rec.autos.simulators

When I installed the demo, it told me that I needed DX 9.0 to run the game,
so I figured I better install it (even though I was trying to stick to DX
8.1 until absolutely necessary). Well everything still works great so I am
not so scared of DX9 anymore. Anyway...

When I first started the demo, it went into the graphics setup part and low
and behold it says "DirectX 8.1"???????? Does the demo really require DX9?
Is the full version going to require DX9? Is it really DX9 compliant? If it
is, it will be the first.

Also, I run Nascar 2002 (and still do) in OpenGL. I cannot get OpenGL to
work with the demo. It just dumps right back to the desktop during the video
setup.

Thanks.

FWIW, I also have the Radeon 8500LE and could not get the video to calibrate in
OpenGL either.  In fact, until I "un-overclocked" the video card, D3D
calibration didn't work either.  (After calibration, I was again able to
overclock the card and run the demo)....

I also run NR2002 in OpenGL.

AMD 2700+
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
Radeon 9700 Pro
512MB Dual DDR
Adaptec 19160 SCSI Controller
Seagate 73MB SCSI HD

I did the same thing on my Win 98 SE.
Afterwards it seemed I had a big loss of framerate in GP4 (Processor
occupancy around 150 instead of 100) and i tried to uninstall DX9.
This didn't seem to be a simple task but with the DirectX Uninstaller I
managed this.
The first thing i tried was to run GP4 again... everything was back to
normal...
Then I started the N2003 demo and everything worked fine... which I think
was very strange...

Bottomline : please keep sticking to DX8.1 untill absolutely necessary (GPL
2 e.g. <G>)

Greetz,

Belgium