First, I'm running 133mhz pentium,32mb ram, I set the field to 20 cars,
all texture off, cars on auto. Max fr to 30 min to 28- the car textures
barely come on at dega. So I would think there is no improvement with
the frame rates. Yes I ran univibe in dos.
Second, the game installed and ran fine under win '95, however when I
exited the machine locked. Would not run again, so I uninstalled it and
did the dos install. Everything seems fine now.
**********If I am running in dos mode how am I supposed to hook up to
TEN to race on-line???????***********
This is a big probelm, I hope that Papy will provide some sort of dos
dialer like they did with hawaii, or am I supposed to just enter the
dialer in the multiplayer section of the game, enter the local access #
for TEN in my area and go??? The fact I cannot hook up through my ISP
will cost me .95/per hour, which is ahuge break from what the phone co.
has been charging, so that doesn't worry me too much, but the TEN
software that came with the game runs in windows!!! How am I going to
interface with the TEN network if I can only run the game in dos
mode????????
Other than that, so far it looks good. I believe that you really need to
get one of sierra's 3-d card for it look the way they intended. The
drivers ARE in the cars, the roofs are a pecil line thin, the pit crew
DOES NOT MOVE(in practice anyhow), and you better watch it leaving the
pits, as the rear tires DO spin and you CAN
do doughnuts in the grass now(just what everyone wanted to do right?).
The damage seems alot more sensitive, a light tap into the wall will
crumple your fenders, the spotter is AWESOME, the graphices are great
but I turn them off to keep the framerate up.Oh, the rearview mirror has
no paripheral vision to it, meaning you only see the cars in the center
of the mirror not in the outside squares, unless this is supposed to
simulate your "blindspot".
If anyone has any ideas about the multiplayer problem let me know, Im
real worried about this aspect of it.
Back to playing,
Mick in Tampa