivers
Windows XP Pro (SP2)
DirectX 9.0c
BRD Sim Pro Wheel & Pedals

My Windows XP set-up is ultra-trimmed, I have a pair of scripts that
start/stop all unnecessary services for when ***, and all
taskbar/resident processes killed.

For comparison, this set-up gives me 70-85fps+ in Nascar 2003 all

Alan.

  Agreed.  The AI is pathetic.  Having said that, hopefully the mp is good
enough that it won't matter......AI racing is ancient history anyway <g>
But I'm not holding my breath on the mp either; its the one thing Papy had
over anyone else........so far.

I was reading impressions from some I respect an awful lot at RSC and
did just not seem to be seeing the same game.

I'm seriously CPU bottlenecked.

As a test I OC'd my 2500+ to 3200+ speeds (2.25Ghz) and the difference
was remarkable, from:

To confirm I put my CPU back to stock settings and pumped up the AA & AF.

free)

I also noticed very different AI behaviour at the increased framerates,
cars that were passively tailing me before at least poked their noses
around and bit me several times :P

Looks like I'm going to have to upgrade earlier than planned.

Alan.

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The sound IMHO seems to have deteriorated since the press demo, though.

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I'm not going to judge the AI on behalf of that demo.