SimRacing General: successor to Forza/Gran Turismo/Racing thread - Games

[QUOTE=BF;51580394] Are there ever any super-super stages in Dirt Rally? In the Open Championship there are only like 6km stages, while in Masters there are several ~12km stages in each rally. Are there like any 24km stages of an entire environment?[/QUOTE] No, although Codemasters had tried to make 24km tracks, since Monte Carlo: Col de Turini's long stages do follow eachother up precisely. I remember from a Q&A that they ran into engine limitations when trying to make it one very long stage.

You should add rfactor 2 to the OP seeing as it's apparently the holy grail of sims and doesn't have any lifetime subscription bullshit anymore. Did they fix Dirt Rally or does it still feel like driving a wet noodle?

Man I suck at rally... And the f310 is shit for my hands... Way too small and the triggers are hella tough.

[QUOTE=Jordax;51581589]No, although Codemasters had tried to make 24km tracks, since Monte Carlo: Col de Turini's long stages do follow eachother up precisely. I remember from a Q&A that they ran into engine limitations when trying to make it one very long stage.[/QUOTE] Meanwhile in 1999 [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Eof7uID.png[/IMG] [sp]I know it's an unfair comparison[/sp] Although I would like to see more games like Rally championship 2000, where making it to the end of the stage was half the battle. Managing your racing line and aggression to preserve the tires, random mechanical failures like loosing 3rd gear for no reason and having to fight the car to the service, stages so long you have to manage your throttle so you don't cook the engine from all the redlining. And tire choice mattering, for example I was doing a championship where I had to do 2 stages, the first was gravel and the 2nd was snow. So I picked snow tires, and by the end of the first stage the gravel had chewed trough my tires and I didn't make it past inspection. Things like that, I want more of that.

[QUOTE=Rockeiro123;51582676]Meanwhile in 1999 [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Eof7uID.png[/IMG] [sp]I know it's an unfair comparison[/sp] Although I would like to see more games like Rally championship 2000, where making it to the end of the stage was half the battle. Managing your racing line and aggression to preserve the tires, random mechanical failures like loosing 3rd gear for no reason and having to fight the car to the service, stages so long you have to manage your throttle so you don't cook the engine from all the redlining. And tire choice mattering, for example I was doing a championship where I had to do 2 stages, the first was gravel and the 2nd was snow. So I picked snow tires, and by the end of the first stage the gravel had chewed trough my tires and I didn't make it past inspection. Things like that, I want more of that.[/QUOTE] holy fuck what game was that

[QUOTE=n0cturni;51583302]holy fuck what game was that[/QUOTE] Rally Championship 2000

Just out of curiosity, has anyone here ever managed to auction off a Dino 246GT or Ferrari 166MM in Forza Horizon 3? I can't bring myself to simply 'remove car from your garage', and I've managed to auction off literally every other barn find and even lame free cars like the Silvia Club K's and Renault Megane. I've tried putting them up stock, with tasteful colours, or with 5 star designs but they never work. I really hope that the next Forza has a better auction system, where you can choose whatever starting bid you want instead of having a certain minimum with incremental jumps in value of several thousand, and where buyers can bid whatever they want to as long as it's above previous bid/minimum. [editline]26th December 2016[/editline] Speaking of cars, does anyone else think that the cars are really cheap in the Forza series? Like, proper race cars will only cost you several hundred thousand credits, but those same cars in real life can easily cost in the millions (especially LMP cars and the Lotus F1). It's just that I have 54,000,000 credits in FM6 and nothing to use them on (I already have 200ish cars).

anyone here have any experience running nfs porsche unleashed on windows 10? i've gotten the game installed from the original disc, installed the fan patch and the widescreen patch, and i can get into the menus, but the game crashes when i try to load any race. really itching to go back through all the old need for speed games for nostalgia's sake, and this has been a major bummer trying and failing to get it to work.

[QUOTE=TheCronkofDestiny;51584731]anyone here have any experience running nfs porsche unleashed on windows 10? i've gotten the game installed from the original disc, installed the fan patch and the widescreen patch, and i can get into the menus, but the game crashes when i try to load any race. really itching to go back through all the old need for speed games for nostalgia's sake, and this has been a major bummer trying and failing to get it to work.[/QUOTE] IIRC I had trouble with the game on Win10 before, I couldn't get a proper version to work but I think there was a repackaged portable edition somebody made. From what I remember it doesn't have any registry entries and works just fine.

Well, my awesome wife bought me an Oculus Touch for Christmas. As well as being able to use it for its intended purpose, the other reason was to use the second receiver in a dedicated fashion on the rig (I can simply twist this to point in a different direction when using it for Touch purposes). I did need to remove the mounting pole from the stand (hacksaw job) to enable me to do this. Fortunately the rig itself has very little discernible flex or movement in it (largely due to the triple thickness sides and double thickness supporting panels along with various metal supporting braces on the wheel stem), so the operation is great with no wobbling of the receiver. [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/SpaceHedgehog/media/Oculus1_zpsfe8rmu0h.jpg.html][IMG]http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc26/SpaceHedgehog/Oculus1_zpsfe8rmu0h.jpg[/img][/URL] [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/SpaceHedgehog/media/Oculus2_zpsomkmhp7o.jpg.html][IMG]http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc26/SpaceHedgehog/Oculus2_zpsomkmhp7o.jpg[/img][/URL] [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/SpaceHedgehog/media/Oculus4_zpscrgrmkqp.jpg.html][IMG]http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc26/SpaceHedgehog/Oculus4_zpscrgrmkqp.jpg[/img][/URL] Just about to pull the trigger and upgrade to a CSW V2. Also thinking about adding an additional, large Buttkicker as well to go with the 4 integrated into this build. Assetto Corsa is fantastic in VR despite the fact the resolution could be better.

[QUOTE=TheCronkofDestiny;51584731]anyone here have any experience running nfs porsche unleashed on windows 10? i've gotten the game installed from the original disc, installed the fan patch and the widescreen patch, and i can get into the menus, but the game crashes when i try to load any race. really itching to go back through all the old need for speed games for nostalgia's sake, and this has been a major bummer trying and failing to get it to work.[/QUOTE] If you want to play MP when you get it working let me know. I miss the game too. I remember playing it as a 7 year old and beating an EA dev in a race who rage quit after he asked how old I am. :v:

[QUOTE=Rockeiro123;51582676]Meanwhile in 1999 [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Eof7uID.png[/IMG] [sp]I know it's an unfair comparison[/sp] Although I would like to see more games like Rally championship 2000, where making it to the end of the stage was half the battle. Managing your racing line and aggression to preserve the tires, random mechanical failures like loosing 3rd gear for no reason and having to fight the car to the service, stages so long you have to manage your throttle so you don't cook the engine from all the redlining. And tire choice mattering, for example I was doing a championship where I had to do 2 stages, the first was gravel and the 2nd was snow. So I picked snow tires, and by the end of the first stage the gravel had chewed trough my tires and I didn't make it past inspection. Things like that, I want more of that.[/QUOTE] I can vaguely remember that game from playing it at a friend's house in my childhood, and wondering why the hell the stages seemed to go on forever compared to CMR 2.0. I've seen in WEBMs that Rally Championship 2000 also had some TECHNOLOGY moments in it, such as the electronics of the car short-circuiting when stalling it in a river crossing. Neat little details like that. The one thing I hope Codemasters will put in a future rally game as well, is a more expansive damage model. Right now in Dirt Rally, it's pretty much the radiator in some cars that are fragile as glass, leading to engines getting damaged a lot, and the wheels that are by far the most vital parts of the car, and you'd have to really try wrecking the car to wear down the other parts in normal rallies. Although the Exhaust can get really fragile too once the rear bumper is off, and apparently, it was bugged until a certain patch to increase horsepower once the exhaust was entirely off, instead of decreasing the horsepower then. I haven't seen stuff like the gearbox losing gears or anything like that. Or the suspension/axles being screwed up massively after big crashes, as even in the worst cases, it seems that it stays at wheels popping off instead of the axles getting fucked as well in huge crashes. There have been mods that showed that it is entirely possible to fuck up the axles too on Dirt Rally's engine, but unfortunately, Codies haven't put that in the game itself. Kinda hoped they would put in some sort of ''Hardcore'' difficulty for that. So I hope that in a future rally game, they will have even more harsher damage models, along with tyre choices coming back like in the older games. It would be perfect if they have Rally de Catalunya stages as well then to really make use of that mechanic, since those rally's stages are a mix of tarmac and gravel.

[QUOTE=The0nly0ne;51585584]Well, my awesome wife bought me an Oculus Touch for Christmas. As well as being able to use it for its intended purpose, the other reason was to use the second receiver in a dedicated fashion on the rig (I can simply twist this to point in a different direction when using it for Touch purposes). I did need to remove the mounting pole from the stand (hacksaw job) to enable me to do this. Fortunately the rig itself has very little discernible flex or movement in it (largely due to the triple thickness sides and double thickness supporting panels along with various metal supporting braces on the wheel stem), so the operation is great with no wobbling of the receiver. [URL="http://s218.photobucket.com/user/SpaceHedgehog/media/Oculus4_zpscrgrmkqp.jpg.html"][IMG]http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc26/SpaceHedgehog/Oculus4_zpscrgrmkqp.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Just about to pull the trigger and upgrade to a CSW V2. Also thinking about adding an additional, large Buttkicker as well to go with the 4 integrated into this build. Assetto Corsa is fantastic in VR despite the fact the resolution could be better.[/QUOTE] That's a mighty fine looking rig, too.

[QUOTE=TheAdmiester;51585114]IIRC I had trouble with the game on Win10 before, I couldn't get a proper version to work but I think there was a repackaged portable edition somebody made. From what I remember it doesn't have any registry entries and works just fine.[/QUOTE] if you could give me any pointers as to where i could find that, i'd really appreciate it. i've searched around but haven't found anything of the sort

[QUOTE=TheCronkofDestiny;51586378]if you could give me any pointers as to where i could find that, i'd really appreciate it. i've searched around but haven't found anything of the sort[/QUOTE] Damn, sorry, it turns out that what I was remembering was a portable version of NFS4, not 5. I'm not sure if/how I got NFS5 working since it's been a long time since I tried.

[QUOTE=Rockeiro123;51582676]Meanwhile in 1999 [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Eof7uID.png[/IMG] [sp]I know it's an unfair comparison[/sp] Although I would like to see more games like Rally championship 2000, where making it to the end of the stage was half the battle. Managing your racing line and aggression to preserve the tires, random mechanical failures like loosing 3rd gear for no reason and having to fight the car to the service, stages so long you have to manage your throttle so you don't cook the engine from all the redlining. And tire choice mattering, for example I was doing a championship where I had to do 2 stages, the first was gravel and the 2nd was snow. So I picked snow tires, and by the end of the first stage the gravel had chewed trough my tires and I didn't make it past inspection. Things like that, I want more of that.[/QUOTE] The first game had an even longer version of that stage. [video=youtube;5icykTeyBiI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5icykTeyBiI[/video] It's around 37 miles.

[QUOTE=Don Merino;51586174]That's a mighty fine looking rig, too.[/QUOTE] Thank you - about 350 hours invested in building it :)

So because no one wants to buy my Dino, I decided to go on a photo shoot. [t]http://forzamotorsport.net/Handlers/GetPhoto.ashx?game=fh3&id=14832250&full=true[/t] [t]http://forzamotorsport.net/Handlers/GetPhoto.ashx?game=fh3&id=14831223&full=true[/t] [t]http://forzamotorsport.net/Handlers/GetPhoto.ashx?game=fh3&id=14069793&full=true[/t] [t]http://forzamotorsport.net/Handlers/GetPhoto.ashx?game=fh3&id=13989583&full=true[/t] [editline]27th December 2016[/editline] Someone pls buy my car

[QUOTE=The0nly0ne;51585584]Well, my awesome wife bought me an Oculus Touch for Christmas. As well as being able to use it for its intended purpose, the other reason was to use the second receiver in a dedicated fashion on the rig (I can simply twist this to point in a different direction when using it for Touch purposes). I did need to remove the mounting pole from the stand (hacksaw job) to enable me to do this. Fortunately the rig itself has very little discernible flex or movement in it (largely due to the triple thickness sides and double thickness supporting panels along with various metal supporting braces on the wheel stem), so the operation is great with no wobbling of the receiver. [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/SpaceHedgehog/media/Oculus1_zpsfe8rmu0h.jpg.html][IMG]http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc26/SpaceHedgehog/Oculus1_zpsfe8rmu0h.jpg[/img][/URL] [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/SpaceHedgehog/media/Oculus2_zpsomkmhp7o.jpg.html][IMG]http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc26/SpaceHedgehog/Oculus2_zpsomkmhp7o.jpg[/img][/URL] [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/SpaceHedgehog/media/Oculus4_zpscrgrmkqp.jpg.html][IMG]http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc26/SpaceHedgehog/Oculus4_zpscrgrmkqp.jpg[/img][/URL] Just about to pull the trigger and upgrade to a CSW V2. Also thinking about adding an additional, large Buttkicker as well to go with the 4 integrated into this build. Assetto Corsa is fantastic in VR despite the fact the resolution could be better.[/QUOTE] you can change the pixel per display and it looks a bit better, you can do it in the rift sdk but some games let you change it as well

[QUOTE=waylander;51587135]you can change the pixel per display and it looks a bit better, you can do it in the rift sdk but some games let you change it as well[/QUOTE] changing the ppd in the rift sdk breaks iracing's ui, i know that much

you can change the ppd in iracings ini, iirc i have it on 2 and it makes my dk2 a lot better but you can go upto 3 if your pc is fast enough

Thanks for the responses regarding ppd - I'd already set that to 1.5 for Assetto Corsa in the oculus.cfg file and it does make a significant difference (running a GTX 1080). I'm sure the next version of the Rift will offer a higher resolution output but I'm certainly not complaining with what I have as the immersion is great. I use the debug tool to set ppd for other software.

[QUOTE=The0nly0ne;51587985]Thanks for the responses regarding ppd - I'd already set that to 1.5 for Assetto Corsa in the oculus.cfg file and it does make a significant difference (running a GTX 1080). I'm sure the next version of the Rift will offer a higher resolution output but I'm certainly not complaining with what I have as the immersion is great. I use the debug tool to set ppd for other software.[/QUOTE] what kind of rig is that? custom? [editline]27th December 2016[/editline] If you'd be interested in an FP iracing club, go ahead and rate this post informative and i'll make one

how would you arrange it within iracing? hosted races and tournaments cost money, just join the same practice session?

[QUOTE=waylander;51588523]how would you arrange it within iracing? hosted races and tournaments cost money, just join the same practice session?[/QUOTE] teams are free to make and hosted sessions are cheap, so if we got enough people (~4-6) we could easily have some small races

i wouldnt mind, depends if people can agree on what to use there seem to be a few skippy drivers here so that might work i think youd get more people to join AC sessions though, i wouldnt mind buying it as i have money in my steam wallet but dont want to buy it just to race the ai

Trying to decide whether or not I want to pick up the T500 while it's on sale on Amazon for 300... Does anyone have experience with one?

Where can I get a wife like that TheOnlyOne

[QUOTE=Zombii;51588714]Trying to decide whether or not I want to pick up the T500 while it's on sale on Amazon for 300... Does anyone have experience with one?[/QUOTE] Depends what your current wheel is, it's a lot stronger than the Logitech wheels and the pedals are better especially if you spend 5$ to do the brushing mod, I'd probably buy there new ts-pc over my 500 because I read it puts out over 6Nm of torque they also have quite a few rims but none are fullsize, you can get an adapter but you have to switch back to static padals and even they are too small for a 350mm dished rim Check the iracing forum I got mine off there with 2 rims and the adapter for about $200

[QUOTE=waylander;51588806]Depends what your current wheel is, it's a lot stronger than the Logitech wheels and the pedals are better especially if you spend 5$ to do the brushing mod, I'd probably buy there new ts-pc over my 500 because I read it puts out over 6Nm of torque they also have quite a few rims but none are fullsize, you can get an adapter but you have to switch back to static padals and even they are too small for a 350mm dished rim Check the iracing forum I got mine off there with 2 rims and the adapter for about $200[/QUOTE] i have an old g27 right now, so it would be a big upgrade. whats the difference between the 500 and the ts-pc? [editline]27th December 2016[/editline] looks like the ts-pc is still quite new and untested, plus the base looks very large, and i don't have a cockpit setup unfortunately, a case of having the time, money, and willpower, but simply not enough room, so i use my g27 desk mounted