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Official Driver demo will be released in 3 hours

PaiK

Official Driver demo will be released in 3 hours

by PaiK » Sat, 04 Sep 1999 04:00:00

At 2:00PM EST, it will be released. 14.4 Mb.

JaviF

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Andre Warrin

Official Driver demo will be released in 3 hours

by Andre Warrin » Sat, 04 Sep 1999 04:00:00

Great! Hope it support my LWFF in the demo.
Any idea where to download? it's 17:15 now, 3dfiles.com doesn't have
it yet.

Andre


>At 2:00PM EST, it will be released. 14.4 Mb.

>JaviF

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Jon Van Ginneke

Official Driver demo will be released in 3 hours

by Jon Van Ginneke » Sat, 04 Sep 1999 04:00:00

Patience grasshopper....45 more minutes

Jon


> Great! Hope it support my LWFF in the demo.
> Any idea where to download? it's 17:15 now, 3dfiles.com doesn't have
> it yet.

> Andre


> >At 2:00PM EST, it will be released. 14.4 Mb.

> >JaviF

Wolfgang Preis

Official Driver demo will be released in 3 hours

by Wolfgang Preis » Sat, 04 Sep 1999 04:00:00


I'm downloading it now. :) BTW, the Gigex download util they are using
to send the file seems to be great: the download already survived one
lost connection. Let's hope the file is not corrupted...

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Andre Warrin

Official Driver demo will be released in 3 hours

by Andre Warrin » Sat, 04 Sep 1999 04:00:00

Where can I download it?

Andre

Jon Van Ginneke

Official Driver demo will be released in 3 hours

by Jon Van Ginneke » Sun, 05 Sep 1999 04:00:00



> >Patience grasshopper....45 more minutes

> I'm downloading it now. :) BTW, the Gigex download util they are using
> to send the file seems to be great: the download already survived one
> lost connection. Let's hope the file is not corrupted...

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> Wolfgang Preiss   \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome.

Gozilla! works fine to resume downloads for 99.9% of the sites out there.

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Jon Van Ginneke

Official Driver demo will be released in 3 hours

by Jon Van Ginneke » Sun, 05 Sep 1999 04:00:00


I'm sure you have it by now, but if you don't goto 3dfiles.com

Jon

Wolfgang Preis

Official Driver demo will be released in 3 hours

by Wolfgang Preis » Sun, 05 Sep 1999 04:00:00




>> I'm downloading it now. :) BTW, the Gigex download util they are using
>> to send the file seems to be great: the download already survived one
>> lost connection. Let's hope the file is not corrupted...
>Gozilla! works fine to resume downloads for 99.9% of the sites out there.

In anticipation of the Driver demo, I downloaded Gozilla, but did not
install it yet since the demo became available while I was still
online. So I don't know exactly what it does, yet.

I agree that forcing people to use a certain service is annoying, so I
can see why you would prefer to not to use Gigex. But then, I was
really impressed with the speed and reliability of Gigex. It survived
three lost connections, one of which I forced since I had to make an
important phone call. Gigex just sat there, patiently trying to
reestablish a connection. Once I dialed up to my provider again, Gigex
automatically resumed the download. I like that. It meant a lot less
hassle and annoyance than the usual procedure.

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Tempor

Official Driver demo will be released in 3 hours

by Tempor » Sun, 05 Sep 1999 04:00:00





> >> I'm downloading it now. :) BTW, the Gigex download util they are using
> >> to send the file seems to be great: the download already survived one
> >> lost connection. Let's hope the file is not corrupted...

> >Gozilla! works fine to resume downloads for 99.9% of the sites out there.

> In anticipation of the Driver demo, I downloaded Gozilla, but did not
> install it yet since the demo became available while I was still
> online. So I don't know exactly what it does, yet.

> I agree that forcing people to use a certain service is annoying, so I
> can see why you would prefer to not to use Gigex. But then, I was
> really impressed with the speed and reliability of Gigex. It survived
> three lost connections, one of which I forced since I had to make an
> important phone call. Gigex just sat there, patiently trying to
> reestablish a connection. Once I dialed up to my provider again, Gigex
> automatically resumed the download. I like that. It meant a lot less
> hassle and annoyance than the usual procedure.

I'm also really warming up to Gigex since it isn't someting you install, but
just a .EXE that automatically downloads said file and resumes broken
downloads.
It's an all in one download client without the installation hassle of
Getright or Gozilla!
Similiar to ie5setup.exe in execution.

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> Wolfgang Preiss   \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome.

cancellation


warned.
Caste

Official Driver demo will be released in 3 hours

by Caste » Sun, 05 Sep 1999 04:00:00

But the demo i downloaded didn have support for JOYSTICK or wheel. Only
keyboard.


Rigs

Official Driver demo will be released in 3 hours

by Rigs » Sun, 05 Sep 1999 04:00:00


> In anticipation of the Driver demo, I downloaded Gozilla, but did not
> install it yet since the demo became available while I was still
> online. So I don't know exactly what it does, yet.

> I agree that forcing people to use a certain service is annoying, so I
> can see why you would prefer to not to use Gigex. But then, I was
> really impressed with the speed and reliability of Gigex. It survived
> three lost connections, one of which I forced since I had to make an
> important phone call. Gigex just sat there, patiently trying to
> reestablish a connection. Once I dialed up to my provider again, Gigex
> automatically resumed the download. I like that. It meant a lot less
> hassle and annoyance than the usual procedure.

Well, if you use Netscape, you can always get SmartDownload, which is
the same as other resume clients, 'cept it's built into Netscape and
starts up automatically when you download an .exe or .zip. The only
downside is it has a pop-up window for some ads and has a tendency to
crash or restart when the download is almost over. (Very frustrating on
a 56k). Of course, you could always just get CuteFtp and have a ball...
;)

=-Rigs-=

'...whatever answer, however illogical, must be the truth...'

Wolfgang Preis

Official Driver demo will be released in 3 hours

by Wolfgang Preis » Tue, 07 Sep 1999 04:00:00


>But the demo i downloaded didn have support for JOYSTICK or wheel. Only
>keyboard.

Then you got the old, unofficial demo. Test: does it show a GT
Interactive and then a Reflections splash screen when starting? If
not, it's the old one.

If you see those splash screens, then go to the menu page (the one
with the car and the guy standing next to it, hit the 'right arrow' on
your keyboard once (BTW, this confuses me - the left arrow would be
more intuitive for me) and the hood of the car will open and the word
'options' will be displayed. Hit enter, then highlight (with the arrow
keys) the word 'input' (or input device, or whatever), hit enter
again, and instead of 'keyboard', it should now say 'joystick'.
Presto.

If you have the old demo, you can get the new one from

http://Driver.gtgames.com/home.html

I would advise to also get the demo tweaking program from

http://www.3dracing.net/

It makes the demo much more fun. :)

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