Trackmania Nations ESWC designed for eSport
"Nadeo, developers of the massively played online racing series, Trackmania, have come up trumps with their free Trackmania Nations ESWC game!"
It is not a Demo or Playable Demo, it is a fully game availabe to download for everyone to enjoy.
The Game
For the first time in the history of eSport, a video game has been specially developed for the Electronic Sports World Cup and is being offered free of charge to the players of the entire planet so they may commence training for the qualifiers due to take place in 53 countries on Friday 27th of January. The Grand Final of ESWC will be held in Paris from June 28th to July the 2nd , in front of 40,000 people, where the best players from each country will battle it out for a prize of 400,000 dollars.
This special version features a brand new environment, the Stadium, and a revolutionary new gameplay designed for Nadeo's own custom cars. Nadeo has pulled the technological rabbit from the hat with their own brand game engine, featuring the series' best graphics yet, finely tuned for the latest generation graphics cards, not forgetting simpler machines so that no one round the world has a technical freeze out on the race track. With the online in-game ladder, players can customise their cars and avatars and race in their nation's colours on the world's servers from Friday onwards. Many Trackmania and Trackmania Sunrise players will already have access to the following exclusive features: peer 2 peer data exchange and skin and avatar customisation.
The countdown to Trackmania Nations ESWC going online on Friday has commenced; in the meantime, we suggest you view the official trailer and we let the motors do the talking instead.
you did it for us... I'm just curious...its a reputable site.. why would they do that???
its worked fine on my computer.... :: shrug:::
Not to mention it was mentioned on G4 ....a large tech television network....I'm sure they have enough brain to check it before installing, let alone recommending it on large tv network.
do some research. this game installs StarForce, which is notorious for destroying computer hardware. BEWARE!!
It would only be installed if you bougt the full game, I searched, and found no information of it installing with the demo.
Taken from a site:
"What is Starforce?
Starforce is a software copy protection tool installed by PC game publishers, which is designed to prevent the casual copying of retail CDROM applications. It installs as a hidden device driver, without the end-user's knowledge or consent. "
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Originally Posted by RoadWarrior - ocforums.com
Yes, SATA is faster however..... putting full spec formula one tires on a 1.6L stock honda civic will not make it capable of 200Mph......
Originally Posted by http://www.glop.org/starforce/
Starforce has received criticism for installing its own device driver onto computers. The Starforce drivers are often linked to system instability and computer crashes. If these problems occur, the end-user would be unware as to the cause of the problem, and would be helpless to solve the problem.
For example, here's one of the common problems brought by Starforce: under Windows XP, if packets are lost during the reading or writing of a disk, XP interprets this as an error and steps the IDE speed down. Eventually it will revert to 16bit compatibility mode rendering a CD/DVD writer virtually unusable. In some circumstances certain drives cannot cope with this mode and it results in physical hardware failure (Most commonly in multiformat CD/DVD writer drives). A sure sign of this step down occurring is that the burn speeds will get slower and slower (no matter what speed you select to burn at). Starforce, on a regular basis, triggers this silent step down. Until it reaches the latter stages most people do not even realise it is happening.
Update: It has been reported by many users that the slowdown caused by StarForce on some recent multiformat DVD writers can cause irreversible hardware failures on those drives (they aren't recognized anymore), as they aren't supposed to write at slow speeds.
Moreover, the Starforce drivers, installed on your system, grant ring 0 (system level) privileges to any code under the ring 3 (user level) privileges. Thus, any virus or trojan can get OS privileges and totally control your system. Since Windows 2000, the Windows line security and stability got enhanced by separating those privileges, but with the Starforce drivers, the old system holes and instabilities are back and any program (or virus) can reach the core of your system by using the Starforce drivers as a backdoor.
OKAY.....AWESOME game!!! Of course I'm falling down tired today, since I spent about 3 hours last night playing this Freakin' game until my eyes hurt! Very cool.
We really need to get a little tourny or something going online with this!!! Hows about 5:00 PM sunday!
Sunday sounds great, but we need more than 2 people.
COMEON PEOPLE, PLAY THE DAMN GAME!!!!!! lol
I ran Ad-Aware, Norton 2005 corporate ed., and spybot, all turned up nothing. And norton will pickup on ANYTHING like this.
And sno, I listed from that site, how to tell if your system is "infected". Notice the same pics i linked?
If need be, I'll take a screenie of my bootyfull device manager for ya. There's nothing there.
If anything, atleast play the GTR demo. I need someone in THIS country to play with. :-/
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Originally Posted by RoadWarrior - ocforums.com
Yes, SATA is faster however..... putting full spec formula one tires on a 1.6L stock honda civic will not make it capable of 200Mph......
Sunday sounds great, but we need more than 2 people.
COMEON PEOPLE, PLAY THE DAMN GAME!!!!!! lol
I ran Ad-Aware, Norton 2005 corporate ed., and spybot, all turned up nothing. And norton will pickup on ANYTHING like this.
And sno, I listed from that site, how to tell if your system is "infected". Notice the same pics i linked?
If need be, I'll take a screenie of my bootyfull device manager for ya. There's nothing there.
If anything, atleast play the GTR demo. I need someone in THIS country to play with. :-/
I was kidding about Sunday............ahem.....SUPER BOWL!!!!
But seriously, lets find sometime to get a group going. Right now, I'm getting tired of playing all of these French and Russian dudes!
do some research. this game installs StarForce, which is notorious for destroying computer hardware. BEWARE!!
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