>Warning! long rambling post ahead....
Joe
Joe
Warning! long rambling post ahead....
I just spent my first two hours or so with the fantasy tracks and here
is some info and comments about them.
First these new tracks are so different from what I'm used to seeing
that they are difficult to describe, so please bear with me.
There are two tracks, Red Rock and Bull Run. Red Rock is sort of a high
banked super speedway, with the big catch being that it has right and
left hand turns. This makes it extremely difficult to drive at first, at
least for me, because I've never turned to the right on extremely high
banking. Red rock is set in the mountains with most of the turns
seemingly blasted through a mountain side. My favorite section of the
track is a long sweeping 165 - 175 mph left hand turn that leads out to
a long downhill straight-away where you can get up to approx. 220 mph.
The challenge here is making it through the next corner, an extremely
high banked, tight left, that is very treacherous. My best speed here so
far is 161.446 mph.
Bull Run is more of a road course, set in a valley surrounded by
mountains. It also has some weird turns and another one of those high
banked right turns. There are some high speed straights (190+) and also
two hairpins. Very difficult to say the least. My best so far 123.012
mph.
Finally both tracks have a lot of new and great looking textures. The
grass texture in Bull Run is the most lush green I've ever seen in a
Papy sim and I am wondering if it might work at some other tracks. Maybe
this is also why these tracks are a whole new challenge for the frame
rate impaired. I imagine you'll have to turn many off on a slow machine.
All in all I guess I like them, I think I like Bull Run the best so
far, maybe Red Rock will grow on me.
Oh, I forgot to mention, both tracks must use a lot of memory, when I
tried to run them in Win95 the first time, neither would load with my
standard 16,384 pif. I got an error saying "unable to load complete
track description". So I just opened a DOS box and ran it that way. I
also tried them in DOS 6.22 and they load fine in that also. This is
with 32 megs of ram. I fear the worst for those with less, but hopefully
I am wrong.
Matt Howell
I find the fantasy tracks a bit too silly to be taken seriously
myself, especially Red Rock. I like Bull Run a lot, especially the
"reverse Laguna-Seca Corkscrew" segment. If only they didn't add that
silly Dega right-hander it would be a really nice track, but I guess
that's what fantasy is supposed to be.
Both are real graphics-intensive for me. Running renddma I get brief
pauses whenever I exit the last turn before the front straightaway.
On Fri, 15 Aug 1997 02:56:01 -0400, Matt Howell
> I just spent my first two hours or so with the fantasy tracks and here
>is some info and comments about them.
BillC on Hawaii
http://www.synapse.net/~crankstr/
> > >Warning! long rambling post ahead....
> > Where do I get these tracks?
> They can be found at www.nascarnet.com/pitshop/main.htmlThey are both
> very demanding on my system, until the Rendition card kicks in. I have
> a 133 Pentium with 32 MB and 512L2. They are undriveable until the 3D
> card speeds things up to 30 fps or so, until I hit another area and it
> gets extremely choppy. Around the pits and in certain sections of the
> tracks it does this. Bull Run is not nearly as bad as Red Rocks. The
> cows on the side of the road look real. The scenery is awesome.
> Does anyone think that an Intel 200 MMX overdrive would speed this up?
I am running a standard 200 Mhz pentium and rendition card and have no
problems running the two tracks. At Bullrun there is one little
hesitation coming out of last turn and heading down main straight. Other
than that, graphics is very smooth
dave thayer
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> > >Warning! long rambling post ahead....
> > Where do I get these tracks?
> They can be found at www.nascarnet.com/pitshop/main.htmlThey are both
> very demanding on my system, until the Rendition card kicks in. I have
> a 133 Pentium with 32 MB and 512L2. They are undriveable until the 3D
> card speeds things up to 30 fps or so, until I hit another area and it
> gets extremely choppy. Around the pits and in certain sections of the
> tracks it does this. Bull Run is not nearly as bad as Red Rocks. The
> cows on the side of the road look real. The scenery is awesome.
> Does anyone think that an Intel 200 MMX overdrive would speed this up?
I love rendition....
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demanding on my system, until the Rendition card kicks in. I have
a 133 Pentium with 32 MB and 512L2. They are undriveable until the
3D card speeds things up to 30 fps or so, until I hit another area and
it gets extremely choppy. Around the pits and in certain sections
of the tracks it does this. Bull Run is not nearly as bad as Red
Rocks. The cows on the side of the road look real. The scenery
is awesome.
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% What are the odds that the tracks would run better in win95 than on a dos
% reboot?
% I love rendition....
None! <G>
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RedRock is incredible - I didn't think N2 could do graphics that good.
Joe
I am running N2 on a Pentium 100 w/64 MB of ram, no rendition, and both
tracks look awesome with all detail turned on. N2 must maximize its
performance from straight-up RAM.
Walk Walker
says...
If you are talking about my odds of running better in Win95, well it's
true. I don't know if it has anything to do with the beta drivers or
what, but it does. The two tracks are a little jumpy when I use dos, but
in win95, they are smooth.
So that means on of two things:
1. The new drivers are excellent for Win95
2. The new drivers make it run like a slug in dos
Hmmmmmmmm.......
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Stop on by, what can it hurt?
I'll give you odds of about 1000 to 1...................AGAINST!!
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Bruce.
(at work....well, at "place of employment", anyway!)
Boy did I miss the boat on these tracks, my ISP chose a bad time for
their USENET server to crash! (and the same thing happened when the
first patch came out for N2!), I guess I'am always the last to know!
:( Anyway, I downloaded both tracks earlier today and I'am impressed.
My system is no speed demon, a P120, so I had to do without a whole
lot of the graphics (a 3d card will be on my Christmas wish list). So
far I really like the Red Rock track, it reminds me of a roller
coaster, I like the name I heard for it too, "The Widower"! Bull Run
is neat too, the last turn is a lot of fun! Those high banked
right-hand turns will take some getting used to! It's times like this
I wish there was a track editor so I could create some weird and
wonderful tracks like these!
Best,
John
P.S. Did anyone notice the church at the top of the banking at Red
Rock, LOL!
Great tracks work excellent with the Pits new touring carset/update patch!