I'm not a regular in this group, but i've seen a lot of guys talking
about F1GP2.
I was actually invited to a sneak preview of it in Australia about
2 months ago. These are my general interpretations...
1. The sound is fantastic. They have actually have digitised the sound of
a f1 car, it is unbelieveable. I'm telling you guys now, while upgradeing
your computer to run the damn thing... make sure you get some
fantastic speakers also.
2. The graphics are unbelievable. The preview at the microprose site, is
what you will expect, and that is only in vga mode.
3. Gameplay is great, at the sneak preview, they actually had a fibreglass
copy of a f1 car. I was lucky enough to sit in it and race the game.
It handles like a full blown f1 car, to much throttle out of a corner
and expect the tail to come out. Guess what guys, if you think you can
master the game in a few days...WRONG... it's a lot harder than f1gp.
BTW here's a little story. One of the guys at the preview, boldly
stated that he was the best f1gp racer around. He works for a popular
games magazine in Australia, and i wont mention his name. Anyway the
way he was talking, i was even impressed (i fancy myself as a bit of
a f1gp expert :)). So he hops in the car, loses it around the first
corner, ends up in a sand trap, and can't get out. In other words he
made the biggest fool of himself there.
4. Unfortunately i don't think a lot of guys out there will have the
system necessary to run the game in it's full glory. The beta was
running on a Pentium 120mhz with 16 mb ram and a fast 2mb video card.
It was fine in vga mode when racing with a few cars around. But at the
beggining of the race where you have 20 cars all racing...boy was it
jerky. It was a beta version and it hadn't been optimised yet, but
really you want at least a Pentium 100. A 166mhz with 32 mb ram and a
high end video card will be great, but even in super vga mode, which
looks incredible, i'm afraid that even a p166 may struggle a bit.
Other than that, i have nothing to say. I talked to one of the guys from
microprose, and he was quite adamant about it release date, but as we all
know, that isn't the case.
If any of you guys have any questions, i'll be glad to reply. I hope
this has cleared some misconceptions.
bye
Ilija
> If any of you guys have any questions, i'll be glad to reply. I hope
> this has cleared some misconceptions.
> bye
> Ilija
Ilija, thanks for the info. Do you happen to know if 16meg RAM will be
required for SVGA? I have a P133 and Diamond Stealth, so will
expect to play in SVGA, but I only have 8mb RAM.
Thanks
Julian
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I only have a DX 2/66 8mb. will the game even run in vga mode with a cpu
like this. Should I start saving for an upgrade now. Will the game have
the new tracks and the changes to the old ones or will it be on the 94
season. Did anybody from Mps tell you if there would be an upgrade disk
later. What is the latest release date you have heard.
It will run in 8Mb through DOS, but 16Mb is better. If you run through
Win95 you'll require 16Mb, 8Mb won't work at all.
Cheers!
John
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> >Ilija, thanks for the info. Do you happen to know if 16meg RAM will be
> >required for SVGA? I have a P133 and Diamond Stealth, so will
> >expect to play in SVGA, but I only have 8mb RAM.
> It will run in 8Mb through DOS, but 16Mb is better. If you run through
> Win95 you'll require 16Mb, 8Mb won't work at all.
In addition... Have you checked the price of RAM lately? There are a
lot of good reasons to have at least 16Mb of memory in your system.
With the recent price decreases, 8Mb of RAM could cost less than some
games!
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