best F1 sim? and need F1 2002 help

I downloaded the demo for F1 2002 last night, and I am having a hard time getting the thing to work properly. I can get the sim to run, but when I get onto a track, I don't get any graphics outside of the car. I can see the cockpit (haven't tried a different view), but I can't see anything but gray outside of the tub. If I roll forward a bit I can see what appear to be the polygons of a bridge, but I can't go under it, so it may not be a bridge. But again, it's just the polygons, no graphics. Any ideas? I'm getting a Logitech Momo FF wheel for Christmas and want to expand my horizon from oval track racing to F1 racing. Can someone please tell me what the best (most realistic) F1 sim is these days? 1.4 ghz Athlon XP Win 98se 256 mb ram GForce 2 GTS 32 Mb video card -- Gary Beard

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:40:43 -0500, "Gary Beard" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Can someone please tell me what the best (most realistic) F1 sim is these >days? >F1 Challenge by EA. -- Andrew. To email unscramble [email hidden] & remove spamtrap. Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim messages to quote only relevent text. Check groups.google.com before asking a question.

But by all means make sure you try LFS (live for speed), which has a Formula SAE car theese days. Also check out netKar. The F3000 in netKar feels quite good. :) "Gary Beard" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> I downloaded the demo for F1 2002 last night, and I am having a hard time > getting the thing to work properly. I can get the sim to run, but when I > get onto a track, I don't get any graphics outside of the car. I can see > the cockpit (haven't tried a different view), but I can't see anything but > gray outside of the tub. If I roll forward a bit I can see what appear to > be the polygons of a bridge, but I can't go under it, so it may not be a > bridge. But again, it's just the polygons, no graphics. > Any ideas? > > I'm getting a Logitech Momo FF wheel for Christmas and want to expand my > horizon from oval track racing to F1 racing. > Can someone please tell me what the best (most realistic) F1 sim is these > days? > > 1.4 ghz Athlon XP > Win 98se > 256 mb ram > GForce 2 GTS 32 Mb video card > > -- > Gary Beard > > >

You can pick up "F1 Challenge '99 - '02" for $20(US) or less. Well worth the money. It's the only F1 sim I have experience with so I can't say it's the best but that seems to be the general consensus. Congrats on getting the Momo. My wife got me one for my birthday in September and I'm loving it. You might want to consider upgrading your video card in the near future to get the most out of race sims. "Gary Beard" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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> I downloaded the demo for F1 2002 last night, and I am having a hard time > getting the thing to work properly. I can get the sim to run, but when I > get onto a track, I don't get any graphics outside of the car. I can see > the cockpit (haven't tried a different view), but I can't see anything but > gray outside of the tub. If I roll forward a bit I can see what appear to > be the polygons of a bridge, but I can't go under it, so it may not be a > bridge. But again, it's just the polygons, no graphics. > Any ideas? > > I'm getting a Logitech Momo FF wheel for Christmas and want to expand my > horizon from oval track racing to F1 racing. > Can someone please tell me what the best (most realistic) F1 sim is these > days? > > 1.4 ghz Athlon XP > Win 98se > 256 mb ram > GForce 2 GTS 32 Mb video card

They usually have copies at CompUSA. I got mine there. I think they were 14.99, I forget. "B. Jones" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> You can pick up "F1 Challenge '99 - '02" for $20(US) or less. > Well worth the money. It's the only F1 sim I have experience with so I > can't say it's the best but that seems to be the general consensus. > Congrats on getting the Momo. My wife got me one for my birthday in > September and I'm loving it. > > You might want to consider upgrading your video card in the near > future to get the most out of race sims. > > > > > "Gary Beard" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

news:<[email hidden]>... > > I downloaded the demo for F1 2002 last night, and I am having a hardtime > > getting the thing to work properly. I can get the sim to run, but whenI > > get onto a track, I don't get any graphics outside of the car. I cansee > > the cockpit (haven't tried a different view), but I can't see anythingbut > > gray outside of the tub. If I roll forward a bit I can see what appearto

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> > be the polygons of a bridge, but I can't go under it, so it may not be a > > bridge. But again, it's just the polygons, no graphics. > > Any ideas? > > > > I'm getting a Logitech Momo FF wheel for Christmas and want to expand my > > horizon from oval track racing to F1 racing. > > Can someone please tell me what the best (most realistic) F1 sim is

these > > days? > > > > 1.4 ghz Athlon XP > > Win 98se > > 256 mb ram > > GForce 2 GTS 32 Mb video card