Totally agree, though I played it in the PS1, but Driver 1 on PC is much better... Driver 3 for example I still liked the gameplay, the graphics were pretty damn good back then, but it was all bugged for me, never could really play it that well or enjoy it as much as Driver 1 or Driver 2, but I also liked all that came after Driver 3 however the latest driver even though the gameplay was also good I hated what it had become with powers and strange crap that was never part of the Driver series... Totally miss a new good Driver made like it should have been kinda more like GTA but with the better improved and awesome old driver like gameplay and physics, I really enjoyed the suspension and Driver gameplay.
Main Improvements with PC over PSX is more traffic variety, better draw distance, higher traffic and pedestrian count. Makes the cities feel much more interesting
The Nuclear Brony yes but driver 2 was too much..... it looked ugly as hell and the frame rate came to a crawl at times. The bridge that lifts used to dissappear when close up... ropey as hell.
The Nuclear Brony Imagine If Driver 2 only had 1 disc to play missions without changing discs cause of Undercover mode ( cutscenes were the reason of 2 discs )
Grew up playing the PC version many years ago. I recently got into collecting the 6th and generation consoles with PS1 being the only 5th gen exception (will start on N64 soon or later). Just picked up Driver for PS1 and it blew me away the differences. Hell the PS1 version doesn't even have carnage mode!
This game was originally intended for PC only. Maybe for the PS version they chose to redesign the Miami car taking into account the console's resolution (so the taillights would be easier to see) .
Technically the PC version is far better, particularly in the area of graphics. However I would say that I probably prefer the PS1 version overall. It could be purely nostalgic, but I also think that the city feels more alive on the PS1, and I prefer the music. One may argue that I am a fanboy of the PS1 version, though I went a long time between playing the PS1 version and playing the PC version, and when I played the PC version I didn't realize anything was different. It wasn't until I played the PS1 version again after playing the PC version for quite a while that I realized how different they really are, but I had grown fond of the PC version, so I don't think my thoughts are of PS1 fanboy-ism.
As with the ps2 GTA games, Driver was designed first and foremost with PlayStation in mind. The PC ports, while superior in many ways, are merely byproducts as they lack the final touches added by the creators that were intended to be brought to life, through the playstation.
From what I remember the development team was split at some point during development, one made the PSX version and the other the PC version. This leads to the many differences between both versions like car models, feature differences (PSX didn't feature regular pedestrians at all and no utility vehicles) and many smaller differences in world design.
Gotta love those PS1 jaggies. Having played the PS1 version first I can say it was a great game for its time. Looking at the PC version though you can see it clearly outclassed the PS1 version in every way. PC ran the game at 800x600 while the PS1 was 320x240.
PlayStation looks way better... just look at how little detail the pc version has.. the back of the cars are just blurs compared to the ps1 you can actually see back lights and the same goes for the front.
Almost every Game is better on ps1 ps2 ps3 until ps4 era than compared to pc they are almost equal look at the effects look at the sun on the ps1 version, on the PC one is missing when I see these stupid comments I'm like what stupidity .Its not all about resolution, textures pixel count ,detail, content gameplay, everything must be accounted to select definitive version
Jeez. Is it really a new news that I guess about 70% of cd media games actually had cd-audio?? It was really common. Even like tomb raider had its ambiance sounds as cd-audio. Not as effects.
If you load up a ps1 disc in a PlayStation and then take the game out without turning off the machine then put a music disc in and the music will play while you are playing the game.
What I miss with the original driver was the the broken physics shit lol "both pc and console version had it but It was still different.. pc didnt have that thing that PS1 version had yeah I'm all about PC better graphics, frames and etc but PS1 Driver takes the cake for me" ..... It was so much fun flipping your cars over in survival mode (San Francisco was my favorite) ... cops had insane speed and aggression and you'd purposely try to flip your car and have cop cars ram you full speed and watch them flip into the air.. specially when your car was sliding on its side... all these different angles depending on your speed would cause immense "air hangtime" I had so many replays saved on my PS1 memory cards lol fun times... but most of my "nostalgia" comes from that those times where I was like 7-8 years old playing survival mode trying to trigger these "flipping cars" for countless hours at night....and saving those that had the most insane hangtime or bizzare flips.. man those were fun times!
The crashes were insane but the handling itself beats a lot of modern games which fear to make driving skill a factor and have to compensate with ridiculous stunts ...and then they wonder why driving games got less popular
Some of the best ones were when they'd fly so high that the cars would launch over the buildings and leave the playable area, than they're stuck in the weird infinite skybox road. Driver 1 was my first game, and me, my dad, and my cousins would compete to see how many cops we could yeet into those areas in one survival run. xD
Holy crap! I can't believe the pc version doesn't have like half of the details the PSX version has, the streets are empty, no boxes, no tables, no nothing....
I'm actually curious. Which version is actually the objectively superior version gameplay wise? It's not uncommon for old games to have ports running on old versions of a game for some reason leaving in various bugs and possibly even cut content.
I bought a gaming pc in this year and driver came with it, along with heavy metal fakk 2 and unreal tournament. Couldn't believe the difference between pc and playstation versions. Ironically I kept my pc for 3 years and spent an absolute crazy obscene amount of money on it and didn't see any difference over the time span of spending so much just to squeeze a few tweaks. Console gamer ever since.
the psx version is a technical achievement. The game is great and it looks better than GTA3 on PS2! The pc improves on the usual frame rate and drawing distance but the psx has nothing to be ashamed of.
PS or PC ... both were just great, each on its own. Short after I played Driver on PS I fell in love with the PC version and my computer steering wheel. Take a ride through San Francisco ... hours of fun while listening to music. Although Driver San Francisco is a great game, there's one thing I desperately miss: The old driving physics! Driving in Driver SF appears, as if you're not able to drive one single curve without screeching tires, even slow. The car behaves like a stiff board / sliding through icy conditions without snow or rain. I know, they wanted it to be realistic, but something about the physics seems less realistic than in Driver 1. Only "racing", thus contracting narrow spaces almost to irrelevance, just to stay on the main roads. Over-aggressive police cars as back then we only knew them from the "survival" game mode. No more proper chases without one single scratch. In Driver 1 you had a lot more freedom of control about your own driving (in an aesthetical sense)
People dont get that PS1 was US$299. There was no 3Dfx when it was made in 1994. And still to play Driver in 1999 in those detail you would have to spend more than PS1 that was 5 year old tech by than.
Played this game for hours upon hours shortly after its release on the PS1. Didn't know there was a PC version until a few years ago. Love the PS1 version since its readily available.
Aaah voilà!! J'avais le jeu sur PC quand j'étais môme. J'ai toujours été dépaysé par les extraits de gameplay qui traînent sur le net, car ils ne ressemblaient pas à mes souvenirs, mais je comprends mieux maintenant: la plupart des images qu'on trouve sont issues de la version PS1 qui est manifestement un cran inférieure graphiquement à la version PC. La en voyant les images de gauche je retrouve bien l'image que j'en avais étant gosse. Après j'ai une bonne mémoire visuelle
On the PC version of DRIVER, traffic on the streets is more varied, but the player's car itself often looks like a slippery piece of soap,but the PS1 version had fewer problems with the player's car.
I won't argue that the PC version is superior on a technical level by far, but I dunno, to me the lower resolution and blockier car models hold a certain charm for me. And yes, the PS1 version is the one I grew up with, so that might have a large part in that opinion.
The pc version should look better, but how does the game play compare? Also one needs to take cost into consideration, the ps1 at release was £300, by 1998 it was under £130. A pc back, pre built was £400-900. Or much more depending on spec. Mid 97 early 98 I bought a ex demo hp with a celeron 333, 64 mb ram and a small hdd, built in gpu for around £370-390.
Ótimo vídeo comparativo e ótimo jogo!! Estou surpreso, pois sempre achei que drive era exclusivo do ps1! Agora em relação as versões, o PC tem um gráfico mais limpo, e detalhes como o retrovisor que (deve ajudar bastante nas missões), e nisso ele leva o ponto de melhor versão, porém, não posso julgar sem jogar, pra ver se realmente é tão bom como o do ps1!!!! Mas visualmente o do PC parece ser melhor!!
na época, a versão do Pc saiu por aqui na revista 3D GAMER por 15,90, inclusive tenho ele :D mlb-s1-p.mlstatic.com/revista-cd-expert-game-driver-completo-pc-frete-gratis-22385-MLB20229071291_012015-F.jpg
Esse jogo é muito bom! Joguei demais nas casas de jogos da minha cidade quando era pequeno!! Sempre a versão do PlayStation 1!! Mais a do PC com certeza é mais definida sem serrilhados e aguenta mais carros na tela!! Mais a versão do PS1 é incrível!!
pc is great, Im gonna download rn and play again just to see the game in other perspective. but that camera is shit, the car is in the middle of the screen, how are u supposed to see whats ahead of u?
First thing I noticed was that in the PC version the ocean looks SOMEHOW like urban concrete jungle while PS hardware emulates and renders it almost perfectly in comparison to even the first 3 Tomb Raider games' water effects. secondly the visuals of the vehicle are not as fleshed out collision-wise and in concept, meaning PS1 gives fuller figure to the models used as main vehicle than PC does. The only problem I have with the game that makes it hard to get into and really appreciate nowadays is that tough as fuck training level in the parking garage, where 3/4 of those tricks you hardly ever have to use again later in the game, sadly....
I actually liked Driver Parallel Lines more than Driver 3 because driver 3 was all bugged and messed to even be enjoyable and Driver San Francisco still had a good gameplay, but on that one they totally fucked it up making it a whole different very strange game, I fckin hated the powers and crap like that grrrrrr... Totally miss a new Driver properly done like the old ones. And about Resident Evil I actually also liked RES4, RES5, the revelation series, RES7 and the RES2 remake is a totally amazing Resident Evil, I actually like it way more than the original RES2... But Resident Evil 1 was pretty damn good back then, the zombies, spiders and whatever had incredible physics and was a pretty damn well done game contrary to modern zombie booooooring games. I hated RES racoon city, RES6 and a few others on the resident evil series...
I didn't even know this game was on PC, thanks for the comparison. I played the game on PS1 and loved it. The PC version looks a lot better and looks like it would play better at 60fps instead of the 20fps of the PS1 version.
Even the popups are smoother (and faster) on pc version. Besides that, I prefer psx colors and I wonder why at those times basically all pc racing games had issue with tires height/car shadow on the road so the cars kinda looked as floating?
Bought the pc version through amazon last week, so worth the 8 dollars. I tried to use an xbox 360 controller with the game, I was delusional xD only the A and B buttons and the left stick worked, and I couldn't map the B button
this is the first time i'm aware there is a pc version and i'm impressed, the car looks so different and the draw distance is absurd for Driver standards. The graphics are outstanding! The sky, water, grass, buildings, everything is better, this game was never meant to be played on a console but even acknowledging that i can't deny that i had a ton of fun playing it on my PS1
Back in the days this game was a dream come true as a 90s kid. The freedom to just drive anywhere u want and wreck cars was the best feeling ever! F*ck!
bem que o driver (nas 2 primeiras versões) poderia ter para outras plataformas (como dreamcast, game cube e n64). mas ficou exclusivamente no playstation nos consoles. mas a versão de pc do driver arrasou muito bonito!
Because nobody has full-wheel hub caps anymore. Driving in a 1976 station wagon we've lost one going around a corner. Not the same as your Prius alloy wheels or plastic covers. Good times..
1 thing I kinda found disappointed in Driver 2 is that they removed the orange side lights to know where you could turn...still overall the game was good
Though i played the psx version more the PC version was far and away the better version of the two. Psx the car looked better IMO but the camera, the map, The draw distance, the details and most notable the frame rate where all better on PC. Plus the thing that really pisses me off still to this day is in the PSX version Traffic would purposefully try to get in front of you... I think the reason they did this was to keep your eyes in front of you so you wouldn't notice the crappy draw distance.
Eu nem lembrava dessa versão PC. E é interessante ressaltar que boa parte dos grandes clássicos do PSX tinham versões pra PC. Driver, Tomb Raider, Soul Reaver, Metal Gear, Resident Evil e até mesmo o mítico Final Fantasy VII, além de tantos outros. Se fosse hoje em dia, geral ia estar reclamando que não são exclusivos de verdade. Moça, fala sério...cê ia mesmo abandonar o canal? Que tal um esclarecimento da sua parte pros inscritos? Uma explicação sobre aqueles videos com homem gato, catchup e espada também cairiam bem...
acho que os videos são auto explicativos o suficiente para qualquer pessoa de qualquer parte do mundo entender :P a não ser que vcs queiram uma segunda temporada no qual explique melhor os videos através de outros videos xD e quantos aos ports dos grandes clássicos do PSX para o PC, o mesmo acontecia com os grandes clássicos do Saturn que tb eram portados para o PC :P ninguém reclamava da perda de exclusividade para os PC's, pois PC's eram bem mais caros que os consoles, tb não disponibilizavam de acessórios descentes como joystick's.... eram também problemáticos roda-los nas configurações adequadas, sem contar no espaço que o computador tinha q ter para instalar os jogos....
i used to be playing this game all the time had a steering wheel for it was awesome back in the day im downloading this game as i type this on my beast gaming PC hopefully it will let me play in 1080p :P i wonder why they didn't continue to make these drive games
I always thought the PC version felt like they polished an early version of the PSX version to the absolute best quality available... Then went and finished the PSX version. So much flourish and minor details are missing from it that it just doesn't feel like a complete game, even though it is the better "looking" and better "playing" one. NFS IV was the same way and around the same time too.
i wonder why in driver 3 miami they changed siren of the police making them all red instead of red and blue, and i think that the vehicle in driver 1 pc is done of the same model of the car in driver3
Chris Pacheco lens flare is missing I guess due to limitations in the port. Lens flare is unrealistic anyways, as real human eyes do not have a lens flare but instead a “sparkle”
PC wins, obviously. Even though i'm also in Love with the PlayStation. Because i grew up with the console. But I'm still cracking up when the PC was in the bedroom being so actiony but the PSone version was like. "Hooold on, Hooold on Just let me.. J-Just let me.. get to the Car Keys... A-Annnd to the Voicemail." lol
I know that intro level in the garage is kinda difficult, but man, it's set up so that you can pull all that stuff off one after another without hitting anything. It's not that difficult!
of course the PC version looks leagues better when it works. Does anybody actually remember PC gaming during this era?? I remember it being very expensive, difficult to deal with, and the controllers sucked. But when it worked, man it was a thing of beauty, not like today when there is not as huge difference between PC and PS4.
PSX was already shit compared to a moderately priced PC at that time. PCs were using SVGA graphics, maybe more in 2D than in 3D, but with the advent of Quake, PSX and Saturn saw their final days.
Driver PC < Driver PS1 IMO. And here are my reasons why: 1) Bandits. While on PS1 they add the challenge factor (especially in "The President's run") on PC they can't drive for shite. Hell, they can flip their cars just by trying to drive STRAIGHT! Seriously? Pathetic. 2) Generally dumber opponents' AI. Evading these cops is like evading a group of angry grannies with broken legs, and (getting a bit off track, but still) it also takes far less effort to wreck them which does not bode well for the challenge factor. 3) Music. Maybe it's just me, but my version of Driver PC (and yes, I downloaded it) didn't have a single track, which is BS considering the fact that PS version had all of them and I liked them a lot. Also, some of the cars (Buick Skylark/Tanner's car in Miami and cop cars in NY) have badly textured front lights. Of course, you can choose your car in "Take a ride" after completing the story mode (PC) instead of looking for special codes (ePSXe) but that's not that big of an advantage of PC version considering all the disadvantages. In summary, graphics-wise Driver PC>Driver PS1, but otherwise Driver PS1>>Driver PC.
The PC version not having a soundtrack is not the games fault, it's the fault of the guy who ripped it and took out the music. The PC game does have a soundtrack, but it is licensed though and is a different one.
i dunno but cops fucking reck me unless i put medium and even then they stick like glue and fucking rubber band and soundtrack is there if you bought original game since it only plays while disc is in your disc writer [sadly that wont work for me since mine doesnt work 9/10 times so i had to pirate it]
Some of the effects and car models actually look better on the PS1 version, PC definently has it down when it comes to overall graphics though. The physics also seem off somehow on the PC.
