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NHRA My THoughts

6 posts by 5 people · 13 Aug 1998 - 14 Aug 1998

news.gte.ne 13 Aug 1998#416543
I haven't bought the game yet and from what I hear I probably won't. It sounds like you have a P2 300 or better with either a Nivida or AGP card and huge amounts of ram. I have a P 166 mmx 64 meg of ram and a 4 meg Orchaid Righteous 3dfx card and a basic 2 meg card. Having to run low res with a 3dfx is very stupid if you ask me and I'm not going to go spend 300 bucks a a vodoo 2 for one game. Also from what I have heard from fellow Burnout testers only place NHRA has us beat at is sound and actual physics model and we have NHRA beat in car setup options and being more user and machine freindly. You also have to remeber Burnout is a Dos game and NHRA is a windows game. Burnout PCE will be out soon and not to long after that Burnout 2. But overall I think I'll stay with Burnout for now until I find a extra 2500 bucks for a new system. Robert Gt86 Platts
ymenard 13 Aug 1998#416544
>I haven't bought the game yet and from what I hear I probably won't. It >sounds like you have a P2 300 or better with either a Nivida or AGP card and >huge amounts of ram. I have a P 166 mmx 64 meg of ram and a 4 meg Orchaid >Righteous 3dfx card and a basic 2 meg card. Having to run low res with a >3dfx is very stupid if you ask me and I'm not going to go spend 300 bucks a >a vodoo 2 for one game. NOT Low resolution like VGA.. they mean Low Texture, the same thing many people do in Nascar2 3dfx... or Quake2, or Unreal, or all this non-racing (IMHO boring hehe) game. Actually, Im quite happy they decided to go with a multitude of 3d cards for it. It shows that the war between 3d cards ain't finished yet, and that's good for each and every of us in the fact that the technology moves faster (better, faster) in those situations. So you wouldn't buy Nascar2 you tell me because it ain't supporting a 3dfx card very good ?? - Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> Good race at the Brickyard, (-o-) - Official Mentally retarded guy of r.a.s. - Member of the r.a.s. Ego-maniac club - Excuse me for my English (I'm French speaking) - Excuse me for being provocative (I'm dumb speaking) - "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."--
Greg Cisko 13 Aug 1998#416545
>I haven't bought the game yet and from what I hear I probably won't. It >sounds like you have a P2 300 or better with either a Nivida or AGP card and >huge amounts of ram. I have a P 166 mmx 64 meg of ram and a 4 meg Orchaid >Righteous 3dfx card and a basic 2 meg card. Having to run low res with a Low res is 16 bit apparently which is all the 3dfx card can do. I don't think they are talking 300x200x16 here. Are you sure you know what you are talking about? and You are a tester for burnout and are slamming NHRA? WTF is that all about? I'm thinking NHRA may suck too, but still you have to be pretty stupid to do what you are apparently doing. DUH. And you get another DUH for making light of the fact that NHRA has "us" beat in actual physics. I thought burnout sucked so bad, I returned the next day. Right, you can build cars that are so unrealistic it isn't even funny. What a bunch of candy-asses. Wow your game loads the menus faster. That is really something. Shit you know what? I may have to go to a local Electronic Boutique (so I can return it if it really sucks) and try NHRA like I always intended to do. If I can't get my T2 pedals working, that will certainly be grounds for return. I will also have to wonder what the hell Trevor Thomas was contributing to the project. Working gas & brake pedals seem pretty straight forward to me. Especially since HE BUILDS THEM FOR A LIVING!!!!! -- Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes.
Greg, The sim isn't all that bad...IMHO the company released it too soon and crippled, but overall an excellent effort. If you're a stickler for realism, but don't mind the menus, then you may find it worth keeping. I know I'll never beat most of the hot shoes on the 'net, hell - I don't really care-much for 3-seconds worth of racin', but NHRA's a good one in my book. Cheers! Marc -- Marc J. Nelson The Sim Project - http://www.simproject.com * No animals were harmed in the making of this e-mail *
Greg Cisko 14 Aug 1998#416676
Well if it works decently (i.e. good graphics) with my 3dfx VooDoo board, and the gas & brake pedals *DO* work then I'll probably be happy. -- Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes. >Greg, >The sim isn't all that bad...IMHO the company released it too soon >and crippled, but overall an excellent effort. If you're a stickler >for realism, but don't mind the menus, then you may find it worth >keeping. I know I'll never beat most of the hot shoes on the 'net, >hell - I don't really care-much for 3-seconds worth of racin', but >NHRA's a good one in my book. >Cheers! >Marc >-- >Marc J. Nelson >The Sim Project - http://www.simproject.com >* No animals were harmed in the making of this e-mail *
Low res textures doesn't mean that the textures are 16 bit, 16 bit is just the color depth. Low res textures would be just that, textures of a lower resolution. Color depth, 16 or 24 bit, and texure resolution are completely unrelated. Kyle Low res is 16 bit apparently which is all the 3dfx card can do. I don't

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