rec.autos.simulators

Well I gave in and bought F1RS.  And I am utterly dissappointed.  You said
"Ah, but the Demo is nothing like the game" - WRONG!!  It's just like the
***y game - GAME being the key word.  The menu's are unbelievably slow!!!
The Sound of the cars is appalling.  You'd think that since GP2 was released
in..er....96? - they would have come up with something a bit better in two
years!

The car handling is - ok - still very very slow response but I gather I can
improve that with setups etc.  The game is generally slow as well.  I have a
3D card, 200MMX with 64MB Ram.  It's not the top notch but it's pretty
quick.

GP2 is still way ahead - except in packaging and graphics.  BRING ON GP3!!!!

Matt

p.s. "Nosferatu", could you please refrain from replying to this - all you
seem to do with peoples postings is slag them off.

What 3D card do you have?

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Let the guy have his opinion, respect it and let's move on.  Can't be all
things to all people no matter what the product.

--
Rhawn Black
Virtual Velocity Racing

"Race for the Sake of the Race"

If you can, do a full install. Also make sure you use the defaults for
where the program items are placed.

The F1RS engine sound is annoying but seems reasonably representative of
the sounds picked up by in-car microphones. I suspect that they forgot to
simulate the deadening effect of the helmet, balaclava and ear plugs
though ;-)

Should be OK. What 3D card do you have? To improve performance, you may
want to turn off replays (they're not implemented terribly well so no
great loss) and edit two lines in the file f1rs\cpa\dll\snd_cpa.ini -
change

SXD_DIST_SATUR=5
SXD_DIST_FADE=75

to something like

SXD_DIST_SATUR=3
SXD_DIST_FADE=30

The first line reduces the volume of the other cars, the second how far
away you can hear them - reducing the second one has been reported to
greatly help problems with first corner slow downs in particular.
Experiment with the values to achieve something you like.

F1RS isn't GP2. It models some aspects rather differently and you need to
try and unlearn some of the tricks for driving GP2 fast. I still find
that F1RS has the occasional annoying feature but the more I drive it,
the more I like it.

Cheers,
Richard

Hehe...consider yourself lucky. I don't have F1RS or else I probably
would slag you off. I'll leave that up to PapaDoc to do. He is after
all the President of the ***s of The Universe Club. I just happen
to be Vice President.
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How do I become a member? I could give you several "lack of character"
witnesses. ;-)

Well, we have to see first hand evidence of your ***dom first and
then you're in - simple as that.
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heh lol <g+sarcastic>

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Vice Pres. wrote

On Sun, 1 Feb 1998 10:14:26 +1100, "Phil Abel"

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Watch it pissant....I will *** you up if you try a Coup....Im the
president for life...of the ***s of the universe...hell more if
its discovced....spell checker WHERE THE *** IS MY JACK DANIELS.....

PAPA DOC

On Sun, 1 Feb 1998 10:14:26 +1100, "Phil Abel"

Listen piss-ant...membership in the ***s of the universe is
decided by the President for Life ....since thats me...and Im
presently ***ing totaled...from going to the opening of a friends
bar....you can kiss my ass unless you stop kissing it and come up with
a rude in your face post....until then please be informed that you are
***ed. Presently up for nomination on this newsgroup...are
suppressor...as he has impressed me the most with his in your face
*** you attitude.........

Nos and Cisko have life time memberships based on posts made by those
two either on or towards me on the flight sims group.

Kissing ass is grounds for immediate disqualification...I reallly need
a spell checker when funcking totaled.....speelll checker...order me
another JANCK dDANIELS...

GOOD NITE....

PAPA DOC
Yea its me and you can kiss my ass....

Pierre PAPA DOC Legrand
Infamous
Pink Flamingo Pilot...

<snip>
plus lots of other witty, joyfull and kind thoughts.

Ah, the dangers of mixing *** with a massive ego....I always wanted to
try out the kill-file, but never had reason, till now.....See ya !
ZZzzzt

I've been where you are now, but now I'm always in F1RS :o).

/Christer Andersson, No Helps Racing, has 800 hours in GP2