rec.autos.simulators

This game was developed before the Geforce 3 or 4.   Must of been because
when I get setup
from people that dont have those cards I have to add as much 100lbs.  Why
should you have to
change anything on ones setups just to run them on your machines.  This has
nothing to do with
driving style the game treats every piece of hardware different.   You would
think that they would
synchronize the cpu and graphics cards )frame rates by 2002.  Also the
physics engine is in
upside down.. How else can you explain why when you raise your car it goes
faster... Geeeeeez

Sue Wilshe

If you're getting different framerates than someone else, it effects
the rate at which the sim is processing your input.  The physics
themselves do not change based on your hardware or framerate.

Weird, I've never experienced that.  My fastest setups are all set
with the ride height as low as possible and the springs as soft as
they'll go without the body scraping.

Jason

Until they mandated rear suspension at Daytona and Talladega, real Winston Cup
teams used to raise the front end and drop the low as humanly possible for
qualifying.  You'd see sparks fly out the back of the car every time it so much
as came near a bump it was so low in the back, but the front was WAY up.
Apparently, it worked.  :)

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Dan Belcher
Webmaster,
http://simcrash.fameflame.dk

Ahhh.  Ok you're talking about top speed.  I thought you meant
laptimes.

I would imagine that anywhere but Tally/Tona raising the front of the
car would really hurt your lap times.  It is interesting if that is
the logical explanation for it.

Jason

I think we've all played "Catch the Car" at least once, where the frame
rates were so slow that you never can get 'caught up' with what the car is
doing.

-Larry