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From: Andrew Murray <mad.max@which.net>
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Subject: Re: Driver / V-Rally 2
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 19:58:29 +0100
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I noticed an interesting glitch in Driver:

When you are behind a car or see a car nearby in your view, when the frame rate
drops look closely and you will see the car being substituted for an even lower
polygon box car, you know the one that appears on the horizon in the distance to
save the frame rate. It flickers back and forth. Police cars are very dumb and
you'd wonder if all the drivers on the road had heard of "MIRROR, SIGNAL,
MANOEUVRE" as they blatantly colide with you when they cross the junctions.

Olly Read wrote:

> Driver...
>
> I've been playing this game every day for a week now, and I have to admit it
> has never crashed on me (yet...)
>
> However, I don't know whether I'm imagining things or not, but the game
> readily seems to drop frames, especially when there are more than a couple
> of police cars chasing you. In my mind this is the ultimate sin - a driving
> game needs to keep the speed up above everything else. It is easy enough to
> compensate for dropped frames by moving everything twice as far as normal,
> but Driver does not seem to do this and you get a noticeable drop in the
> car's speed.
>
> This suggests to me either slack programming (hopefully not, as the game
> overall is excellent), or lack of testing possibly due to release date
> pressures...
>
> Olly

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