rec.autos.simulators

Second, I looked at your posts and did not find your system specs other than
your graphics card (GeForce2).  Perhaps there are posts I cannot see on my
news server.  Either way, why are you playing these silly games?

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Joe Marques

No, never heard of them.  I've only ever played F1 2001.

Seriously, you really must have some problems or you're just having a laugh!
I assume the latter.

Iain

Andre

FINE!!!! HERE - READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!  COPIED FROM MY OTHER POST IN THIS
THREAD!!!!   (Sorry to shout, but it seems people replying to my posts are
in a daze)

"OK - I'm using an Athlon 800 with a 64MB GeForce 2 MX400 256 MB RAM.  One
of
my main gripes with GP3 is that it is limited to 25fps.  I think this may be
the only reason that some people might think F12001 is smoother since it has
no frame-rate limiting.  On my system, I can show a full grid (with full
detail) at 1024x768 without any slow down i.e. occupancy never goes over
100%.  F12001 runs at about 50-60fps when I'm the only car on the track or
if I select minimum detail (which looks appalling)  but with a comparable
level of detail enabled to GP3 full detail, the game is very choppy when
other cars are around.  TOCA 2 is a good example of a game that has a smooth
graphic engine - 60fps - constant."

I used the grass merely as a blatant example of how 'arcadey' and
"un'sim-like" this game is.  But alas, it seems in this newsgroup that if
you make a comment about someone's beloved game, they defend it with their
life thowing all common sense and objectivity out of the window.  I still
haven't heard a sensible argument why this game is a better overall game
than GP3.  "..because it craps all over it" seems to be intellectual level
of most posters.

No, I'm as desperate for a quality F1 sim as everyone else seems to be.  One
thing I have noticed is that whenever there are 2D graphics shown (as well
as AI cars) in the game there is immediate choppiness e.g. when a TV-style
split time is flashed up.  Anyone else have this problem and a possible
solution?

Anyway, about your post:

I posted a link to some f1 2001 pics in this thread, but for easy
reference here it is again:
http://www.racesimcentral.net/~hg/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24394

Now you do agree with me that this looks better than the GP3 graphics
right? But what is even more important, the graphics of F1 2001 give
the feeling of 'being there', they give a good sense of speed,
something lacking in most other sims.
When you see pics of F1RC they look stunning, but while driving it all
looks a bit too cartoony imho. GP3 on the other hands looks ***when
you see screenshots, but it's not that bad at all when you actually
race.

It took me quite some messing around to get the quality of the
graphics in F1 2001 high while maintaining a high fps, but thanks to
the numerous posts on RAS about this I managed it.
I have a p3 866 GF2 GTS, and with most settings on high and max, f1
2001 is supersmooth with a full grid. I run in 800x600 res, in 1024
res the fps drops too much.
You say you need to set the graphics on minimum detail to get a good
fps. With your system you should be able to set the details much
higher while keeping a good fps. This just shows that -something- is
not setup correctly on your system. Try other drivers, the fraps
solution, the window mode solution, or any of the other solutions
posted here on RAS.

Andre

But realistic or not, thank god we can't alter the settings in GPL..
honest online racing and hotlapping would be impossible, and the
online community would never have become what it is now.

Andre

And tweaking the game because you can't drive is like cheating in
solitaire. :)

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Olav K. Malmin
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Joe Marques

That should be at  the users discretion.