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Thanks to Karsten for the "out of the blue" online Sim "Live for Speed"
link.

I downloaded and installed it, but it's running at about .5 FPS on my 1GHZ
Athlon with 384MB RAM and Nvidia Ti4600 Video card, even when set to minimal
graphics (640x480, all options off).

Any ideas, as it looks like it could be great!

Thanks,
Tim

Andre

Maybe its an OS problem? I'm running Windows 2000. What OS are you using?

Has anyone got this Sim running on Windows 2000 ok yet?

I'm running win2k as well, and I've noticed the following things:

1) Don't touch ANY keys while the sim is starting up.  I did, and had to
reboot at the title screen.

2) After the reboot, I waited thru the title, and the brief replay, and
got to the point where it let me configure the driver.  After I was
done, I clicked Next, and the program just sat there making the click
noise over and over again.  I had to reboot again.

I'm done playing with it until the next version.

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So, I took the option of upgrading video card a couple of months ago, and
will swap the video card to new system early next year.

I'm happy with the results - almost all bottlenecks I had were games where
the video rather than CPU was the bottleneck.

Same thin happened to me ---rebooted and worked fine. Don't miss out on a
great time because it gave you a little problem. Give it a chance, it's only
version 0.04k BETA. Try again and you won't be disappointed.

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The web site mentions that the game has some issues with ATI Radeons.

it's running fine here (between 40 - 60 fps : 1024*768 - all options on - 7
AI)
i'm running win98se with geforce3 (driver nvidia 28.32) and athlon 1.2G
trouble : crash after 1 race or 2, and with the replay but it's a beta
version so...

really great job !

pierrot

   Win98/800 mhz P3/128 mb ram

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This is very cool though.

If you haven't found it yet, hit the "F" key when playing!

It takes away the body, and shows just you, the tires/wheels, and the frame
along with a spike per wheel that shows the exact forces on that wheen at
any one time.  I like it!

-Larry