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by **Rick** » Sat, 14 Sep 2002 22:40:45

Not wanting to get into a war over which is best, just wanting to know,
having been really disappointed with GP4, is it worth me swapping it for
F12002? I recall someone rec'ing F12001 being the better buy for some
reason.

I have a 900 Duron, 384 Ram, GeForce Ti4200 card - will it run at a
reasonable rate on this set up?

GPL - 20 car field, full detail, rock solid 35fps at all times in Monaco, so
will this come anywhere close?

In fact - all out, which modern F1 sim would be the best purchase and won't
require me to spend 5 hours setting the graphics up?

by **Dave Henri** » Sat, 14 Sep 2002 23:00:18

The 'best buy' aspect of F1 2001 is the price, usually less than $20(US)
and the availability of several mods. IF you are a die hard F1 fan, then
that isn't too much of a selling point, but the ALMS cars, the FIA GT cars
really add value to an already low price. Both of those titles will be
upgraded for F1 2002, in fact they will probably have several big
enhancements over the current mods, but those releases are several months
away.
memory and video card are good, the CPU might be a-bit weak. IF you go F1
2001 there are two patches, the first is vital as it improves video
performance and adds FF.
You may find yourself spending more time figuring out controllers rather
than graphics. With so many input options, getting a drivable setting is
not the easiest thing to do.

dave henrie

by **Haqsa** » Sun, 15 Sep 2002 09:02:11

Can't comment on GP4 since I don't have it. With regards to performance
though, your configuration is very similar to mine, and F1 2002 runs
decently but not amazingly fast on mine. I have seen as high as 60 fps
or so if I turn details down. I typically get in the mid-30s during a
race with most details maxed, but it does dip into the low 20s and
sometimes below 20 on the start grid.

by **Damien Smit** » Sun, 15 Sep 2002 19:54:27

Yeah, but if you pop an Athlon XP 1800+ in there, it will run fantastically
(And won't cost much)

by **Rick** » Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:34:50

But how easy is it to do that? I thought my motherboard only went up to
1.2ghz? Would I have to change the bios? I can't seem to find out if my
chipset will take the upgrade?

Rick

by **Race** » Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:50:52

well to start i have tried them all from the first one track indy race
..indy 1, indy 2 , gp1 gp2 gp3 gp4 f1rs f1rs2 then the last f1rc .f1
2001 and now f1 2002

gp2 was good in its day but as for 3 and 4 ?????
f1rs2 was also fun online
f1 2002 is the best one ever

i have gig mb ga8iexp p4 2.0gig 512 ddr ram and asus ti4600 128mb
and with all this gp4 still looks like its in slow motion ???

hey if you going to race online ....get dsl or they going to boot you
:)

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:40:45 +0100, "Rick"

>Not wanting to get into a war over which is best, just wanting to know,
>having been really disappointed with GP4, is it worth me swapping it for
>F12002? I recall someone rec'ing F12001 being the better buy for some
>reason.

>I have a 900 Duron, 384 Ram, GeForce Ti4200 card - will it run at a
>reasonable rate on this set up?

>GPL - 20 car field, full detail, rock solid 35fps at all times in Monaco, so
>will this come anywhere close?

>In fact - all out, which modern F1 sim would be the best purchase and won't
>require me to spend 5 hours setting the graphics up?

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