Pretty Cool Offroad PC Game Spintires

I'm about to download it to have a go 🙂

Have had it for a while now... It's a little tricky to get to work (well, for us technically challenged users anyway... Torsten, you'll probably have it going in a minute... 🙂 )... If you download the actual demo version, you only get 2 trucks and a set map... if you download the user-mod version, you can then actually download and/or create a large range of vehicles... I currently have a GQ Comp truck, but I reckon my actual truck is tougher!! Hehe... same as maps, you can download different maps on the mod version, you just have to delete the media files of the original and re-install the map files from the new download... It's also done in an .rar file, so I found winzip to be a good program for opening it back up...

Quick review on it from my point of view... Yes, it's a cracker game, the level of detail and the actual dynamics of each vehicle and the way it drives is as close to driving simulation as I've ever seen... However, and again, this may be just the fact my computer is used more as a paperweight than really technical stuff, but I find the game to be very jerky and slow at lot of the times... This is due, I imagine to one of two things... Either I haven't got my settings quite right to run it smoothly, or the level of detail in the game, and being a simple demo atm, means it still needs the bugs ironed out... If and when it is ever actually released commercially, I will DEFINATELY be buying a copy!! It really is fun when it's running smoothly... Enjoy boys

I got the demo running no worries. Realism seems pretty good. Didn't know about the mod version of the game. could be alot of fun

Nice and smooth on my 4 year old system. It isn't a rocket but the core i7@ 2.8gHz with 6gb of DDR3 Triple Channel ram and a Nvidia GTX480 Seems to do the job well.

Will be time to upgrade soon 🙂

Yeah, mine's an i3@2.1GHz with 4GB RAM, so not quite as much grunt I guess... Bloody thing is less than 3 years old though... 🙁 ... damn computers, they're obsolete within a month of buying them...

HillsForThrills wrote:Yeah, mine's an i3@2.1GHz with 4GB RAM, so not quite as much grunt I guess... Bloody thing is less than 3 years old though... ... damn computers, they're obsolete within a month of buying them...

Sad but true. My system cost me $1500 3 years ago 🙂

i agree with Dan, as I put him on to the game, my computer is a dinosaur, so it is quite jerky, it can't cope with the detail in the game, we found the best way was to delete the trees as this removed a lot of detail & smoothed it out a lot. and yes being the demo, it took a lot of file swapping/loading just to change maps. but the trucks are tuff as. I had a favourite wrangler & a chev blazer. but I just couldn't cope with the drama it took to sort out if the game found a fault.
if it's finished & can buy it ready to plug & play, woohoo, top fun. it had the turbo whistle perfect!!

Share the links. I'm keen to have a play with this

Ok... update on SpinTires... according to the OFFICIAL website, it is now complete, released and available to buy for $29.99USD... Might be worth a squiz as soon as I get a few Aussie pesos spare...

Matt, here's the link to the official site... www.spintires.com that should take you straight to the home page, simply click on the tech demo button to the left and that takes you to the demo download page, where you will see two rows of buttons marked Mirror1/2/3 ... the top row is the original version, the bottom row is the user-mod version... Just click on Mirror 2 on the bottom row and go from there... Doesn't matter really which "Mirror" you select, but 2 is already highlighted, so I went with that... Hope you have some luck...

And just as a matter of interest, the sys requirements according to the game itself are:

Minimum:
OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Window 8

Processor: Intel? Pentium Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent

Memory: 2 GB RAM

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT or equivalent

DirectX: Version 9.0c

Hard Drive: 1 GB available space

Sound Card: DirectX? 9.0c Compatible

Additional Notes: Game is compatible with: Gamepad Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for Windows; This game is 32-bit application

Recommended:
OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Window 8

Processor: Intel? Core 2 Duo 2.5GHz or equivalent

Memory: 4 GB RAM

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 or equivalent

DirectX: Version 9.0c

Network: Broadband Internet connection

Hard Drive: 1 GB available space

Sound Card: DirectX? 9.0c Compatible

Additional Notes: Game is compatible with: Gamepad Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for Windows; This game is 32-bit application

Enjoy fellas... 😁

Your i3 processor is a dual core. But for games its mainly your graphics card that gets hammered. What card do you guys have? Mines only just over the top of their top recommended card. But in terms of processor speed you should be ok. For games 32 or 64bit is irrelevant until you go over 4gb of ram

According to the little sticker on my laptop, the graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX-1GB .... means nothing to me unfortunately... 😁

HillsForThrills wrote:According to the little sticker on my laptop, the graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX-1GB .... means nothing to me unfortunately...

Ahh a laptop, they're not really flash at games unless specifically designed for it.

I've discovered and bought the full version right after I finished creating this topic. So sorry guys for not telling you about, I was just busy with off-roading. 😉 I like the game a lot and it seems to have heaps of extras built in. For example, the first achievement is a truck to collect trees. The truck has a crane which you can completely move to collect the lumber and stuff. I just love the level of detail they have put into. Water crossings, Mud tracks, using lockers and such. I haven't got much time to test more but I hope there are a few faster off-road vehicles too. 🙂

NAVMAN wrote:

Ahh a laptop, they're not really flash at games unless specifically designed for it.

Ha ha that'd be right... 🙁

Torsten mate, where did you buy it from? Was it through the "buy" button on the official site or somewhere else?

I bought it from Steam and had to use my credit card. It wouldn't accept my paypal account for some reason. Why? Are you having trouble buying it?

No, not trouble buying it, haven't tried yet... as I said, need to get some pesos together... was just wondering where you did get yours... So when you purchase from Steam, is it sent as an actual hard copy, or do you just get given a download access code and are able to then download it?

It downloads it straight away into your steam games library. Depending on your internet connection you could start playing in the virtual mud after 30 minutes (best case). 🙂

Sweet 🙂 ....