🚀 go-pugleaf

I, too have been waiting for "The Need for Speed."  I went to a 
superstore and loaded it up to try it out.  The SVGA mode graphics were 
nice.  Trouble is that it's such a hardware hog that I don't think I'll 
buy it.

I have a DX2/66 overclocked to 80MHz.  THe store machine was a P5-60.  In 
SVGA 640x480 mode, things were a little jumpy.  WHen I turned on the 
"horizone" which put realistic clouds in the sky, things were so slow it 
was absolutley pathetic.  The box says that a DX2/66 is required for VGA 
(320x200) and a Pentium for SVGA.  However, unless something was wrong, a 
P5-60 wasn't NEARLY enough for SVGA.

In 320x200 mode, the graphics suck miserably and the detail is so low 
that you can't see what's coming on the horizon until it's too late.  It 
reminded me of my 8-bit Atari games - blocky looking.  Has anyone tried 
this game in SVGA on a DX2/66 or 80?  Is it worth buying?

All of this has me in a quandry.  I have played the game on the 3DO and 
the resolution looks fantastic on the TV set, pehaps because of the 
blurriness which makes things look smoother.  Regardless of the reason, 
it looks worlds better on the 3DO's resolution than 320x200 on the PC.  
640X480 isn't playable as far as I can tell.  WHY DOES IT TAKE A $4000 
P5-133 to play this game as well as a $299 video game?

The P5-60 store demo was running Win95 which I have yet to buy.  Someone 
please tell me that the game is faster on DOS 6.22!!!!  Perhaps there 
will be hope!!!

I think I'll just buy a cheap Playstation to play games on instead of 
spending ten times that amount to play a *ucking game on a fast PC which 
will serve me no better in any other regard.  When I recall some of the 
neat games on the 1.79Mhz 8-bit Atari computer (like BallBlazer by 
Lucasfilm), I wonder where all those bits of data path and all those 
66Mhz machine cycles are going when the gameplay gets all sucky and 
jumpy.  Are they writing these new games in BASIC or what?

James