>>All of which are bogus IMHO :-)
>I disagree. The game is frightfully ugly and slow (either one by
>itself might be forgiveable, but the combination certainly isn't). The
>2-year-old Ubisoft F1 game looked WAY better than this.
>Joe McGinn
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> >I can't imagine someone saying that the Ubisoft F1 looks way better than
> >this one. Are you sure that something didn't go wrong with the
> >installation? Are you using some ancient videocard?
> Tried it on a TNT2 and Voodoo3. Atholon (sp?) 700 CPU. But ugly and
> dog slow.
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> >I can only assume that this guy has a sense of humour!
> I do, but I'm not joking. I played the game on an Atholon 700 w/ TNT2.
> It was ugly AND slow.
> The game may well have a good physics model. Sounds like it does, and
> that's great. But to pretend the graphics engine is not a dog is a
> disservice to the people reading this newsgroup.
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Yeah, that is real easy for some anonymous *** to say.
I think you don't even *OWN* the game, let alone try to run
it with a decent video card.
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My question was regarding your direct response to GraDee. It seems I must
directly quote each post leading up to your inappropriate (IMHO) post in order
for you to understand where I'm coming from.
The original poster of the questions was Joe Murphy. His subject line was "F1
2000 should i buy it?" and the content of his message had the two questions...
"Is it worth the 34.00.When is GP3 out?"
Notice he asked when GP3 would be out.
GraDee responded to Joe's post with the following:
"If you want the most modern F1 sim then yes, this one is worth it.
GP3 will be out late summer to early autumn it seems."
Reading GraDee's post closely, you'll see that all he did was answer Joe's
questions to the best of his knowledge... nothing more, nothing less. Because
you seem to be on a crusade to defend any post that could possibly be negative
toward driving sims/games that you like, you are guilty of jumping the gun on
some posts that just answer questions without any depth of bias.
Yes, others who have responded to Joe's questions have said some negative things
about F1 2000, but if you just read the words in GraDee's response to Joe's
questions, it's beyond me how you can get that he was saying GP3 will be
better. He just answered the question of when GP3 would be out! You came back
with "And why exactly do you think GP3 will be better? Because it
is GP3????"
Another case in point to the fact that you read too much into other people's
posts... your response to me <below> assumes that I was commenting on your
interpretation of more than one post under this subject/title. That's simply
not true. Again, if you re-read my post word for word, I was only
commenting/complaining about your response to GraDee. I specifically used the
words "that message".
Please stop trying to read people's minds, you're obviously not a psychic.
Regards,
Dave Ericson
MomoBoy online
JDB Racing
> And exactly what questions do you have about my interpretation
> of these posts with regards to GP3??? See below...
> Regards,
> Greg Cisko
> > >And why exactly do you think GP3 will be better? Because it
> > >is GP3????
> > Well IMHO GP2 is a far better sim than F1 2000. The whole thing
> > just seems to be far more representative of Grand Prix racing.
> > It's hard to imagine that GP3 will be worse than GP2 so it
> > obviously will be better than F1 2000.
> Sure thing pal, whatever you say. Oh boy.
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I'm not sure it does. I'm sure I was getting 15-20 fps. Unacceptably
slow for any 3d-accelerated racing game, but especialy for a serious
sim. In any case, the game has gone back already.
Oh please. I played it on three different systems that are all working
fine. And besides, even people who like the game are apparently very
torlerant of low frame-rates (describing 15fps as acceptable and so
on).
> >I can't imagine someone saying that the Ubisoft F1 looks way better than
> >this one. Are you sure that something didn't go wrong with the
> >installation? Are you using some ancient videocard?
> Tried it on a TNT2 and Voodoo3. Atholon (sp?) 700 CPU. But ugly and
> dog slow.
> Joe McGinn
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> Radical Entertainment
> >Something is very wrong with your setup ...
> Oh please. I played it on three different systems that are all working
> fine. And besides, even people who like the game are apparently very
> torlerant of low frame-rates (describing 15fps as acceptable and so
> on).
> >...but I am fasinated to know why it apparently performs better
> >on my P2-450 than on your 700mhz Anthlon.
> I'm not sure it does. I'm sure I was getting 15-20 fps. Unacceptably
> slow for any 3d-accelerated racing game, but especialy for a serious
> sim. In any case, the game has gone back already.
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> >Something is very wrong with your setup ...
> Oh please. I played it on three different systems that are all working
> fine. And besides, even people who like the game are apparently very
> torlerant of low frame-rates (describing 15fps as acceptable and so
> on).
Also, it is strange that my P2-450 may be performing the same in this
game as your AMD Anthlon 700. That would be weird.
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When it comes to people making outright false statements yes. Especially
blanket statements like the tracks in F1 2000 are bad.
However you try to point things out to me, the fact remains that most
believe that GP3 will be the modern F1 savior. I would not be so sure
about that. I totally expected F1 2000 to totally suck. It didn;t and in
fact raised the notch a bit. GP3 may be in for some serious competition.
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> When it comes to people making outright false statements yes. Especially
> blanket statements like the tracks in F1 2000 are bad.
> However you try to point things out to me, the fact remains that most
> believe that GP3 will be the modern F1 savior. I would not be so sure
> about that. I totally expected F1 2000 to totally suck. It didn;t and in
> fact raised the notch a bit. GP3 may be in for some serious competition.
Just because you're on the defensive from several people voicing negative
opinions about a game you love, that doesn't mean you have to attack any posts
that don't praise that game. Sometimes people can give unbiased information to
other people... it really does happen.
Dave
Joe, I saw terrible graphics as well on my TNT2U until I updated my 6 month
old drivers. I.E., no trees, no elevation changes, sparse track side
objects, no clouds, and flat gray pavement. Otherwise, the game ran fine,
and I thought that it was a graphically bare attempt.
Because my drivers weren't that old, and everything else ran well, I
hesitated doing the update. Now I have a far superior game to F1RS, IMHO.
The impression of speed at Hockenheim is incredible.
