F1 2001 review at IGN

IGN.com has a review (Nov 12, 01), not entirely complementary, of EA's F12001 at: http://pc.ign.com/reviews/17123.html

I doubt I'm the only who has noticed how poorly sim-racer games are reviewed by Game magazines in general. It's one thing to not care for a game because it isn't fun (however it probably wouldn't be very fun for a non sim-racer to enjoy such an outright simulation anyway), but to say that not much has changed in F1-2001 since F1-2000, shows a total lack of knowledge of the genre. my 2c rb..... "Bart Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > IGN.com has a review (Nov 12, 01), not entirely complementary, of EA's > F12001 at: > > http://pc.ign.com/reviews/17123.html

"Bart Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > IGN.com has a review (Nov 12, 01), not entirely complementary, of EA's > F12001 at: > > http://pc.ign.com/reviews/17123.html I purchased the game about 4 weeks ago and found this to be an interesting review. I found this comment quite disturbing though: "The game also doesn't like GeForce cards. We encountered a number of play halting problems that seemed to occur at random. Sometimes a race would start well, other times it would glitch to a halt. Radeon cards had no such problems however. " I'm currently playing F1 2001 with low video settings using my factory 4 Meg card that came with my Intel motherboard. I'm now in the market for a GeForce card. After some research, I'm trying to decide between the 64 MB GeForce2 GTS and the 64 MB GeForce2 MX-400. Can any current GeForce card owners corroborate IGNs claim about GeForce instability in the game? What card do you guys recommend for someone willing to spend $150 max? All comments are welcome. Louis

I have a GF3 and it runs awesome, though the in-game readme says AA only works with VooDoo5500, go figure ! The Ti 200 looks like a good deal if you can make the stretch, The core is much better than GF2 cards = better visuals, and a lot more power. Having said that an ATI Radeon 8500 is about the same price ($199.00), anyone running the game with this card ??? rb "Kool Lou" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:PNJI7.5845$[email hidden]...

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> > "Bart Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > IGN.com has a review (Nov 12, 01), not entirely complementary, of EA's > > F12001 at: > > > > http://pc.ign.com/reviews/17123.html > > I purchased the game about 4 weeks ago and found this to be an interesting > review. I found this comment quite disturbing though: > > "The game also doesn't like GeForce cards. We encountered a number of play > halting problems that seemed to occur at random. Sometimes a race would > start well, other times it would glitch to a halt. Radeon cards had no

such > problems however. " > > I'm currently playing F1 2001 with low video settings using my factory 4Meg

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> card that came with my Intel motherboard. I'm now in the market for a > GeForce card. After some research, I'm trying to decide between the 64 MB > GeForce2 GTS and the 64 MB GeForce2 MX-400. > > Can any current GeForce card owners corroborate IGNs claim about GeForce > instability in the game? What card do you guys recommend for someone > willing to spend $150 max? All comments are welcome. > > Louis > > >