posted 10-24- 02:03 PM               

Theres a demo avalible here.

All new features such as a moveable spotlight, realistic audio communication and the addition of the BK-117 and SH-3 Seaking helicopters make Search and Rescue 3 the most realistic helicopter rescue simulation ever created. Whether you're repairing a volatile oil rig, or plucking victims from frigid ocean swells, every mission will immerse you into authentic rescue situations, and will require a steady hand, nerves of steel and sometimes even a little luck.
http://www.globalstarsoftware.com/sar3/

I just tried it out a bit, crashed 2 times of course LOL

One succesfull landing on a major bridge.

Its pretty hard on my system.

My computer now.

Duron 750@750
K7S5A SIS 735 board
256 megs of Crucial DDR ram
Voodoo Banshee 16 megs
20 Gig hard drive 7200 RPM
Sb live value

My controller?

HEHE, A playstation controller that Use for pretty much everything, I didn't feel like plugging in the joystick.

It actually works really well. One sick is forwards backwards, left and right. And the other is collective and rudder.

So it works out nicely.

So yeah its stuttering sometimes on my system and I'm running it at 800x600 with all the settings in the graphics panel at medium.

It does look pretty good though, except (and you could fix this with a more powerfull system) major graphics such as city buildings fade in as you get close, I would like to push that back a bit, maybe after a bit of system tweaking I can.

I will say that the citys look pretty good, hundreds of tall buildings in one area, and there is another city just across the bay (connected by that major bridge) that is set up more like a port with ships in port (I tried to land on ones cargo, I guess it wasn't up to holding up a heli) and even a coast guard ship I should have tried landing on.

All in all its looking pretty good, You can fly all 3 helis i think, and there is 2 or 3 missions in the demo.

Check it out if your into helis.

posted 10-24- 02:35 PM               

It still a great card though.

I am doing an upgrade this weekend to a voodoo 3 (small upgrade anyways)

And we shall see how that does, if I have the money and the need a geforce 2 GTS 64 meg is my christmas present.

posted 10-24- 03:31 PM               

But its still cool.

I'm on easy and having a hard time.

Realistic is going to be insane.

posted 10-25- 08:17 AM               

Sure hope those victims and other people have got some better 3d models since SAR 2.

posted 10-25- 11:45 AM               

Its pretty good looking, just needs a decent computer.

I'll try the car crash rescue today and maybe I'll get a look at the people.

One problem I'm having is I can't use any of the buttons on my controller for some reason.

The sticks work great but I can't find a place to tell it what keys to use, just the keyboard.

Silly if thats just how it is. I have 16 buttons I want to use them.

posted 10-25- 01:28 PM               

The camera wasn't very close though cause I don't have a handle on the cameras yet.

posted 10-25- 02:44 PM               

I guess I'll have to turn the realism up cause its way too easy right now.

posted 10-25- 09:34 PM               

I followed the development of SAR2, and bought it... I was surprised and pleased to see SAR3 was in the works.

In SAR2, with the Dauphin's auto-hover and autopilot avionics, I found the realistic mode was actually easier to control.

Two things worry me about SAR3...
1) If your system isn't sufficient to run it without stuttering, I'm worried about my PentiumIII 800, Geforce2 16 Megs, 128 Megs RAM.
2) With two other birds than the Dauphine, I wonder if THEY have auto-hover/autopilot, and whether the sim gives enough time on 'the clock' to finish the mission successfully for a challenged pilot such as myself (I mean I'll not set any records for helo pilot skill). Some missions in SAR2 had me scrambling, down to the wire, early in the campaign, though I made it.

Than all said, I really liked SAR2, and look forward to SAR3.

Thanks!

posted 10-25- 11:00 PM               

The others are the sea king and another modern Heli.

I can't see the sea king having the auto stuff.

About power, You have 50 mhz on me, and a WAY better vid card, I'll repost my impressions after this weekend when I install the voodoo3, it barly stutters now and is certainly playable, I have a feeling that the V3 will be all I need, you will be able to push the limits out even further probly run it with all the sliders maxed. You do need more ram though, if you can in any way afford it at least drop another 128 in that machine, if not more.

Its SOOOOOO cheap.

My 256 of crucial DDR was 33 bucks US.

It added up to more cause of shipping to Canada and exchange and taxes. But still 33 bucks with free shipping in the states.

Are you on 56k? If not just download the demo and check it out.