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Hello-
I'm getting a new PC (PII 450, w/200+mb of RAM) and I was wondering will I be
able to use my 16MB STB nVidia TNT 3D AGP graphics card with Grand Prix
Legends?
Racer X
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You will be "able", but at a framerate and graphic quality soo low that you
will find it frustating. Grand Prix Legends was made to uptimize graphic
quality with Rendition and 3dfx cards.  Your STB Card uses a nVidia chipset,
who isn't uptimized for the game.  You will get probably less than 10fps
with most of the graphics off in 640x480, seriously...

So as a good news... 3d accelerators are very low these days in price. You
can get a Voodoo1 card for less than 100$, and a Voodoo2 for around 200. If
you can buy yourself that sort of PC, I doubt you can't find the money for a
3d accelerator. The STB is a great card (I also have an STB card) but for
Grand Prix Legends and also all the Papyrus games on the market, it's not
enough... Especially for the future (Nascar Racing 3, per example).

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Hmmm, are they going to support DirectX or should I just not bother
buying it? (I have a dual PII 400, 256MB with a Matrox G200 AGP card).
I would say I find it hard to believe they'd be stupid enough not to,
but I'm sort of used to the stupidity of software vendors these days.

And speaking of such, I really can't be bothered installing another
operating system. Will any of the current or forthcoming racing
simulations from anyone support Windows NT 4 or NT 5?

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% Hmmm, are they going to support DirectX or should I just not bother
% buying it? (I have a dual PII 400, 256MB with a Matrox G200 AGP card).
% I would say I find it hard to believe they'd be stupid enough not to,
% but I'm sort of used to the stupidity of software vendors these days.

You are barking up the wrong tree.  Microsoft is the one who needs to be
called to the task of not making DirectX the tool is "could" be.

% And speaking of such, I really can't be bothered installing another
% operating system. Will any of the current or forthcoming racing
% simulations from anyone support Windows NT 4 or NT 5?

Again, wrong tree.  NT4 won't support most racing simulations or
demanding games, because the needed hardware support is not included in
the OS.  Maybe, maybe, NT 5????

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With all the new cards (TNT, G200, i740, etc) it seems quite silly to limit
yourselves to these people. Even more so with this engine forming the basis of
Nascar 3- a good year away.

They'd have to plan on adding it by then, i'd think.

Regardless of how good it is, i think convincing the casual owner to spend
more money on a 3Dfx card over their G200 or similar is not going to happen.

Z.

Well, I have a Playstation for most of my *** (Wipeout, Gran
Turismo, NFS3) and the only PC games I'd consider buying are racing
car games. (Indeed, the only PC games I *have* bought were Indy 500
and GP1.)

But my PC is a work PC and therefore when I specced it, I chose
components for their work value. The Matrox G200 is a damn good card
at supporting 1600*1200 at 65k with a good refresh. It's 3D is also
meant to be pretty good - well above that of a Voodoo 1. So, why
couldn't they have included at least one cross-card driver model,
either OpenGL or DirectX?

I'd buy GPL if it ran on my hardware. As it is, I won't.

And my final note - if you like racing games, I suggest you take a
serious look at Wipeout on the Playstation. Yes, yes, I know it's
anti-grav and all that ***- but it has more depth in the driving
model than any other game I've played. I've been playing it for a few
years (it's a game I always go back to) and I'm *still* getting better
at it. (And last time I looked, my times would have put me on the top
five on the 'Net.)

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