I'm considering buying a GP1, with a view to using it on Network Q RAC
Rally.
Does anyone have any good or bad stories to share about the two working
together.
Ta,
Nige
> I'm considering buying a GP1, with a view to using it on Network Q RAC
> Rally.
> Does anyone have any good or bad stories to share about the two working
> together.
I have T2, and it worked fine, I dont see any reason why GP1
should be worst.
BUT... I think Network Q RAC Rally sucks. The steering is strange.
The car wont slide naturally. :(
Try Screamer 2.
--
Harri Vuorinen
Surfers Paradise I'd slip into a coma."
http://www.vsonic.fi/~harrijv/ - Garfield -
>I'm considering buying a GP1, with a view to using it on Network Q RAC
>Rally.
>Does anyone have any good or bad stories to share about the two working
>together.
If you mean RAC Rally Championship, by Europress (I seem to have seen
more variations on this title than I can count!) I'd say go for it. I
had no trouble calibrating the GP1 with this game - although I've now
shelved the game till I get a faster PC. On a P90 (16mb ram) the
frame rate at full screen was tacky, and the so-called second
resolution setting made practically no difference. Anyone else have
this problem? There should be a VGA mode, methinks. I couldn't even
see the difference when I swapped resolutions until I tried it whilst
the car was stationary.
I've also used the GP1 successfully with F1GP2 and it's a whole new
experience. The hand operated gas/brake levers are perfect for
"feathering" the throttle or lightly touching the brake (as a side
note, I'm massively impressed by you guys who can play GP2 with keys -
even with an analogue stick I locked up at every corner!)
Screamer ( 1 & 2) and Sega Rally are both better with the GP1,
although SR tends to suffer from a bit of calibration drift - maybe I
need a dedicated gamecard - and both Screamers seem occasionally to
refuse to recognise the wheel. Perseverance nearly always pays off.
I noticed a *huge* difference using the GP1 with Fatal Racing (US
Whiplash). I'd *never* completed the corkscrew in track 8(?) using
keys/stick. I'd just fall off half way round. First attempt with GP1
- 2 laps completed first go, no problem! OK, so I fell off on lap 3,
but I'm crap, and this game is way too difficult anyway.
The GP1 works on the X axes of sticks A & B, but a converter is
supllied so that it'll calibrate on stick A's X & Y axes. This means
a certain amount of messing about plugging & unplugging the wheel (and
rebooting - grrr....) but it's worth it. The instructions include
Win95 setup - easy enough, and some common game configs - the F1GP2
instructions didn't work for me, but with a little tinkering I was
soon up and running.
Hmmm. I just realised you only asked about Rally. O well, if you're
going to buy it, you should be pleased to know it's pretty versatile:)
Paul.
