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actually it is swimmier than a pool full of greased olympians but if you
drive a few hundred laps it will magically become rock solid natural,
amazing.



Trygve Jensen wrote:

>     Hi.Is there anyone out there who-like me-finds the driving model of
> GPL much too 'swimmy'?By swimmy I mean it floats around all over the
> track,and is damn little precise.I can't imagine being able to race
> closely on this sim.Bought the sim,loathed it,sold it.Tried some more at
> a friend just to make certain that I gave it a fair shot,but no:Couldn't
> get myself immersed.
>     Was the cars like that,or is the driving model not up to scratch.I
> was not expecting razor sharp handling,but for me this is
> uncontrollable,or to be more precicely:I'm more worried about the car
> going straight,and not spinning round than actually watching ahead,and
> getting on with the job of racing.I like the cornering of GPL,but
> straight forward I have my hands full just keeping the car on the track.
>
>     One last thing:I find that the traction between track and grass to
> be too little.One should slide more dramatically when hitting grass as
> compared to asphalt.Just my opinion.
>     Anybody with an opinion?
>
> --
> Homepage: http://home.c2i.net/trjensen/
> E-Mail: trjensen@c2i.net (Alt:leopold@online.no)



