With my Dual 2.0 G5 and the X800XT card, I was able to turn basically all details to 'high' or 'max,' and run at 1920x1200 on my 23' display. One advantage to running older games on a new video card is that you can get great frame rates with lots of eye candy enabled. Read on for more about the game, as well as movie with some in-game footage. The crashes in Nascar can also be quite spectacular. I really like the game's attention to detail, and the graphics, while a couple years old, still look quite good. Both are fun, but at the end of the day, Nascar's more fun for me because the tracks are familiar and the cars get to bump and bash each other regularly. Of the four, it's a close race (so to speak) for me between Total Immersion and Nascar for the best driving game title. I own all but Virtual Grand Prix (and I have a demo of that). I can think of four relatively easily: Nascar Racing, Total Immersion Racing, Ford Racing II, and Virtual Grand Prix 2.

There aren't a ton of 'serious' driving games for the Mac. Hence, this week's PotW is a relatively old game. During this revisit, I played a number of games that I haven't launched for quite a while, and had actually forgotten just how fun some of them were - Nascar Racing 2003 Season among them. I'll save the details on the video card's performance for the future write-up, but suffice it to say, I was very impressed. I'd fire each one up and put it through its paces with the new card, comparing the performance to that of my original card, an ATI 9800 Pro. So I was spending a lot of time the last week or so digging through my collection of games. Coincidentally, I've also got a new ATI X800XT video card in my machine right now - keep your eyes peeled for an upcoming review. NOTE: This game does not support GMA graphics cards with shared RAM.In looking at the Pick of the Week table for 2005, I noticed that I hadn't yet chosen a game for the list. ToCA Race Driver 3 mixes several different racing modes together to create an experience unlike anything else on the Mac with up to 21 vehicles per race. ToCA Race Driver 3 comes from the same supercharged stable as the Colin McRae Rally series, the Codemasters Software Company, who are responsible for more great racing games than any one other company. In fact there are over 35 different types of racing present in ToCA Race Driver 3, including DTM, street racing, NASCAR and even Go-Kart racing.

ToCA Race Driver 3 is the third in the series and the first to ever come to the Mac platform ToCA stands for Touring car, but there is much, much more to it than that. Welcome to real racing on the Mac! Version: 1.0

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