I've just bought F1RS and it don't work
I just can see the setup menu
F1RS probably don't work with a Diamond 3D2000 2M
But does it work with anything else than a 3DFX
'cause i would like to wait for mid 98 to buy a 3DFX card (Voodoo2)
Does any one had played F1RS smoothly with any of these following cards
- Diamond Viper 330 (nVidia RIVA 128)
- STD Velocity 128 (nVidia RIVA 128)
My PC : Cyrix P166+, 32M, DS3D200 2M
Thanks
> F1RS probably don't work with a Diamond 3D2000 2M
> But does it work with anything else than a 3DFX
> 'cause i would like to wait for mid 98 to buy a 3DFX card (Voodoo2)
> Does any one had played F1RS smoothly with any of these following cards
> - Diamond Viper 330 (nVidia RIVA 128)
> - STD Velocity 128 (nVidia RIVA 128)
> My PC : Cyrix P166+, 32M, DS3D200 2M
What do you guys think of the graphics overall? I immediately turned off
the candy-colored sky because it was just too horrible to watch even if
it was nicely animated. Nearly all the graphics have a certain cartoonish
look into them. Trees and backdrops, for example, have thick black
outlines. I know they are there for a reason, but does the outlining have
to so crude & obvious. Especially backdrops are plain awful - anyone with
a basic knowledge of aesthetics would never launch that kinda ***
commercially. OTOH, smoke, dust, and rain effects (definitely including
the fog lights) are very good.
What I would like to know is whether the textures are as dark in the 3DFX
version. I've got my monitor's brightness to max and sometimes the
contrast between track and all the other graphics on the screen is so
high that the track looks annoyingly dark. Also, the tunnel in Monaco is
dark like an unlit coalmine. I know it tries to simulate the effect of
a sudden change in lighting you get by rushing into a tunnel from a
straight sunlight with an F1 car. But does it have to be _so_ dark that
drivin' thru the freakin' tunnel is 80% guesswork the remaining 20% being
based on sparse visual cues. This is the reason why I keep racing Monaco
only in rain when the tunnel has mostly grayish tones to it with the
walls nicely visible. It's a bit of a paradox; the tunnel's visible only
when the overall visibility is greatly reduced.
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Antti Markus Peteri
"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Polite Conversation, Dialogue I
> F1RS probably don't work with a Diamond 3D2000 2M
> But does it work with anything else than a 3DFX
> 'cause i would like to wait for mid 98 to buy a 3DFX card (Voodoo2)
> Does any one had played F1RS smoothly with any of these following ca
> rds
> - Diamond Viper 330 (nVidia RIVA 128)
> - STD Velocity 128 (nVidia RIVA 128)
> My PC : Cyrix P166+, 32M, DS3D200 2M
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* Peter * 8-) Please remove asterix from address to email.
I just tried it on a pc with a diamond 3d card with only 2meg and it
gives " out of memory" error at programme load time.
My 3dfx pc works great though, so one out of two will have to do for
now, no serial link up for me yet :-(
Mike.
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I would also say that the STB Velocity was rated the Best video card by PC
magazine, and that the ATI Xpert and the Diamond are very close to the STB
performance (honorable mention to those 2 cards).
With great respect,
May the downforce be with you,
Good race at the Brickyard, (-o-)
Fran?ois Mnard, "ymenard" on NROS
Team member, Zombie Entreprise
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