rec.autos.simulators

Thought I'd throw my ha'penny's worth into the discussion. From a couple of
days' solid playing at F12K, I'm going back to Monaco Racing Simulation - at
least until Geoff Crammond's next work appears.
F12K's graphics are slow at anything approaching a decent detail level (PIII
500 w/256Mb RAM and 12Mb Voodoo 2) and I'm not at all convinced about the
physics engine, to say nothing of the AI.

John

Its not groud breaking stuff I suppose but like I said before, as much as I
said it would be no god being an A racing title, I'm very impressed.

To me its similar to MGPRS2 but with some its cleaned up to be honest. Very
nice. Won't stop me bing first in line for GP3 though.

Anyone seen www.simracingnwes.com today?
Jason Murray is putting his backing behind it for a league, thats the sign
of a sim to be racing :-)

Now, How the ***y heck do you get under 1.28 at Interlagos....hehe

F1 2000 has its problems but F1RS physics are the worst.  The under steerand the
throttle is horrible.  I tried it for a good 2 weeks and uninstalled it because
I couldn't get past the throttle physics.  IF you rev it up to say 8000 RPM in
neutral then put in 1st gear without changing your throttle position it will
redline, second gear the same.  A car doesn't increase fuel flow when you put it
in gear.  Its like the amount of fuel is more depended on gear not peddle
position.  People can't actually think this is the way a car behaves.

% F1 2000 has its problems but F1RS physics are the worst.  The under steerand the
% throttle is horrible.  I tried it for a good 2 weeks and uninstalled it because
% I couldn't get past the throttle physics.  IF you rev it up to say 8000 RPM in
% neutral then put in 1st gear without changing your throttle position it will
% redline, second gear the same.  A car doesn't increase fuel flow when you put it
% in gear.  Its like the amount of fuel is more depended on gear not peddle
% position.  People can't actually think this is the way a car behaves.

Hmmmmmm.... Current F1 cars have so much electronic control, I wonder if
this is something that actually does happen in the magic black boxes?

Or is was a kludge on the programmers part due to the lack of a
clutch....

Or as you say, it was just sucky programming...

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