Need for Speed Time Trial Championship ** Season 2 ** (Multiplatform)

Well, I certainly have no complaints about the car as everyone has an equal chance.

I've been racing this track ALL day, I kid you not. ALL bloody day :D


I've watched and rewatched Nem's video several times. I've noted the times he gets at each corner. For instance, on the left turn just before going uphill to the corkscrew he's at 0:39 seconds at the apex of the corner, whereas no matter how good I do up to that bit, I'm always at about 44 seconds. I've been skidding the car around the track like he does and racing out of my skin, and the best I can do is this. What gets me is how you guys are getting 1:34, let alone 1:30! :eek:

How do you do it?? It just seems impossible. Nikaz, any chance of a video from you and your settings? :) I've messed with my settings a lot but maybe they're set up a bit crap.

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Merlin5 said:
Well, I certainly have no complaints about the car as everyone has an equal chance.

I've been racing this track ALL day, I kid you not. ALL bloody day :D


I've watched and rewatched Nem's video several times. I've noted the times he gets at each corner. For instance, on the left turn just before going uphill to the corkscrew he's at 0:39 seconds at the apex of the corner, whereas no matter how good I do up to that bit, I'm always at about 44 seconds. I've been skidding the car around the track like he does and racing out of my skin, and the best I can do is this. What gets me is how you guys are getting 1:34, let alone 1:30! :eek:

How do you do it?? It just seems impossible. Nikaz, any chance of a video from you and your settings? :) I've messed with my settings a lot but maybe they're set up a bit crap.

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I'll post a vid tomorrow. Give me a min & I'll post my settings.
 
Haven't been able to totally iron out the instability, although it is easier.
Stay away/off the curbs. You get severe pull from the extreme edges of the track wrecking your lap time.
Switch to manual gears. You only have to use 4th through 6th once the car is rolling.

T-1 Brake really late. Hammer the brakes, they won't lock up. Follow the racing line maintaining 4th gear. Don't change up to 5th until the car is straight. Assuming manual gears here.
T-2 Edge to the left, stay in 5th. Off the gas (no brakes), turn in clipping the apex, power round still in 5th.
T-3 Got good exit from T-2 you should be able to take 6th briefly before dropping once again to 5th. Repeat T-2.
T-4 Slight kink right. Should be well in 6th here, avoid the curb.
T-5 Two options here dependant on style. Both in 5th
1. Brake late (quick stab) in a straight line, turn in, wait for the exit smoothly applying the gas
2. Brake lightly slightly early, turn in power round
T-6 Brake late well in the red, turn in late.
T-7 Corkscrew - Brake hard at the beginning of the crest, then slightly off the brake dropping to 4th stabbing on the brakes again to take the left turn. You're better off braking early than late and over cooking it. Still in 4th manage the corkscrew as best you can.
T-8 Stay in 5th powering round following the racing line.
T-9 From 6th drop to 5th with a slight dab of the brakes. Don't go too wide of the apex, you'll compromise your exit.
T-10 Brake hard quite late on the brakes dropping to 4th. Slow in fast out and stay off the inside curb. Power to the finish.

My settings.
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Just bought this but I'm REALLY dissapointed with the GFX. Was expecting more. Like NO SLOWDOWN. But even with AA set at only X2 and AF X8 it occasionally judders. Res is 1920 x 1200.

When in the garage i'd at least expect eye candy there with the car panning around in a 6-fps silky smooth rate and not a 30fps eye sore.

Just un-installed it and thought, i didn't spend all that money on my rig for this.

It seems like a bad port to me. But then again why is it well reviewed and getting a decent following? Am I missing something?
 
Finally, my blood sweat and tears turn into blood sweat and cheers.:D It's not much but it is in the 1:30's at last. :rolleyes:

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My video. I and a bit laps. If I can master the corkscrew I should knock a couple more seconds off I reckon. But at the moment I'm not controlling it slick enough.
I'm running the track pretty much as per nikaz's instructions, and coming off the gas and not braking at T-2 and T-3 really does work better.

 
thedoc46 said:
Just bought this but I'm REALLY dissapointed with the GFX. Was expecting more. Like NO SLOWDOWN. But even with AA set at only X2 and AF X8 it occasionally judders. Res is 1920 x 1200.

When in the garage i'd at least expect eye candy there with the car panning around in a 6-fps silky smooth rate and not a 30fps eye sore.

Just un-installed it and thought, i didn't spend all that money on my rig for this.

It seems like a bad port to me. But then again why is it well reviewed and getting a decent following? Am I missing something?
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Have you got this patched? There were performance issues with ATI cards prior to the 1.2 patch, I understand these are resolved now.
 
danswan said:
Have you got this patched? There were performance issues with ATI cards prior to the 1.2 patch, I understand these are resolved now.
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So when you are in the garage the cars pan around at 60fps? or more if you prefer to not have vsync on?

I HATE slight judders when the system is not under strain. Was enough for me to un-install.

But if someone can confirm to me that this patch fixes, then maybe i'll give it another re-installation.
 
thedoc46 said:
Just bought this but I'm REALLY dissapointed with the GFX. Was expecting more. Like NO SLOWDOWN. But even with AA set at only X2 and AF X8 it occasionally judders. Res is 1920 x 1200.

When in the garage i'd at least expect eye candy there with the car panning around in a 6-fps silky smooth rate and not a 30fps eye sore.

Just un-installed it and thought, i didn't spend all that money on my rig for this.

It seems like a bad port to me. But then again why is it well reviewed and getting a decent following? Am I missing something?
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the game is most definitely not a bad port...........
 
chronic86 said:
the game is most definitely not a bad port...........
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+1 to that comment.

I'm running 1920 x 1200, with every detail set at high (or the maximum) in both the game and in the Cat control centre. It runs as smooth as anything I've seen with no slowdown anywhere.
 
Nem said:
+1 to that comment.

I'm running 1920 x 1200, with every detail set at high (or the maximum) in both the game and in the Cat control centre. It runs as smooth as anything I've seen with no slowdown anywhere.
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What spec are you running Nem? All sounds very promising. Looking forward to getting home tonight and trying again after patching to 1.2
 
I made it to the top 10, lol.


thedoc46,

Mine's very smooth @ 1920 x 1080 maxed out. Fraps gives me 54 to 55fps. I don't have vsync on.

There is an occassional framerate dip and judder for about a second or so while watching cars rotate in the garage, but it's all fine and dandy on the tracks. Eye candy is all there for me, I think the cars look awesome. I read that the game prefers 8 x AA for best smoothness, dunno if that's true though. The patch really helped things in the game for me like top speed and certain things in advanced tuning. Not sure how much it affects graphics though.
 
Merlin,

Just preparing a vid of two laps from the start. Done in bonnet view rather than cockpit to match your playing view.
The second lap is 1:31.278 so not bad considering Fraps.
Using the settings I've posted.

Video quality will improve once processing is complete.

 
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Thanks nikaz, can't wait to see that, should be interesting to see the expert at work.:cool:

I've been advised (on another forum) to turn off the remainder of my assists, ie, abs, traction & stability. In which case, it's probably gonna put me out of this contest for a while until I can learn to tame the beast(s) unaided.

Yeah, when I record with fraps, the framerate drops considerably and take some getting used to.
 
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