GP2 - Hardware Shmardware

Welcome, Friend! I don't know what you people are reading...*I'VE* been playing F1GP2 since last August! 1-900-Psychic? Heck Yeah! I have no Idea what all the whining and crying is about...I've been playing this in full color SVGA with full details with my HP 48G scientific calculator with an infra-red link to my ECC Competition Controls Unit, like I said, since last August!. oh...wait...I'm 2 weeks and three days too early, aren't I? heh -Bill (stuck with ICR2 in VGA/objects on/object textures off/skids on/everything else off, and a T1, on a 486SX33)

Yes indeed this newsgroup has succumbed to the bullshit plague that seems to be sweeping the motor racing simulator world. Virtually every subject header on my newsreader has GP2 in it somewhere. So I thought I'd chip my oar in and join the frenzy... :-) Release dates I won't mention - it arrives when it arrives. I'm just as eager as the next sad-no-life-no-friends-love-my-computer person for it to arrive, but until they're happy with it, we wait. I think r.a.s can do without anymore 'I know the release date' posts. The only point I want to make is this. Many of the articles in r.a.s are rattling on about how you need a Cray II or Deep Thought to run the game in CGA with all the details turned off, one other car on the track, and the frame rate set to once a month. My questions are- 1. If the _final_ version of the game hasn't been seen yet, how do you know? 2. The people that say that MPS are waiting until everyone has a pentium, do they really believe that this will happen in a couple of months? 3. Would MPS be stupid enough (even though they released GPM!) to release a game that only a fraction of people would be able to play at anything like a decent frame rate and detail level? Or am I the only person in the world without a Cray II or Deep Thought? It's been said before, but it's worth repeating - let's just wait and see shall we? *********************************************************************** * Paul L. Finnemore - Apprentice Veterinarian * * "Being paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you" * ***********************************************************************

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|> Release dates I won't mention - it arrives when it arrives. I'm just as |> eager as the next sad-no-life-no-friends-love-my-computer person for it |> to arrive, but until they're happy with it, we wait. I think r.a.s can |> do without anymore 'I know the release date' posts. |> [snip] |> It's been said before, but it's worth repeating - let's just wait and |> see shall we?

Couldn't agree more. I am really p!$$ed off by the postings about GP2 is going to be released by this and that date and is now being pushed back to this and that date. First I have to ask: How do you know? A lot of s/w stores give bs dates and even Microprose itself doesn't know exactly when, how do you guys determine GP2 will be released by a certain date? Second annoying thing is the uninformed bunch asking the availability of the demo. It is not going to be released, period. Third annoying thing is the speculation about the hardware requirement of GP2. If it indeed does need a P90 to run in CGA mode, well, too tough. The competition will catch up if it sticks to current technologies. Remember when Wing Commander needed a decent 386 to run well when everybody at that time only had XT's and 286's? If GP2 runs well in VGA with your 486DX2/66, cry. It will be obsolete in a couple of months. -- Isaac Wong (613) 763-6127 | Protel Compiler Development http://chat.carleton.ca/~iwong | Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada