Race Driver: Grid

Darryn said:
Id try it again, hardest settings, bumper cam, all assists off and imo you do feel feel in control of the car to some extent, its not a sim though, but you certainly need to aim for apexes, correct slides and use the steering and throttle to battle youre way thru the pack....
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Well I may give it another go. To me the chase cam is one of the best ways to play (apart from cockpit cam) and they have gone all hollywood with it. My car went over the smallest of bumps in the road and the cam jumped up and down like ive run over another car.

It seems like I will have to spend hours to get a game to my liking. Thats a sad state of things if I have to spend lots of time doing that.

So I stand by my point, Codemasters you've failed again.
 
Kodiak said:
My thoughts about Grid.

Its a beautiful looking game, really nice. Well presented, funky menus and all. In game, the detail is mind blowing. Ok, its covered in a heavy cover of 'realism'. That means there is bloom galore, a sickening amount of motion blur and you view this all with a subtle (read heavy) hint of brown. Ok, I thought, I can over look graphics. That was untill i started to 'race'.

Now I like my driving games. Really like them. Almost love the whole racing genre. It doesnt matter if its an arcade game like Outrun, Trackmania or Re-volt. I love them. Same goes for the sims, like LFS or GPL. Its all the same to me. When I started to race with Grid, I felt that the game didnt really want me to play the way I wanted. Ie, by driving. Let me explane what I mean by this. All driving games need you to control your car by using the accelerator/brake and by turning left and right. All racing games do this, except for Grid. I found out, after a few disasterous races, that all you have to do is hint at the game at each corner, then put your finger back on the throttle. No correcting for slides, no aiming at the apex, nothing. Couple that with a chase camera that is straight out of Hollywood with its constant shaking about (cue tons of motion blur) and you get the feeling this is a game thats trying to make itself look good. Rather than you make the game look good (by good driving).

Overall I regret buying this game. To me there is no connection between me and the car Im supposed to be controlling. It just feels all wrong. Shame really, its a pretty game with some cool little features. But, to me, it feels like this is a bit of a waste. Codemasters, you've failed again.
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That was an incredibly long post for what boils down to "i dont like it"...

Its a fun arcady racer that looks shiny and has some great online play, exactly what ive been wanting for a while! I love it!
 
Calabi said:
I've tried changing the stability control assist and its like playing two different games. With the TVR and it off its like driving a brick, with it on you can swing the car all over the place. Its a bit odd not sure which I prefer.

And for the majority of races I have no music but then for a few races there is, is that normal?
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I think you only get music at the end of the le mans 24 and the head to heads after completing a licence.
 
Anyone know why my PC pad isn't working? Works on all other games. I've configured it in the menu and set all the controls to the pad buttons but I can't move about with it on the menus or even in the game!

Don't really want to play the game on the keyboard

Its a Speed Link PS2 pad rip-off.

Just reading through the thread people are having similar problems. Seems like one of the most basic and lazy issues ever for it not to be fixed. May be I've missed something
 
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I bought the game yesterday and played through a few races. The graphics I thought were superb with all the settings cranked up and vsync on I dont seem to get any slowdown at all so nice one there.

Now setting up the pad however is a different story, It took an absolute age to get the game to work with it, I set it up and everything seemed to be fine... Would get into the game and nothing, menu showed it as being the default after setting up the buttons, anyway after a few restarts of the game and constant fooling about it finally decided to work. Quite what I did I dont know. I play with the Logitech Dual Action USB pad using the left analogue for steering and the right for accelerator and break otherwise you press a button and get instant full throttle, spins and an uncontrolable car.

Overall this is the kind of game I like, mix between arcade and Sim pushing more to the arcade side of things. If it wasn't for the hour trying to get the pad to work it would definitly be one of my top games for this year.
 
Yes I am well aware that the 360 pad is good for this game as the first time I played it was at a mates on his pc with 360 pad but to be honest I don't play to many games and can't warrant paying £30 for a pad when I already have one sitting there. It seems to be working a treat now anyway so its a non issue really... More of a frustration than anything.

Still a great game! Only have 2 cars so far so much more playing needs to be done.
 
Kodiak said:
My thoughts about Grid.

Its a beautiful looking game, really nice. Well presented, funky menus and all. In game, the detail is mind blowing. Ok, its covered in a heavy cover of 'realism'. That means there is bloom galore, a sickening amount of motion blur and you view this all with a subtle (read heavy) hint of brown. Ok, I thought, I can over look graphics. That was untill i started to 'race'.

Now I like my driving games. Really like them. Almost love the whole racing genre. It doesnt matter if its an arcade game like Outrun, Trackmania or Re-volt. I love them. Same goes for the sims, like LFS or GPL. Its all the same to me. When I started to race with Grid, I felt that the game didnt really want me to play the way I wanted. Ie, by driving. Let me explane what I mean by this. All driving games need you to control your car by using the accelerator/brake and by turning left and right. All racing games do this, except for Grid. I found out, after a few disasterous races, that all you have to do is hint at the game at each corner, then put your finger back on the throttle. No correcting for slides, no aiming at the apex, nothing. Couple that with a chase camera that is straight out of Hollywood with its constant shaking about (cue tons of motion blur) and you get the feeling this is a game thats trying to make itself look good. Rather than you make the game look good (by good driving).

Overall I regret buying this game. To me there is no connection between me and the car Im supposed to be controlling. It just feels all wrong. Shame really, its a pretty game with some cool little features. But, to me, it feels like this is a bit of a waste. Codemasters, you've failed again.
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If you think cornering is as simple as "hinting" towards it, then you're infering that there is no skill to it and therefore everyone can drive just as well.

If this is the case, you won't mind accepting my challenge to a few head to head races in order to prove your theory.
 
VinceB1 said:
I bought the game yesterday and played through a few races. The graphics I thought were superb with all the settings cranked up and vsync on I dont seem to get any slowdown at all so nice one there.

Now setting up the pad however is a different story, It took an absolute age to get the game to work with it, I set it up and everything seemed to be fine... Would get into the game and nothing, menu showed it as being the default after setting up the buttons, anyway after a few restarts of the game and constant fooling about it finally decided to work. Quite what I did I dont know. I play with the Logitech Dual Action USB pad using the left analogue for steering and the right for accelerator and break otherwise you press a button and get instant full throttle, spins and an uncontrolable car.

Overall this is the kind of game I like, mix between arcade and Sim pushing more to the arcade side of things. If it wasn't for the hour trying to get the pad to work it would definitly be one of my top games for this year.
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The upcoming patch has a fix for logitech rumblepads. That might sort your problems out too.
 
Souness said:
If you think cornering is as simple as "hinting" towards it, then you're infering that there is no skill to it and therefore everyone can drive just as well.

If this is the case, you won't mind accepting my challenge to a few head to head races in order to prove your theory.
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No thanks. I never once said in my post that what felt was a theory. Its what I felt. Simple as. Not once did i say there was no skill. The hinting part was my choice of words to describe the detached feeling I got from playing this game. For me, the whole cornering part was brake for the corner, flick the car (gently) into the corner then bury your finger back on the throttle. I found that was the easiest and quickest way round a corner. In other racing games there has been more 'Feel' when cornering. Grid, to me, doesnt have this feel.

If you like the game, fair enough. Please dont feel you have to defend this game with challenges to those who didnt.

Oh and I never said that this game was for those with no skill. You said that.
 
bobbyboy uk said:
Theres an easy fix for the pad situation, its called get a 360 pad :)
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Well that is an easy option but I don't like the fact the game only allows you to use a 360 or a PS3 pad. My pad works perfectly fine on 100% of the games I've used it on the past. I don't really want to pay 25 quid for a pad so I may leave grid to one side for now :(

I'll stop moaning now :D
 
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Yeah i duno why there trying to monopolise on having the only joypad that works these days on all the new games instead of other brands etc. As i always get sick of ppl saying get a 360 pad when mine is better for me (logitech firestorm wireless). Which actually works a treat in Grid.
 
Just reading over at CM forums about the BSOD on exit and that they can't reproduce the same problem, but if anyone has the BSOD everytime on exit to let them know.

This is from their forums :

Axe Master
GRID – Graphics Programmer
We haven't managed to reproduce the BSOD on exit at all in our studio. It seems it happens on a variety of hardware but all running on Vista.

If you get this 100% of the time (it sounds like a percentage of you do), and you live in the UK (we are based just outside Leamington Spa), then let me know. I'd like to bring your machine over to our studio and we can fix it. While you wait, we'll give you a tour of the company including the Racing Studio.

I'm keen to get the issue resolved, but we simply haven't seen it happen yet. In the mean time, I can only appologise for frustration this is causing you guys.
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Linkage

So Atleast they are trying to solve the problem. I'd take mine except it's to far for me to travel :rolleyes:
 
Hmm why is it i want this bug now. :)

Would love to go visit a studio.

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Edit hmm tour while you wait for ** machine to be fixed. Sounds ominous. Maybe they want new porn so getting ppl to bring their pcs so while they dl the porn to their comps they put you on a tour. :p
 
Stevev said:
Just reading over at CM forums about the BSOD on exit and that they can't reproduce the same problem, but if anyone has the BSOD everytime on exit to let them know.

This is from their forums :

Axe Master
GRID – Graphics Programmer


Linkage

So Atleast they are trying to solve the problem. I'd take mine except it's to far for me to travel :rolleyes:
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Seeing as your not going to take the offer like that, im sure i can find a creative xfi driver that will get the job done & crash every time on exit. :D
 
Ok guys im trying to run in vista 64 and cant seem to, tryed on 169 nvidia drivers and the latest ones (171 i think) neither will work.

Uninstalled and reinstalled many times, get many problems from it black screening when you get to main menu and then other times wont let me hit enter and get into main menu after opening movie)

Any ideas?
 
Darryn said:
Id try it again, hardest settings, bumper cam, all assists off and imo you do feel feel in control of the car to some extent, its not a sim though, but you certainly need to aim for apexes, correct slides and use the steering and throttle to battle youre way thru the pack...

I felt very similar to you for the first hour or so on the demo, but, once i got a feel for the game ive grown to enjoy it... My only real problem now is Online racing, ive joined 2 online races, the first i was pushed wide at the first corner into a tyre barrier, wrecking my car... the 2nd i started first and after almost 2 laps in first and pulling away from the pack I was caught out by a wrecker... Im now waiting for the patch will hopefully allow me to join OcUK member hosted races.
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I was not fond of the handling when i first played it but now i love it.
Online has shocked me with the amount of bad driving & frustrating with being hit by so many idiot but at the same time can be very funny seeing others lose it for no other reason than there own fault & lack of skill.
 
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