RACE 07 Demo [Archive] - NoGripRacing Forums

Kyril

19 July 07, 04:51

Kinda sorta, based on RACE 07 but not an official "Demo"

Two cars, BMW and SEAT Leon, one track....Brands Hatch 2007, Time Trial and Full Race modes. Click on the red "Ladda Ner" to download installer, then double click the installer and it will start Steam and download game.

http://www.vgp.se/instructions.do

rasfigjohn

19 July 07, 18:30

Has anybody tried that? How can it be a not official demo? ... sounds like RACE demo...

Kyril

19 July 07, 19:02

I've tried it and I like it alot, runs and looks better than Race 06. Can't wait til full release of RACE 07.

Spad

19 July 07, 19:58

This is defo the Race 07 Demo.

I just pulled it down!

Its very pretty but will it hold up on the old driving realism.

Kyril

19 July 07, 20:08

It seems to be a beta demo made for the Swedish Virtual Grand Prix. If this is any indication of things to come in RACE 07 I'll put my bib on now, coz I'm already drooling.

Runs soooooo much better than 06, I can run everything maxed out, including shadows and it's smooth as silk and looks fantastic.
My PC would choke, puke, then nutkick me for even attempting to run such settings with 06.

The driving experience is much the same as 06, could be me, but the FFB feels even better.
If this is indeed only a "beta demo" than we are definately in for treat with this one!

BTW, for any that might be curious, this beta demo is on the gmotor2 engine, not Lizard.

rasfigjohn

20 July 07, 11:00

Yes indeed that's a demo for RACEO7 http://www.nogripracing.com/gallery/data/2007/07/thumbs/571bd52710cec4696eef6d3ecddc07d1761e8eb8.jpg (http://www.nogripracing.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=10399)

Thanks for the link Kyril! That's funny because it says "not allowed outside Sweden"...
That looks great... the main improvement I found is in the sound! Great sound for the E90!

alex7945

20 July 07, 12:58

it s looks a GREAT game!!
Do you thinks they will give us the possibility to drive an open wheel?

Thanks

ryanclark

20 July 07, 13:25

will it run on an older computer?? Mayby

David Wright

20 July 07, 14:41

Do you thinks they will give us the possibility to drive an open wheel?

The full version will include an open wheel. I wouldn't be surprised if the official demo includes an open wheeler.

will it run on an older computer?? Mayby

I was surprised that Simbin made the first edition of RACE a Shader Model 2 title only. But with RACE 07 out a year later I'd be surprised if they go back on this.

Kyril

20 July 07, 21:52

Is it just me or do the cars feel more in contact with the tarmac, less floaty feeling than in RACE 06?
The more I drive this, the more I like it, fast becoming a favorite and it hasn't even been released yet, lol.
The AI are pretty good too, even had one flash his lights behind me when he thought I was holding him back, I've never seen that in any other sim.

wad53

20 July 07, 23:32

The AI are pretty good too, even had one flash his lights behind me when he thought I was holding him back, I've never seen that in any other sim.

They already do that in RACE 06. Maybe you just haven't held them up enough before. lol.:D

rasfigjohn

20 July 07, 23:33

The AI are pretty good too, even had one flash his lights behind me when he thought I was holding him back, I've never seen that in any other sim.

I think I've seen that once in GTR2... or was I dreaming? :confused:

Kyril

21 July 07, 01:04

They already do that in RACE 06. Maybe you just haven't held them up enough before. lol.:D

Good point, it would be difficult to see them flash lights when I'm behind them, lol.

boblug

21 July 07, 04:20

How do you uninstall this demo?

Wee Scot

21 July 07, 12:12

Really enjoyed driving this "pre-demo" last night, especially since Brands Hatch is one of my favorite circuits. Today I'm going to remove the aids and see just how it compares with GTR2.

Kyril

21 July 07, 12:17

How do you uninstall this demo?

Start Steam, click on My Games, right click Virtual Grand Prix Demo, then click Delete Local Content.

Kyril

21 July 07, 15:04

Really enjoyed driving this "pre-demo" last night, especially since Brands Hatch is one of my favorite circuits. Today I'm going to remove the aids and see just how it compares with GTR2.

IMO, it compares very well to the GTR2 driving experience (altho with front wheel dive, it has a feel of it's own, excepting the BMW e90 of course) with the added bonus of VERY close racing with the touring cars, I love it :)
Seems also to have more of a sense of speed than RACE does, I'll think you'll be impressed.

The Antialiasing bug from RACE has been fixed in this 07 beta demo, you no longer have to use the ingame antialiasing, can force it thru your video card control panel with no loss of performance now.

Attila Domjan

21 July 07, 20:38

Yepp, this game will be smashing!

analogkid66

21 July 07, 20:58

SUPER SUPER SUPER DEMO !!! :roflmao:

Just had a try in the Seat Leon, Fantastic feel, Outstanding Force Feedback Effects!
Although graphically a little dark still, please put a gamma level control in the graphics menu! :eek:

This is gonna be hard to beat for white knuckle racing, bring it on i cant wait!

analog. :up:

rduff

21 July 07, 21:18

does it run steam?

Kyril

21 July 07, 21:50

does it run steam?

Yes.

analogkid66

21 July 07, 22:10

does it run steam?

Yes! and take no notice of any of these doomsayers about steam, it has ran perfectly fine for me for past two years, Half Life, HL2 and now Race WTCC with the Caterhams.

I HIGHLY recommend you try the Race 07 Demo if youre not sure!

cheers, analog. :up:

Trebor901

21 July 07, 22:19

People who have installed this that arent from Sweden arent gonna get banned from Steam are they cos ive got a lot of games on Steam :S

HAMMER

21 July 07, 22:23

Yes! and take no notice of any of these doomsayers about steam, it has ran perfectly fine for me for past two years, Half Life, HL2 and now Race WTCC with the Caterhams.

I HIGHLY recommend you try the Race 07 Demo if youre not sure!

cheers, analog. :up:

you mean like ALL the starforce doomsayers :rolleyes:

Never had a problem still run GTR / GTL on XP and Vista
Never lost a device or writer .......PC runs flatout :confused:
any stuffed up with starforce must be silly imho

rduff

21 July 07, 22:36

thanks

i'm running standalone, so it won't work. thanks for the info

analogkid66

21 July 07, 22:38

thanks

i'm running standalone, so it won't work. thanks for the info

Thats correct it only runs through steam.

analog.

wad53

22 July 07, 02:00

People who have installed this that arent from Sweden arent gonna get banned from Steam are they cos ive got a lot of games on Steam :S

I'm from Australia, and I've had no problems at all so far.
Looking really good too, I'm quite impressed.

Loenne555

22 July 07, 17:01

David Wright

22 July 07, 17:14

While it isn't the RACE 07 demo, it does claim to be powered by RACE 07 - see the opening screen.

Kyril

22 July 07, 17:54

And here:

alex7945

22 July 07, 18:12

Hm, in case you all haven't noticed, this has NOTHING to do with Race07.
This is a demo for a commercial mod of Race (1!) for the swedish market.

I mean, why should SimBin release a demo of their highly awaited, new game, and never say a word about it on the official homepage, and instead releasing it on some completely unknown swedish homepage... ;) This just can't be...

It s a non official demo! so simbin doesn t talk about it...Why do you think this is only a mod??? We can see in the menu all the race07 cars...F3000...F BMW...
This is a demo of Race07!

analogkid66

23 July 07, 16:22

Hm, in case you all haven't noticed, this has NOTHING to do with Race07.
This is a demo for a commercial mod of Race (1!) for the swedish market.

I mean, why should SimBin release a demo of their highly awaited, new game, and never say a word about it on the official homepage, and instead releasing it on some completely unknown swedish homepage... ;) This just can't be...

Strange when some people are in denial?...another doom sayer! LOL!! :D

analog.

Raikku

23 July 07, 16:28

Anybody know if the installer still works, i dl'd that few days ago, but i didn't dare to install it 'cause i feared that it destroys my Steam-install somehow.

Wee Scot

23 July 07, 17:09

I don't care if it's official or unofficial or not even related to RACE 07. All I care about is that I've got another good version of Brands Hatch to drive around! :D

RKipker

23 July 07, 18:37

How do you run the demo or how would you run any game from STEAM if your're not online???

My connection is not always very dependable.... Satellite!

analogkid66

23 July 07, 18:42

Anybody know if the installer still works, i dl'd that few days ago, but i didn't dare to install it 'cause i feared that it destroys my Steam-install somehow.

OK i can definitely, Honestly say it DOES NOT DESTROY ANYTHING!

i have purchased and played three games using the steam interface, they are still there after i raced the demo, so get it installed, it will download using steam once you run the exe, sit back and let it install, then run it from steam when its finished!

Easy! :cool:

Zoomie

23 July 07, 18:45

or how would you run any game from STEAM if your're not online???

Open steam

Click "File"

Click "Go Offline"

:rolleyes:

ronake

24 July 07, 07:16

analogkid66

24 July 07, 18:25

Hi all.

I can inform you that this is an demo of Race07. www.vgp.se is a swedish hotlap competition that use this demo and right now is thera a couple of price competetions. The winner gets a Playseat and G25 wheel.
Later on it will be a new competietion and the winner will get approx 14285$ as first price! Sponsors are among others Simbin, Telia (Swedens biggest phone company), Intel, HP.

Thanks for that!

Here's the Translated Text about the Competition. :cool:

VGP.se organizes as from this summer it first official mästerskapet in virtuell bilracing, Virtual bits Prix, where winning arena takes home 100 000: -. Test demoversionen of race 07, the woods begin before the competition and win delicate delicate pinches on the road.

Directions outlook, the straits begin in beginning on August. To its choir we others pinch emulating here on VGP.se
congratulations Rickard_Hellsten! With closest magic varvtiden 1:32.805 picked you home the first prize this spring first competition. On others - and third place placed itself Richard_Johansson and Mean_Machine. Good-looking driven! The competitions continue here on VGP.se.
Observe that this competition neither is run or be sponsored of Valve Corporation.

Additional profits! As thanks for your views and your merciful throws we now in 50 additional tickets to Anderstorp in vinstpotten. Players on-the-spot 4-28 wins thus two tickets where. Drive so that it ryker!

So if could understand Swedish i'd give it a go! :roflmao:

analog.

Nismo09

24 July 07, 22:22

Great demo!! Close racing, good speed sensation, pretty graphics and the BMW sounds great. Look forward to this release. Never had a problem with steam and have all games installed and running perfect on Vista.

rstratton

24 July 07, 23:38

where the **** is this demo im logged into steam i dont see it anywhere

Nismo09

25 July 07, 05:25

where the **** is this demo im logged into steam i dont see it anywhere

http://www.vgp.se/instructions.do

Click on the red "Ladda Ner" to download installer, then double click the installer and it will start Steam and download game.

F2kSel

25 July 07, 21:12

For those worried about being banned from Steam why not just create a new user account.

PhilH959

26 July 07, 20:49

very nice...thanks for the link.....we will be running that asap when it releases. I enjoy the demo, and will purchase the game

Phil

roddypoddy

28 July 07, 14:21

Looking like a "must buy",great handling/car models/sounds,its really gorgous to look at,my wife even commented "thats nice" at the Seat using the swingman camera,and thats highly unusual for her to notice my pc games.

Attila Domjan

28 July 07, 16:49

Well, the best compliment for a game if a wife of a race fanatic comments positive about it... :) The usual comments are: are you finished already...? or: oh noooo, again...? :) :) :)

[PTG]Chef_uk

3 August 07, 14:49

Is this game going to be full of IGA? Was the sole reason i refused to buy RACE 06 i'm afraid. I know that won't sit well with most of you but the fact that Race 06 fell to £12 within 2 months shows exactly how much IGA are worth to game developers.

Obviously i'm more than happy to try out free demos though :)

Graag

9 August 07, 17:52

I tested that VGP demo and i liked it a lot. I hope that they fix those problems that original race had. You can watch short video from the demo here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8y7tUxGiDw

David Wright

9 August 07, 21:25

Chef_uk;126375']Is this game going to be full of IGA? Was the sole reason i refused to buy RACE 06 i'm afraid.

Nothings been said officially. In practice the IGA in RACE wasn't a problem - if no one told you it had IGA you wouldn't know. RACE 07 will be sold in 2 forms - offline and on-line. IGA can't be used with an off-line only title and my guess is Simbin won't bother for the minority who race on-line.

I know that won't sit well with most of you but the fact that Race 06 fell to £12 within 2 months shows exactly how much IGA are worth to game developers

The price of RACE only fell so quickly with certain suppliers who I assume over-stocked and didn't want to be left with a load of stock post Christmas. Amazon for example made no reduction in price after 2 months, nor did Sendit. IGA is actually only worth 50p - £1 per game sold.

[PTG]Chef_uk

11 August 07, 23:14

IGA is actually only worth 50p - £1 per game sold.

If that were true then IGA would wouldn't exist. Im sure everyone who buys games wouldn't mind one bit if they were to cost £1 more ;)

David Wright

11 August 07, 23:26

Well, the people selling IGA claim its worth $1-$2 (50p - £1) to the developer/publisher

http://www.massiveincorporated.com/site_pubdev/pubdev_home.htm

If anything they are going to exaggerate its worth as they are trying to sell the idea.

What you don't perhaps realise is that a developer is lucky to see £10 from each game sold after everyone else has taken his cut.

Thunderchild

12 August 07, 01:10

I’m a little late and downloading now.

Quick question, are the files encrypted and does it look it can be modded?

rasfigjohn

12 August 07, 01:53

I’m a little late and downloading now.

Quick question, are the files encrypted and does it look it can be modded?

Yes... encrypted... I think that's the same encryption as RACE...

Kyril

12 August 07, 02:55

Custom skins, custom championships and mixed class racing will all be part of the full release.
At first I was a big proponent of modability, almost a must have. But, as GTR2 is becoming mod infested...skins, tracks, cars, car upgrades, etc, etc, it becomes that much more a pain in the arse to join a server.
Now granted, I love all the mods, skins, tracks etc, in GTR2, but having a game such as RACE and RACE 07 that you know you can immediatly jump into ANY server w/o worry of mismatch this and mismatch that, IMO is a very good thing.
The custom skins in 07 tho will be a welcome addition, especially for league play.

raisinberry777

19 August 07, 02:39

Now granted, I love all the mods, skins, tracks etc, in GTR2, but having a game such as RACE and RACE 07 that you know you can immediatly jump into ANY server w/o worry of mismatch this and mismatch that, IMO is a very good thing.
The custom skins in 07 tho will be a welcome addition, especially for league play.

I'm finding the same thing is happening with rFactor. Can't wait for Race 07, I can't get the demo to work though. I install the file from vgp.se but then after I've installed it I double click on the demo link and nothing happens. Nothing tries to download through Steam either:confused:

Kyril

19 August 07, 03:56

Not sure why it won't work for you, but the official demo can't be too far away.

The Stig

1 December 07, 12:03

I just downloaded the demo version from Steam, but when I want to open it, the system doesn't work. I get a warning 'Video Device Error, Race 07 Will Close'. I have to click 'ok' and the program shuts down.

What can be the problem? Thanks for your help, I'd appreciate it.

Kyril

1 December 07, 12:10

Do you have a DX9 capable video card? Unlike GTR2 or GTL, RACE 07 wont't run on DX7 or DX8.

The Stig

1 December 07, 14:30

I downloaded DirectX 9 from this site (http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/directx.html). If it isn't a good version or just the wrong one, can you then send my a site with the right version?

I saved DirectX 9 in my C:\Program Files\directx and extracted it there (because it were zip-files, but maybe this wasn't necessary). I opened my steam and started Race 07, but my computer shut down (maybe because I had just installed DirectX 9). So when my computer was started up, I tried another time, but still the same message appeared (Video Device Error, Race 07 Will Close).

You are talking about a videocard capable of DirectX 9, but where can I find that info about my videocard (I do not know that much about videocard and stuff :p)?

David Wright

1 December 07, 15:49

He is talking about your video card.

If you have GTR2, look in your GTR2 folder for a file called sysinfo.txt. This will tell you what video card you have.

Like Kyril, I suspect your card is too old to run RACE 07.

The Stig

1 December 07, 16:24

This is what it came up with:
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.00.0904)
CPU Type: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz @ 2,60 GHz 2,6 GHz
Video Card: RADEON 9200 SERIES
Video RAM: 237 MB

I will compare with the needed setting, because maybe this could be the problem. Otherwise I'll ask a new videocard for Christmas. :D

David Wright

1 December 07, 17:08

Yes the video card doesn't support DX9 shaders.

Your PC is quite old so I wouldn't spend a lot on a new video card. I'd guess your PC will also require an AGP card rather than the more modern PCI-E. Something like an ATI X1650 pro or an nVidia 7600GS for about £50 should run RACE 07 OK and will run your other racing sims like GTR2 better as well.