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by **Don Hancock (** » Tue, 09 May 2000 04:00:00

>Beautifull. Man I'm glad I just built a new computer. :-)

You won't be in 6-8 months when it hits the shelves and you STILL need
to upgrade! hehehe.... I'm waiting for my upgrade now. I had talked myself
into a Celery 566...

Unfortunately... NOW... I'll have to spend a LOT more money than originally
intended.

Gunner
("honey, I need about a thousand dollars so I can run N4. What? No, I KNOW
I just got N3 and the truck pack, but-" SMACK!)

by **Scott B. Huste** » Tue, 09 May 2000 04:00:00

Its probably D3D. N4 will only support D3D and OpenGL... No Glide.

--
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Editor in Chief
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> Can you tell us what kind of video card produced such beauty? I'm guessing
> NVIDIA!

> Thanks,

> Sal V.

> > These shots have been posted on the Papy web page: www.papy.com

> > Eric

> > > Check out http://www.bhmotorsports.com/ for 9 (!!) new Nascar 4
> > > screenshots!!

> > > Dunno where they got them... but they sure look good!

> > > Notice the dynamic shadows.... ??

by **Skotty Flyn** » Tue, 09 May 2000 04:00:00

>Check out http://www.racesimcentral.net/(!!) new Nascar 4
>screenshots!!

>Dunno where they got them... but they sure look good!

>Notice the dynamic shadows.... ??

It looks like to me, that Jure did not save the .jpg's in a very high
quality which gives the shots a "blurry" look around the cars.
Take a look at the ones that are up on Papy's site, same shots but
about 3 times the file size.
Much clearer pics.

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by **Jacob Butne** » Tue, 09 May 2000 04:00:00

Jure didn't save them.

-Jacob
Team BHMS
www.bhmotorsports.com

> >Check out http://www.racesimcentral.net/(!!) new Nascar 4
> >screenshots!!

> >Dunno where they got them... but they sure look good!

> >Notice the dynamic shadows.... ??

> It looks like to me, that Jure did not save the .jpg's in a very high
> quality which gives the shots a "blurry" look around the cars.
> Take a look at the ones that are up on Papy's site, same shots but
> about 3 times the file size.
> Much clearer pics.

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Skotty Flynn
> "skotty20"

> Nascar-Racing-Sims.Com:
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/

> The Ultimate Sim Racing Directory:
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/

> Member of The Sports *** Network:
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/***.com

by **Mark Stah** » Tue, 09 May 2000 04:00:00

actually, i hear that the celery 566 is almost as easy to overclock to 850
as the 300a is to 450. might want to look into that, as 850Mhz + a decent
vid card just might be enough to run this sim (obviously this is just a
guess on my part...)

> >Beautifull. Man I'm glad I just built a new computer. :-)

> You won't be in 6-8 months when it hits the shelves and you STILL need
> to upgrade! hehehe.... I'm waiting for my upgrade now. I had talked
myself
> into a Celery 566...

> Unfortunately... NOW... I'll have to spend a LOT more money than
originally
> intended.

> Gunner
> ("honey, I need about a thousand dollars so I can run N4. What? No, I
KNOW
> I just got N3 and the truck pack, but-" SMACK!)

by **Adoni** » Wed, 10 May 2000 04:00:00

<knip die site, geen spam in mijn reply!!

mijn naam nou weer te misbruiken.... Ik wordt daar een beetje moet van.. Op
deze manier krijg ik een slechte naam.. Zo heb ik al eens ruzie gekregen met
Greetje!!

--
Ad
+is dr nog niet helemaal overheen....+

by **Chuck Kandle** » Wed, 10 May 2000 04:00:00

> Actually it will be Direct3D and OpenGL only.

> Eric

Uh-oh. I detect a boner here. Big mistake.....

--
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They'll call you names
And spit in your face,
But legends never die. --Gene Simmons

by **Vintoo** » Wed, 10 May 2000 04:00:00

Look at the last photo! It even has little tufts of grass against the pit
wall! What attention to detail with the graphics, and I love the shadow
effects! Now if they pay that much attention to the GPL style physics engine
then this game should rank right up there under GPL for the best racing sim
on the planet. Notice I said under GPL ;)

Vintook

> I have 4 words for Papyrus:

> Holy Mother of God!!!!

> Jaw dropped for the first time in my life.

> Buying Sierra stock tomorrow.

> _

> James Wohlever

by **evente..** » Wed, 10 May 2000 04:00:00

> As good as I think those shots look, I'm guessing they could REALLY
> benefit from the V5's FSAA. Mmmm......just imagine those shots

> w/4XFSAA....(insert Homer's drool)

As much as I like 3dfx, 2xFSAA is more like what people will be using
(unless you're going to spring for a V5-6000). I wish more of the
V5-5500 previews included 2x shots, as 4x seems to have too big a hit
- down to Geforce FSAA levels ;).
I'll be getting a V5 eventually anyways, too many good Glide games I
still enjoy.

I'll wait until "someone said" becomes "Papyrus said" ;).

> Not that I want to turn this into a V5/GF2 debate, but IMHO I think
> 4xFSAA will improve the game more than if T&L is implemented(which of
> course doesn't make the game LOOK any better) I'm also assuming that

> should be fairly easy.

GPL engine - more like 36FPS cap, probably. This could actually be very
interesting. Up til now, most tests of T&L have shown a fast CPU can do
as good or better (in general), but with the N4(GPL) engine having to do
the physics calcs for 43 cars instead of 19, hardware T&L may prove to
be very useful. Only time will tell...

Unless Eric feels like telling ;).
Kendt

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by **Michael Veldma** » Wed, 10 May 2000 04:00:00

That and a V5 6000 to get rid of the Jaggies and I'll be in heaven.
Time to start saving!

Michael

[snip]

by **Tim Vanhe** » Wed, 10 May 2000 04:00:00

Wat scheelt er?

> > The only good thing about it being so far off is that it'll give me time
> to
> > save up for a new system!
> > Racer X
> > Veteran Sim Racer
> > #4 Corvette C5-R in the GTIC
> > #24 Monte Carlo in the DORL
> > Victory Lane-
> <knip die site, geen spam in mijn reply!!

hier
> mijn naam nou weer te misbruiken.... Ik wordt daar een beetje moet van..
Op
> deze manier krijg ik een slechte naam.. Zo heb ik al eens ruzie gekregen
met
> Greetje!!

> --
> Ad
> +is dr nog niet helemaal overheen....+

by **Tim Vanhe** » Wed, 10 May 2000 04:00:00

There are no drivers in the cars, but I guess thats because they're not
ready yet.
But the looking at the carshapes it seems like we're going to have to add
the Chevy's, Fords and (by then) Dodge's ourselves again.
So far the complaints, because I never saw such beautifull screenshots
before!
I WANT N4 BADLY !!!! (same for GP3 and WSC)

by **Dave Henri** » Wed, 10 May 2000 04:00:00

Eric Busch HAS said. Opengl and D3d only with 32bit color and T&l
hardware accelerated. No glide at all.
But MY advice is to wait...you have 6 months to see what's available.
perhaps the new ATI card will kick A$$ so much we'll all run out and
grab that....(did I just say that? hahaha)
V5 6k "may" be a great N4 card...but we won't know for a while.
And GF2? It seems more like GF1.5. Either card will smoke...just one
will smoke a different cigar than the other.
dave henrie

by **GEORGE ARUGAY MONTEMAY** » Wed, 10 May 2000 04:00:00

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: > > > Don't waste your time on a Voodoo5 - someone said the sim will be
: > > > supporting hardware transform and lighting (T&L), and the Voodoo
: > > cards
: > > > don't do this. Your best recourse at this time (if this is indeed
: > > the
: > > > case) is to get a GeForce2 card.
: >
: > I'll wait until "someone said" becomes "Papyrus said" ;).
: Eric Busch HAS said. Opengl and D3d only with 32bit color and T&l
: hardware accelerated. No glide at all.
: But MY advice is to wait...you have 6 months to see what's available.
: perhaps the new ATI card will kick A$$ so much we'll all run out and
: grab that....(did I just say that? hahaha)
: V5 6k "may" be a great N4 card...but we won't know for a while.
: And GF2? It seems more like GF1.5. Either card will smoke...just one
: will smoke a different cigar than the other.
: dave henrie

No support for compressed textures? This is a feature which will be supported in hardware by
all video graphics chips soon to be released in a few months, i.e. Voodoo5, and makes it
possible to use high-resolution textures >= 1024x1024x32 without requiring too much texture
memory on the card.

GM

by **Dave Henri** » Wed, 10 May 2000 04:00:00

> No support for compressed textures? This is a feature which will be supported in hardware by
> all video graphics chips soon to be released in a few months, i.e. Voodoo5, and makes it
> possible to use high-resolution textures >= 1024x1024x32 without requiring too much texture
> memory on the card.

> GM

Those are features that should be available via D3d so they will
support them in some fashion I would think.
dave henrie

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