rec.autos.simulators

One question:  I'm sure I could pick up a retail copy of F12002 pretty
cheap now, maybe around $10.  Would I be gaining anything other than
more tracks by doing this?  I have no desire to play F12002, so having
the full version of it is not really valuable to me.  I don't really
need the additional tracks at this point, as I'm having trouble enough
"mastering" (I use that term very loosely!) the GTR2002 included
tracks.

ok... one more question:  My finances didn't allow me to upgrade my
video card with the rest of the pc, so I'm still running a GeForce 256
DDR (yes, what we now refer to as a "GeForce 1").  What would give me
the most bang-for-the-buck when upgrading the video card.  My budget
is probably no more than $150 for this.  I'm thinking a GeForce 4 Ti
4200 might be a good compromise between performance and value.  Any
thoughts?  I'm not a hard-core gamer, but do enjoy sims the most, so
performance is reasonable important.

Thanks,
Pat

   Yes F1 2k2 is available in a jewel box for about $10.  The GF4 TI should
be the bare minimum you buy ....(I have a GF3 ti 200 it works ok...but....)
[do not get ANY gf 4 mx--that is just an overclocked GF2]
If you can get the 128meg version.  We have at least one track that crashes
with a full Le Mans Field {50 cars} and 64 meg video cards.   There are
about 10 other mods available for F1 2k2.

  There are roughly 80 tracks available for the F1 2k2 mods.  Almost all
will be eventually available for F1 Challenge.
IF you are serious about Flight Sim 2k4 then getting a newer video card is
pretty much essential.  FS has always killed outdated hardware.  With
Rebates you can get an $150 ATI 9600(compUSA this week) which should
outpace the Ti and be dx9 compliant.

You sadly are mistaken it is really an SDR ,sorry for any disappointment.

AD

Hey Aidee, have you noticed other people leaving in text that they are
replying to? There are reasons for that, the first and foremost being
that ISP newsservers are not all the same. A lot of the time a reply
will show up before the actual topic on a persons newsserver. If you
snip everything you are replying to, some people just don't know what
the heck you are talking about. Please leave in some context.

BUT, please don't go to the other extreme, and leave in ALL the text.
Quoting a huge message to add in one or two lines of text is extremely
annoying.

Thanks.

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I believe there were 2 versions of the original Geforce - An SDR and a DDR

I owned a GF 1 DDR from Creative.  Then a GF2, Then a GF3 Ti200, Then a GF4
Ti 4400.  Now Radeon 9700 Pro.

Oh yes there is.

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