Quote from spankmeyer :

:bananadea

LOL

Quote from ajp71 :

Sounds crap to me, the same repetitive sample with some annoying whining over the top.

i meant nice as in "oooo i wish my car sounded like that", the only GT car i can think of that sounds like that IRL is a 911

Looks and sounds pretty nice, but it just looks plain wrong physics wise IMHO. I couldn't stop laughing when he drove out on the grass in the second vid and the car just bounced around a bit and returned easily to the track.

LFS could use that gearshift animation tho..

I haven't watched the vids because I already know pretty much what they'll be. Hype-fest over the uber "realism" of GTR2 and "revolutionary damagemodel".

Quote from Jakg :

the only GT car i can think of that sounds like that IRL is a 911

Have you been to an ALMS race? Seems to me that every team has a unique sounding GT3 RSR. lol, none of them seem to have the same sound to them. Also, the Maserati MC12 race car's sound is comparable to a modern CART champ car IIRC. (comparing the 95 villeneuve championship winning CART car I heard at the "Sommet des Legends" last year in July with the MC12 from Mosport last year.)

Somehow I don't think that's what the MC12 sounds in GTR2. Just a feeling. Maybe I'll watch the vid to confirm my belief...

Quote from Jakg :

i meant nice as in "oooo i wish my car sounded like that", the only GT car i can think of that sounds like that IRL is a 911

lol I was actually watching a vid of the TVR, which sounds so sampled.

As for the Maserati, please tell me it has a flat 12, in which case it's just a bad sampled sound if not then I might just have to

As for physics sure it will be ISI like but I don't think we should be so pre-judgemental, in comparison to S2 the S1 physics were crap, hopefully GTR2 will show this kind of leap, if not in graphics and sound. Anyway doesn't bother me too much as I'm sure my computer won't be able to run it just like all other ISI sims

Quote from MAGGOT :

I haven't watched the vids because I already know pretty much what they'll be. Hype-fest over the uber "realism" of GTR2 and "revolutionary damagemodel".

Youtube.com videos are actual ingame vids.

I hope that it has lots better "feel" than... other ISI games...

Anyway, :spam4: to the thread starter

EDIT: it seems to have at least the "random bump generator" from GTR 1. Burn, banana burn!

Quote from MAGGOT :

Have you been to an ALMS race?

Silverstone Tourist Trophy 2005

Meh, I liked GTR and GTL, and I'll probably like GTR2, not sure if I'll get chance to try the GTR2 demo, but if I get 5 mins I will have a go at it.

For the record, I have never had a problem with Starforce .

Dan,

Hmm, 512 mb for a freakin demo? At my rate of 2.5k/s on dialup and leaving it for 5 hours a day using download accellerator so I can resume the following night, it will take me a short 10.3 days to download it. That is if I even remember to resume the download nightly. Nah, I don't think I'll be trying it.

512mb is just way too much to download at work. That would make a free download cost quite a lot at the loss of a job.

There have been much bigger demos in recent years. Face it: dialup connections aren't what you need in today's gaming world.

I was hoping this might be downloadable via direct2drive or something else, but its not on there.
Everything about gtr was good except the netcode and starforce.
It may not have been the best 'sim' physics wise but it was good enough. If the online part of it worked at all I would have played it now and again.

If they pull the same stupid stunt of leaving the sim mode out of the demo, I wont bother tring it and they wont be getting my cash at all.

Nothing against starforce I'm just lazy, been spolit rotten by steam/lfs and virtual drives.
Media based checks are an inconvenience for pc owners. there is no need for it any more.


just sold my old 56k modem for.... 15p!!

http://www.bhmotorsports.com/GTR2 says it will use securrom and not starforce

Good news. Can't wait to give it a try then.

Maybe I'm stupid, but where is the download? Shouldn't it be availabe right now, or did I get my times mixed up

Quote from axus :

It will be 512MB and should be available at 9am GMT

That makes it tomorrow. In 15 hours is that, I believe.

http://www.gamespot.com/promos/2006/gtr2-demo/index.html has a counter on it, ~22 hours

Quote from BrandonAGr :

http://www.bhmotorsports.com/GTR2 says it will use securrom and not starforce

"Sources reveal that 10Tacle have, instead, opted for securrom, which our source reveals as a "Sony solution"."

That's like saying: "Drop that wimpy hammer and take this sledgehammer instead and wreck your computer better."

Yaay, now instead of my DVD drives failing, I can have my whole computer infested with Root Kits

</sarcasm>

I'd rather have Sony/Simbin come to my door after installing and just smash my monitor with a big club.

That is the reason I refuse to even try GTR2. Why do you need copy protection on a demo anyways?

Quote from MAGGOT :

That is the reason I refuse to even try GTR2. Why do you need copy protection on a demo anyways?

Its because the demo is verys imilar to the game. If the crackers can see the game without the copy protection present, it gives them a big advantage in cracking the retail version when it is released (or even before its released). Copy protection isn't there to completely eleminate piracy, its main purpose is to stall crackers so it isn't cracked in the games primetime immediatly after release.

Starforce sucks though.

Hmm, I haven't heard anything about Securom installing rootkits. Can anyone shed some light on this? Up until now I've thought Securom to be pretty OK.

Yup, I've heard the whole deal about the Sony BMG music CD:s having rootkits. But I haven't yet heard anything bad about Securom, that's why I was asking about it.

securom secretly and invisibly installs some kind of driver afaik