F1 2001 - Rocket Science

Why is it that every new game that comes out require you to be a freekin rocket scientist to figure out how to get the freekin thing running smoothly?????? EA's F! 2001 is no bloody exception to say the least. First of all, S**k my d**k EA ... and come out with a patch to relieve the rocket science blues!!! After much F**king around after 3 hours, here's what you have to do to get great 1280*1024 frames per second (plus rear view f**king mirrors) if you have an AMD 1.4 Ghz ish Geforce2 MX 400 ish 400 meg ram ish machine ... 1) Set your desktop color depth to 16 bit. 2) I installed the latest 21.83 nvidia drivers from www.nvidia.com but I'm not sure this is necessary. C) Make sure the config.ini file in your F1 2001 folder has the following setting ... WINDOWEDMODE=1. I've had problems making this setting stick even by setting the config.ini file to READ ONLY!!!! Once again, EA can blow me :-) IV) Start the F1Config.exe program and select 1280*1024 16 bit. Click analyze. Your object detal should say full and you texture detail should say high. 4) You can now fool around with display settings within F1 2001. I prefer to keep any settings out of the "RED". I hope this helps any non aspiring rocket scientists getting this bitch to run.

Slammer, You just made my day, I was laughing so hard my stomach hurts ! Hopefully when F1 2001 comes out here in North America it will be patched. Peter "Slammer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:W9sx7.177794$[email hidden]...

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> Why is it that every new game that comes out require you to be a freekin > rocket scientist to figure out how to get the freekin thing running > smoothly?????? > > EA's F! 2001 is no bloody exception to say the least. First of all, S**k my > d**k EA ... and come out with a patch to relieve the rocket science blues!!! > > After much F**king around after 3 hours, here's what you have to do to get > great 1280*1024 frames per second (plus rear view f**king mirrors) if you > have an AMD 1.4 Ghz ish Geforce2 MX 400 ish 400 meg ram ish machine ... > > 1) Set your desktop color depth to 16 bit. > 2) I installed the latest 21.83 nvidia drivers from www.nvidia.com but I'm > not sure this is necessary. > C) Make sure the config.ini file in your F1 2001 folder has the following > setting ... WINDOWEDMODE=1. I've had problems making this setting stick > even by setting the config.ini file to READ ONLY!!!! Once again, EA can > blow me :-) > IV) Start the F1Config.exe program and select 1280*1024 16 bit. Click > analyze. Your object detal should say full and you texture detail should > say high. > 4) You can now fool around with display settings within F1 2001. I prefer > to keep any settings out of the "RED". > > I hope this helps any non aspiring rocket scientists getting this bitch to > run. > > > > > >

Please negate step 2) as it was a bad rocket scientist decision. Please stick with your official nvidia 12.41 driver. I noticed with the "official" 21.83 driver that the graphics were f**king up here and there and that I didn't see any treads on the front tires in cockpit view. The experiments continue ... (Please note that my experiments continue because F1 2001 seems to look more interesting than GP3 to this scientist) ... "Slammer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:W9sx7.177794$[email hidden]... > Why is it that every new game that comes out require you to be a freekin > rocket scientist to figure out how to get the freekin thing running > smoothly?????? > > EA's F! 2001 is no bloody exception to say the least. First of all, S**kmy > d**k EA ... and come out with a patch to relieve the rocket scienceblues!!!

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> > After much F**king around after 3 hours, here's what you have to do to get > great 1280*1024 frames per second (plus rear view f**king mirrors) if you > have an AMD 1.4 Ghz ish Geforce2 MX 400 ish 400 meg ram ish machine ... > > 1) Set your desktop color depth to 16 bit. > 2) I installed the latest 21.83 nvidia drivers from www.nvidia.com but I'm > not sure this is necessary. > C) Make sure the config.ini file in your F1 2001 folder has the following > setting ... WINDOWEDMODE=1. I've had problems making this setting stick > even by setting the config.ini file to READ ONLY!!!! Once again, EA can > blow me :-) > IV) Start the F1Config.exe program and select 1280*1024 16 bit. Click > analyze. Your object detal should say full and you texture detail should > say high. > 4) You can now fool around with display settings within F1 2001. I

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> to keep any settings out of the "RED". > > I hope this helps any non aspiring rocket scientists getting this bitch to > run. > > > > > >

I wish I were laughing and I live in North America. I bought it here at my local EB! Seriously though F1 2001 looks interesting ... "Peter Fisla" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:J1tx7.177945$[email hidden]...

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> Slammer, > > You just made my day, I was laughing so hard my stomach hurts ! > Hopefully when F1 2001 comes out here in North America it will be patched. > > Peter > > "Slammer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

news:W9sx7.177794$[email hidden]... > > Why is it that every new game that comes out require you to be a freekin > > rocket scientist to figure out how to get the freekin thing running > > smoothly?????? > > > > EA's F! 2001 is no bloody exception to say the least. First of all,S**k my > > d**k EA ... and come out with a patch to relieve the rocket scienceblues!!! > > > > After much F**king around after 3 hours, here's what you have to do toget > > great 1280*1024 frames per second (plus rear view f**king mirrors) ifyou > > have an AMD 1.4 Ghz ish Geforce2 MX 400 ish 400 meg ram ish machine ... > > > > 1) Set your desktop color depth to 16 bit. > > 2) I installed the latest 21.83 nvidia drivers from www.nvidia.com butI'm > > not sure this is necessary. > > C) Make sure the config.ini file in your F1 2001 folder has thefollowing > > setting ... WINDOWEDMODE=1. I've had problems making this setting stick > > even by setting the config.ini file to READ ONLY!!!! Once again, EA can > > blow me :-) > > IV) Start the F1Config.exe program and select 1280*1024 16 bit. Click > > analyze. Your object detal should say full and you texture detailshould > > say high. > > 4) You can now fool around with display settings within F1 2001. Iprefer > > to keep any settings out of the "RED". > > > > I hope this helps any non aspiring rocket scientists getting this bitchto

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I think if you look at many previous posts on this you'll find that there are problems with the 21 series drivers. The 21.85s brought the mirrors back for me, but essentially most people - myself included - get the best results with the 12.90s. I have never had any need to set the desktop to 16 bit, or run in a window, or run Fraps, etc. to get this 'bitch to run'! Once I had gone back to the 12.90 drivers, everything was perfect and running v smoothly @1280 (32 bit). Iain "Slammer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:REtx7.177990$[email hidden]... > Please negate step 2) as it was a bad rocket scientist decision. Please > stick with your official nvidia 12.41 driver. I noticed with the"official" > 21.83 driver that the graphics were f**king up here and there and that I > didn't see any treads on the front tires in cockpit view. > > The experiments continue ... > > (Please note that my experiments continue because F1 2001 seems to lookmore

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> interesting than GP3 to this scientist) ... > > > "Slammer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:W9sx7.177794$[email hidden]... > > Why is it that every new game that comes out require you to be a freekin > > rocket scientist to figure out how to get the freekin thing running > > smoothly?????? > > > > EA's F! 2001 is no bloody exception to say the least. First of all,

S**k > my > > d**k EA ... and come out with a patch to relieve the rocket science > blues!!! > > > > After much F**king around after 3 hours, here's what you have to do toget > > great 1280*1024 frames per second (plus rear view f**king mirrors) ifyou > > have an AMD 1.4 Ghz ish Geforce2 MX 400 ish 400 meg ram ish machine ... > > > > 1) Set your desktop color depth to 16 bit. > > 2) I installed the latest 21.83 nvidia drivers from www.nvidia.com butI'm > > not sure this is necessary. > > C) Make sure the config.ini file in your F1 2001 folder has thefollowing > > setting ... WINDOWEDMODE=1. I've had problems making this setting stick > > even by setting the config.ini file to READ ONLY!!!! Once again, EA can > > blow me :-) > > IV) Start the F1Config.exe program and select 1280*1024 16 bit. Click > > analyze. Your object detal should say full and you texture detailshould > > say high. > > 4) You can now fool around with display settings within F1 2001. I > prefer > > to keep any settings out of the "RED". > > > > I hope this helps any non aspiring rocket scientists getting this bitchto

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I didn't notice a difference between the official 12.41 drivers and unofficial 12.90 drivers. I prefer to use official drivers. I fooled with the 12.90 drivers once before with N4 only to find that framerates went down a bit so I stay away from unoffical stuff. With my rig mentioned above and with both drivers I can't get my rear view mirrors to work in non windowed mode and the WINDOWEDMODE=1 setting is ignored if my desktop color depth isn't the same as the game depth (16 bit)!! I find that at the higher resolutions, 32 bit is too choppy even for my 1.4 gig AMD. Talk about a can of worms!!!! The following text from the readme.txt file tells only part of the sorry tale ... Video Cards =========== When running F1 2001 we recommend that your video card setting in Windows Display Properties is set to 16 bit color depth. We do not recommend running F1 2001 in high resolutions (1024x768 or higher) and/or with hardware features such 4x anti-aliasing enabled (only really feasible on fast 64mb+ cards, e.g. Geforce 3) unless you have 256mb of ram and your AGP aperture size set to 256mb (contact your motherboard manufacturer or system manufacturer for assistance with this setting). Users should also be aware that at this resolution the frame-rate is likely to drop to significantly due to the memory bandwidth limitations of the AGP bus. Even a 4x AGP bus can only transmit around 1.2GB/s of graphical data to the system memory, compared to around 7Gb/s internally on a fast video card such as the GeForce 3. 4x full screen anti-aliasing is only supported on Voodoo 5 cards in resolutions up to and including 800x600. And oh ya, did you read this total crap about replays? ... Replays ======= Furthermore, viewing the same replay multiple times may lead to visual inaccuracies particularly with regards to damage. "Iain Mackenzie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:mavx7.416$[email hidden]... > I think if you look at many previous posts on this you'll find that there > are problems with the 21 series drivers. The 21.85s brought the mirrors > back for me, but essentially most people - myself included - get the best > results with the 12.90s. > I have never had any need to set the desktop to 16 bit, or run in awindow,

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> or run Fraps, etc. to get this 'bitch to run'! > Once I had gone back to the 12.90 drivers, everything was perfect and > running v smoothly @1280 (32 bit). > Iain > > "Slammer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:REtx7.177990$[email hidden]... > > Please negate step 2) as it was a bad rocket scientist decision. Please > > stick with your official nvidia 12.41 driver. I noticed with the > "official" > > 21.83 driver that the graphics were f**king up here and there and that I > > didn't see any treads on the front tires in cockpit view. > > > > The experiments continue ... > > > > (Please note that my experiments continue because F1 2001 seems to look > more > > interesting than GP3 to this scientist) ... > > > > > > "Slammer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:W9sx7.177794$[email hidden]... > > > Why is it that every new game that comes out require you to be a

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> > > rocket scientist to figure out how to get the freekin thing running > > > smoothly?????? > > > > > > EA's F! 2001 is no bloody exception to say the least. First of all, > S**k > > my > > > d**k EA ... and come out with a patch to relieve the rocket science > > blues!!! > > > > > > After much F**king around after 3 hours, here's what you have to do to > get > > > great 1280*1024 frames per second (plus rear view f**king mirrors) if > you > > > have an AMD 1.4 Ghz ish Geforce2 MX 400 ish 400 meg ram ish machine

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> > > > > > 1) Set your desktop color depth to 16 bit. > > > 2) I installed the latest 21.83 nvidia drivers from www.nvidia.com but > I'm > > > not sure this is necessary. > > > C) Make sure the config.ini file in your F1 2001 folder has the > following > > > setting ... WINDOWEDMODE=1. I've had problems making this setting

stick > > > even by setting the config.ini file to READ ONLY!!!! Once again, EAcan

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> > > blow me :-) > > > IV) Start the F1Config.exe program and select 1280*1024 16 bit. Click > > > analyze. Your object detal should say full and you texture detail > should > > > say high. > > > 4) You can now fool around with display settings within F1 2001. I > > prefer > > > to keep any settings out of the "RED". > > > > > > I hope this helps any non aspiring rocket scientists getting this

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> > And oh ya, did you read this total crap about replays? ... > > Replays > ======= > Furthermore, viewing the same replay multiple times may lead to visual > inaccuracies particularly with regards to damage. >

Take a replay from a papyrus product that includes a damaged car. Save it. Exit the sim. Reload and view the replay...viola! No damage seen. Sounds about the same as the the above. dave henrie

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:21:27 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>> >> And oh ya, did you read this total crap about replays? ... >> >> Replays >> ======= >> Furthermore, viewing the same replay multiple times may lead to visual >> inaccuracies particularly with regards to damage. >> > Take a replay from a papyrus product that includes a damaged car. Save >it. Exit the sim. Reload and view the replay...viola! No damage seen.

Probably it has a 'damage indicator' inside the replay stream, which is interpreted differently each time it's seen (random damage effects). Ruud van Gaal Free car sim : http://www.marketgraph.nl/gallery/racer/ Pencil art : http://www.marketgraph.nl/gallery/

"Dave Henrie" wrote > Take a replay from a papyrus product that includes a damaged car. Save > it. Exit the sim. Reload and view the replay...viola! Ah the old Papy strings section in all its glory...

"Dave Henrie" wrote Ah the old Papy strings section in all its glory...

"Slammer" wrote > Why is it that every new game that comes out require you to be a freekin > rocket scientist to figure out how to get the freekin thing running > smoothly?????? Imagine if we had to sell these sims to the unsuspecting average not very computer literate punters? I would just cringe at the thought . "You might need to load the 12.41 drivers to get that one working properly, Sir" "Uh?" "Ok see you tomorrow then, I'll fill out the refund slip ready..."

FWIW - 12.90 and 21.85 drivers work the same for me, both pretty good! Todd "Iain Mackenzie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:mavx7.416$[email hidden]... > I think if you look at many previous posts on this you'll find that there > are problems with the 21 series drivers. The 21.85s brought the mirrors > back for me, but essentially most people - myself included - get the best > results with the 12.90s. > I have never had any need to set the desktop to 16 bit, or run in awindow,

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> or run Fraps, etc. to get this 'bitch to run'! > Once I had gone back to the 12.90 drivers, everything was perfect and > running v smoothly @1280 (32 bit). > Iain > > "Slammer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:REtx7.177990$[email hidden]... > > Please negate step 2) as it was a bad rocket scientist decision. Please > > stick with your official nvidia 12.41 driver. I noticed with the > "official" > > 21.83 driver that the graphics were f**king up here and there and that I > > didn't see any treads on the front tires in cockpit view. > > > > The experiments continue ... > > > > (Please note that my experiments continue because F1 2001 seems to look > more > > interesting than GP3 to this scientist) ... > > > > > > "Slammer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:W9sx7.177794$[email hidden]... > > > Why is it that every new game that comes out require you to be a

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> > > rocket scientist to figure out how to get the freekin thing running > > > smoothly?????? > > > > > > EA's F! 2001 is no bloody exception to say the least. First of all, > S**k > > my > > > d**k EA ... and come out with a patch to relieve the rocket science > > blues!!! > > > > > > After much F**king around after 3 hours, here's what you have to do to > get > > > great 1280*1024 frames per second (plus rear view f**king mirrors) if > you > > > have an AMD 1.4 Ghz ish Geforce2 MX 400 ish 400 meg ram ish machine

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> > > > > > 1) Set your desktop color depth to 16 bit. > > > 2) I installed the latest 21.83 nvidia drivers from www.nvidia.com but > I'm > > > not sure this is necessary. > > > C) Make sure the config.ini file in your F1 2001 folder has the > following > > > setting ... WINDOWEDMODE=1. I've had problems making this setting

stick > > > even by setting the config.ini file to READ ONLY!!!! Once again, EAcan

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> > > blow me :-) > > > IV) Start the F1Config.exe program and select 1280*1024 16 bit. Click > > > analyze. Your object detal should say full and you texture detail > should > > > say high. > > > 4) You can now fool around with display settings within F1 2001. I > > prefer > > > to keep any settings out of the "RED". > > > > > > I hope this helps any non aspiring rocket scientists getting this

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My God, it's full of stars! -Larry "Slammer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:W9sx7.177794$[email hidden]... > Why is it that every new game that comes out require you to be a freekin > rocket scientist to figure out how to get the freekin thing running > smoothly?????? > > EA's F! 2001 is no bloody exception to say the least. First of all, S**kmy > d**k EA ... and come out with a patch to relieve the rocket scienceblues!!!

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> > After much F**king around after 3 hours, here's what you have to do to get > great 1280*1024 frames per second (plus rear view f**king mirrors) if you > have an AMD 1.4 Ghz ish Geforce2 MX 400 ish 400 meg ram ish machine ... > > 1) Set your desktop color depth to 16 bit. > 2) I installed the latest 21.83 nvidia drivers from www.nvidia.com but I'm > not sure this is necessary. > C) Make sure the config.ini file in your F1 2001 folder has the following > setting ... WINDOWEDMODE=1. I've had problems making this setting stick > even by setting the config.ini file to READ ONLY!!!! Once again, EA can > blow me :-) > IV) Start the F1Config.exe program and select 1280*1024 16 bit. Click > analyze. Your object detal should say full and you texture detail should > say high. > 4) You can now fool around with display settings within F1 2001. I

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> to keep any settings out of the "RED". > > I hope this helps any non aspiring rocket scientists getting this bitch to > run. > > > > > >

It's out. I bought it at Best Buy yesterday. Still don't have it running right. And who in their right mind would release a game without Force Feedback in this day and age ? -Larry "Slammer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:cItx7.178028$[email hidden]... > I wish I were laughing and I live in North America. I bought it here atmy

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> local EB! > > Seriously though F1 2001 looks interesting ... > > > "Peter Fisla" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:J1tx7.177945$[email hidden]... > > Slammer, > > > > You just made my day, I was laughing so hard my stomach hurts ! > > Hopefully when F1 2001 comes out here in North America it will be

patched. > > > > Peter > > > > "Slammer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:W9sx7.177794$[email hidden]... > > > Why is it that every new game that comes out require you to be afreekin

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> > > rocket scientist to figure out how to get the freekin thing running > > > smoothly?????? > > > > > > EA's F! 2001 is no bloody exception to say the least. First of all, > S**k my > > > d**k EA ... and come out with a patch to relieve the rocket science > blues!!! > > > > > > After much F**king around after 3 hours, here's what you have to do to > get > > > great 1280*1024 frames per second (plus rear view f**king mirrors) if > you > > > have an AMD 1.4 Ghz ish Geforce2 MX 400 ish 400 meg ram ish machine

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> > > > > > 1) Set your desktop color depth to 16 bit. > > > 2) I installed the latest 21.83 nvidia drivers from www.nvidia.com but > I'm > > > not sure this is necessary. > > > C) Make sure the config.ini file in your F1 2001 folder has the > following > > > setting ... WINDOWEDMODE=1. I've had problems making this setting

stick > > > even by setting the config.ini file to READ ONLY!!!! Once again, EAcan

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> > > blow me :-) > > > IV) Start the F1Config.exe program and select 1280*1024 16 bit. Click > > > analyze. Your object detal should say full and you texture detail > should > > > say high. > > > 4) You can now fool around with display settings within F1 2001. I > prefer > > > to keep any settings out of the "RED". > > > > > > I hope this helps any non aspiring rocket scientists getting this

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Odd. 21.85's here, and no mirrors. -Larry "Iain Mackenzie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:mavx7.416$[email hidden]... > I think if you look at many previous posts on this you'll find that there > are problems with the 21 series drivers. The 21.85s brought the mirrors > back for me, but essentially most people - myself included - get the best > results with the 12.90s. > I have never had any need to set the desktop to 16 bit, or run in awindow,

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> or run Fraps, etc. to get this 'bitch to run'! > Once I had gone back to the 12.90 drivers, everything was perfect and > running v smoothly @1280 (32 bit). > Iain > > "Slammer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:REtx7.177990$[email hidden]... > > Please negate step 2) as it was a bad rocket scientist decision. Please > > stick with your official nvidia 12.41 driver. I noticed with the > "official" > > 21.83 driver that the graphics were f**king up here and there and that I > > didn't see any treads on the front tires in cockpit view. > > > > The experiments continue ... > > > > (Please note that my experiments continue because F1 2001 seems to look > more > > interesting than GP3 to this scientist) ... > > > > > > "Slammer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:W9sx7.177794$[email hidden]... > > > Why is it that every new game that comes out require you to be a

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> > > rocket scientist to figure out how to get the freekin thing running > > > smoothly?????? > > > > > > EA's F! 2001 is no bloody exception to say the least. First of all, > S**k > > my > > > d**k EA ... and come out with a patch to relieve the rocket science > > blues!!! > > > > > > After much F**king around after 3 hours, here's what you have to do to > get > > > great 1280*1024 frames per second (plus rear view f**king mirrors) if > you > > > have an AMD 1.4 Ghz ish Geforce2 MX 400 ish 400 meg ram ish machine

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> > > > > > 1) Set your desktop color depth to 16 bit. > > > 2) I installed the latest 21.83 nvidia drivers from www.nvidia.com but > I'm > > > not sure this is necessary. > > > C) Make sure the config.ini file in your F1 2001 folder has the > following > > > setting ... WINDOWEDMODE=1. I've had problems making this setting

stick > > > even by setting the config.ini file to READ ONLY!!!! Once again, EAcan

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> > > blow me :-) > > > IV) Start the F1Config.exe program and select 1280*1024 16 bit. Click > > > analyze. Your object detal should say full and you texture detail > should > > > say high. > > > 4) You can now fool around with display settings within F1 2001. I > > prefer > > > to keep any settings out of the "RED". > > > > > > I hope this helps any non aspiring rocket scientists getting this

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