rec.autos.simulators

by **Scott Golde** » Tue, 26 Jan 1999 04:00:00

Try choosing joystick as your input, but use your wheel. It's one of those
"linear", "non-linear" deals. Calibrate as usual, and you should be good to
go.

-Scott

> >I bought this last night, on the strength of a 100% rebate, and I'm not
> >terribly impressed. My main problem is that the controls are so poor
that
> >they make the car undriveable.

> I see.

> >I have Nascar1, Nascar2, Indycar1, Indycar2, and a ton of other driving
> >games/sims which all recognize my wheel and work perfectly with it.
Nascar

> Me too.

> >1999, however, would only partially work with my wheel, so I threw my
old

> Really!

> >joystick back on, and I got the same problem. The car wants to turn hard
> >left and smack the infield fence. If I really try, I get get a few hot
> >laps in, but it is a tremendous amount of work, and the slightest twitch
> >will send the car hard left. Definitely not the enjoyment one seeks in
> >buying a program such as this.

> The joystick routine for the DOS version of the game is the same as
> Nascar Racing 2 (unfortunately). If you are running the Windows version
> and you have your driving device setup properly in the control panel it
> will work properly.

> >Ove 20 attempts at calibrating the wheel/joystick have been fruitless.
The

> What type of wheel do you have and what version of the game are you
> running?

> >situation simply cannot be corrected. The game simply has too many bugs
in
> >it to be recommended.

> Too many bugs? Well in that case I guess I should delete the game and
> tell my friend that we can't do modem racing any more. I'll just tell him
I
> read on the internet that the game we found to be flawless is full of
bugs
> so we need to ge trid of it. Haha.

> Sheesh.

> --

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> cisko [AT] ix [DOT] netcom [DOT] com

> >For half the price, buy the Nascar 2 edition with the Busch expansion
pack
> >in it. Nascar 2 is terrific, and it doesn't have the bugs of the new
> >release. Further, I didn't see a significant graphics improvement in
> >NASCAR 1999 over Nascar 2.

> >The latest, greatest, thing isn't always that.

by **Jack** » Tue, 26 Jan 1999 04:00:00

"Brian P. Sweeney, Esq."...oh please! Fresh out of law school, Brian?

Now there's an **impressive** high-brow word. Perhaps "exponentially" might
have been a better choice?

Huh? Break out the flame gear, Brian.

by **ymenar** » Tue, 26 Jan 1999 04:00:00

Brian P. Sweeney, Esq. wrote

Well..

You can always stick with the Mac and Nascar1/Indycar Racing2 hehehehe. Oh
and I forgot the critically acclaimed Al Unser Jr. Racing ;-)

-= Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard/Nas-Frank>
-= NROS Nascar sanctioned Guide http://www.nros.com/
-= SimRacing Online http://www.simracing.com/
-= Official mentally retarded guy of r.a.s.
-= May the Downforce be with you...

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

by **Greg Cisk** » Tue, 26 Jan 1999 04:00:00

>>For half the price, buy the Nascar 2 edition with the Busch expansion pack
>>in it. Nascar 2 is terrific, and it doesn't have the bugs of the new
>>release. Further, I didn't see a significant graphics improvement in
>>NASCAR 1999 over Nascar 2.

>I do, but then again I have a 3dfx card.

Agreed. His claim that there is no significant graphics improvement
is quite idiotic. I have a P2-450 and a 12MB Voodoo2 card. NR1999
is absolutely fluid in Glide mode.

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by **Greg Cisk** » Tue, 26 Jan 1999 04:00:00

The difference is huge. As I said in an earlier post I have a P2-450 and a
12MB Voodoo2 card. NR1999 is fantastic. BTW, the 3dfx glide patch for
N2 totally sucked. NR1999 is the real deal, great graphics.

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>Has anyone used 3dfx with Nascar 1999????
>Does it make a difference or is it a waste of money to buy.
>I have 96 meg of ram, 8 meg video, P2 300.
>Thank you.

>> Brian, I'm curious. Are you running the windows executable, or dos? If
your
>> wheel and pedals worked fine for N2, they should work fine for N99
running
>> in dos. If they only don't work in the win executable, you probably need
to
>> set them up properly in windows.

>> --
>> Don Burnette
>> Palmetto Racing
>> Dburn on Ten

>> >I bought this last night, on the strength of a 100% rebate, and I'm not
>> >terribly impressed. My main problem is that the controls are so poor
that
>> >they make the car undriveable.

>> >I have Nascar1, Nascar2, Indycar1, Indycar2, and a ton of other driving
>> >games/sims which all recognize my wheel and work perfectly with it.
Nascar
>> >1999, however, would only partially work with my wheel, so I threw my
old
>> >joystick back on, and I got the same problem. The car wants to turn hard
>> >left and smack the infield fence. If I really try, I get get a few hot
>> >laps in, but it is a tremendous amount of work, and the slightest twitch
>> >will send the car hard left. Definitely not the enjoyment one seeks in
>> >buying a program such as this.

>> >Ove 20 attempts at calibrating the wheel/joystick have been fruitless.
The
>> >situation simply cannot be corrected. The game simply has too many bugs
in
>> >it to be recommended.

>> >For half the price, buy the Nascar 2 edition with the Busch expansion
pack
>> >in it. Nascar 2 is terrific, and it doesn't have the bugs of the new
>> >release. Further, I didn't see a significant graphics improvement in
>> >NASCAR 1999 over Nascar 2.

>> >The latest, greatest, thing isn't always that.

by **Brian P. Sweeney, Es** » Tue, 26 Jan 1999 04:00:00

>"Brian P. Sweeney, Esq."...oh please! Fresh out of law school, Brian?

Define fresh. Further, how long have you been out?

by **Brian P. Sweeney, Es** » Tue, 26 Jan 1999 04:00:00

>You can always stick with the Mac and Nascar1/Indycar Racing2 hehehehe. Oh
>and I forgot the critically acclaimed Al Unser Jr. Racing ;-)

Or I can use it as the fastest computer on the market today which is also
the most powerful and easiest to use small business computer.

Sims are nice, but I need my computer for work, first, and for games,
second. PC's are so unstable and cumbersome that they do not rise much
above the level of a game station for me.

Given that I don't have time to fight with my computer, and given that I
need my computer to be unflinchingly reliable, a Mac is the only
legitimate means of satisfying my needs. Plus, a Mac is current for five
years, while a PC is outdated in two, with only quantum advances having
been made.

Plus, my computer comes in tangerine.

Anyway, thanks for the info. After some manipulation, I got the game to
run well enough, and I actually won a truck race at Talladega.

by **Metro6** » Wed, 27 Jan 1999 04:00:00

Pay no attention to this clown, he trolls in the NASCAR ng's and has nothing
positive to say.

by **Jack** » Wed, 27 Jan 1999 04:00:00

fresh

fresh (frsh) adjective

Wet behind the ears. Needing to impress others with one's law degree.

by **ymenar** » Wed, 27 Jan 1999 04:00:00

Brian P. Sweeney, Esq. wrote

Let's remember this is rec.autos.simulators , most of us don't give a ***
about Apple vs. PC's for non-racing stuff, because in racing it's no-brain
to see the best platform

I saw there's even new colors now ! :-) (Im a iMAC fan, I feel it's an
incredible product for Mr. Everybody over a WebTV) And G3's are great
platforms for business users.

cool ;-)

-= Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard/Nas-Frank>
-= NROS Nascar sanctioned Guide http://www.racesimcentral.net/
-= SimRacing Online http://www.racesimcentral.net/
-= Official mentally retarded guy of r.a.s.
-= May the Downforce be with you...

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

by **Ben Colema** » Thu, 28 Jan 1999 04:00:00

BWAhahaha

I would normally stay out of PC/Mac "debate" but I don't feel normal today,
so:

The puter I am sitting at (which I maintain myself, rarely) running NT4. It
has crashed on me...ooooh, let's see....never.

If I want I can run W95 as a dual boot and run any games I wish to.

What were those advantages again? Oh yeah, speed. I suggest you refer to
an independant test of spped to perform similar tasks of various natures
before quoting Apple's rhetoric.

The only advantage Mac has is protection from inept users.

Ben

>>You can always stick with the Mac and Nascar1/Indycar Racing2 hehehehe.
Oh
>>and I forgot the critically acclaimed Al Unser Jr. Racing ;-)

>Or I can use it as the fastest computer on the market today which is also
>the most powerful and easiest to use small business computer.

>Sims are nice, but I need my computer for work, first, and for games,
>second. PC's are so unstable and cumbersome that they do not rise much
>above the level of a game station for me.

>Given that I don't have time to fight with my computer, and given that I
>need my computer to be unflinchingly reliable, a Mac is the only
>legitimate means of satisfying my needs. Plus, a Mac is current for five
>years, while a PC is outdated in two, with only quantum advances having
>been made.

>Plus, my computer comes in tangerine.

>Anyway, thanks for the info. After some manipulation, I got the game to
>run well enough, and I actually won a truck race at Talladega.

by **Larr** » Thu, 28 Jan 1999 04:00:00

Noooooooo shit :)

-Larry

by **Larr** » Thu, 28 Jan 1999 04:00:00

FYI Nascar Racing Mac is very much like N2, not N1. The graphics are
also better than N2 on the PC...

However, I run TEN/NROS, so I have to keep a PC around.

-Larry

> You can always stick with the Mac and Nascar1/Indycar Racing2 hehehehe.

by **Brian P. Sweeney, Es** » Fri, 29 Jan 1999 04:00:00

>BWAhahaha

>I would normally stay out of PC/Mac "debate" but I don't feel normal today,
>so:

So you feel like justifying your poor allocation of your consumer dollars.

Bottom line, a Pentium MMX 400 chip runs about as fast as a 603e 200 mhz
chip. Sorry. Pentiums are slow.

Let's say you're right, and that Pentiums don't creep along. Explain this
to me: why do IBM servers run the same chip that's in every Mac, while IBM
PC's run Pentium chips?

Assuming you know the difference between a workstation and a server and
the needs placed on both, this factoid is game, set, and match.

Quit buying the Intel propaganda. Wait a minute. When was the last time
Intel ever claimed that they had the fastest chip on the market? Uh,
never.

'Nuff said.

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