rec.autos.simulators

Hi all,
Having bougt my copy of F1 2000 this morning I have been attempting to get
to grips with it for an hour or so tonight but just can't handle seeing
these damn transparent tires. Also, when in the car pressing escape brings
up a window which on my pc is also transparent. I assume it is just asking
me to confirm that I want to exit the session, becaue if I press Return it
takes me to the screen with the garage, exit, next session, etc  icons...
can anyone confirm that for me??

So anyway, has anyone managed to find a way to get rid of the transparent
tires??

My system:-
PIII 600
128mb RAM
32mb Nvidia TNT2 Ultra

Initially I am quite dissapointed as the framerate in a race is apalling, I
know there are a few tweaks that are flying around so i'll give them a go
before giving my proper views, but until I can solve the tires issue I
really can't begin to enjoy it.

Cheers

Peter Hooper

Peter,
No help here I'm afraid, but my system is exactly the same, but a PIII
800 and I have the same transparency problems.  Yes, the text window is
asking for confirm to exit, according to the manual.

If you find any solution to this other than via here, I'd be grateful
to here form you,
Martyn

www.mtb-routes.co.uk

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Before you buy.

What drivers are you using for the TNT card.  I had the same problem,
but solved it by installing the 3.77 drivers.  Unfortunately for me,
frame rate takes a nose dive in most other games using these drivers
as opposed to older 2.xx drivers.

Thats what I was worried about... everything else runs fine so I am really
reluctant to mess with the drivers.
If  I do is it easy to revert to the older drivers?? And how do I find out
what driver version I am using.
If I go to properties from the desktop it tells me the BIOS version is
2.05.13 is this the drivers? Using DxDiag it says 4.11.01.0216 (English)

Anyone offer any help?

Many thanks

Peter Hooper

Just in case anyone else is still suffeing from this transparent tires
problem with the TNT2 card I have found the solution to be to download some
newer drivers for the card. I got the Detonator 3.68 drivers from Nvidia's
site (www.nvidia.com) and these are working perfectly with my system. As a
result my framerates has also improved quiet a bit, probably due to the fact
that not so much of the track has to be drawn now that the tires are not see
through.

If you go to http://www.reactorcritical.com/download.shtml  they have an
archive of drivers from 2.08 up to the latest 5.08 versions so hopefully one
of these will work for most people.

Hope this is of some help to somebody.

Cheers

Peter Hooper