rec.autos.simulators

My estimate is that it's about 5-10%.  It's going
to depend on your system and what type of wheel
you have, though.  I'm using a K6-2 333 and a Force RS.

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Pat Dotson
IMPACT Motorsports
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Well, the PII 350 part is right - one overclocked to 466 :)
That, and a $30 Rendition 4MB video card, GPL in 640X480 35+ fps 100% of the
time

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Kirk Lane

ICQ: 28171652

How bad was RB II compared to RB I?  Just curious...

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Um, a question from one who doesn't have FF, and deosn't plan to ($$$
reason, no other):

Is that estimate (5-10%) up or down?

--David

Down of course.

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Pat Dotson
IMPACT Motorsports
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Down of course. Nothing in life is free.

Of course, you CAN turn it off, if that 5-10% is a problem.

Scott

says...

RBI was state of the art when it came out, and RBII was essentially
already obsolete when it arrived, not a lot to set it apart from Wings
of Glory of late 1995. The problems with RBII/3d are with the flight
modelling.  They were promising the "most realistic flight model ever"
blah di blah and the flight model was plain awful on release. It then
went through several rehashes, and was never fixed. Hackers have tried,
succesfully to a certain extent, to change the flight models.  However
when certain deficiencies were corrected, most notably speed bleed in
turns (with the Sierra flight model you could turn and turn forever
without the plane losing speed or alt) the AI cannot fly the planes and
crash. The campaign is almost the same as the one in RBI. Unfortunately
RBII does not have a flight recorder. The saving grace of the game is
the plethora of third party patches, and the dynamic campaign, or more
precisely, a dynamic "little world" where other squadrons, friend and
foe, go about their business. It is kind of cool to send an extra
patrol out on a mission as a squadron commander, finish your own
mission and then go over to find that patrol still performing their
duties. The damage model after the latest patch was also excellent.
Historical inaccuracies have been corrected by third party patchers
(Sierra did a lousy job there, living aces were reported as dead,
victory tallies were wrong), plane colours have been corrected, there
are a few damage models to choose from, there is a "squadron manager"
which lets you type after combat reports and the like, and now there
are people improving the graphics.  I have not tried those yet, as I
seriously overate on RBII/3d, and the original third party improvements
to the flight model were abolished as the AI cannot fly the patched FM
planes. What really pissed me off about RBII/3d is the Sierra
statements continually contradicting themselves. When it came out 3d
acceleration had already become the norm in games, but according to
Sierra the game engine was too old to be able to implement 3d
acceleration. Of course 6 months down the road (and 2 FM rehashes
later) and complaint after complaint the decision was made to give 3d
accelaration in a patch, and then Sierra went on thumping their chest
about giving the simmers a "free 3d patch". As multiplayer had been
screwed up with the initial release that was also in the "free patch"
so more self congratulatory shoulder patting. When it appeared that the
FM in that particular patch was as bad as it had been, and mmp was
still porked, another "free patch" was unleashed upon the simming
hordes, and more self-back  patting from Sierra. Of course the icing
was the release of the 3d boxed version which was the same as the mmp
patched RBII. RBII owners could get that for free, with a refund upon
sending the RBII CD. I actually got my money 4 months later.

Dolle Dolf

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