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Important ones denoted with *                                          

All tracks*                                            
Good but easy to use Track Editor                                      

All cars (none fictional)*                                              
Fantasy Tracks 8^)                                              
GPL Physics or N3 if not GPL*                                          
All teams (tobacco and *** if possible)*                            

native RENDITION support***                                            
drafting*                                              
3d***pits*                                            
3d Physics engine that simulates true CART handling*                    

Resolutions like 800x600 and 1024x768*                                  

Excellent car damage model so that no two crashes look alike*          

Realistic flip effects,like GPL and not Andretti Racing (boo)
Comprehensive car setups, including springs, shocks, camber, weight  jacker on
ovals, static ride height, dampers, rebounds, bump stops, etc.  *      

Realistic effects like bottoming out*                                  
Realistic debris that you can run over and damage your car on          

Random tire blowouts*                                  
Oil and other fluids from engine failures*                              

Fire (highly unlikely this will be allowed by CART)*                    

Realistic wall types and wall effects (Armco barriers do more damage than
concrete, tire walls do less damage than concrete, tire walls          

cause car to get airborne and flip more than concrete and armcos, etc.)*

Realistic gravel trap effects (Come on, you know you wanna do an Andretti at
Mid-Ohio, admit it...)*                                
Improved Paintkit*                                      
realistic sounds actually digitally recorded*                          

animated pit stops*                                    
area in pit road that can be drivin off into the infield to get to
victory lane..or garage*                                        
realistic***pit that has hand on wheel like GPL*                      

better frame rates/3d acceleration/1024x768 resolution*        

better engine, way more realistic damage to the car, the way the damage is
spread across the track in real life...fliping catchin air on other
tires*                                          
better smoke,skid marks and racing groove*,                            

possible damage of the catch fencing*                                  

RED FLAGS*                                              
animated workers on the track after a wreck...and if possible
ambulances or REAL tow-trucks*                                          
marks on the walls after a hit, animated flagmen*                      

more options to change on the car in garage                            

full field of cars*                                            
all the current tracks ( if possible...Indianapolis, since it rightfully is
CART's) *                                      
realistic lookin part-time road courses like with the closed off streets and
stuff*                                          
fire,fuel and oil leaks, (causin slippery race track)*                  

possible damage to the pit wall..*                                      

animated OPPONENT pit stops*                                            
more realistic AI cars*                                        
weather changes like durin the race, rain, wind, etc*                  

possible use of rain tires, and racing in the rain (regardless of if there was
rain that season or not*)

*sigh*

PLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

Pretty please with cherries on top?? ;)

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The trouble with releasing a killer chip and keeping quit about it is a bad
combination. No hype. The hype thing is one of the reasons 3DFX has had
such enormous success...

When the Verit 4400 is released, I believe it will be a killer product,
Rendition is capable, but they're not very good with creating a hype, and
this is what worries me. And the Rendition API RRedline is one of the best
API's out there, very clean code, little CPU usage, no bugs. I have raced
GPL with Rendition cards (Stealth II and Thriller 3D) for almost a year
now, and it hasn't crashed once! This is a sensations in itself, and it
really illustrates how well the Rendition API is put together...

I will probably stick with Rendition for another half year. I will then
become a bit impatient... If rendition can't get a new chip out within the
next 6 months, I am afraid Rendition will struggle immensly to get back
into the 3D market.

My tuppence worth of rendition prospects...

---Asgeir---

And so what?  Its dead, no one will dare program for it.  Why spend X amount
of time programming a rasterizer for a small population of the entire 3D
market which is getting bigger as more 3D cards flood the market that only
use Direct3D/OpenGL APIs (except the 3dfx products which are more numerous
than Rendition chipsets).

Not really. Could be you are just getting lucky. :)  If say 60% of the
Rendition owners had that success then it might signal something, but not
just one or a few percentage of them.

Well, you are going to be up a creek without a paddle.  There aren't any new
drivers for the Thriller and that means no DirectX6.1 support, no DirectX7
support either.  Games like AMA Superbike, CanAm, Nascar3, etc. are all
relying on DX6.1 and will be out within the next 6 months.

Brian

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