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Current Nascar Sims

6 posts by 5 people · 10 Feb 2002 18:56 UTC - 10 Feb 2002 22:41 UTC

Cliff Brown 10 Feb 2002 18:56 UTC#137277
I used to play Nascar 2 alot and raced a bit on-line but when Nascar 3 was released without the GPL physics I lost interest and picked up the real GPL. I have not had much time in the last year to race much but now things have settled down a little and I have been watching the action from Daytona this week and getting the urge to go Nascar racing again. So now my question...what is the current Nascar game that has realistic physics (something like GPL), has a good online play, and will run on my system (see specs below)? I found a couple online but am concerned about my system acutally running them with acceptable performance (the last couple games I have bought did not work very well even though I met the minimum system requirements). System Specs: Pentium II 450 MHz 512 mb RAM Voodoo 5 graphics SBLive Value Thanks for any and all advice, Cliff
N2002 comes out this week "Cliff Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
Quoted text (21 lines)> I used to play Nascar 2 alot and raced a bit on-line but when Nascar 3 was > released without the GPL physics I lost interest and picked up the real > GPL. I have not had much time in the last year to race much but now > things have settled down a little and I have been watching the action from > Daytona this week and getting the urge to go Nascar racing again. > > So now my question...what is the current Nascar game that has realistic > physics (something like GPL), has a good online play, and will run on my > system (see specs below)? I found a couple online but am concerned about > my system acutally running them with acceptable performance (the last > couple games I have bought did not work very well even though I met the > minimum system requirements). > > System Specs: > Pentium II 450 MHz > 512 mb RAM > Voodoo 5 graphics > SBLive Value > > Thanks for any and all advice, Cliff >
Will it run on a P2 450 with a Voodoo 5 graphics card? The review I found said P3 mimimum. In article <Znz98.63350$[email hidden]>, "Blake" <[email hidden]> wrote: > N2002 comes out this week >
Cliff, I would think N3 is about all you could run and get decent framerates on a PII. You would probably have to turn off so many graphic extras in N4 that it just wouldn't be worth it. "Cliff Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
Quoted text (20 lines)> I used to play Nascar 2 alot and raced a bit on-line but when Nascar 3 was > released without the GPL physics I lost interest and picked up the real > GPL. I have not had much time in the last year to race much but now > things have settled down a little and I have been watching the action from > Daytona this week and getting the urge to go Nascar racing again. > > So now my question...what is the current Nascar game that has realistic > physics (something like GPL), has a good online play, and will run on my > system (see specs below)? I found a couple online but am concerned about > my system acutally running them with acceptable performance (the last > couple games I have bought did not work very well even though I met the > minimum system requirements). > > System Specs: > Pentium II 450 MHz > 512 mb RAM > Voodoo 5 graphics > SBLive Value > > Thanks for any and all advice, Cliff
I ran N4 with a Piii 500 and A V5. But I had to turn off just about all the graphics. If you like square tires in the replays and tracks floating in space, then N4 is do-able. But with your system, it will be working very very hard to keep up with n2002, or N4 which are the two titles that have been built from the GPL engine. 2nd suggestion would be Nascar Heat. It does not have the full-on physics of N4 but is definately better than N3. And it is mod-able....there are DTM touring cars, Cart Champcars, Dirt trackers, Can-Am, Trans Am even boat mods that are coming out. And Nascar Heat is much less taxing on the system. You should be able to get about half the graphics running with your system and that will look and feel much better than N4 stripped of everything. dave henrie "Cliff Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
Quoted text (7 lines)> Will it run on a P2 450 with a Voodoo 5 graphics card? The review I > found said P3 mimimum. > > In article <Znz98.63350$[email hidden]>, "Blake" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > N2002 comes out this week > >
The Celeron 900 to 1.1G chips are going for $50 to $70 and may pop right into your computer. Check it out. Then you won't have problems with Nascar 4 or 2002 running. Just a thought. -- Slot Tweaks & Reviews www.slottweak.com "Cliff Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I used to play Nascar 2 alot and raced a bit on-line but when Nascar 3 was > released without the GPL physics I lost interest and picked up the real > GPL. I have not had much time in the last year to race much but now > things have settled down a little and I have been watching the action from > Daytona this week and getting the urge to go Nascar racing again. > > So now my question...what is the current Nascar game that has realistic > physics (something like GPL), has a good online play, and will run on my > system (see specs below)? I found a couple online but am concerned about > my system acutally running them with acceptable performance (the last > couple games I have bought did not work very well even though I met the > minimum system requirements). > > System Specs: > Pentium II 450 MHz > 512 mb RAM > Voodoo 5 graphics > SBLive Value > > Thanks for any and all advice, Cliff

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