It's Finally out !
Yes, I didn't believe it either un til I saw it.
So, whats it like?
It appears ver similar to the original F1GP in initial game play, but the
imediate thing that hits you is that it has the 1995 cars and drivers !! Come on
Geoff it's already over half way through the 1996 season, surely you could have
updated the driver/team names by now, but then I suppose this would have meant
another delay whilst all the new car graphics were created ;-)
With the wealth of graphics options I would imagine just about everyone will be
able to get it to run in some form but on my machine (P166 32Mb Stealth Vram) I
could achieve 12 fps with all detail at maximum, but turning the sky texture off
resulted in 17fps, not a lot considering the processor power.
With the detail set to VGA and minumum I was getting >25 fps and only using
20 - 30% cpu time, and the game looked like F1GP1.
So far I have only played for about an hour but the car setup options look
comprehensive and the other driver models seem to be ok, I did a
non-championship race at Germany starting at the back of the grid, with stock
defaults, and had a good battle against one of the cars for a few laps. These
guys do not give in that easily, or maybe I'm a poor driver - replies not
required !
These are just a few initial gut feelings which will no doubt be expanded on in
the next few days/weeks.
It appears as if it has the same feling as the original so it can't be all that
bad, can it?
Anyhow this is just my 0.02 worth, I'm sure this will be one of many posts on
this subject.
Steve.
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