I've heard Formula 1 from the Playstation is to be released on
PC CDROM sometime in November and it only supports S3 and S3d
graphic cards (According to special reserve's site) it's got
all the features of the Playstation version plus 8 Player IPX
support.
Has anyone got any further info?
On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:33:36 +0000, Paul Sutcliffe
>Has anyone got any further info?
According to the Rendition, Creative Labs and Intergraph web sites,
Formula 1 will support the Rendition.
Randy
> >I've heard Formula 1 from the Playstation is to be released on
> >PC CDROM sometime in November and it only supports S3 and S3d
> >graphic cards (According to special reserve's site) it's got
> >all the features of the Playstation version plus 8 Player IPX
> >support.
> >Has anyone got any further info?
> Sounds like what I've heard too but I doubt they will limit their market
to
> specific video cards - it may be OPTIMIZED to work with certain cards but
they
> can't shut out the other 80% of the consumers who don't have Diamond
Cards.
I have also heard that it will support the Matrox Mystique graphics
card. This info seems quite likely to be correct due to the fact that
Destruction Derby 2 also supports this particular card. Check out the
Matrox homepage at (www.matrox.com) and go to the section on the
Mystique. It has a huge list of all the games released and due to be
released that will support the card. It can't be a lie. This is solid
true info.
Andrew Easter
>> On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:33:36 +0000, Paul Sutcliffe
>> >I've heard Formula 1 from the Playstation is to be released on
>> >PC CDROM sometime in November and it only supports S3 and S3d
>> >graphic cards (According to special reserve's site) it's got
>> >all the features of the Playstation version plus 8 Player IPX
>> >support.
>> >Has anyone got any further info?
>> Sounds like what I've heard too but I doubt they will limit their market
>to
>> specific video cards - it may be OPTIMIZED to work with certain cards but
>they
>> can't shut out the other 80% of the consumers who don't have Diamond
>Cards.
>You mean the other 50% of those who don't have Diamond cards.
I'd suggest you are right in their not shutting out other users,
it's more likely that the game will have *3d* card support for
ONLY the s3d series. This seems likely since DD supports s3d
and psygnosis seem to be heading that way. All other video cards
will run using standard 13h or VESA. Psygnosis seems to have
chosen a card on the basis of how much market there will be. More
people will buy the 3dcard which costs 25% of the price and still
provides Trio64+ performance under windows. This gives a bigger
market, more games sales, more software houses seeing the benefit
and therefore more people buying the card - good business. Also,
virge is directx/direct3d compatible although some decent version2
drivers would be nice :)
This is great news for us VIRGE owners, since the DescentII patch
for Virge was far too slow to be usable even on a decent pentium.
I think this was a coding problem, judging by the playability of
Destruction Derby on VIRGE.
Hopefully, what we'll see is better coding for the s3d chip and
therefore better performance. There has been alot of critisism
of the virge chip, but I fail to understand where this has come
from considering the *very few* games available up until now. How
do you judge a card as 'sucking' on so few *early* releases? In
terms of cost vs. perfomance, my $79AUD virge based card is
great for windows, and dos, and runs GP2 with s3spdup at a vid
speed of 467.
Jet
