F1RS w/o 3DFX

I've just bought F1RS and it don't work I just can see the setup menu F1RS probably don't work with a Diamond 3D2000 2M But does it work with anything else than a 3DFX 'cause i would like to wait for mid 98 to buy a 3DFX card (Voodoo2) Does any one had played F1RS smoothly with any of these following cards - Diamond Viper 330 (nVidia RIVA 128) - STD Velocity 128 (nVidia RIVA 128) My PC : Cyrix P166+, 32M, DS3D200 2M Thanks

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> F1RS probably don't work with a Diamond 3D2000 2M > But does it work with anything else than a 3DFX > 'cause i would like to wait for mid 98 to buy a 3DFX card (Voodoo2) > Does any one had played F1RS smoothly with any of these following cards > - Diamond Viper 330 (nVidia RIVA 128) > - STD Velocity 128 (nVidia RIVA 128) > My PC : Cyrix P166+, 32M, DS3D200 2M

I'm using Viper V330 PCI on an Intel P166 Vanilla, and the graphics are pretty smooth as far as I can tell. Even Monaco plays well - at least if you're hotlapping. I'll have to admit there's a noticeable slowdown when there are lots of cars on the track bunched together (-> at the start of a race) but this is nothing we haven't heard of before and one should consider setting the car detail to low to speed things up. Also, the current Direct3D version has a certain unfinished feeling to it, most visibly there are no graphics in the mirrors. I guess Ubi's already promised a D3D patch to fix a few annoyances. What do you guys think of the graphics overall? I immediately turned off the candy-colored sky because it was just too horrible to watch even if it was nicely animated. Nearly all the graphics have a certain cartoonish look into them. Trees and backdrops, for example, have thick black outlines. I know they are there for a reason, but does the outlining have to so crude & obvious. Especially backdrops are plain awful - anyone with a basic knowledge of aesthetics would never launch that kinda *** commercially. OTOH, smoke, dust, and rain effects (definitely including the fog lights) are very good. What I would like to know is whether the textures are as dark in the 3DFX version. I've got my monitor's brightness to max and sometimes the contrast between track and all the other graphics on the screen is so high that the track looks annoyingly dark. Also, the tunnel in Monaco is dark like an unlit coalmine. I know it tries to simulate the effect of a sudden change in lighting you get by rushing into a tunnel from a straight sunlight with an F1 car. But does it have to be _so_ dark that drivin' thru the freakin' tunnel is 80% guesswork the remaining 20% being based on sparse visual cues. This is the reason why I keep racing Monaco only in rain when the tunnel has mostly grayish tones to it with the walls nicely visible. It's a bit of a paradox; the tunnel's visible only when the overall visibility is greatly reduced. --- Antti Markus Peteri "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Polite Conversation, Dialogue I

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> I've just bought F1RS and it don't work > I just can see the setup menu > F1RS probably don't work with a Diamond 3D2000 2M > But does it work with anything else than a 3DFX > 'cause i would like to wait for mid 98 to buy a 3DFX card (Voodoo2) > Does any one had played F1RS smoothly with any of these following ca > rds > - Diamond Viper 330 (nVidia RIVA 128) > - STD Velocity 128 (nVidia RIVA 128) > My PC : Cyrix P166+, 32M, DS3D200 2M

AFAIK, you need a *minimum* of 4MB ram on your graphics card, and ideally a 3Dfx board? (Although it will run on a normal graphics card. albeit slower?) d:?) * Peter * 8-) Please remove asterix from address to email.

> AFAIK, you need a *minimum* of 4MB ram on your graphics card, and > ideally a 3Dfx board? (Although it will run on a normal graphics card. > albeit slower?) I just tried it on a pc with a diamond 3d card with only 2meg and it gives " out of memory" error at programme load time. My 3dfx pc works great though, so one out of two will have to do for now, no serial link up for me yet :-( Mike. -- 17:29 on 11/30/97 From sunny Herne Bay, Kent.UK. mailable also at remove NO-SPAM to mail me.

>Does any one had played F1RS smoothly with any of these following cards > - Diamond Viper 330 (nVidia RIVA 128) > - STD Velocity 128 (nVidia RIVA 128) I heard from different source that the STB Velocity 128 was the best card non-3dfx for F1RS, and they were easily able to play with Full field, full graphics at more than 20fps they said. I would also say that the STB Velocity was rated the Best video card by PC magazine, and that the ATI Xpert and the Diamond are very close to the STB performance (honorable mention to those 2 cards). With great respect, May the downforce be with you, Good race at the Brickyard, (-o-) Fran?ois Mnard, "ymenard" on NROS Team member, Zombie Entreprise Sponsored by AWPSS, http://www.awpss.com/ SimRacing director, AWPSS Official PR, AWPSS Director, The SimRacing Hall-of-Fame Co-director, Light-Speed - *Excuse me for my poor English(I'm French speaking) * -