Nascar 1 & SODA - Any Good?

at target i can get Nascar1 and SODA for $10. i know it's not much, but being the cheapskate that i am, are they worth it? i have a viper330 (TNT soon). do they support D3D or are they rendition or 3dfx? thanks jeff

Hi jb, Soda is the most realistic dirt racing *sim* I know. It supports rendition, but plays well on a fast computer. My machine is a P2/333 and is fine in software mode (from the bumper cam). Nascar1 is ok, but Nascar2 has better graphics. It supports rendition and Matrox Millenium 1. I remember N1 being a little slow in software mode, but the game was great in it's time. For $10 you can't go wrong :-) Check out http://signgraphics.com/clubsoda for tracks and racing. Jason.

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> at target i can get Nascar1 and SODA for $10. i know it's not much, but > being the cheapskate that i am, are they worth it? > i have a viper330 (TNT soon). do they support D3D or are they rendition or > 3dfx? > thanks > jeff

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I would buy it just for the SODA game, it's the best "dirt" sim out there. Can be a little hard to drive but with a little practice and work on the set-ups, its a pretty cool game. NASCAR 1 is way too outdated, it was a great game but now is no where near what the newer NASCAR games are. Regards Dave

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>at target i can get Nascar1 and SODA for $10. i know it's not much, but >being the cheapskate that i am, are they worth it? >i have a viper330 (TNT soon). do they support D3D or are they rendition or >3dfx? >thanks >jeff

If you want to race off road buggies or trucks get SODA it is fun, very good sim, it's the only sim I drive anymore, other than GPL of course. JM

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> at target i can get Nascar1 and SODA for $10. i know it's not much, but > being the cheapskate that i am, are they worth it? > i have a viper330 (TNT soon). do they support D3D or are they rendition or > 3dfx? > thanks > jeff

Hell yes! -Larry > at target i can get Nascar1 and SODA for $10. i know it's not much, but > being the cheapskate that i am, are they worth it?

>at target i can get Nascar1 and SODA for $10. i know it's not much, but >being the cheapskate that i am, are they worth it? >i have a viper330 (TNT soon). do they support D3D or are they rendition or >3dfx? Reading the other responses with glowing reviews of SODA, I felt I needed to offer an "alternate opinion"... I returned SODA because the performance was absolutely terrible on my system. Granted, that was back when I had a P100 & voodoo1 card (the voodoo was worthless with SODA though-- no support). I could reduce the detail to nearly nothing (terrain looked like about 5 polygons, cars like maybe 10 :) and I could get probably about 5fps. I had a Matrox Millenium 2d card at the time. Years later, maybe now sheer CPU speed can make up for the hobbled graphics engine that SODA uses, I don't know. --mtnkodiak

Since it only supports Rendition-based 3D accelerators, I can only run it in software mode. Now that I have a P2 450 with 128 MB ram and I can SODA smoothly with full graphics - I had to turn some options off with my older P2 266. It also is the only sim I drive when I'm not driving GPL (which is rare). I almost went out to buy a Rendition video card just for SODA. It's too bad Sierra never came out with the 3Dfx patch. Brian >Years later, maybe now sheer CPU speed can make up for the hobbled >graphics engine that SODA uses, I don't know. >--mtnkodiak

SODA runs at a solid 30 fps on my PII-450 using a VRaptor 3D 8MB AGP card. That's with all details turned on and a full field of opponents. You just need enough hardware to get the job done. Wayne Hutchison >>at target i can get Nascar1 and SODA for $10. i know it's not much, but >>being the cheapskate that i am, are they worth it? >>i have a viper330 (TNT soon). do they support D3D or are they rendition or

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>>3dfx? >Reading the other responses with glowing reviews of SODA, I felt I >needed to offer an "alternate opinion"... >I returned SODA because the performance was absolutely terrible on my >system. Granted, that was back when I had a P100 & voodoo1 card (the >voodoo was worthless with SODA though-- no support). I could reduce >the detail to nearly nothing (terrain looked like about 5 polygons, >cars like maybe 10 :) and I could get probably about 5fps. I had a >Matrox Millenium 2d card at the time. >Years later, maybe now sheer CPU speed can make up for the hobbled >graphics engine that SODA uses, I don't know. >--mtnkodiak