Recommend me a driving sim.

[RobTVR.]

I'm looking to run a 3D driving simulation game on my computer, but the only problem is it's a netbook, and so there are limits on what games you can play. Anything which is too visually advanced is going to lag massively but i don't really want a game which is terribly ugly to look at either. Is it possible that the gaming PHers could recommend me some games please?

System Specs

Make/Model: eMachines EM250
Operating System: Ubuntu 11.04 (Can still run Windows games as well)
RAM: 1GB
HDD: 80GB (Used 9%)
Processor: Intel Atom N270

There are two games i discovered earlier with links underneath, however i doubt they will be any good on such a rubbish laptop.

Vdrift - http://vdrift.net/

TORCS - http://torcs.sourceforge.net/

Many thanks, RobTVR.

[EDLT]

Live For Speed is pretty old, so should run on a laptop
www.lfs.net

The demo is plenty of fun. Don't believe the crap about future updates, its been the same game for about five years.

WARNING: The 'official' community is full of tts.

Edited by EDLT on Friday 14th December 14:51

[foreverdriving]

You could try Grand Prix Legends. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grand-Prix-Legends-PC-CD/d...

It's from 1998 and should be super smooth on anything above a calculator. Hard as nails (you'll crash at every corner), but deeply rewarding once you get your head around the handling.

[robmlufc]

foreverdriving said:

You could try Grand Prix Legends. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grand-Prix-Legends-PC-CD/d...

It's from 1998 and should be super smooth on anything above a calculator. Hard as nails (you'll crash at every corner), but deeply rewarding once you get your head around the handling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h7jC6WNo60

Cant wait for the iRacing version!

[RobTVR.]

EDLT said:

Live For Speed is pretty old, so should run on a laptop
www.lfs.net

The demo is plenty of fun. Don't believe the crap about future updates, its been the same game for about five years.

WARNING: The 'official' community is full of tts.

Edited by EDLT on Friday 14th December 14:51

That looks awesome but i strongly doubt that will run on my netbook. I've just installed that TORCS one and that's struggling with graphics which are 100,000x worse than LFS!

Grand Prix Legends seems pretty good as well but there's no demo, so i'm looking on Ebay in the hope i can get one cheaper than on Amazon. (And yes i know it's only £4.20 but it's always worth getting things at lower prices as the savings all mount up in the end).

Thanks chaps, keep them coming.

[Chunkychucky]

foreverdriving said:

Hard as nails (you'll crash at every corner), but deeply rewarding once you get your head around the handling.

Plus took me ages to get my head around where all the tracks went in the good old days - Spa is awesome..

[EDLT]

RobTVR. said:

EDLT said:

Live For Speed is pretty old, so should run on a laptop
www.lfs.net

The demo is plenty of fun. Don't believe the crap about future updates, its been the same game for about five years.

WARNING: The 'official' community is full of tts.

Edited by EDLT on Friday 14th December 14:51

That looks awesome but i strongly doubt that will run on my netbook. I've just installed that TORCS one and that's struggling with graphics which are 100,000x worse than LFS!

Grand Prix Legends seems pretty good as well but there's no demo, so i'm looking on Ebay in the hope i can get one cheaper than on Amazon. (And yes i know it's only £4.20 but it's always worth getting things at lower prices as the savings all mount up in the end).

Thanks chaps, keep them coming.

LFS ran (with everything turned down) on an old PC that had a P3 500mhz, 128mb RAM and a 32mb (voodoo!) graphics card. You can make it very, very ugly.

[RobTVR.]

Will give that a go then.

Here's the thing i don't get right. The iPod Touch has 256mb(?) of ram with the tiniest processor you can imagine, yet it is capable of displaying the most beautiful mobile games. Try and play that quality of game on a netbook with 1GB ram and a much bigger processor and the whole computer almost blows up because it's under so much strain.

Can someone explain this please?

[RobTVR.]

Any more?

I've finally managed to get my computer running Windows 7 again rather than crappy Linux so this is a really good chance to get some new games.

Amazingly, Live For Speed runs perfectly on my netbook and i have lost my entire evening messing around with it. Such a great game and i must thank EDLT ever so much for such a fantastic suggestion. I'm quite literally astonished that it works as well as it does.

Tried to download the Grand Prix Legends demo but it won't work, i think only Windows 95/95/2000/ME are supported so no good i'm afraid...

Let's have some more suggestions chaps!

[davepoth]

RobTVR. said:

Grand Prix Legends seems pretty good as well but there's no demo,

You did actually try looking for it, didn't you?

Google "Grand Prix Legends Demo" and click "I'm Feeling Lucky".

[RobTVR.]

davepoth said:

RobTVR. said:

Grand Prix Legends seems pretty good as well but there's no demo,

You did actually try looking for it, didn't you?

Google "Grand Prix Legends Demo" and click "I'm Feeling Lucky".

Read my latest post, it doesn't work, crashes on installation.