World Racing Series demo - well worth a look

Macropodid > wrote in
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> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:11:51 +0000 (UTC), APLer >
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>>That *should* be $41US in any case. The points *should* be made that
>>both cars and the track come free with the demo and it *is* named alpha
>>software.
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> Well, charging for alpha software isn't going to win the developer any
> friends.

Tell that to Microsoft - Vista, Windows 7...

"Macropodid" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:19:20 +0000 (UTC), APLer >
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>>Tell that to Microsoft - Vista, Windows 7...
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> Really? Then how is it that I , and many other people, have been
> running Win7RC as our main PC OS for months now for free?
>

For free?

Macropodid > wrote in
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> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:19:20 +0000 (UTC), APLer >
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>>Tell that to Microsoft - Vista, Windows 7...
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> Really? Then how is it that I , and many other people, have been
> running Win7RC as our main PC OS for months now for free?

Torrents most likely (assuming you've even *seen* W7). Besides it was a
*free* download for a working demo.

Another bozo for the bin methinks.

(Andre) wrote:

> The url doesn't work for me, 404 :-/

I just had the same problem, but googling worldracingseries brought up the page (a
few links down) and the (same!) url worked from that link. Weird.

Andrew McP

"Wad Medani" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:08:35 +1000, "Byron Forbes"
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>> For free?
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> RC means release candidate and not the version to be sold in stores.
> It's been free to use for a long time and is good until March 2010.
> That means they gave me a free OS to use for about 1 year, so yes,
> free.
>

Ok, thanks for the info.

Is there any mandatory feedback? Is feedback made particularly easy?

Wad Medani > wrote in
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> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:13:20 +0000 (UTC), APLer >
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>>Torrents most likely (assuming you've even *seen* W7). Besides it was a
>>*free* download for a working demo.
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>>Another bozo for the bin methinks.
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> Working demo?? It's been available as a full version RC candidate
> reelase for a long time now.

I referring there to the *game*. And mention of windows 7 is at best
conveniently coincides with his immediate POV and most probably outright
lying by a troll.

"Andrew MacPherson" wrote...
> http://www.worldracingseries.net/
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> <snip>

You've got to be kidding me, MacP.

I encountered following problems:

- image corruption issues in the 3D part with large parts of the screen
missing. I have to use the roll bar view to see where I'm going and even
then I'm taking righthanders blind (bit of an issue at LRP).

- for something which looks to have LFS-level graphics it runs like crap at
any sort of serious resolution

- force feedback oscillates out of control regardless of strenght/damping
setting.

A very poor effort as far as I can tell.

Jan.
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(Jan Verschueren) wrote:

> A very poor effort as far as I can tell.

I am clearly no longer a reliable source of opinion. :-)

I didn't have those problems, and with anisotropic filtering turned up (it's very
low at first) found it visually acceptable. It's not Shift, but then Shift doesn't
have such a satisfying physics model.

Andrew McP