Best driving game?

Here goes my summary:

For PC,

Arcade: GRID/DiRT

Sim: Race07/GTR:Evo/other expansions, rfactor

Difficult, but rewarding sims: LFS, GPL, GTL, GTR2

Insane sim: Richard Burns Rally!

Pure carnage: Flatout series

I only recommend a wheel for the sims above - I use a Logitech Driving Force Pro. Otherwise, it's a 360 wireless pad. I just can't get GRID or DiRT to work well with a wheel. Not sure if it's settings or this wheel, as plenty of people seem to play them competitively with a G25. Would love to upgrade to a G25 but can't justify the extra for the amount of free time I have on my hands nowadays.

PS, if anyone has settings for a DFP on GRID or DiRT that work well, I'd be very appreciative to hear them!
 
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Just been trying out iRacing and having an absolute blast on it, what a game, really really good - the handling is outstanding (even though I am using a X360 controller temporarily), really impressed.

Currently running the Pontiac Solstice Challenge (Practice runs only), there was a guy in there a few mins ago who broke the world record.

Impressive!
 
Just in case anyone is going for DiRT:

It appears that Codemasters have just turned off online multiplayer for it, presumably to push people into buying DiRT 2.

Although for some reason the single player game requires an open internet connection and access through your firewall. If you're offline or you block it, performance plummets to unplayable levels.

It's also, rather oddly, soundcard-limited. Use software sound or else it will slideshow on races with other cars on the track.

But it's a fun arcade rally game and you should be able to buy it for next to nothing now. Cost me £5 last week on a budget re-release label. I notice that they've hugely increased the recommended system specs too - I bought it when it came out in 2007 on the basis that my system was well above the recommended specs then and it was too slow to play.

But don't buy it if you want any kind of sim, because it just isn't.
 
gbradders123 said:
it is pretty impressive, pity it works out so expensive by the time you have bought a few more cars and tracks, and a g25...
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Yeah, the cost is the one downside of iRacing, they have made it cheaper recently though...

Saying that, since I subscribed in july 2008 I've played it a hell of a lot, and considering I usually get a game to last me maybe 2-3 weeks it's actually not too bad (for me), and I do think it's been worth every penny (and that's a lot of pennies, over $700 dollars now, for 2 years sub and 100% content)

But on another note, compare it to real racing and I can spend ~£500 on a weekend of motorbike racing, thats one testday and 2 days of racing (2 sprint races per day), so compared to real racing it really is cheap.

I can't play any other sims now, still got rFactor installed but that was only to test new tracks I was going to race my bike at irl before going there, and tbh brands, snetterton and cadwell are all fairly unrealistic in rfactor compared to real life. Obviously no idea how iracing would do them but they're bringing out brands hopefully in december time, so i'm looking forward to actually getting to compare a track I know to one in iRacing...
 
the one thing i hated with dirt was the save problems, you needed your network lan drivers installed and enabled otherwise the save would corrupt each time you loaded.

hope dirt2 resolves that.
 
Test Drive Unlimited!

i wish they would make a TDU2 ! with all the latest cars and just improve the game, it would be awsome
 
bob055 said:
Test Drive Unlimited!

i wish they would make a TDU2 ! with all the latest cars and just improve the game, it would be awsome
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i second that, had it for xbox 360 when it first came out, crusing round the island was class, but often laggy.

would love to play it on my pc now :D
 
Nascar 2003, essentially it's iracing on the cheap.

Install mods, graphical updates, the hundreds of free available tracks and cars, you're good to go.

One of the pc finest, even if it is 6 years old:)
 
toon_mad said:
the one thing i hated with dirt was the save problems, you needed your network lan drivers installed and enabled otherwise the save would corrupt each time you loaded.

hope dirt2 resolves that.
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I'm sure they have, as GRID was built off DiRT and it has no such issue. I just think it was because the engine was new and it had lots of teething problems. Shame they were never really addressed in a comprehensive patch for DiRT. Would have been a much more enjoyable game without stuttering, sound and saving issues.
 
ThorpedoUK said:
This is really useful for iRacing, check it out:

http://www.nessoft.com/ispeed/

It basically is intended to run on a second monitor/display and shows lap info (speeds, splits etc so you can see where to improve)

I've used it and seems really handy
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yeah its pretty cool, unfortunately i'm running 3 screens already, so cant use it ( unless i go window'd mode which i dont want to do )
 
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