GP3- only 3d patch for GP2?

SO WHY THIS LONG TIME THEN? IF THOSE THINGS, WHAT G.CRAMMOND SAY IS TRUE, THAT GAME STAY IN STORES. GP2 IS NOT SO GOOD (original). SOME CODERS MAKE IT BETTER LATER (editors and unoffical patches) , AND MR. CRAMMOND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.

GP2 not so good? Many consider it to _still_ be the best in it's class of sim. As I do. GP2 is a work of art given the time frame it was released. -Larry

This is true, if you had a Pentium 500 at the time, but no one did :( GP2 was a disaster in some ways. The graphics of the screenshots were cool, but the graphics of the game at a playable framerate were very bad! So is this game good or bad? I want to race, not look at screenshots....

Sorry? Pardon? Speak up... I still play GP2; it's better than anything else in it's class. Way better than MGPRS2, Official F1 Racing and F1RS. GP3 as 3DFX patch would bee fine. Not great, but fine by me. I rather think GP3 will include Saftey Cars, Blue and Red flags and similar enhancements which haven't yet been achieved in anything else, 'cept GPL! > SO WHY THIS LONG TIME THEN? > IF THOSE THINGS, WHAT G.CRAMMOND SAY IS TRUE, THAT GAME STAY IN STORES. > GP2 IS NOT SO GOOD (original). > SOME CODERS MAKE IT BETTER LATER (editors and unoffical patches) , AND MR. > CRAMMOND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. -- Rob Swindells 3rd equal in Goldline Bearings FFord Championship (29 Points); ONE point behind Championship Leader (as of round 5 of 6) "If you're a great driver, you will get through. It's not harder than any time before." ~Martin Brundle "Winning, that you can't know, 'fighting' ...that I know..." ~Jacques Villeneuve pre'96

GP2 was _never_ a problem on any of the hardware I ran it on. Maybe I was just lucky... -Larry

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:50:42 +0100, robswindells >Not great, but fine by me. I rather think GP3 will include Saftey Cars, Blue >and Red flags and similar enhancements which haven't yet been achieved in >anything else, 'cept GPL! Huh? Did I miss a patch? --Tel

I agree wholeheartedly. Although I doubt we'll see GP3 before next year I'll glady buy It In Dec. If available. Even in It's Beta state It would be head and shoulders above any other current F1 sim. Nothing wrong with updates & patches, hopefully the first one would address multiplay. DN

You turn down the graphics to get a good framerate. GP2 is still the best F1 sim and got better each time I upgraded my computer. I'll admit with a slow computer it is not graphically impressive but I look more at the physics/playability of the game than graphics. Pig

Me too. I can forgive some bugs since experienced 1000 bugs with Faclon4! ;^) Racing sim is smaller world simulation than flight sim, so there should be less bugs. Y.Minami

But if we also remember how microprose just walked away from this game....unfinished.GP2 that is...... Not a patch anywhere to be found,if they pull these tactics this time then I for one will not buy another microprose title.Unless they finally start to listen to the folks who just happen to line the pockets with the folding stuff.....we the gamers!!!!! Paul Alesi --

: But if we also remember how microprose just walked away from this : game....unfinished.GP2 that is...... : Not a patch anywhere to be found,if they pull these tactics this time then I : for one will not buy another microprose title.Unless they finally start to : listen to the folks who just happen to line the pockets with the folding : stuff.....we the gamers!!!!! Uh... call me crazed but I thought GP2 wasn't patched because it wasn't bugged. (It's a strange world when people call it customer support to sell ***and fix it later). -- Richard G. Clegg Only the mind is waving Dept. of Mathematics (Network Control group) Uni. of York. www: http://manor.york.ac.uk/top.html

> Uh... call me crazed but I thought GP2 wasn't patched because it > wasn't bugged. (It's a strange world when people call it customer > support to sell ***and fix it later). Ok, gp2 is quite playable as it is. BUT... for starters, try driving a 5-10 lap race with no pitstops. Right after taking the chequered flag *first* save your first flying lap and then save your game. Now you need to load this game and watch your race time go bananas. -- Ari Nieminen Remove .NOSPAM from my e-mail address when replying.

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> But if we also remember how microprose just walked away from this > game....unfinished.GP2 that is...... > Not a patch anywhere to be found,if they pull these tactics this time > then I > for one will not buy another microprose title.Unless they finally > start to > listen to the folks who just happen to line the pockets with the > folding > stuff.....we the gamers!!!!!

Unfinished? hmmmm, I still have GP2 installed on my PC at work, and cos its at work, I don't have *ANY* of the patches, editors, etc running. Its just a bare install of GP2. And do you know what? It runs great. Perhaps Microprose didn't release any patches, etc, because it didn't need any? Radical I know, but hey, think about it, just for a second...... I also have GP2 installed on *both* my home pc's, and I have most of the decent patches, editors, etc installed, and the excellent GP3lap which enables GP2 over a LAN, great stuff! All the patches, editors, etc, do is to enhance the graphics, to enable the cars performance to be tweaked, etc. They do not *FIX* anything? cos nothing needed fixing? Pretty rare thing that, a bug free program. Think about it. 8-) *Peter* 8-)