Cart Racing, by Sierra, appreciation please

Ok, A month ago I bought CPR and brought it back to the store the next day unsatified. (My PC Is a P133, 32 mg RAM, ATI 3d expression +, I wasn't getting good frame rate for the kind of detail I want and didn't like the AI). I want a CART Racing sim., I know that CART Racing by Sierra is the rename version of ICR2 and in order to find out what it felt like I downloded the demo for ICR2 and like it, but before I spend money and time with something that is not close to the real thing I want some feedback from you guys, regarding : 1) What is new apart from the name ? 1a) I heard of 3D support, Is it the kind that is good with my ATI card. 2) How is the AI? Are the crash and damage realistic ? 3) Yellows flags, How are they compare with the real CART racing ? On Ovals ? On road circuits To give you my position regarding sim, I play GP2 a lot Thank You ---------------------------- Please remove the x from my E-Mail adresse. Thank you

> 1) What is new apart from the name ? Rendition version + a great handbook (from what I read) Is ATI a rendition card. If so then yes. Both good. Both good. I think GP2 is a better sim and harder than ICR2 (not a lot), but we all know how cpu hungry GP2 is. My view? ICR2 is the most playable sim to date. But I don't think that if I did not own it now that I would bother with it. F1RS looks to be the bet. And maybe CART if they can get it right sometime in the next 5 years :)

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>A month ago I bought CPR and brought it back to the store the next day >unsatified. (My PC Is a P133, 32 mg RAM, ATI 3d expression +, I wasn't >getting good frame rate for the kind of detail I want and didn't like the >AI). >I want a CART Racing sim., I know that CART Racing by Sierra is the rename >version of ICR2 and in order to find out what it felt like I downloded the >demo for ICR2 and like it, but before I spend money and time with something >that is not close to the real thing I want some feedback from you guys, >regarding : >1) What is new apart from the name ?

Nothing if compared to the latest retail version of ICR2. I think, however, that the demo is still based on the earliest, buggy version of the sim. You also get a book which is very good, as I gather from what I'm reading here. Don't think so. Unless the ATI card is based on the Rendition chip. ICR2 has Rendition-only 3D support. Without 3D texturing, the game looks a bit old-fashioned by now. The AI is sound. Not superb, but o.k. I sometimes get the feeling that they give in too easily once you've overtaken them. You really have to make a serious mistake before a car behind you tries to attack again. From what I hear, the AI is far superior to the current (pre-patch) CPR AI. 3rd party support by enthusiasts for this sim is great. For instance, you can get updated carsets and driver performance files from Michaael Carver's excellent homepage (http://www.teleport.com/~mcarver). Can't really comment on that, since I don't use them regularly. There was and is a "Yellow Flag bug" which was never addressed, I seem to remember. Last time I raced with yellows on, I was black-flagged for "overtaking under yellow" although I most certainly didn't! Is that the bug? On my current machine (iP110 at 1.5*75), the two sims look equally ugly. :) The driving model and car physics of Gp2 are more developed and more demanding for the hardware than those of ICR2, so I think you will be able to run Cart Racing at a reasonable frame rate with some eye candy on on your P133. I recommend buying it, especially for the comparatively low price. -- Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome. wopr"at"stud.uni-sb.de \ There is no "2" in my real e-mail address. Uni des Saarlands \ Sorry for the inconvenience. You know why.