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I had a quick go this morning in Brazil, only did 20% race and my best lap in the race was 109.978 which is almost 3 seconds slower as well compare to pre patch race times.
 
This patch has messed my game up badley. Play this with a friend on coop fine untill this patch. Had to stop sli first of all. Then now i cant log into my game at all with out it crashing. Uninstalled the game and still the same issue.

Runs the game fine if i dont sign into live at the start. Year 2 and its messed up again.
 
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goose, it's a corrupt save. Press enter when it asks to start instead of your controller or wheel, then assign the controller/wheel. Do this everytime a corrupt save occurs.
 
Just did some more tests at Brazil.

1/1 Ride height is about 0.3 seconds faster than 11/11 ride height.
1/1 Suspension stiffness is less than half a second slower than 11/11.

Roll bars however have some interesting results and it did feel different to drive each time, and here are the differences,

6/6 +0.000
1/1 +0.004
1/11 +0.008
11/1 +0.001
11/11 +0.219
 
Thing is, even though they are good findings, those results may not happen with the next guy. It'll probably not suit their driving style... I haven't tried it myself as I've lost interest in the game due to the performance issues/lack of CrossFire and when you do run CrossFire it runs in DX9.

Plus the corrupt save hasn't been fixed. Getting sick of assigning the G25 buttons every time that happens.

Must admit, the steering is so much better on the PC than the PS3.
 
Tried it again after the patch, qualified 2nd on legend difficulty, got shunted on the first lap T-boned by an AI car that kept its foot down pushing me sideways down the entire length of the straight.

And I still get 25 fps dips on a machine that runs BF3 on high at 60+.

Not for me.
 
Noashan said:
Tried it again after the patch, qualified 2nd on legend difficulty, got shunted on the first lap T-boned by an AI car that kept its foot down pushing me sideways down the entire length of the straight.

And I still get 25 fps dips on a machine that runs BF3 on high at 60+.

Not for me.
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The game is a write off. I keep reading from PC users on the Codemasters forum as well as other forums people losing 10 fps plus. Excusing raw hardware, the game is a crap port. It is. No excuse can help it. It also proves that. They didn't sort the corrupt saves. When the patch was coming or the game was ready for release, the game developers were all over the forum. With all the bugs exposed and still cropping up etc they fled. Only their Community Manager sticks around and chooses what he'll comment on and usually it's very little.

Their answer to the bad graphics (lack of AA) to the PS3 version was to add motion blur to cover it up. Fantastic coding. 33MB download... who releases such tiny patches in these modern days and uses the excuse, it's because of console limitations, bandwidth usage for customers and ISP's. That's a copout.

Every patch they release they break more than they fix. Codemasters are a shoddy game developer for F1. Even on the PS3 my brakes are screwed. I'm not half way on the pedal and the wheels are locking up terribly at fast speeds, 5th/6th. Even with 0 sensitivity. I never had this before the patch. You could feed in the brake. They wouldn't start to lock until mid low 4th gear and lower. Downforce at high speed would stop the wheels locking until you had gotten to speeds of mechanical grip.

It's also stupid how Codemasters has no clue about brake bias. Or car physics. Soon as you start putting a lot of rear brake bias the car will snap oversteer in proper physics. This game it's barely good. 51% front tons of understeer. 60% rear no oversteer. Well I'm not saying you don't get oversteer but it's minuscule. There's not enough in it to cause anything drastic in proper physics.
Codemasters 60% rear feels like a properly setup 53/54% front brake bias.

Even the suspension they have no clue about stiffness or even rollbars. The game suspension physics feels like road cars. Not finely tuned open wheelers. The responsiveness of suspension movement to power/brake and wheel input is so sluggish compared to the likes of Ferrari Virtual Academy/rFactor with exceptional mods.

Glitched times are also starting to appear again on Time Trial.
 
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Noble-Kebab said:
game is awful, AI is shocking, can't even drive in a straight line
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You cant or the AI cant? either way must be something very odd. Do you have a wheel?

Anyway got back into this and im starting to use cockpit cam. Getting into it now,

Can anyone upload any of the betetr camera mods for me? Racedpeartmnet download section has been missing for a few days now
 
Noble-Kebab said:
Sorry I mean the AI doesn't drive in a straight line, they weave left and right down the straights, especially on the first lap.
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1st lap of the race? something is broken there as that shouldnt happen. Unless you mean going down to the 1st corner becuase of course they will be all over the track trying to find a gap.

Can you post a video?
 
Noble-Kebab said:
Sorry I mean the AI doesn't drive in a straight line, they weave left and right down the straights, especially on the first lap.
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You can bob and weave as much as you want at the start, there is no 1 move rule. I move just as much as the AI at the start. I actually enjoy starts now if near the back of the grid. After the first lap don't have a problem with the AI, They even get out of your most most of the time.

Does anyone know where you can get into a good racing league? No assists with fast clean racers. Want abit of a challenge since most random people are really slow, like several seconds a lap slow.
 
Username Mike said:
You can bob and weave as much as you want at the start, there is no 1 move rule. I move just as much as the AI at the start. I actually enjoy starts now if near the back of the grid. After the first lap don't have a problem with the AI, They even get out of your most most of the time.

Does anyone know where you can get into a good racing league? No assists with fast clean racers. Want abit of a challenge since most random people are really slow, like several seconds a lap slow.
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u just need to slow down abit mike:D
 
Username Mike said:
Does anyone know where you can get into a good racing league? No assists with fast clean racers. Want abit of a challenge since most random people are really slow, like several seconds a lap slow.
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Mike join www.elitef1.net, there are some very fast and clear drivers and when i say fast trust me they are very fast. I have joined them last week, they will start their league some time in January.

Edit: they all use cockpit view with no assists as well, just what you want mate.
 
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