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FEKKIN AWESUM!! :shock:
I must admit its pretty dam good! By far the Best F-1 Sim I've ever tried. I'm not a big fan of F-1 Sims, most are so fucking touchy its a joke.
This one is easy to drive (with training wheels on max) I'm sure with the driving aids off its a handful, its going to take alot of tweaking to arrive at a good balance.
The in game graphics on my POS system are slightly above average, it has EA's grainey look to it when driving, but where it really shines is during replays. Its stunning. VCR Style controls loads of views and a fast fwd/rwd and slo mo pause all in full screen. The cars look bad ass as does the dood drivin from some of the differnt views. The grainey look is replaced with a really sharp and clean, visually impressive imagery. Details are quite good, and with all video settings set to max 800x600x16 bit it runs very smooth I'd estimate I get 40 - 60 fps but thats just my car by itself, still for a GeForce 2 64mb video card on a OC'ed Athalon XP eunning 1670mhz with 512mb ddr ram MSI KT3 Ultra2 mobo it runs quite nicely.
Anyone seen Superbike 2001 by EA will recognize the replay setup and Superbike has great grafics this game is better yet!!!
I'd say its a 4 1/2 stars out of five star game.
It went on line no prob, didnt seem too warpy although I was in a server with 4 peeps and a 27 ping, had to be someone in the Islands I connected to. My ping in Half Life is 50 - 120 to west coast to mid us.
Time will tell but initally seems like EA got the net code right.
Now all I need to do is learn how to drive the frikkin thing !!! I got kicked out of a pratice session already for causin too much havoc :shock: LMAO
Ill leave it up as long as possible, so far it doesnt seem to be much of a drag, hell I was even racing on line with the ftp and http servers going and went ok so far.....
After a week or so Ill run a game server on the server comp I should be able to host about 15 - 20 people, I can host a 20 player Nascar 2002 game with no warp problem.
I was experimenting a bit earlier by pinging people I know, 160 - 260 to Jabba.... fair, varied alot, to Japan I do better 100 - 170 and west coast 55 - 80 generaly