Tell me about your experiences with Glide/CPR

Well, I went to my local EB again and they are still out of CPR. Whats going on here, are people buying this game? I think that they would have definitly sold more copies if it had Glide support out of the box. I myself, returned it when I first bought the game because the D3D sucked and after playing around with glide in the CPR demo, I definitly would have 'not' returned it if the game ran like that initialy. Enough rambling,(Damn coffee!) I was realy curious if everyone was happy with there increases with the Glide patch in CPR? I just saw a couple of seconds ago that The Apex is taking a poll on this performance issue. I myself am very happy with the increses, even in the demo. What is this patch doing for you folks that have the full version of the game? Is it prevoking you to play more; )? I wish someone from MS was reading our posts here on ras. Actually after thinking about it, I wonder if Dean from MS is still roaming around in this ng? Calling Dean........Hello? Tony Gaylord - Portland, OR

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> Well, I went to my local EB again and they are still out of CPR. > Whats going on here, are people buying this game? I think that they > would have definitly sold more copies if it had Glide support out of the > box. I myself, returned it when I first bought the game because the D3D > sucked and after playing around with glide in the CPR demo, I definitly > would have 'not' returned it if the game ran like that initialy. > Enough rambling,(Damn coffee!) I was realy curious if everyone was > happy with there increases with the Glide patch in CPR? I just saw a > couple of seconds ago that The Apex is taking a poll on this performance > issue. I myself am very happy with the increses, even in the demo. > What is this patch doing for you folks that have the full version > of the game? Is it prevoking you to play more; )? I wish someone from MS > was reading our posts here on ras. Actually after thinking about it, I > wonder if Dean from MS is still roaming around in this ng? Calling > Dean........Hello? > Tony Gaylord - Portland, OR

Tony, the framerate is certainly better, but that in and of itself does not a sim make. Don't waste your money. I kept my copy, reloaded the program and ran it with the glide patch, err, not patch but the way TRI wanted to release it in the first place. Anyhow, it still stinks, now it just stinks will running in glide rather than D3D. I think this time the delete is for good, there are just too many quality products on the market right now to fool around with CPR. Between N2 3dfx, F1RS, and a little SODA (not to mention the new F-15 flight sim) once in awhile, that's plenty to keep me busy until GPL hits in a couple of months. All the best, Mike -- Michael S. Davis Creative Media-Works Computer/Audio/Video Convergence "from Creative minds spring Creative solutions." http://www.creativemedia-works.com

Mike, My experience exactly! I reloaded CPR again because I was headed for Long Beach this week and just wanted to run some laps. I did a full install, the latest patch, the glide dll and some setups from APEX and tried it again. What a waste of time. After running F1RS for the last month, this thing was simply laughable. I was lapping The Beach in the rain ( El Nino may make an appearance tomorrow! ) and couldn't believe how bad the sound and graphics were. I loved the solid grey clouds of spray that, when you catch up to them, have NO car as their source about half the time! Switched to F1RS, and started Monaco in the rain, and could see thru the spray, see the glow from the single red tail light, and make out enough detail to race the cars and make a safe passes. It's too bad, I really want a good CART sim, but I'm afraid we'll have to wait a bit longer. don