Hello all!
Just downloaded the MBTR demo from gamespot; WOW! This is a cool sim. Sure,
I love racing MB F1 cars and MB road cars, but I never thought I'd enjoy racing trucks.
A few questions/issues:
When I tried setting the accelerate/brake to use joystick (gamepad) axis Y, the demo froze.
I wanted to try using the manual transmission. Is this an error in the demo?
Also, during the race, there is a white silhouette/shadow of a turning truck in the
upper-left corner of the screen. It gets irritating after a while. And, the truck's
shadow looks odd, like a checkered flag. Again, is this the demo or my system? I'm
running a PII450 with a 3D Blaster Voodoo2 (12MB), 384MB RAM, and a Matrox Mill 2 16MB
2D card. My controller is a basic Gravis Gamepad. Don't worry; my next upgrades will
include a steering wheel. :)
Finally, if I decided to order this game from Gameplay.co.uk, could I play it here in
Canada? I don't think PC games use the NTSC/PAL etc system, but I could be wrong.
And to finish, when is this due out in North America? I checked my local EB and they
have no mention of it in their database. Also can't find it on EBWorld.com.
Any/all info appreciated.
Thanks,
- Tom N.
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"Ferrari is the epitome of mechanical beauty and Ferraris are acquired by
men who wish to turn their dreams into reality and inject into their
lives a long period of youthful passion. I guess this is why there is
Ferrari and then there is everything else."
- Enzo Ferrari, on the Ferrari mystique (Translated from Italian)
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On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 05:10:16 +0000 (UTC), [email hidden] (Thomas C
Norwood) wrote:
>Finally, if I decided to order this game from Gameplay.co.uk, could I play it here in
>Canada? I don't think PC games use the NTSC/PAL etc system, but I could be wrong.
dont know about most of your question, but I can answer this. PCs use
VGA, which has nothing to do with NTSC/PAL. If you hooked a TV up to
the monitor output of your video card it wouldn't work no matter if it
was NTSC or PAL, likewise hooking your computer monitor up to a VCR.
~daxe
Hi again...
I just upgraded my Voodoo2 drivers from the Creative site and switched the top option
in the Setup program to Voodoo3/Banshee. It's better, as I can see the times in the
upper-left, but the white silhouette is still there and the shadow of the truck is a
checkered flag as is the rear-view mirror in the top middle. Maybe this game doesn't
support V2.... I'll keep trying stuff. I tried setting it to Voodoo5 but it was ALL
messed up. That's part of my upgrades so... My card has 12MB; maybe that's not enough.
My DirectX version is 7.0 from installing other games like GP3.
- Tom N.
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"Ferrari is the epitome of mechanical beauty and Ferraris are acquired by
men who wish to turn their dreams into reality and inject into their
lives a long period of youthful passion. I guess this is why there is
Ferrari and then there is everything else."
- Enzo Ferrari, on the Ferrari mystique (Translated from Italian)
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