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Nfs underground 2 download demo2/17/2023 ![]() On my 3Ghz PC with Radeon 9800(oc'd) card the first thing that got me was the graphicswhich look several levels worse than the original!? For a start, with nearly all the settings on max visual quality the city/world looks terriblenowhere near as detailed or impressive as the first game. Tony DiMarzio 'hg' wrote in message I'm sure many ATI owners will find this initial impression interesting as NFSU was a hot seller on PCs(I upgraded to a 9800 just for NFS) Just downloaded and played for about 2 hours the just released Need for Speed Underground 2 demo.and my initial view is disappointing. The readme.txt recommends cat 4.9, but if I'm gonna change I'd rather go to 4.10. ![]() I was wondering how they could come up with a sequel in such a short time and now I know. I suspect the PC version has used the graphical lowest common denominator for all the old reasons - time and money. No such restriction for the PC version I'm afraid - with consoles and their tiny memory spaces simpler models are unavoidable. Though the demo runs slightly more sluggish on my setup than the original game despite the simple uld be just the demo 'problem'. Archived from groups: .ati,-for-speed Valid point. ![]() Maybe another reason why they did the visuals this way was the massive success of the first game, they wanted as many people as possible to play the game so they designed it with ordinary PCs in mind- unlike the first game which looked great on ordinary PCs but could use the extra power of high-end hardware and it looked unbelievable. Most of the stuff has been reused from initial console designs to save them time in having to improve the visuals. ![]()
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