>>I have a PII266, 128mb, 9gig hd, and an 8mb V2. This is not a top of the line
>>system by any means but it is still above average. Not to mention that the GPL
>>box gives my system as the RECOMMENDED system which SHOULD be the system to
>>play this game on in which to get the most out of it. This is the only time I
>>will point the finger at papy and say "BAD PAPY, BAD PAPY, NOW GO TO YOUR
>>CORNER AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!' The box is VERY deceiving/misleading
>>and that is just plain WRONG.
>This post is very deceiving - is that just plain wrong?
The box is decieving. It says minimum requirements are (from the box
in my hand) Win95, 166MHz Pentium, 32meg Ram, "Windows95/98 compatible
video card with 2 MB memory", and a 2x CD-ROM drive.
It should have been forthright about the video card- without a Papyrus
compatible video card, this program is totally useless on the system
described above. I don't see how anybody can argue otherwise; it is
very simple: nobody can race at 4.5 FPS, or 8 if you live-it-up in the
blockiest 320x200 I've ever seen since Indy500 The Simulation.
Come on, Papy- let's have OpenGl or D3D support so this sort of thread
doesn't have to roll on for a year... it ain't helping sell product.
I've got your system (well, 300MHz), but I don't have that particular
graphics card (Mine is a 128-bit STB). And I get 9 FPS with 5 AI cars.
And, of course, none of the schmancy graphics processing my very
powerful card was made to do- so it is 9FPS without any smoothing or
lighting effects, etc.
I am glad so many are pleased with the performance of GPL on their
systems... but I am not sure why many appear to be arguing that Papy's
minimum requirements are in any way realistic, or even that Papy did
well not to put out a D3D or OpenGL version. First off, OpenGL or D3D
support wouldn't hurt your performance; it would have nothing to do
with it. Secondly, Papy is basically leaning on people to buy
proprietary hardware- that isn't good. I mean, with all the people who
hate Microsoft because they take away people's decision on what to
buy... well, what is this? Buy a Renditon card? 3 years ago, when
graphics cards were still extreme game-enthusiast toys, maybe that was
OK to stick with some proprietary standard, hoping it "would win." But
today, computers come standard with 3D cards, and well designed
software needs to write for standard graphics libraries/APIs. It is an
astonishing oversight on Papy's part.
