>A few more comments about Nascar Revolution:
>1) How fast am I (or my engine) going?
>When you have finally settled into your***pit view, even though
>it seems as if you are traveling at about 30% of your actual speed,
>you discover that you cannot accurately read your tach since it is
>hidden behind your wheel and also there is no 'speedometer' option.
>Either of these would make it much easier to setup your car, etc..
>The only way to get a speed or accurate tach reading is to drive in
>either the external (from the rear) arcade view, or in the front,
>dashboard-less view. REALLY bad.......
>2) Why am I suddenly in slow motion?
>I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but after a few
>races, the whole thing slows down. The voices and sound are fine,
>but everything else is sort of in slow motion. I suspect that it has the
>same type of *memory leak* that has plagued Microprose Falcon 4.0
>since it's release. I have a well-tuned system with 128MB and a
>200MB fixed length swapfile, so the hard drive isn't paging or
>anything like that, it just gets slow. All tasks but Explorer killed from
>the Task Manager prior to running, etc. If you exit the game and then
>restart the game, the same slowdown is still in effect. A system
>shutdown/reboot takes care of it for 3 or 4 short races....
>3) Why is my steering wheel being forced to one side?
>Occasionally, in Nascar Revolution, my ACT LABS Force RS will become
>turned to one side or the other, after a crash. After physically forcing it
>to the center and driving a half-lap or so, it centers itself. This will
occur
>after hitting the wall, or other hijinx. At first I thought it was just the
>damage model, bent control arm or whatever, but I turned off damage and
>the same thing occurs. With damage on or off the thing fixes itself within
>a short time. I don't know if this is a fault with my wheel, the drivers it
>uses or with Nascar Revolution. Since the wheel is in daily use and has
>worked flawlessly from the start in several other sims/games, I suspect
>there is a problem with NasRev. Your mileage may vary.
>4) Still whining about the driving 'model':
>I still can't comprehend how they think that this game has any kind
>of believability in it's driving model when you can be traveling 180 MPH,
>on a straight and quickly turn your wheel from lock-lock, back and forth,
>and you will just swerve, not spin. I think this is the worst thing I have
>seen about this game and it's 'driving model'. I have tried all settings
>on the steering slider, but the problem persists. It is as if the steering
has
>normal sensitivity in the middle of it's travel but as it is turned past
that
>point it has no effect at all.
>5) Why is the AI guy gunning for me?
>Has anyone else seen the AI have an accident or pit and then return to
>the track? Sometimes they come back at *supernatural* speed, probably
>500MPH, launching directly at your car. Usually I have been at speed when
this
>happened so I have been able to avoid them. They zip out VERY quickly. You
>can also see this jerky speedup behavior in the replays. Your own car will
>even do it occasionally, in replay....
>6) What is that obnoxious sound in the replay?
>When you do an external view replay, and your car is whizzing by,
>guess what? The engine sound is *steady*. Your eyes see the car zip
>by on the screen, but the sound doesn't pan from side to side. It is
>as is if your ears are still in the***pit and your eyes are on the
external
>view. VERY disconcerting on some tracks, particularly those with long
>straights. Talladega comes to mind.
>7) Why does this thing take so much disk space?
>Well, EA thought it would be cool to drop 68MB of .MPG video on your system
>when you installed Nascar Revolution. You know, the ones with Benny, and
>so forth. The opening video is 20MB. EA gave you no choice as to whether to
>have these videos play from your HD or your CD.
>Also, if you have tried saving one of the incredibly short replays, you
>will find that it is 5MB or more. YOW!!
>Folks, this thing is a turkey. I _really_ wanted to like it, even if the
>driving model wasn't stellar, but it is FAR from likeable.
>Mine goes back.
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