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I can't get it to work... :-(
It just hangs at the startup..
My system:
Win 98
AMD K6-2
64mb ram
Hercules Dynamite 128
Voodoo 2 12mb
SB AWE-32
32x Teac SCSICD-ROM
Sony CD-recorder

I've got alll the latest drivers and no probbs in directX 7..

Thomas Heineman skrev i meddelandet ...

Maila mig, s? kan vi kolla ?ver ICQ eller mail ok? :)
Det skulle vara kul o testa p? n?tet, om det g?r)

Thomas (ICQ 9328775)

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Diskussionsgrupper: rec.autos.simulators
Datum: den 26 november 1999 17:09
?mne: Re: STCC out in Sweden

Matt/Birger

Thomas Heineman skrev i meldingen ...

Its been a while since GPL...
...STCC has alot of potential. Though no Demo yet.
Thee car physics seams to be "dumbed" down, (as usual nowerdays),
in the final release. I belive we could see some seriuse patches,
that can make this THE sim engine (appart from GPL ofcourse ;)

Even with its flaws, its still extreamly fun when hotlapping. Ive been to
the tracks
in real life, and they are very accurate. The Control input
isnt working as good at it should or could, and it seams to be some
sort of steering aid, braking help, and "opposite lock help" ala GP2.
Unfortunatly (if they are there) they cant, in this version, be turned of.
The FOV can be changed to ones liking (Good option!)

The car is going to quick, the loss of tracktion only becomes apparent
when you get "wildly" quick. And the lap  times are way faster than they
should be. The AI on 100% is not fast. I won every race starting last.

When i used DXTweak for my LWFF, I made the car accelerate slower,
and brake less. The result was som very close racing during the straights.
I belive the AI guys drive the way I would drive with all the helps off.

All this sounds a little dissepointing, (the sound in the game btw are
great)
but this is still the best efort by far,for at touringcar sim/game.
Better that SCGT and Toca2. I bought it and I dont regret it one bit.
But i NEED a patch for the Physics - im 10 sec faster than the AI at 100%.
Still the Hotlapping is the most fun I ever had since GPL. I can only
imagine how
good it would be without "the helps" It feels extreamly "real"

Good Job DICE, and make sure you send me that patch ;)

Thomas Heineman

Matthew Birger Knutsen skrev i meddelandet ...

Thomas Heineman skrev i meldingen ...

Oh yeah :-)

<snip>

Well, this does sound like one I have to get...I can actually practice the
tracks I'll be driving on next year :-)

I'll go look for it across the border!

Matt

Defentetly Matt!

Ive been hotlapping like crazy, and i cant belive how good and "real"
it feels, even now as it is. This is killing my social life all over again!
(I just recovered fom "The GPL Syndrome";)

An belive me you,  you WILL be fast at the tracks next year then!
They are very accurate as far as i can see. Especially if we can get
a patch to race properlly with the FOV "tighter". It works best,
controlwise, at 100% as it is now...

I always go to the STCC races. Will you race in those weekends?
It would be awsome to see you race fast in a "real" car for a change ;)

Thomas

Thomas Heineman skrev i meldingen ...

Agh! The Pain! Now I must get it ASAP! :-)

Ok, our mission to give the proper feedback, then...

Yeah, think so - it's a new class called the Scandinavian Sports RacingCar
Series...yummy!

We're working like crazy to complete the car now (www.cheekracing.com), so
we'll see. Hope to meet you at the track :-)!
Anyways, unless some dope with loadsa $ shows up, I'll race it!

Matt

So, I was spending time tweaking the "zoom" in the STCC game to make it
as close as possible to real life. And I settled for 85. So if you've
never driven any of the tracks but want to get the "real" feeling of
them try this setting out. Other settings make the game tracks feel
shorter or longer then the real thing IMO.

/Magnus T

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Sounds nice. I've raced Mantorp, Anderstorp, Karlskoga, Kinnekulle and also
driven round Knutstorp and Falkenberg a bunch of laps, really looking fwd to
finding the game!

Matt

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They act like they have antispin and some kind of antiskid (it's too
easy to catch some skids). The cars do not "get light" going over a top
of a hill (like at Knutstorp for example) and so on. Ok ok, I've never
driven a real STCC car so what do I know, hehe. Lots of fun anyway!

BTW. I found that in some places the best racing line is no where near
the line I'm used to. Does anybody have comments on this? Can it be
that the game modelling is correct and I'm simply in a totally
different beast of a car that runs another line better? Or is it the
game modelling being off?

Magnus T

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