Warning - make backups before modifying anything!) One Light, Two, Three, Four. You may also have to open the 'video.cfg' file and make sure the AllowWindowed setting is equal to 1. (For those interested in the tweaks I made: alter your 'config.ini' file in your F1 2000 directory by changing the WindowedMode setting to 1. In my book this is sloppy coding, pure and simple, and it pervades throughout the entire game. Once the tweak is in place, you can now really appreciate the graphical quality of this game, although it does pose the additional problem of having to resize your desktop to get a view that fills the screen. The transformation is remarkable - 1024x768 was finally a viable option for solo driving, and 800圆00 for racing. Why? Because if you dig into the configuration files in the F1 2000 directory, you'll be able to make some tweaks that let you play it in a window. (And what would be the point? By the time you had the hardware necessary to enable everything, F1 2001 would probably have hit the market!) You can't put this down to a hyper-realistic physics model ( Grand Prix Legends ' excuse) or a state-of-the-art graphics engine. If you have an nVidia-based chipset then you'll have problems (the game doesn't seem so happy with the GeForce and TNT cards).Įvery now and then we get a game that redefines 'entry level' with its very high system requirements, and as gamers we accept this because this is how progress is made. And all this on a system that exceeds the recommended spec! I've been following the dedicated F1 2000 High Gear forum, and it would appear that you need something on par with an PIII 700mhz with a Voodoo3 card to get a good playable result.

The last time I've seen a game go so slow was when I tried playing Grand Prix 2 in SVGA on my old 486 DX2/66!įinally I managed to get an acceptable frame rate when I opted for a test session with no other cars, and with a number of features switched off.

Any joy? Not really, as the game was still so jerky that the slightest steering input would result in a spin. To put it simply, frames per minute struck me as a more appropriate way of describing the frame rate! So I hastily retreated back to the menus, and this time slashed the screen resolution down to 640x480.

It sure was one hell of an experience, but not exactly in the way I'd imagined. 1024x768 resolution? Yup, I'll take that. You know, I had such a fun time in the display menus before my first race, flicking on every single option thinking that this was going to be one hell of an experience.

So all in all, I believe I was entitled to expect a satisfying performance on my PIII 500. On the box it says that you can get this game rolling on a P233 MMX, and its recommended system is a PII 450.

Download game f1 2006 pc compressed