[coastie65]

Hey piyush, My Nephew would like that. It's not exactly my cup of tea. coastie

[piyushsingh]

He should definitely try the demo if he loves racing games.
I was able to run the demo at pretty good settings - 1280X1024 at 2x aa . The games is much much better than pro street - graphics are much better and games isnt much far from real. Though i crashed and totalled a couple of times initailly as the controlling is always different between the most racing games but now its going fine. They have implemented the damage factor very well. Each part of the ride takes different amount of damage and performance of car is affected accordingly. That is just wow.

[techie4fun]

I'm going to have to give that demo a try. I live for racing.

C'mon MPH, I know you want to play this too :D

[piyushsingh]

hey techie
I hope mph reads that too. LOL

[coastie65]

Hey piyush, I forgot to check the platform for that thing. If is for a console ( PS3 ), then I'm sure he'll like it. He isn't much for that kind of stuff on the PC. Just FPS and RTS type stuff mostly, with an occasional RPG thrown in. coastie

[piyushsingh]

Ya its on PS3 also. Gametrailers gave it a 9 on 10. There was a very good gameplay video there but i wasnt able to embed that here. This is the link . One of my fav. cars - the dodge viper in action. No no its not a trailer, its a gameplay video . Earlier i also thought it was a trailer coz of such realness but its not the case. Infact the game features a replay system where at any time and at end of race , entire replay ia available from 3rd person view . Its nice to see your drifts at the end.

OMG i cant wait , when will this come at my nearby store

[techie4fun]

Well, I've got 13 minutes before this bad boy is complete. My first download was stuck in a speed of 78-120 kb/s and it would always change. I had roughly 4 hours till it was finished. I flew over to fileplanet and got a better mirror. :D

[mphenterprises]

LOL Hi guys. What have I missed? Are you referring to a Need for Speed Demo?

[techie4fun]

uh huh! My download is complete... YIPEE

[piyushsingh]

@ techie - so quick . Mine was constant at 35KB/s i left it at night and it was complete by morning.

@mph - not need for speed. its codemasters grid. Will you join us in trying the demo. It will work great on your specs.

[techie4fun]

Alright, well, that was exciting. I got the blue screen of death after installing or in the completion of the setup. Pagefaultinnonpaged_area..

stop: 0X00000050

I wanna play it you piece of junk!

[piyushsingh]

mine installed fine. btw was it on XP or vista ?

And when did you last checked for a video driver update ?

[mphenterprises]

piyushsingh said:

@mph - not need for speed. its codemasters grid. Will you join us in trying the demo. It will work great on your specs.

Sure. I am not really into Demos but I will give this one a twirl. I have a client appointment at one but I will try it.

[techie4fun]

Windows XP and the video drivers were what I immediately updated after the BSOD. The installation went through this time.

Oh piffle.. Your graphics card does not support shader 3.0 which is needed by this game. Looks like I need a new video card and a box of tissues.

[coastie65]

Hey techie, I think the operative word is OOPS!! not darn. Just an observation on my part. coastie

[piyushsingh]

Looks like i lost some good company. :-(

[techie4fun]

Seeing as my video card isn't up to date here, I'm downloading Dirt- the off road version from the same company. This will be better than having nothing, but I would have preferred GRID.

[piyushsingh]

I would say bookmark this link. This will come handy whenever you want to see how a game will run on your system.

As far as i remember , DiRT also requires pixel shader 3.0. So check it before you go.

[mphenterprises]

Okay, all downloaded. I will test it out when I can and give you my opinion

[techie4fun]

Oh pshaw :p ... I had installed the game before you mentioned the site and the game won't even load. No Shader 3.0 errors or anything. Oh well!