Hello all, I'm trying to decide between these two games, and since I've
got $40 burning a hole in my pocket, I also want to know whether either
of these games would run acceptably on my rather aging system.
Both games have gotten good reviews, it seems for the most part, and I
am trying to find the lowest price.
My system:
Dell P200MMX
64MB RAM
Diamond Monster Fusion Voodoo Banshee 16MB
How do you think it would run on this PC?
Thank you
Sam Johnson
common r.a.s. lurker, occasional poster
NFS: High Stakes is alot of fun!! Though it gets very repetitious. It has
maybe 6 tracks in the entire game.. and after racing a track at night, in
rain, backwards, and forwards, it starts to become boring and you soon find
yourself playin only to gain money to purchase a cooler car (that is if you
can resist cheating).
My friend has Midtown Madness, and he said that he could recognize buildings
he drove by in Chicago from the game. He said it was very lifelike as far
as the scenery is concerned. But I don't know how the gameplay is.
Midtown madness isn't going to run very well on that computer. You don't have
enough memory and your processor is way too slow.
The two games are very different, so if you just want the one that will run
better, get NFS. It should look wonderful with the Banshee.
daxe
Midtown Madness is a nice looking game but it takes alot of CPU to run it.
mem and it bogs mine down sometimes...
> NFS: High Stakes is alot of fun!! Though it gets very repetitious. It has
> maybe 6 tracks in the entire game.. and after racing a track at night, in
> rain, backwards, and forwards, it starts to become boring and you soon find
> yourself playin only to gain money to purchase a cooler car (that is if you
> can resist cheating).
> My friend has Midtown Madness, and he said that he could recognize buildings
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> he drove by in Chicago from the game. He said it was very lifelike as far > as the scenery is concerned. But I don't know how the gameplay is. > > Hello all, I'm trying to decide between these two games, and since I've > > got $40 burning a hole in my pocket, I also want to know whether either > > of these games would run acceptably on my rather aging system. > > Both games have gotten good reviews, it seems for the most part, and I > > am trying to find the lowest price. > > My system: > > Dell P200MMX > > 64MB RAM > > Diamond Monster Fusion Voodoo Banshee 16MB > > How do you think it would run on this PC? > > Thank you > > Sam Johnson > > common r.a.s. lurker, occasional posterNFS has 13 tracks, not 6.....
I run a K6-233 with 64MB and Fusion as well, so my opinion should be close to what yours would be:
I use NFSHS every night, and the graphics in single player are spectacular (though the frame rate drops when cars are in front and
effects like rain or dust are in the air).
The sound is good, and it allows you to play audio CDs instead of just the racing music.
I don't know what CDRom you use, but mine annoyingly keeps roaring along at high speed due to the in-game audio. So I decided to
switch to audio CD which uses less RPM, thus less noise.
The cars have individual physics and damage effects (including crumpled body, wobbly tires, and smoke and flames).
The one think some people will not like is the unlocking of tracks. There are 6 new tracks and all the NFS3 tracks, but you can't
race a track until you unlock it through championship racing. Same with the cars. Just like NFS3 did. You can use cheat codes to get
around this though.
However, split-screen racing is terrible on my little CPU. With 640x480x16, no effects, no detail, the frame rate was quite choppy
for both of us. Of course, the online portion is still not finished yet (www.earacing.com), so I can keep busy in single player
career mode until then.
HTH,
Rick
>The cars have individual physics and damage effects (including crumpled body, wobbly tires, and smoke and flames).
Let me just mention that in my opinion, Midtown Madness (MM) blows
away NFSHS in the physics department. Not that the later NFS titles
cared about physics much anyway...
Also, much to my dismay, the opponents and cops in NFSHS still "float"
around the track. Watch when an opponent car avoids other cars-- they
slide sideways instead of performing an actual turn. What's so hard
about making the opponents have to powerslide like I do? They also
don't wipe out as easily as I do, although it's better than it was in
NFS3...
In summary, I have much more fun playing MM.
--Mountain K
Is there any fix for the pathetic engine sounds in Midtown? Christ, they
sound like an old Commodore game!
I had Midtown Madness, and ended up trading it for NFSHS. Need for
speed is worlds better. if you stop at a light in midtown, every time
a car comes up behind you it swirves out of control!!! the engine
sounds are pathetic, you cant peel out, the steering sucks, and the
cars are boxy and not very detailed. The cops cant even pull you
over!!! If they catch you and run you off the road untill you stop,
they just sit there and blare their sirens until you get away. If you
are going to buy a microsoft game, you should wait untill the second
version of the game comes out. If one doesn't, the game wasnt worth
getting. I even think Need for Speed 1 was better than midtown
madness. Need for Speed: High Stakes is a great game, get it instead.
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No it doesn't.
No they aren't.
Yes they are.
No it doesn't.
Slightly more so than NFS, correct. Hey one out of five ain't bad (or
is it?).
Joe McGinn
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Well, either you experienced a beta version of MM, or maybe your
steering wheel was disconnected?
I think that MM is a LOT more *fun* than NFSHS. Especially wrt the
computer opponents-- you can actually take out the opposition in MM,
unlike NFSSE (where the opponent cars have hella sticky tires and you
can't budge 'em).
I'll bet you never played a good MM cops & robbers game on the
internet either... Now THAT'S a blast!
--mk
Cops & robbers is really fun. Not as fun as TFC, but fun.
Actually, it's really easy to take out an opponent in NFSHS, any time I wind
up racing an opponent with a faster car than me, I pull up even with the back
of his door, and turn hard into the back of his car. Spins them out almost
every time. But it does generally seem that the cars weigh more (or have a
lot more grip) than they should.
And it's lots of fun running somebody off the road, and they hit an incline
and you watch them in your rear-view mirror as they flip and skid on their
roof.
I like both games. MM has some weird flaws, especially the cops and the
lack of ANY replay system. Not that NFSHS has much of a replay system, but
it's better than nothing. NFSHS lets you race on a long track (usually in the
country) with really nice scenery, where MTM gives you lots of traffic and
buildings to dodge. It's really satisfying driving through cross-traffic at
an intersection going 100mph.
Dan
