rec.autos.simulators

Two questions:
1. Does the final game also have this SEVERE pop-up (even at the highest
settings)?
2. Is the scenery diverse? I mean, do all the stages in lets say Australia
look like each other or do they all have some special scenery? I hated that
in Rally Championship: everything looked the same: the same buildings, the
same tunnels, repeat, repeat, repeat... (And what also really hated were
those closed track stages!!! I like open road stages!!! But even in the
Rally Championship open stages the finish looked EXACTLY like the start.
Awful game that was... Still haven't got over it, as you may notice...)
3. Are the stages all this short (about 2 minutes and a half) and is the
opposition really so easy (I get records on every stage!)?
4. Does the weather change from time to time or is every stage the same
everytime?

Thanks for your time!

Jeroen van Engelenhoven

The scenery is the same in as much as "sweden is snowy and on lil country roads"
but
it isnt the same as in "hey.. thats exactly the same as that section in the last
stage".
And some stages tend to have their own special little bit. Theres a stage in
Australia
where ya come flying down a straight and have to cut across some train tracks
and the
train is parked there to stop ya "cheating" and cutting the corner, for example.

sort of.... most stages are 4.5 Km to 7 KM and last about 3-5 min... probably
averages about 3.5 min per stage...depending on how good ya are at it

Im pretty sure if a stage is fine/dry then its fine/dry all the time, but to be
honest, itdoesnt really bother me. Ya get enough variation from.. say...
screaming down icy hills
in the monte carlo rally, and then having to back up with a dry/dusty rally
though forests
in australia.

But why, oh why, do you have to finish in the top six? (Yeah, I know the
obvious answer) Personally I'l like a bit more of simulation here instead of
the arcade-approach. If you can't make it in the points then you score none
and thus make it worse to win the championship.  Haven't seen a real rally
yet where you get to start again if you can't finish high enough.

And the crashing in CMR sucks... a few seconds and the car is back on the
road and completely without crashdamage to repair at the next servicestop.

But when playing with an arcade attitude it's still great, I do like it,
just don't love it like GPL.

--
Petri

  Please tell me how you're getting it to crash like that - if I get any
kind of end over end or anything other than a really gentle roll then
the damn thing really limps to the next stage and needs a load of
repairs (having said that I'm a very bad driver at this game).

--
Richard G. Clegg     Only the mind is waving
Dept. of Mathematics (Network Control group) Uni. of York.

www: http://manor.york.ac.uk/top.html

BTW, in Codemasters TOCA I really enjoyed the bashing the car got in a
really tight race, to finish first with the rearwindow shattered, tail
lights out and the sides bashed in made you feel gooood.

--
Petri

On a similar note (and please bear with me - I did try to find some FAQ),
are there any good advice how to wring out the best performance from
my machine? I run a 400MHz Celeron (oc266), 64MB RAM,
with Matrox Millennium G200 (8MB) and Voodoo1. The voodoo seems
to be faster, though even it becames a bit jerky at 640x480 & most
of the goodies on. (The drivers for both cards are the latest).

A fantastic game, by the way. I've made my way to Swedish Rally
(at intermidiate), but residing currently 3rd at the championship, there
seems to be little chance to win WC (who is that Backlund guy anyway,
no, don't answer, I think I can quess its our M?kinen tranlated to swedish?)

Seppo