As we've all seen over the past year, GPL continues to be the best driving
simulator on the market. Other companies have promised to meet or beat it,
but as of today no one has come close. This is starting to worry me....
Computer and graphic card technology is continuing to evolve, and yet we're
stuck only with 3Dfx and Rendition support. There is an unofficial OpenGL
patch, but from what I can tell it's worthiness is hit or miss. Will it
work with all OpenGL drivers or only those from Nvidia (and that appears to
be only a subset of drivers)? In the near future I'd like to upgrade my
system, graphics card in particular, unfortunately GPL will prevent me from
purchasing the best technology available. What I would like to see is an
unofficial DirectX/Direct 3D patch made available by Papyrus or a 3rd party
developer. This would extend the lifetime of GPL (I don't want to maintain
a specific GPL box), and open up a broader choice of graphics cards. Do you
think it would be possible to lobby Papy to develop a DX patch? Or even to
farm out the job to an outside developer. I would surely pay $10 to $15
dollars to keep this game alive for another few years. This a very unique
game that faithfully reproduces a great moment in sporting history and I'd
hate to see it fall by the wayside because of something as silly as a
graphics card. Sure there will be dozens and dozens of modern F1 sims
released in the next 2 years, but they won't have the heart and style of
Grand Prix Legends.