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Adrian.

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I don't understand the logic.

All curent Formula 1 titles are either 1) outdated  2) not realistic or 3)
simply arcade.  So when a below-average titles gets released, even if higher
rated than the others, it's a GOOD thing and we should all buy it, since
under your logic it's the best and you own it?

I would rather spend time on better quality titles than owning a bad, even
if the "best of the bad" Formula 1 title.

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how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

I unfortunately have no time for non-racing games.  Wish a day had more than
24hours, as there is great gems in other game categories that are
incredible.  My rotation of frequent racing games is around 5 presently.

The last non-racing games I tried were X-Wing Alliance, Fighter Ace, Links
LS and Roller Coaster Tycoon.  I go back to almost a year with XWA, so you
can see how much time I have

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-- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>
-- May the Downforce be with you...
-- http://www.WeRace.net
-- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

Hmm let's see...  This month they are :

Grand Prix Legends
Nascar Racing 3
Rally Championship 2000
Grand Prix World
SBK 2000

Everything else (DTR, Driver, Gp2, MGPRS2, AMA SBK, Icr2, Viper, Soda,
Toca2, etc..) is raced when I have time, willing, want to try new things or
want to change my idea.  My game opinion can vary alot with time.

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-- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>
-- May the Downforce be with you...
-- http://www.WeRace.net
-- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

Stephen

BB

Thanks.

JoH

I too have gone out and bought it this morning, after playing the Myth
(supposedly final?) ISO release, and look forward to participating in
some healthy chat and seeing fan sites spring up about F12000.
(by the way I'm at work just now, and taking part in a karting event
tonight, so I wont be able to give any info on final retail release
until I install it tomorrow)

OK, there are problems with it, namely processor hungry graphics,
circuit realism, ***AI and sound etc, but I dont find these a big
enough problem to dissuade me from buying it.

For you info, my system is a Pentium II 333, 128 Mb RAM and Voodoo3 2000
card. Initially, I could only run at a good fps in practice, but after
reading some posts in here and High Gear forum about hot to edit the
.cfg file to alter the number of cars on the grid (I changed this to 10
for my PC) it run smooth as silk.
Then, a couple of days later, there was the post about altering the
mipmap entry in the .cfg from a "0" to a "1" - again a drastic
improvement in frame rate, and I now run a full grid with no mirrors (I
have my LWFF configured with a button to look behind, just as good),
medium settings for car detail, bitmap detail etc and the game runs fine
with me now.
The sound will no doubt be patched by some bright coder out there, I can
hot lap or race in multiplay and not bother about AI and although the
circuits may not be perfect...big deal....its a circuit and your racing
on it....is that not what its all about?

I own many driving sims (GP2, GPL, F1RS, MGPRS, Rally2000, NFS 3 & 4,
Colin McRae, GP500, Superbikes 2000 etc) although my favourites are
definately F1 sims - I have been a morotcycle owner for 20 years but
beautiful as these games are looking now, I just never get the feeling
of driving a bike in them. Until some company brings out a set of FF
handlebars with working throttle, clutch etc I dont think they ever
will.

I'm absolutely gagging on GP3 coming out in July, but F12000 will keep
me happy until then, I definately consider it the best of the current
crop of F1 games available, and I'm sure fans will beging to release
addons for tobacco sponsored cars, new sounds etc, and I am still
hopefull that EA will supoort this sim with patches etc.

Simple rule - if you enjoy it buy it, if you hate it save your money.

Look forward to you comments.

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