rec.autos.simulators

are  GTR or Gt legends up to the same calibre .ie online ***, downloads
etc??

No, but rFactor is..

Chad

I would have to respectfully disagree. rFactor has it all right now, and the
mods just keep coming! Get them both and decide for yourself!

Until recently I would have agreed with you. Since installing a 7800GT
I haven't played GTL since (still a damn great sim, I just haven't
been able to pry myself away from rFactor)

rFactor does benefit greatly from a decent rig. It never clicked with
me when I had a year old card, blurry graphics and 40FPS. The latest
stock cars show great promise in a decent NASCAR sim and I'm loving
the new hatches that came with the Lienz addon. Also having a lot of
fun taking the Porches for a spin. :)

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Cheers,
Rod.

Personally I like both. The modern day Porsches in rFactor and a heap of
cars in GTL. The good thing is with their similar roots it is easy to
jump from one to another. GPL never used to coexist well with other sims
IMHO, the feel was quite different.

I think both rFactor and GT Legends are excellent sims.

Cheers
Tony

GTL only caused me grief on night time races, other than that I was
able to run it above 60fps without too much eye candy being comprimised
but in DX8.

In comparison, rFactor looked terrible on my rig to get similar
performance results and the theory seems to be that in order to get
good feel from both sims you do need a consistant and high frame
rate. Prior to my upgrade, rFactor was difficult to keep a car on
the tarmac, now I'm actually competitive.

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Cheers,
Rod.

Now my machine is a 2.4 GHZ with 6600gt 128, plays GTL at barely usable
frames when you have 21 cars in the "offline-career mode" challenges that
you somewhat must do to unlock all cars, unless you find the hacks (which i
have done), Yet the same PC & game is pretty fabulous online or
testing/racing with few cars...

Stephen White enlightened us with:

rFactor might be, sometime. Get the 2004 Demo of GPL at Blackhole
http://www.racesimcentral.net/:)

/Andreas

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Gee our GPL league is sniffing around the same subject and are sort of
coming to the opposite conclusion..

rfactor has some classic tracks now (and more coming), all sorts of
eras and mods (GTL does one era but does it well), and I understood had
better support for larger feilds online (I could be wrong).   Plus it's
got open wheel racing instead of just sedans and sports cars.

We're perfectly happy with GPL except every year we lose 1 or 2 drivers
and it's virtually impossible to replace them.

BTW shame on you for lending out GPL without keeping a copy for
yourself... ;)

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Niles Anders
FLOG Online Games
SIM Racing Servers and Game Servers
http://www.racesimcentral.net/

Mitch

and I understood had

I personally can't come to grips with those cars and I can't figure out
why.

It seems like if I enter a particular corner at 78mph (for example),
I'm trundling around like an old lady and I'm not even warming up the
tires, if I enter the same corner at 80mph the car is undrivable, touch
the curb and you're off....etc     79mph is perfect.

I'm over stating the problem obviously but they seem to have a very
narrow performance band...

/Andreas

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/andreas

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