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Still, after years, the feel of driving a racing car is so good in GP2
that only GPL is better! IMHO, of course... (And I compare these two to
those aforementioned F1RS and MGPRS2, and also SCGT, CPR, Viper, ICR2,
N99, OF1R, TOCA2)

Arto

I didthe same thing. I have been playing MGPRS2 and GPL when I just decided
to install GP2 just to check how it feels after all these years, and... it
is still DAMN good game, G-A-M-E!
I threw MGPRS2 out of the hard disk right away and into the recycle bin,
where it belongs.
I 've been playing lot of GPL and I love the way it  so accurately simulates
the  race car driving experience, especially with FF, and all this stuff
going on with separate throttle and brake axis.  When I returned to GP2 I
also learned that I'm able to correct spins and use left foot braking to
enter corners deeper. Geoff Crammond did great job! And I think that GP2 is
at least as enjoyable as GPL, or even more, since the *** experience is
so well balanced with simulation side that it's very easy to get a grip and
more you drive( without any helps on) , the more you get sucked into it's
magic, still it doesn't wear out, since you find always different ways to
drive a better lap...next time. Just like tetris!
 MGPRS2, well that was really frustrating. Losing the grip was so easy and
annoying. Seems like they are simulating the spins as it would happen in
real life, BUT in real life you have one really important factor, G-force,
and your ass to bench, which tell you when you are driving too fast and on
the edge. That's not how it works in games. And that is something that Geoff
Crammond got right. In GP2 you somehow really have the right feel, even
without FF. I have now PII 300, 64 RAM, MSFF Wheel, and TNT2 ULTRA, and
that's also something else, cause when I started to drive GP" around 96 I
had P90, 8 ram, and normal VGA card. Just until Now I have the gear to crank
it up. Sometimes I think that best way to experience good simulations is to
wait two or three years after they have been released and when price of
hardware has sinked, go and buy computer which can survive the simulation.

Looks like more than two dimensions to me !

mart
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And here's your proof:

http://www.racesimcentral.net/~bakhtiar/f1_movies/san99_ja_cam.mov

In-car footage of Jean Alesi in the Sauber on a qualifying run.
Watch Alesi catch his slide.  Watch it again, because you probably missed
it!  It's incredible.  Gone are the days of*** it out on opposite
lock for a whole corner.  I still think GP2's great.

Then again, what I wouldn't give for a mid-to-late 70's Formula One sim.
If i could replicate Gilles Villeneuve's antics in *** in the old
312T2, I would be in heaven.  Or give me a "racing scenario" like in
MGPRS, dueling with Arnoux on the last lap of the '79 French GP in Dijon.
See it for yourself:

http://www.racesimcentral.net/~bakhtiar/f1_movies/Dijon79.mpg

It's outrageous what they got away with.  One tap nowadays and it would be
over for both drivers.

Stephen
(trying to calm down and wipe the big-ass grin off my face)

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You can use CarEdit to make it so that the cars turn to sprites when they are
much farther away.  ;)

Dan Belcher
Team Racing Unlimited

1.   Is Sound Blaster Emulation in [Control panel\System\Device
Manager\Creative....] enabled ?
2.   Are its resourses I220 D5 I5 ?

Gp2 setup must auto-detect it !

I can't claim to answer your question specifically, but are you
verifying that it is configured by doing a sound test?  This is not
necessarily the way to go.

I recently added some hardware to my PC (not a sound card) and GP2 would
then crash on startup unless I had the NOSOUND flag set.  I tried 5 or 6
times to set the sound card up using various settings (even though I
knew what the correct ones were).  However, on each occaision I used the
sound test to verify that I had chosen correctly, and each time the
install program locked up.  I was approaching the "throw the PC out of
the window" part of the evening and decided to first have one more go at
installation, I selected "Auto Detect" and OK - Note: no sound test!
The installation program terminated fine.  I then ran up GP2 and had
purr-fect sound.

hope this helps - wish I understood what was going on though.

mart
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