Formula 1 by Psygnosis on PC CDROM

I've heard Formula 1 from the Playstation is to be released on PC CDROM sometime in November and it only supports S3 and S3d graphic cards (According to special reserve's site) it's got all the features of the Playstation version plus 8 Player IPX support. Has anyone got any further info?

On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:33:36 +0000, Paul Sutcliffe

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>I've heard Formula 1 from the Playstation is to be released on >PC CDROM sometime in November and it only supports S3 and S3d >graphic cards (According to special reserve's site) it's got >all the features of the Playstation version plus 8 Player IPX >support. >Has anyone got any further info?

Sounds like what I've heard too but I doubt they will limit their market to specific video cards - it may be OPTIMIZED to work with certain cards but they can't shut out the other 80% of the consumers who don't have Diamond Cards.

According to the Rendition, Creative Labs and Intergraph web sites, Formula 1 will support the Rendition. Randy

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> On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:33:36 +0000, Paul Sutcliffe > >I've heard Formula 1 from the Playstation is to be released on > >PC CDROM sometime in November and it only supports S3 and S3d > >graphic cards (According to special reserve's site) it's got > >all the features of the Playstation version plus 8 Player IPX > >support. > >Has anyone got any further info? > Sounds like what I've heard too but I doubt they will limit their market

to > specific video cards - it may be OPTIMIZED to work with certain cards but they > can't shut out the other 80% of the consumers who don't have Diamond Cards. You mean the other 50% of those who don't have Diamond cards.

I have also heard that it will support the Matrox Mystique graphics card. This info seems quite likely to be correct due to the fact that Destruction Derby 2 also supports this particular card. Check out the Matrox homepage at (www.matrox.com) and go to the section on the Mystique. It has a huge list of all the games released and due to be released that will support the card. It can't be a lie. This is solid true info. Andrew Easter

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>> On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:33:36 +0000, Paul Sutcliffe >> >I've heard Formula 1 from the Playstation is to be released on >> >PC CDROM sometime in November and it only supports S3 and S3d >> >graphic cards (According to special reserve's site) it's got >> >all the features of the Playstation version plus 8 Player IPX >> >support. >> >Has anyone got any further info? >> Sounds like what I've heard too but I doubt they will limit their market >to >> specific video cards - it may be OPTIMIZED to work with certain cards but >they >> can't shut out the other 80% of the consumers who don't have Diamond >Cards. >You mean the other 50% of those who don't have Diamond cards.

You either work for Diamond or have access to better marketing data than I do (;-)

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> On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:33:36 +0000, Paul Sutcliffe > >I've heard Formula 1 from the Playstation is to be released on > >PC CDROM sometime in November and it only supports S3 and S3d > >graphic cards (According to special reserve's site) it's got > >all the features of the Playstation version plus 8 Player IPX > >support.

[snip] > Sounds like what I've heard too but I doubt they will limit their market to > specific video cards - it may be OPTIMIZED to work with certain cards but they > can't shut out the other 80% of the consumers who don't have Diamond Cards. S3 chips are not only present on Diamond cards. There are at least 6 different manufacturers supplying s3d based cards. Also, if you check out the s3 web site you'll find a list of ALOT of games houses writing stuff for s3d VIRGE and VIRGE/VX. I'd suggest you are right in their not shutting out other users, it's more likely that the game will have *3d* card support for ONLY the s3d series. This seems likely since DD supports s3d and psygnosis seem to be heading that way. All other video cards will run using standard 13h or VESA. Psygnosis seems to have chosen a card on the basis of how much market there will be. More people will buy the 3dcard which costs 25% of the price and still provides Trio64+ performance under windows. This gives a bigger market, more games sales, more software houses seeing the benefit and therefore more people buying the card - good business. Also, virge is directx/direct3d compatible although some decent version2 drivers would be nice :) This is great news for us VIRGE owners, since the DescentII patch for Virge was far too slow to be usable even on a decent pentium. I think this was a coding problem, judging by the playability of Destruction Derby on VIRGE. Hopefully, what we'll see is better coding for the s3d chip and therefore better performance. There has been alot of critisism of the virge chip, but I fail to understand where this has come from considering the *very few* games available up until now. How do you judge a card as 'sucking' on so few *early* releases? In terms of cost vs. perfomance, my $79AUD virge based card is great for windows, and dos, and runs GP2 with s3spdup at a vid speed of 467. Jet