Another question regarding F12000

Okay, so the Playstation version features two types of gear boxes for the cars: the automatic and what's referred to as the "semi-automatic" which basically means that when the engine reaches a certain RPM decrease, it will automatically shift to a lower (numeric) gear. My question: Is this a "real" feature of F1 cars, or is this an attempt by EA to insult my driving intelligence? Every other F1 game I've played has "true" manual transmission. Thanks, Brian

I had heard that there was a system whereby the drivers would shift up manually, then press a button and the car would downshift automatically.

umm, I'm not 100% sure on this... But today durring qual on itv the guys came up with a comment about blowing engines. That blowing engines is not by bad driving, as the revs (and gears?) are controled by electronics, and when an engine blows it is totaly a mechanical problem. Dunno if this'd go with this problem...but you never know. The modern f1 cars seam to drive them selves... as most would say.. f1 is now 90% car, 10% driver. Brian Ekberg wrote:

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> Okay, so the Playstation version features two types of gear boxes for the > cars: the automatic and what's referred to as the "semi-automatic" which > basically means that when the engine reaches a certain RPM decrease, it will > automatically shift to a lower (numeric) gear. My question: Is this a "real" > feature of F1 cars, or is this an attempt by EA to insult my driving > intelligence? > > Every other F1 game I've played has "true" manual transmission. > > Thanks, > Brian

Then why the F did EA include the so-called "semi-automatic" feature in the game? If it's a "sim" then this shouldn't be part of the game. Oh well, now I'm REALLY looking forward to F1WGP on the Dreamcast... Brian > The gearboxes in f1 aren't semi automatic as in they change themselves. The > electronics do however prevent changing into an inappropriate gear and over

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> revving the engine. > -- > Ian Parker > == > > umm, I'm not 100% sure on this... But today durring qual on itv the guys > came up > > with a comment about blowing engines. That blowing engines is not by

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> > driving, as the revs (and gears?) are controled by electronics, and when > an > > engine blows it is totaly a mechanical problem. Dunno if this'd go with > this > > problem...but you never know. The modern f1 cars seam to drive them > selves... > > as most would say.. f1 is now 90% car, 10% driver.

>Then why the F did EA include the so-called "semi-automatic" feature in the >game? If it's a "sim" then this shouldn't be part of the game. Brian, I am not aware of any F1 sim that accurately simulates the current day gearboxes. All of them, that I am aware of, simulate manual shift and fully automatic. It sounds as is F1-2000 on the PSX is no different, or did I miss something in the description from Ian?

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>> The gearboxes in f1 aren't semi automatic as in they change themselves. >The >> electronics do however prevent changing into an inappropriate gear and >over >> revving the engine. >> -- >> Ian Parker >> == >> > umm, I'm not 100% sure on this... But today durring qual on itv the guys >> came up >> > with a comment about blowing engines. That blowing engines is not by >bad >> > driving, as the revs (and gears?) are controled by electronics, and when >> an >> > engine blows it is totaly a mechanical problem. Dunno if this'd go with >> this >> > problem...but you never know. The modern f1 cars seam to drive them >> selves... >> > as most would say.. f1 is now 90% car, 10% driver.

-- * rrev at mindspring dot com *

: Brian, I am not aware of any F1 sim that accurately simulates the current : day gearboxes. All of them, that I am aware of, simulate manual : shift and fully automatic. It sounds as is F1-2000 on the PSX is : no different, or did I miss something in the description from Ian? The PSX verison has two modes, auto (does everything for you) and semi-auto (auto clutch, manual shift) like most other games. In semi-auto mode, gearchanges that would over- or under-rev the engine are blocked. -- Mathew Hendry, Programmer, Visual Sciences Ltd.

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>: Brian, I am not aware of any F1 sim that accurately simulates the current >: day gearboxes. All of them, that I am aware of, simulate manual >: shift and fully automatic. It sounds as is F1-2000 on the PSX is >: no different, or did I miss something in the description from Ian? >The PSX verison has two modes, auto (does everything for you) and >semi-auto (auto clutch, manual shift) like most other games. In >semi-auto mode, gearchanges that would over- or under-rev the engine >are blocked.

O.K., that sounds pretty cool. -- * rrev at mindspring dot com *

The gearboxes in f1 aren't semi automatic as in they change themselves. The electronics do however prevent changing into an inappropriate gear and over revving the engine. -- Ian Parker [email hidden] [email hidden] == DjFIL <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > umm, I'm not 100% sure on this... But today durring qual on itv the guys came up > with a comment about blowing engines. That blowing engines is not by bad > driving, as the revs (and gears?) are controled by electronics, and when an > engine blows it is totaly a mechanical problem. Dunno if this'd go with this > problem...but you never know. The modern f1 cars seam to drive them selves... > as most would say.. f1 is now 90% car, 10% driver.