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Just some questions...

Does anyone know if there is a preview of F1GP2? And when do they release
the actual game? Does it use 640x480 graphics?

Please let me know...

                                                yuan.

I just read a short blurb in one of the *** rags that the
British division of Micropose are the ones working on F1GP2.
They plan to release it for the Spring of 95'. It will have
very much improved texture mapping ala Indycar Racing and
quite possible the 94' (or 93'?) F1 teams. No mention of
whether it will be VGA or SVGA. My guess is that it will be
VGA.

Alex

: >Just some questions...
: >
: >Does anyone know if there is a preview of F1GP2? And when do they release
: >the actual game? Does it use 640x480 graphics?
: >
: >Please let me know...
: >
: >                                          yuan.
: >

: I just read a short blurb in one of the *** rags that the
: British division of Micropose are the ones working on F1GP2.
: They plan to release it for the Spring of 95'. It will have
: very much improved texture mapping ala Indycar Racing and
: quite possible the 94' (or 93'?) F1 teams. No mention of
: whether it will be VGA or SVGA. My guess is that it will be
: VGA.

: Alex

From what I've heard, the menu/non-racing screens are 640x480 SVGA, the
actual racing still in VGA.  NASCAR Racing, which has 640x480 SVGA, is
not able to do full frame rate at full detail on a Pentium 90, this from
Papyrus - so I doubt we'll see many SVGA games until processors get a lot
faster - or more likely, when some sort of *** video accelerators (ala
the ones for Windows today) become common.

--
Ken Beard              

                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^
        That's why I'm waiting till February/March to buy a Pentium 100
motherboard. The new Pentium 100 motherboards w/ 100mhz CPU does indeed
have a significant performance advantage over the P90. But there's one
big plus for the P100 over the P90. The P100 will have a memory bus
speed of 66Mhz compared to the P90's 60Mhz. Intel has plans to further
go to a 0.4 micron process allowing them to make P125 and even P150
chips in the next year or so. These faster chips will still have the
same pinout as the P100 and the same memory bus speed of 66Mhz allowing
them to be just plugged in a P100 motherboard. Imagine Nascar running
with all the opponents in full detailed SVGA with a P150. Yah, right.
All this stuff was from a computer rag I read today.

Alex

yeah, but the "full frame rate" is 30fps, I have a pentium 100 and I
would definitely settle for 15-20 fps, hell thats not much less than
I get for icr right now.   Look at Little Big Adventure demo, it is
SVGA, and I think that it is the futre of games, man it looks sharp!

Problem is that icr, and nascar are extremely complicated and require
a lot of cpu to crunch through stuff, hell look how "crisp" f1gp is on a
486, than compare that to icr.   Dont get pissed all you f1gp freaks,
but icr is more complicated, thus you lose framerate.

I am sure svga IS the future, and hope F1gp 2 will be svga!

chris

: yeah, but the "full frame rate" is 30fps, I have a pentium 100 and I
: would definitely settle for 15-20 fps, hell thats not much less than
: I get for icr right now.  

Isn't the ICR maximum frame rate 15?

: I am sure svga IS the future, and hope F1gp 2 will be svga!

I hope it will be both VGA and SVGA in Nascar/Overlord/FS5 style.  Lower
resolution for less powerful computers and high res for the others.  I
don't know how much extra work it takes to make the game support different
resolutions, but I'd quess it would be worth of trouble.  More potential
buyers as machine requirements aren't too high, and nice screenshots for
magazines;-)

: chris

Pasi.