I got you Larry. I think Tim is winding up into full marketing mode, too
big an opportunity to miss :)
Anyway back on topic if the wife complains about the cost of iRacing I
will refer her to the cost of maintaining her hair. Given my folically
challenged status I must have saved more than enough to justify my
measly hobby...
>> The monthly fee pays for it's constant development.
...and I always imagined you with long flowing blond locks... perhaps
on a beach somewhere? ;)
That would be his sheep.
Lets do a few comparisons to what we have become accustomed to and what
may now be.
Accustomed to -
Patching and searching for patches
new mod installs and finding
new track installs and finding
mismatches online
and basic mass confusion and headache, especially for the budding rookies.
iRacing may delete all of the above (apart from installs which will be
greatly dependent upon choices). I don't know of any time in the history of
sim racing that getting down to the driving/sport has been as effortless as
it may now become - that's what we'll be paying for and I believe it will be
WELL worth it! :)
Brings back memories of the very early days of GPL - 11 tracks, 1
Lotus and lets go racing! :) But even that had teething problems getting
online races happening.
Pardon my ignorance and laziness to search the iRacing site - what is
the situation with weather implementation?
The most important question for me right now, is what sort of hardware
am I going to need to play this sim?
Right now I have an older P4 3.4, it is the extreme with hyper-
threading, but only single core, and it is on an AGP mobo, with
9800pro. Am I going to be wanting for more power to play this sim? I
really haven't been playing any racing sims in some time, I had lost
interest, but this is really a very interesting sim in my opinion. I
would just love a hint as to where I should be headed in building a
new computer, or would a video card update work fine with this sim?
Can we get some hints on that?
btgoss
The norm is that a current and new computer at the best bang for the
buck price will be enough to run the latest software - that is pretty
typical of most past Papy stuff. And if it's anything like past papy stuff
then there will be many ways to dumb it down so that it will give a decent
experience on older machines - how old is anyones guess. Same old story - ya
gotta pay ta play! And for perspective - compare the time and money to
actually doing real life racing and the deal normally looks VERY good! :)
<clear Low>
Rush
It wasn't as much fun for those of us on cable having all these 56k'ers
warping all over the place untill they learned to slow their modems down.
;-p
Jan.
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However much you may mock it, GPL was a quantum leap at the time and set the
benchmark for everything which followed.
Jan.
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>However much you may mock it, GPL was a quantum leap at the time and set the
>benchmark for everything which followed.
>Jan.
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You have no idea how many times I tried to tell people on TEN. Do NOT set
your modem for 56k speeds! All it does it re-train half the data it tries
to send/receive and cause warp.
I manually set my modem to connect at only 19,200 and I never had warp
issues on TEN.
I finally got 128K ISDN and it was the greatest online racing connection
I've seen, even now days. It was a beauty. I think it was even more stable
than my current 15mbit connection, though I don't really have issues these
days either.
-Larry
Larry (The Real One - For Now....) doesn't have issues? :)
-Larry
>> though I don't really have issues these days either.
> Larry (The Real One - For Now....) doesn't have issues? :)
I'm going to shell out my $20 a month to run into the back of you
repeatedly while you ignore the blue flags. :)
