rec.autos.simulators

Both games have gotten good reviews, it seems for the most part, and I
am trying to find the lowest price.

My system:

Dell P200MMX
64MB RAM
Diamond Monster Fusion Voodoo Banshee 16MB

How do you think it would run on this PC?

Thank you

Sam Johnson
common r.a.s. lurker, occasional poster

Midtown madness isn't going to run very well on that computer.  You don't have
enough memory and your processor is way too slow.

The two games are very different, so if you just want the one that will run
better, get NFS.  It should look wonderful with the Banshee.

daxe

I run a K6-233 with 64MB and Fusion as well, so my opinion should be close to what yours would be:
I use NFSHS every night, and the graphics in single player are spectacular (though the frame rate drops when cars are in front and
effects like rain or dust are in the air).

The sound is good, and it allows you to play audio CDs instead of just the racing music.
I don't know what CDRom you use, but mine annoyingly keeps roaring along at high speed due to the in-game audio. So I decided to
switch to audio CD which uses less RPM, thus less noise.

The cars have individual physics and damage effects (including crumpled body, wobbly tires, and smoke and flames).

The one think some people will not like is the unlocking of tracks. There are 6 new tracks and all the NFS3 tracks, but you can't
race a track until you unlock it through championship racing. Same with the cars. Just like NFS3 did. You can use cheat codes to get
around this though.

However, split-screen racing is terrible on my little CPU. With 640x480x16, no effects, no detail, the frame rate was quite choppy
for both of us. Of course, the online portion is still not finished yet (www.earacing.com), so I can keep busy in single player
career mode until then.

HTH,
Rick

Also, much to my dismay, the opponents and cops in NFSHS still "float"
around the track.  Watch when an opponent car avoids other cars-- they
slide sideways instead of performing an actual turn.  What's so hard
about making the opponents have to powerslide like I do?  They also
don't wipe out as easily as I do, although it's better than it was in
NFS3...

In summary, I have much more fun playing MM.

--Mountain K

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No it doesn't.

No they aren't.

Yes they are.

No it doesn't.

Slightly more so than NFS, correct. Hey one out of five ain't bad (or
is it?).

Joe McGinn
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[list of apparent MM flaws deleted]

Well, either you experienced a beta version of MM, or maybe your
steering wheel was disconnected?

I think that MM is a LOT more *fun* than NFSHS.  Especially wrt the
computer opponents-- you can actually take out the opposition in MM,
unlike NFSSE (where the opponent cars have hella sticky tires and you
can't budge 'em).

I'll bet you never played a good MM cops & robbers game on the
internet either...  Now THAT'S a blast!

--mk

  Actually, it's really easy to take out an opponent in NFSHS, any time I wind
up racing an opponent with a faster car than me, I pull up even with the back
of his door, and turn hard into the back of his car.  Spins them out almost
every time.  But it does generally seem that the cars weigh more (or have a
lot more grip) than they should.

  And it's lots of fun running somebody off the road, and they hit an incline
and you watch them in your rear-view mirror as they flip and skid on their
roof.

  I like both games.  MM has some weird flaws, especially the cops and the
lack of ANY replay system.  Not that NFSHS has much of a replay system, but
it's better than nothing.  NFSHS lets you race on a long track (usually in the
country) with really nice scenery, where MTM gives you lots of traffic and
buildings to dodge.  It's really satisfying driving through cross-traffic at
an intersection going 100mph.

Dan