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EA NASCAR Demo Is Released
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DL now. 205 kb
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NASCAR SimRacing Demo - README
============================== THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WHICH ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT WILL ELECTRONIC ARTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM POSSESSION, USE, OR MALFUNCTION OF THIS ELECTRONIC ARTS SOFTWARE PRODUCT. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS AS TO HOW LONG AN IMPLIED WARRANTY LASTS AND/OR EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND/OR EXCLUSIONS OF LIABILITY MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC RIGHTS, AND YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS WHICH VARY FROM STATE TO STATE. ELECTRONIC ARTS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS IN THIS FILE AND TO THE SOFTWARE AT ANY TIME AND WITHOUT NOTICE. THIS FILE AND THE SOFTWARE HEREWITH IS COPYRIGHTED. ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS FILE OR THE SOFTWARE MAY BE COPIED, REPRODUCED, TRANSLATED, OR REDUCED TO ANY ELECTRONIC MEDIUM OR MACHINE-READABLE FORM WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF ELECTRONIC ARTS, P.O. BOX 9025, REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA 94063-9025, ATTN: CUSTOMER SUPPORT. Copyright 2005 Electronic Arts Inc. All Rights Reserved. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. MINIMUM SPECIFICATION ===================== In the event of any problems, ensure that your PC meets the minimum specification as stated below. Operating System Microsoft Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000 or XP Pro/Home Processor 1 GHZ Intel Pentium III or 100% Compatible Memory 256 Megabytes Hard Drive 3 Gigabytes free space CD/DVD Drive 8x 3D Accelerator DirectX 9.0c compliant 32 MB NVIDIA GeForce 2 or better, ATI Radeon 7500 or better AGP video card. Sound Card DirectX 9.0c compliant PCI Game Controllers DirectX 9.0c compliant RECOMMENDED SPECIFICATION ========================= Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Pro/Home Processor 2 GHZ or better Intel Pentium 4 or 100% Compatible Memory 256 MB or better Hard Drive 3 Gigabyte free space. CD/DVD Drive 12x or better 3D Accelerator ATI RADEON 9000 or better NVIDIA GeForce FX or better Sound Card Creative Labs SoundBlaster Series Game Controllers Logitech Momo Force (Wheel/Pedals) & Wingman Series (Gamepads, Joysticks and Wheels/Pedals) Microsoft Sidewinder Series (Gamepads, Joysticks and Wheels/Pedals) Thrustmaster NASCAR Pro Digital 2 & NASCAR Pro Force Feedback (Wheel/Pedals) INSTALLATION ============ NASCAR SimRacing Demo will only install and run on machines running Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Windows XP. If using Microsoft Windows 2000, XP Pro/Home, you must have administrator rights in order to install. 1. Run NASCAR SimRacing Demo.exe and follow the on-screen prompts. Note the folder to which you extracted the installation files. 2. Once you have completed the above step, go the directory to which you extracted the install files to and run setup.exe. Follow the on screen prompts. 3. When the installation is finished, the installation program adds a program group called EA SPORTS\NASCAR SimRacing Demo to your Start\Programs menu, and a shortcut to your desktop. Click on this shortcut or alternatively click on the start button on your Windows task bar. Under Programs\EA SPORTS\NASCAR SimRacing Demo select NASCAR SimRacing Demo to play. DIRECTX ======= NASCAR SimRacing Demo requires DirectX version 9.0c or higher to be installed on your personal computer in order to run. If your sound card or video card does not support DirectX 9.0c or higher, please contact your hardware vendor. UNINSTALL ========= To uninstall NASCAR SimRacing Demo: 1. Go to Programs\EA SPORTS\NASCAR SimRacing Demo in the Start menu. 2. Click on Uninstall NASCAR SimRacing Demo to proceed. Alternatively: 1. Click on the Start menu, select Settings and then Control Panel. 2. Now find Add/Remove Programs and click to run. 3. Scroll down the list until you see NASCAR SimRacing Demo, select it and click on Add/Remove to uninstall. 3D SETUP ======== A configuration utility called 3D Setup is installed with NASCAR SimRacing Demo. When you install and play the game for the first time, 3D Setup automatically asks you to confirm the default selection, and normally users will find this selection satisfactory. Whenever you install or remove video devices, do not run NASCAR SimRacing Demo again without first running 3D Setup from the Start Menu. The 3D Setup shortcut is located in the Programs\EA SPORTS\NASCAR SimRacing Demo start menu. 3D Setup will test your system for the presence of supported video devices (this may be accompanied by a black screen flash on your monitor). When 3D Setup appears, click the OK button to select the default video device, or choose an alternative 3D accelerator and/or rendering resolution by clicking on it and then clicking OK. If an unsupported video device or other problem is detected by the 3D Setup program, you will be informed that this is the case. TROUBLE SHOOTING ================ If you increase the settings of your display options and experience graphical problems and/or decreased performance and have the latest drivers, we recommend setting your Display options back to their defaults. Users of L.C.D. displays, especially laptop displays, may experience noticeably decreased performance when running the game at any resolution other than the native resolution of the L.C.D. display which is usually 1280x1024. Users with Full Screen Anti-Aliasing (FSAA) enabled on video cards that support this feature may notice occasional minor graphical issues - we recommend that FSAA is disabled when playing NASCAR SimRacing Demo. 3D Setup will analyze your video systems ability to render with Full Screen Anti-Aliasing (FSAA) enabled and in some cases disallow the option based upon the detected hardware and drivers. Users of NVIDIA video cards utilizing the NVIDIA Forceware 66.93 or 66.94 drivers and AMD processors without SSE support may experience various graphical problems. These problems can be avoided by using an older version of the NVIDIA Forceware drivers. SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) support is included in all Intel Pentium III and Pentium IV processors as well as on AMD CPUs that support AMD's 3Dnow!T Professional technology, which is supported in all Model 8 and Model 6 AMD AthlonT processors (AMD Athlon XP, AMD Athlon MP, mobile AMD Athlon 4) and Model 7 AMD DuronT processors. NASCAR SimRacing Demo is not compatible with Video cards that use the SIS PV-SO5A-C. Users of the Matrox Parhelia video card may experience graphical problems and their vehicle rendered incorrectly at times within the user interface. Users of the Matrox Parhelia 128 MB video card may occasionally experience flickering horizontal lines if the Refresh Rate for the card is set lower than 75 HZ. Users of video cards incorporating the NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4600 chipset and version 66.93 of the NVIDIA Forceware may experience problems such as the player car not being displayed on the main menu. Users of Windows 98, a video card incorporating any of the NVIDIA GeForce chipsets and version 61.76 of the NVIDIA Forceware may experience problems with the rendering of the driver arms/hands. Users of Windows 98 and ME, a video card incorporating any of the NVIDIA GeForce chipsets and version 66.94 of the NVIDIA Forceware may experience problems with graphical corruption if the 3D Setup program is run consecutively without restarting your machine in between. Restarting your machine will fix any graphical corruption. Under Windows 98 and ME, certain tasks such as the Dial Up Networking interface may be deemed the active task whilst being displayed in front of, behind or underneath the game. In order to return active control to the game, use the windows task switching hot key (Alt Tab) to toggle through the active tasks and return priority to the game. On some video cards, you may encounter problems using Windows multi-task keys (Alt-Tab etc.) to switch between NASCAR SimRacing Demo and other active applications. We recommend avoiding any form of Windows multi-tasking during play at all times possible. Fast user switching within Windows XP on machines with less than 512 MB RAM and/or low virtual memory settings may cause the game to be terminated during the switch. We do not recommend the use of fast user switching during play. With V-Sync enabled the introductory and subsequent movies may slow down and/or stutter occasionally. This does not affect game play and can be bypassed by pressing <Escape> while the movie is playing. When playing the game with limited user rights, game files are saved in the My Documents directory for the limited user account. These files will not be removed automatically by the uninstall process. Users of the Diamond Multimedia Monster Sound MX400 and Windows 98 may experience stuttering sound in the event that sound acceleration is enabled. Users of the ESS Maestro, Philips Acoustic Edge and integrated VIA Audio sound devices may experience occasional audio inconsistencies. ISA sound cards are not supported. Users that may have manually reduced their virtual memory or are running low on hard drive space may experience problems running the game. We strongly recommend that Windows is set to automatically manage virtual memory and that a minimum of 256 MB virtual memory is always allowed. If you have problems with saving and recording replays, it's possible that you will need to free up some hard drive space to accommodate the data saved as you play the game. For best performance, we recommended that you have at least 1 Gigabyte of free hard drive space available at all times. If you run out of hard drive space as a result of saving a large replay file, upon reloading this file and playing it, the game may exit to desktop upon reaching the point in time that you ran out of drive space. Certain game controllers may not be detected consistently by your operating system. In any case that you are unable to get a certain game controller to function, first check that the controller is reported to be OK under your operating system. If the controller is reported as OK then ensure that you have it selected under Options. If the controller still fails to respond once selected, enter the Controls page from Settings and remap the controls for your device as described in the manual. Users of the Wingman Formula Force wheels may occasionally see the test gizmo within the Controls pages indicate that both the Accelerator and Brake pedals are partially depressed when they are not. Pressing the pedals completely and releasing them slowly will correct this problem. Windows ME users with DirectX 9.0c or lower installed may need to install DirectX 8.1 prior to upgrading to the latest DirectX 9.0c included on the game CD in order for the game to run correctly. In the event you experience any visual or audio related abnormality that is not mentioned herein, please contact your hardware manufacturer to verify that you have the latest drivers installed. |
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I don't know what it is with the EA graphics. It feels different than the
other EA NASCAR's but the graphics are much the same. Lots of jagged edges even at 1600x1200 4AA. I'll reserve the driving judgments until I have a few more laps in. Certainly disappointing graphics. "David G Fisher" > wrote in message ... > > http://www.gamespot.com/?tag=gs_gsbc_gshome > -- > David G Fisher > > |
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First impressions:
1. Jaggy graphics 2. Spectator - no cockpit view 3. Show stopper - only 2 joysticks so my Speed7s aren't recognised 4. Menu and general interface much better than anything EA before. If I feel like reassigning my pedals O'll do some laps tomorrow. Regards "David G Fisher" > wrote in message ... > > http://www.gamespot.com/?tag=gs_gsbc_gshome > -- > David G Fisher > > |
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Didn't notice too jaggy of graphics. Running 1600*1200 with 4X AA. Looked
better than I expected. Refresh rate stuck at 60 though. "Neil Charlton" > wrote in message ... > First impressions: > > 1. Jaggy graphics > > 2. Spectator - no cockpit view > > 3. Show stopper - only 2 joysticks so my Speed7s aren't recognised > > 4. Menu and general interface much better than anything EA before. > > If I feel like reassigning my pedals O'll do some laps tomorrow. > > Regards > > "David G Fisher" > wrote in message > ... >> >> http://www.gamespot.com/?tag=gs_gsbc_gshome >> -- >> David G Fisher >> >> > > |
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Alt F for frame rate if anyone is interested.
"Schooner" > wrote in message news:IAfId.15564$Qb.1075@edtnps89... > Didn't notice too jaggy of graphics. Running 1600*1200 with 4X AA. > Looked better than I expected. Refresh rate stuck at 60 though. > > "Neil Charlton" > wrote in message > ... >> First impressions: >> >> 1. Jaggy graphics >> >> 2. Spectator - no cockpit view >> >> 3. Show stopper - only 2 joysticks so my Speed7s aren't recognised >> >> 4. Menu and general interface much better than anything EA before. >> >> If I feel like reassigning my pedals O'll do some laps tomorrow. >> >> Regards >> >> "David G Fisher" > wrote in message >> ... >>> >>> http://www.gamespot.com/?tag=gs_gsbc_gshome >>> -- >>> David G Fisher >>> >>> >> >> > > |
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The demo locks up my machine solid. From what I can tell though, it
ain't no GTR. ;-) -- Richard "ZZ" Busch Member: Screamers Racing League oAo AoA MARA GTR GT Rank +41.931 NGT Rank +84.383 GT Rank Monster +1341.080 GPL Rank + 14.768 MoGPL Rank + 308.654 N2003 Rank -18.8060 ---------------- Remember racecar is racecar spelled backward ----------------- |
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Wasn't that thrilled with the graphics either, and the Indy setup was barely
drivable. I have been following two EA sim discussions at OLR. The first is one by Bob Stanley regarding the physics from the full game http://www.onlineracin.com/forum/tm.asp?m=36752 and the second is a new one regarding the demo http://www.onlineracin.com/forum/tm....6&mpage=2&key= I will wait and see what Stanley and Lomas have to say about the demo and how it compares to the full version before I start drawing any conclusions. They certainly will know the differences. I also want to try some different setups with the demo. Others in the demo discussion at OLR have had the same exact experience with the Indy setup as I did. It may be that, for the ten thousandth time, a subpar demo has been released for a PC auto sim. -- David G Fisher "Neil Charlton" > wrote in message ... > First impressions: > > 1. Jaggy graphics > > 2. Spectator - no cockpit view > > 3. Show stopper - only 2 joysticks so my Speed7s aren't recognised > > 4. Menu and general interface much better than anything EA before. > > If I feel like reassigning my pedals O'll do some laps tomorrow. > > Regards > > "David G Fisher" > wrote in message > ... > > > > http://www.gamespot.com/?tag=gs_gsbc_gshome > > -- > > David G Fisher > > > > > > |
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control does not feel right, graphic are okay at 1600x1200x32 4x AA, and
frame rate is high. P4 3.02 1gig Ram 6800GT 256 meg card Logitech Driving Force Pro Act Labs Pedals "Schooner" > wrote in message news:IAfId.15564$Qb.1075@edtnps89... > Didn't notice too jaggy of graphics. Running 1600*1200 with 4X AA. > Looked better than I expected. Refresh rate stuck at 60 though. > > "Neil Charlton" > wrote in message > ... >> First impressions: >> >> 1. Jaggy graphics >> >> 2. Spectator - no cockpit view >> >> 3. Show stopper - only 2 joysticks so my Speed7s aren't recognised >> >> 4. Menu and general interface much better than anything EA before. >> >> If I feel like reassigning my pedals O'll do some laps tomorrow. >> >> Regards >> >> "David G Fisher" > wrote in message >> ... >>> >>> http://www.gamespot.com/?tag=gs_gsbc_gshome >>> -- >>> David G Fisher >>> >>> >> >> > > |
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