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Fastlane Pinball was available as a giveaway on August 18, 2007!
Fastlane Pinball is a fun-filled, action-packed, lightning-fast pinball game. Once you've seen the stunning graphics you'll wonder how you ever did without this gem in your pinball collection.
Featuring a real-time 3D physics model and advanced 3D graphics, Fastlane Pinball delivers arcade satisfaction unlike any other pinball sim . Players can test their reflexes on the flippers in Fastlane Pinball as firetrails, explosions, close-up camera action, split-screen views and old-school display games are thrust onscreen.
Fastlane Pinball offers network play via a unique ghostballing feature that allows players to compete head-to-head.
Windows 2000/XP; 1.0 GHz processor, 128 MB RAM; 3D Graphics Card with 32MB RAM; DirectX 9.0c
64.4 MB
$9.99
It crashed my pc and messed up my graphics driver.
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One thing to check with some software is which mode it's using to do the graphics. There are two basic 3D driver modes, DirectX and OpenGL.
Some systems will run a game in either mode fine, some need to be forced to one or the other.
I am not sure what this software offers for options, but try looking for an option to switch modes between DirectX and OpenGL.
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I was really looking forward to this one in spite of his huge size--I love pinball--but no matter how many times I downloaded it and tried to install it, it was a no go. Boo Hoo
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YOU NEED A DX9-based Graphics card for god sake for the people out there sayin' that this game is crap because it's so laggy. Especially comment 8. I bet he has a GeForce FX (5) card. Your specs are good enough even if the Pentium 4 is already old. But having a DX8 card with DirectX 9 installed is not good enough. IT NEEDS HARDWARE PERFORMANCE/CAPABILITY not just having DX9 installed.
Played the game at 1280x1024 with Anti-Alias 2x. Game was smooth and enjoying.
Pentium 4 2.4A
AGP8x Radeon 9600 Pro EZ 256mb 128bit (An entry level DX9 card)
768mb DDR400 @ DDR333
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Game works good here, BUT flippers lag.....
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It wouldnt work on my little hp! Too big of file! Small it up guys
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Tried to install on machine with Vista, but it doesn't work. I get the sound, but no picture. I'll try again next weekend.
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Thanks for the alternative software site. I have at least two items downloaded from this site or the game giveaway site and though I'm pretty sure I installed and activated, I can only find the setup file now.
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I had also read the license agreement last night, and like Fubar (comment #27) stated, "It’s very heavily oriented toward sending and receiving advertising information"!!! What gives GAOTD!???
I thought the software you offered is suppose to be 100% Clean!! NO ADWARE! NO SPYWARE! !????????????!
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Had to admit I was a little skeptical about downloading anything from here but Fastlane Pinball is a lot of fun. I finally found a game I can beat my 24 year old son at.
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Ball movement is unrealistically slow, probably a garbage hack to cover the monster flipper lag.
Not worth the download.
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i cant run da game .any tips or idea?????????? acttivat key what?
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I run a fairly high end machine and didn't have lags _except_ when I try using the gamepad to control flippers. One strange artifact of this game is that when the gamepad is used, the flippers have a very large lag. Switching to using the keyboard was the workaround for me.
Also I notice this particular table is very dependent on one's ability to HIT THE TABLE... with other pinball games I left the tilt controls alone but on this game I'm pretty much forced to learn tilt otherwise the ball goes for the exits like magnets. Perhaps that's intentional and maybe a good thing for those who like a challenge.
For those who do not like the camera following the ball you can easily switch camera view so the camera shows the whole table... Why people couldn't even take a few seconds to look at the instructions is beyond me.
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WHY DID YOU REMOVE MY COMMENTS?????? THERE WAS NOTHING NEGATIVE EXCEPT THAT IT DIDN'T WORK ON MY PC. WHAT IS THE DEAL HERE? SOME BOARD THAT ONLY CHOOSES 'CERTAIN' PEOPLE TO POST. DISCRIMINATION IS A LEGAL ACTION I CAN TAKE. AND, MAYBE I WILL. PUT MY POST BACK ON.
NOW.
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#12, read the blog........
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Just a note to GAOTD....It's football time....how about a free football pool program i can use for my office football pool we have this year...im gonna have to buy one in another week if i cant find a free program that will let me enter upto 70 people each week.. We are not doing a year end pool this time so only has to have updated weekly stats...just a thought..
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Wow! 64MB for $9.99 - And it's FREE! - Now that's value!
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The game looks great and runs smooth on my computer, but the flippers are dreadfully unresponsive. I'm sticking with the built in windows pinball.
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if you like pinball go find PinMAME. much, much, much better
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It is now 8pm EST in Toronto. The last posting I see is #35 at 6:58am
What happened? Too many negative comments? It is the weekend so the moderator should have some time to let things go through. Unless of course the game software crashed his computer too. At least Fubar got his post in.
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No to bad of a game. It does get kind of laggy at higher ends but it worked just fine at 640x480 with XP pro and 2.0 Ghz Intel Pentium processor. My system is pretty optimized so I didn't have any problems at all playing. Also have 128meg video card (Nvidia) and 2 gigs of memory. Maybe some of the users having problems with the high end machines may result in if they are using dual core systems. I know heavy intense games have issues with those lately.
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Hmm. I'll check this out, see if it comes up to snuff on my athlon xp-
If it drags, I gotta agree with 29 and 32, go gray and google for PinMAME and VPinMAME.
Although the Ultra Pinball series was interesting, instead of slanting a standard table they made short, wide tables for full screen. I gotta find who put them out.
Getting the tables is hard on the cheap, but hey, you can pick and choose.... (hey, my original black knight is in storage, but I can play it here anyway)
If you have an old arcade game you pine for, take a look at MAME. Most of the 6000+ variants (the elder most, sorta) can be played on a 1-ghz system. Windows users Mame32 works neat.
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My computer is a 3 gig processor with 1k RAM so I have trouble believing it is me.
Dude, I think you need some more memory. My TRS-80 COCO 2 had 64 times the memory of yours.
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Sorry on previous post didn't take the time to spell check. : (
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This Game is a scam!! I downloaded and installed just fine, when I went to play I recieved an error box that told me i needed to download an Idigo vido driver, I went to the web-site that they said I could download from and the driver was at a cost of $14.95, Ok thats not cool, sell a game for $9.95 and have to buy a driver to play it for $14.95 Hmmmmmmmm.
My advice is don't waste your time on downloading this program!
Thanks anyways GAOTD keep it coming.
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Crashed 3 Times, Deleted its 'Music' Folder and Bingo it works,
Fantastic GOTD. Thanx.
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No problems loading or playing it on my modern Windows Vista PC, but the game is nothing special. Annoying soundtrack of grating industrial sounds. Some of the action on the pinball table is hidden, because it takes place in chambers where you cannot really see what is happening...and then the ball comes rocketing out. Played in "Easy" mode and could find no way to change mode. The game is free, but is disappointing and I doubt you will play it very often. I may try again - or maybe not - and just delete it from my PC.
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Sorry no, Its just another pretty pinball game which fails to deliver the goods. I have now got a migrain thanks to the jumping and i think im on a way to a fit. Was running very very slow on my other computer which is a p4 2ghz have had to run it on my new dual core to make it run without hicups. all out of all i give it 2/10. try again people !:)
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Surely a strong game - only my computer is too weak (Intel Duo Core 1,86 GHz, 2GB RAM)
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Sorry, but I have to agree with a lot of the other posts,
although the game downloaded etc. perfectly, there is a problem with the flipper response. This game is frustrating, you have to predict when the ball is going to hit the flipper - Uninstalled.
3.06G Pentium 4, 2G Ram, NVIDIA GE force 6200 (256M), Win XP sp2.
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Love it! Thanks.
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I ran this on my Quad core(4Ghz) with 4 gig of Ram and a 7800 NVIDIA and it was slow, maybe because I am on 64bit Vista?
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Looks good, BUT, I've never encountered a pinball game, nor even a real pinball machine, which such slow-to-respond flippers. Unfortunately, this one is a thumbs down.
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Awful. The program is so slow that the game cannot be played at all.
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AWESOME I love pinball...but 64 Megs??
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norton antibot says that it found malware while i was installing the game :(
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The edge of the game board seems designed to send the ball from the bumpers into the side lanes more often than not. In my 9 attempted balls, only once did I get to hit the ball with the flipper more than 4 times, the rest it went down like that, even though there are guards that kick the ball back up once per side.
I apparently have a better computer than some who have posted, as I did not notice any lag on the flippers. Or maybe it was just that the ball was near my flippers so rarely, again.
The music is repetitive and poor, or at the least not to my taste. All in all, this game falls badly short of Merscom's usual quality. It's not worth 10 dollars and probably not 10 minutes either. Thumbs down.
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Works on Vista in compatibility mode. If you don't know how to use it after installing the game right click on the shortcut to the game click properties then the compatibility tab then check the box. You might also need to change the setting in program files where the game installed to give you write permission. Find the folder fastlane in program files right click properties then the security tab then edit then choose users then check the box for full control click ok twice then it should work. I am not certain if the file permission are needed for this game didn't test it too thoroughly, but I have gotten several games and programs that are not called compatible with vista and still didn't work with compatibility mode to work just fine.
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Man, im running this on my dual core computer with a 437584378957437534758937538975893475 GHz processor and 72437587584375384545674567 gigs of RAM and teh graphiks are so slow even though I have a octa- (8 cores) Nvidia video card that has to use liquid jello to cool instead of water, because it is just so wickedly powerful!!! I even power my computer using a formula 2 race car....no wait formula 3...and it takes that huge engine just to power my monster machine...and then if you dont wear a special suit, the heat from the processer will melt yo face instantly and you wil dii
The ball moved to slow like wow....
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I have a good Sony VAIO running Windows XP Pro MCE with 3.2 ghz CPU, 1 GB RAM and a good Radeon video board. However, the game was rather sluggish and finally froze my computer solid forcing a hard reboot.
It is now uninstalled.
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Didn't have any problems running the game at all.
Ran well on my 2500+ and 1gb RAM, but I found the sound obnoxious and there's only 1 table.
Thanks anyway GotD
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I also have vista and had no problems once i went to properties tab and changed the compatiablity thingy to xp.Also i have no lagging on the game at all its about time we get some good pinball action on here
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remember the work of this team is free, so dont DEMAND good software or stunning games since they re doin it for our convenience
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Hello all! Today's 15-Minute Review is up! Check it out!
http://www.bladedthoth.com/reviews/15mrs/fastlane-pinball/
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A pinball game for pc with these requirements... It's sick!
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Like others has stated before flippers are slow to respond,grafics ok, could not network the game. I run Microsoft XP Pro sp2, intell p4A 24oo, springdale chipset, 1GB ram, nVidia Geforce FX 5200, Two 250GB sata drives with the secound one set to run only programs. I know its not my machine I would rate this game 4 out of 10.
thanks anyway GAOTD.
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Ran this on an Athlon X2 3800 with an X800 GTO2 video card on Windows XP. Ran completely smoothly at 1280x1024 and FSAA with no problems at all. The pinball table isn't exotic or feature-laden, but it was still pretty fun. It has the option to submit your high score to the internet; it asks for your email address if you do this. I wish it didn't have this option - I did not enjoy realizing that my personal high score was way, way less than the current Internet high score of 158 million points. :-) I moved further north not too long ago, but for a few minutes playing this is was like I was back at the Jersey shore boardwalk again! Nice work.
The only caveat is if you have certain XP accessibility features turned on. While playing the game, XP popped up a notice that pressing the shift key five times turns on "sticky keys" (my eating habits often lead to sticky keys as well, but that's something else entirely). This feature lets you press keys one at a time to activate a key combination (say, Control and "A") rather than hold down keys. The pop-up dialog gave the option of activating the feature, cancelling sticky keys, or going to a settings screen to turn the feature off permanently (which you probably want to do if you never knew it was even there in the first place). Just a heads up for those whose XP has accessibility features turned on.
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For those who don't like games: don't forget to update your goCRM /giveaway from April 18/. There is a new version and according to the license we have a right to update this tool. I did it with no problems.
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This will not work with Vista Home Premium. All I got was a black screen.
We really need stuff for "Vista"
Thanks GOTD
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OK, it installed and runs w/o problems on my anemic system (XP,Celeron,integrated video,512K ram). Same lag in flipper response as noted by others, and the constantly shifting perspective will drive you nuts trying to keep track of where the hell the ball is. All in all, one of the lesser pinball programs out there, and for me, probably not a keeper. Worth a try, cuz,as they say, YMMV.....
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