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PLazarou said:
Hmm. How about visible driver hands and wheel? I always disable them because I find it distracting. It helps me to visualise my real wheel as being attached to the car on screen.
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I have driver hands off too.

Just completed a race at Sebring. It's so tough to concentrate for 50 minutes, I think I only blinked twice :D.

Started 16th and finished 7th with only 2 inc, happy with that.
 
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barmyllama said:
Running with a GTX 580, 6GB RAM and an i7 920 @ 3.8Ghz. I'm getting over 80 FPS maxed out at 1920x1200.

I do think that a triple monitor setup will help me because, from the videos I've watched, the FOV the triple screen provide means it's easier to set up the game to more realistically represent what you actually can see out of the car in real life.

Maybe a better set of pedals or at least a load cell for the T500 pedals I have might help also.
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Hardware as nothing to do with it IMO. It will only add immersion. Better pedals may add a tiny bit of time to your lap but there not going to find you bags of time. Seat time will though and getting s FOV you are happy with. That was the key for me.

As far as my setup goes single screen 5 year old g25 with a dodgy shifter, broke force feedback and an old office chair that i have to stick casters behind to stop me sliding when I brake. Prior to these £1.99 casters i was using cardboard as a stop :D

Main things that will help is running laps with people you are confidant with whos not going to run you off the road. Almost every practice session I do is with me mate Peter. I gain more time running with him than anything.

Also a setup thats made for "You" or one you feel good with. Not to under or oversteery and has even tire wear.Once you have this. Then just tweak that setup to suit the different tracks. ie little bit more of less wing, brake balance may need a slight tweak track to track and same as basic ride height and springs. Im talking a few clicks here nothing more.

I've driven the MP4 on almost the same set for every race. The lotus 79 also for the life of me I cannot get the things round the track with anyone else set. My own set I can drive I can drive the pants off it around Oulten Park.

Tripple screens will help defo so will new pedals and maybe a wheel. But you wont find second with these things not IMO. Seat time is the only way. Learning how the car handles and being able to predict how it will handle to certain inputs. To some of us this is more natural than others and allows us to learn new cars much quicker.
 
Just done another Sebring race.

Started 18th and finished 10th, ran out of fuel on last lap. Which is odd because the race before I had enough left for a full warm down lap and still had 0.2 gallons left.

I agree that seat time is the best way to find lap time, but I do feel as though a decent seat and triple screens will help me to be more comfortable and have a better view than my current set up.

I also did my fastest lap so far of Sebring in that race, 2:03.851.

I love this game. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 
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Did a few practice laps of Interlagos last thing last night, which is the next track in the Grand Am series. The car feels great again, lots more grip, I don't feel like I'm on the edge of loosing the back end all the time.

Hopefully OcUK will have the new T500 Ferrari GT rim in this week and I can replace my twice repaired original.
 
I was a bit like barmyllama earlier in the week feeling like giving up. I'm in my 3rd week of playing now but kept with it and am at last enjoying the races. I'm not a superstar but just practicing and getting better each day. Gone from averaging 2 mins on the current Mazda track to 1.54 and finishing top 5 with no incidents. A long way from good, but I'm happy with the improvement! New track tomorrow!

I found what helped me was running test laps on the track with the skippy. After spending a couple of days with the skippy practicing I went back to the MX5 today and it felt so much easier and I couldn't even get it to skid off the track if I tried to whereas before it was hit and miss if I finished! Got my first podium finish which rounded the week off nicely for me.

Definitely taking the skippy round the mx5 track tomorrow when it changes to learn the lines and then changing to the mx5 for races. I reckon the skippy is great for learning to drive faster but more carefully. Not bothered about skippy races yet but it's a good learning tool I've found
 
Yeah, the skippy is easily my favourite car. The amount of good racing you get in it is really fantastic. I don't think I've ever been taken out by someone in it, even if I was racing with them the whole race.
 
The Skippy is great as a learning tool, to lap even consistently you need to be far smoother than a lot of other cars, it also teaches weight transfer, skills that are transferable to all other cars :)

And yeah, you'll find lots of ups and downs with this game, some races will be ones you'll remember for a long long time, others you wish you could forget seconds after they end (or start in some cases :p)
 
One thing that really bugs me is when I'm testing, not in anything official, you still have to "give up the time gained" when you cut the track. If this happens in the last few corner then it means the next lap is ruined as well. So you end up doing two ruined laps. I don't mind it indicating I've cut the track, but you shouldn't have to give the time when you're just testing.
 
PLazarou said:
I like the look of the wheels too, such a shame to disable them, but I really do find them distracting, so they have to go!
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First thing I do is turn that fake wheel off. It doesn't even turn in sync, past 270 degrees so its really puts me off what looks lock to lock is way off lol.

I prefer lining my monitor up at the very edge of my G25 and using my wheel overlayed where the pixel wheel should be.

This just allows my brain to be a lot more accurate and for some reason really helps me drive the car a lot better. Soons I turn those hands on I dont turn the wheel enough, or become unable to catch a slide.

Don't ask me why but for me there for replays only.
 
Whats a decent virtual mirror fov? I don't think mine is right as it looks like people are going straight into the back of me at times.
 
I think I will get the 1 year sub soon (can I cancel afterwards so it doesnt auto renew?) but I have a question...

Would a gamepad be fine for this game? Is the game more hardcore than race 07 because I managed quite well with a gamepad in that.

Err thanks :)
 
SKILL said:
The Skippy is great as a learning tool, to lap even consistently you need to be far smoother than a lot of other cars, it also teaches weight transfer, skills that are transferable to all other cars :)

And yeah, you'll find lots of ups and downs with this game, some races will be ones you'll remember for a long long time, others you wish you could forget seconds after they end (or start in some cases :p)
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I think this is why I got so good so quick (well not to Pro level but good enough to compete)

Radical Driving back in season 2012 s1 when she was an animal to drive. Most cars on the service to me feel very tame. The Radical for me is a car you need reactions of a tiger to control and keep on the track at pace, its such a fine line between a perfect sector or spinning off the track into a ball of flames.

You also have nothing to play with its light as a crisp packet so even looking at the Radical wrongly will make it get "wheel damage".

All this soft big GT cars and little hair dryer cars are so easy to drive now.



I remember first getting Iracing taking the SRF out and for the life of me not being able to make a single lap in it, spinning it at every bend and braking zone. I ditched the car for ages. Came back about 9 months later and bam god knowns what all the fuss was about shes a pussy cat so easy to man angle round the track. Have no idea what all the fuss was about.

So basically yer find something thats twitch poweful and burts into flames just looking at it the wrong way. Learn to drive it and everything else becomes a doddle.
 
barmyllama said:
Did a few practice laps of Interlagos last thing last night, which is the next track in the Grand Am series. The car feels great again, lots more grip, I don't feel like I'm on the edge of loosing the back end all the time.

Hopefully OcUK will have the new T500 Ferrari GT rim in this week and I can replace my twice repaired original.
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Is it nice then mate? Dieing to try and but I'm proper skint this week so out the question. Personal fav love the track. Imagine the the MP4 to be a dream round it.

Do I risk a beating from the Mrs and buy it :D basically is it worth sleeping with the dog tonight ?
 
Eames said:
I think I will get the 1 year sub soon (can I cancel afterwards so it doesnt auto renew?) but I have a question...

Would a gamepad be fine for this game? Is the game more hardcore than race 07 because I managed quite well with a gamepad in that.

Err thanks :)
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Just turn auto renew off mate.

I hate to be the bringer of bad news but I would not try Iracing with a game pad . Its drive able but you going to be 10-15 seconds off the pace. Dont get me wrong I play almost every other car game with a pad. But Iracing isnt a game

So you need sim hardware.
 
Murray said:
Whats a decent virtual mirror fov? I don't think mine is right as it looks like people are going straight into the back of me at times.
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lol I had this at first used to freak me out.

I use the eaxt same one as my front FOV that way everything is synced.

ie I use around 65-76 depending on car. The recommended is 45 degrees which gives you perfect 1:1 for obvious reasons, but It gives me to much of a blind
spot when people are dive bombing.

Try 70 Murray as a start and work from there mate.



PS you are all making me want to buy the Skippy now. hated it when i first got Iracing and tried it on my friend PC it handled nothing like it should. Does it handle more like a formula 1600 -2000 style car should now then :D
 
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