Andrew McP
NFS:PU with Benzes... this one goes on my shopping list.
Jan.
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>NFS:PU with Benzes... this one goes on my shopping list.
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Andre
> >> How much of a sim it is I have no idea yet.
> >NFS:PU with Benzes... this one goes on my shopping list.
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> It should be.. have been playing it for a week now, muchos fun.
Stephen
Yes, unfortunately if your graphics card doesn't support pixel/vertex
shaders the game looks well below average. Geforce2s and Geforce4 MXs don't
have shaders. On a 1GHz laptop with a 32Mb GF2Go the graphics would be so
slow that it would be nearly impossible to tell what the handling is like.
I can assure you though, if you've got 2GHz+ CPU and a GF4Ti+ then this game
is a NFS:PU killer. (As long as you run it in 100% simulation mode)
> NFS:PU with Benzes... this one goes on my shopping list.
<rant>
JUST LET ME USE MY *?!%ING MOUSE, OK ?
</rant>
I feel better now. Thanks.
Ian
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Ian Riches
Bedford, UK
Turn the simulation option to 100%. The physics are different to NFS:PU -
certainly not worse from a technical standpoint. Both games are arcade in
nature though with physics that are just realistic enough to be fun.
I don't find using arrow keys to be that difficult.
I get 40fps, so I think I can adequately gauge the handling.
Stephen
> Turn the simulation option to 100%. The physics are different to NFS:PU -
> certainly not worse from a technical standpoint. Both games are arcade in
> nature though with physics that are just realistic enough to be fun.
Maybe not, but using home, delete etc. as well really makes it un
intuitive to me. Can it *really* be that hard to add mouse support?
If I'd wanted a games console, I'd have bought a games console......
Ian
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Ian Riches
Bedford, UK
Yeah, I guess with no AI cars and low detail you could get that. So what
exactly about the handling is far worse than NFSPU?
did you adjust the simulation level to max ?
>> JUST LET ME USE MY *?!%ING MOUSE, OK ?
>> </rant>
>I don't find using arrow keys to be that difficult.
Eldred
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Yes, 100%. To be fair, I reloaded NFS:PU last night to see if I was seeing
the world through the rose-tinted which time tends to cast over our eyes.
Some cars in NFS:PU have waay too much grip (almost all the modern era cars)
and the game takes on a decidedly arcade feel. However, most of my fun with
NFS:PU was in the 550 Spyder, the late-60s 911S or the 356 Carrera, and all
these cars still feel quite good the way the handle, slide, recover.
Handling on the skidpad is also quite convincing in NFS:PU.
I tried the various cars in the Mercedes demo but wasn't too e***d by it
all. The SLR just gripped and gripped and gripped. Perhaps they put some
modern P-Zeros onto it, and swapped out the 50s era suspension for something
more modern. Just an opinion, of course.
Overall, my preference for a current driving sim is still LFS. Nice
visuals, realistic environments, great track design and good frame rates on
average machines.
Stephen
I've never heard anybody say that about LFS before. : )
