Vince,
I'm obviously not good enough to win and I do not have the time to practice
but the game is still fun.
I still want the crack or hack to remove the time-out !
Tim A. Deatherage
"Admitted Sim ***"
>Have u tried those Van diemens ,hehe they are great fun to drive totally
>outshines the touring cars for me. After racing in gpl for ages they
>make a welcome change although it all seems too easy to control and
>lacking in something in the reality stakes IM not quite sure what it is.
>Gear changing is perhaps far to easy, there doesn't seem to be any
>worries about blowing the engine etc. and although u can see damage on
>the cars it doesn't seem to effect anything in handling.
>The graphics are pretty good a cross between gpl and mgprs2 still a bit
>too cartoonish and bright, some parts are excellent but there are still
>a few minor niggles.
>Running in 1024*768 on a pII450 with 2 12mb r3d2's with everything at
>its highest it runs at an incredible speed, we are talking serious
>arcade speed. Which really conveys the feeling of speed well on the
>track.
>I can imagine there would be a lot of fun racing this online, lot of
>bumping and barging, maybe a bit too much, but u have to be careful with
>the van diemens because if u ride over someone's back wheel with your
>front u can expect to do some cartwheels :-)
>Took a while to set my wheel up the way I wanted it, and where I have my
>pedals on split axis it means it recognises another axis that I don't
>really have, and until I realised that I could set the dead zones for
>all axis ,all I had to do was set a 100% dead zone for that axis to stop
>it assigning that axis to the accelerator.
>I had to set the axis to non linear and use all the full movement so
>that the wheel wasn't over sensitive, there is an option to change the
>sensitivity but I couldn't change it in the demo.
>I would really of loved to try the Van Diemens on a track with some
>elevation changes.
>U can change a couple of things on the setup of the car like gear
>ratios, suspension and ,cant remember the other right now.
>U will want to bump the gear ratios up because u can drive around croft
>pretty much all in 5th gear, In the VD's anyway ,not sure I like them
>initials :-)
>So overall great fun ,very nice visuals although the inside***pits I
>think could of looked a lot better and a few little artefacts appearing
>at times. Fun game play not serious enough maybe for the real serious
>sim racers out there .
>Oh yeah and the replays are great and u can save them for later.
>The demo remembers all your settings.
>U can race in 3 laps, I thought the demo was supposed to be limited to 5
>minutes but maybe that's if u don't get round the 3 laps in 5 minutes
>,that really shouldn't be a problem for any1, and then u can go straight
>to another race time and time again :-)
>I think I'll be buying it when it comes out.
>only problem is I've now missed a whole evening of my GPL practice and I
>still need lots of that.
>--
>Vince Fisher
