rec.autos.simulators

i have a viper330 (TNT soon).  do they support D3D or are they rendition or
3dfx?

thanks

jeff

Soda is the most realistic dirt racing *sim* I know.  It supports rendition,
but plays well on a fast computer.  My machine is a P2/333 and is fine in
software mode (from the bumper cam).

Nascar1 is ok, but Nascar2 has better graphics.  It supports rendition
and Matrox Millenium 1.  I remember N1 being a little slow in software
mode, but the game was great in it's time.

For $10 you can't go wrong :-)

Check out http://signgraphics.com/clubsoda for tracks and racing.

Jason.

Regards

Dave

-Larry

I returned SODA because the performance was absolutely terrible on my
system.  Granted, that was back when I had a P100 & voodoo1 card (the
voodoo was worthless with SODA though-- no support).  I could reduce
the detail to nearly nothing (terrain looked like about 5 polygons,
cars like maybe 10 :) and I could get probably about 5fps.  I had a
Matrox Millenium 2d card at the time.

Years later, maybe now sheer CPU speed can make up for the hobbled
graphics engine that SODA uses, I don't know.

--mtnkodiak

Now that I have a P2 450 with 128 MB ram and I can SODA smoothly with full
graphics - I had to turn some options off with my older P2 266.

It also is the only sim I drive when I'm not driving GPL (which is rare).  I
almost went out to buy a Rendition video card just for SODA.  It's too bad
Sierra never came out with the 3Dfx patch.

Brian

Wayne Hutchison