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Hiya there, Well I got this game for christmas ( GPL ) and i must say it is the most frustrating game ive ever played. It is just so damn hard to get used to. I am having major trouble with it. Im no hot shot racer or anything, but I have pretty much mastered GP2 with no aids, NFS 1 2 and 3, Indy 1 and 2, TOCA, Nascar 1 and Nascar 2. I have pretty much got as good as i can get in those games, without much of a real challenge. But this game is so damn hard. Ive felt like putting my ***thru the screen about 15 times. I tried Monaco first, cos i knew the track well. I spun 6 times before trashing my car at Mirabeau. I am getting better, and I guess if i practice more then i will get used to the slow cornering speeds. Does anyone have any tips ?????? I just downloaded Alisons Coventry setups and am about to check em out right now. Another thing, I have to run the game with no 3dfx support at all. This pisses me off. I have a Voodoo 2 card, but it is shit annoying. Ive got a top computer, and the game runs 36 fps when i do run the voodoo2, BUT when i do run it, i can hardly see anything. For example, on Monza after about 15 seconds coming up to the first turn, the road and grass goes black and i dont have a clue where to go. This happens on and off in every track. So is there a patch i can download to fix it, cos it is real annoying, not being able to see anything It still is a fantastic game, when i stay on the track

Update your M3D2 drivers this will solve the black track problem. (DONOT USE THE VERSION 2.05 DRIVERS THEY WILL LOCK UP GPL) And practice,practice,practice it will be well worth it I have some older drivers if you need them if you have ICQ give me your # and ill send em to you . If not do a search on yahoo for diadmond multimedia and go to there FTPsite and you can get them there. neil canning >Hiya there, > Well I got this game for christmas ( GPL ) and i must say it >is the most frustrating game ive ever played. It is just so damn hard to >get used to. I am having major trouble with it. Im no hot shot racer or >anything, but I have pretty much mastered GP2 with no aids, NFS 1 2 and 3, >Indy 1 and 2, TOCA, Nascar 1 and Nascar 2. >I have pretty much got as good as i can get in those games, without much of >a real challenge. But this game is so damn hard. Ive felt like putting my >fist thru the screen about 15 times. I tried Monaco first, cos i knew the >track well. I spun 6 times before trashing my car at Mirabeau. I am >getting better, and I guess if i practice more then i will get used to the >slow cornering speeds. Does anyone have any tips ?????? >I just downloaded Alisons Coventry setups and am about to check em out right

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>now. >Another thing, I have to run the game with no 3dfx support at all. This >pisses me off. I have a Voodoo 2 card, but it is shit annoying. >Ive got a top computer, and the game runs 36 fps when i do run the voodoo2, >BUT when i do run it, i can hardly see anything. For example, on Monza >after about 15 seconds coming up to the first turn, the road and grass goes >black and i dont have a clue where to go. This happens on and off in every >track. >So is there a patch i can download to fix it, cos it is real annoying, not >being able to see anything >It still is a fantastic game, when i stay on the track

Stay away from Monaco for awhile. Try reading the Stratergy guide that came with the sim. It will tkae you through your first laps. Don't think because you can cruise around in other sim's you don't need to read it. Well worth the time. You are dealing with totally different cars and physics now!! This is a common problem. If you have installed DX6 try reinstalling you video drivers. Otherwise try loading an older version of your video drivers. Took me a couple of goes but you will find it well worth the effort. AB

Yeh i agree, the game is hard.... i find that after a few mins i get frustrated and turn the game off and go race another game. I wished it got better grip on the turns!! >Hiya there, > Well I got this game for christmas ( GPL ) and i must say it >is the most frustrating game ive ever played. It is just so damn hard to >get used to. I am having major trouble with it. Im no hot shot racer or >anything, but I have pretty much mastered GP2 with no aids, NFS 1 2 and 3, >Indy 1 and 2, TOCA, Nascar 1 and Nascar 2. >I have pretty much got as good as i can get in those games, without much of >a real challenge. But this game is so damn hard. Ive felt like putting my >fist thru the screen about 15 times

On Sun, 27 Dec 1998 13:36:13 +1030, "rbmckay" >Hiya there, <snip>

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>Another thing, I have to run the game with no 3dfx support at all. This >pisses me off. I have a Voodoo 2 card, but it is shit annoying. >Ive got a top computer, and the game runs 36 fps when i do run the voodoo2, >BUT when i do run it, i can hardly see anything. For example, on Monza >after about 15 seconds coming up to the first turn, the road and grass goes >black and i dont have a clue where to go. This happens on and off in every >track. >So is there a patch i can download to fix it, cos it is real annoying, not >being able to see anything >It still is a fantastic game, when i stay on the track

Dude, I had *EXACTLY* the same video problem as you, and I was bummed because I had been wanting this game forever. Someone told me to get the 3dfx ref drivers off from www.3dfx.com... solved *all* my problems with all 3dfx games since. BTW, I have a Creative 3d Blaster Voodoo2, but I think that's mostly irrelevant... the point of reference drivers is to work with all V2 cards, and if they don't work, I'd suspect the board maker pretty seriously. And about how hard GPL is... i almost gave up too, but stick with it and it can become very, very kewl. When you get into a zone and are reeling in Clark or Hill from 6 seconds back w/6 laps to go... jeez it's fun. Ocassinally, you can amaze yourself and rip off 4 or 5 straight super flying laps and the feeling of accomplishment is stupendous! You're first podium finish is absolutely *exhilarating!! * Relax and try to have fun. Gl. -=Hammer remove x fer email reply

It still amazes me that people can CLOSE and stay WITH Clark. All *I* can do is wave at him as he laps me...repeatedly. ...where's that key to show the middle finger...? :-) Eldred __ Put your message in a modem, and throw it in the ***-sea... remove SPAM-OFF to reply.