Must be an ISP thing. I always get good to great speeds from iRacing with my 100MB connection but Steam barely achieves 10% of what my connection is capable of and that's on a good day. I bet you get great speeds from Steam?
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Must be an ISP thing. I always get good to great speeds from iRacing with my 100MB connection but Steam barely achieves 10% of what my connection is capable of and that's on a good day. I bet you get great speeds from Steam?
Can't say I've had any problems, even on a week 13 update day. The last update for me was 800MB and took under 10mins and I'm 20 miles away from the nearest Virgin connection.
Man of Honour
What's with the Skip Barber? I can't complete a lap without spinning, it's undriveable.
Soldato
Increase brake bias (max is 65).
Lower rear tyre pressure, increase front.
In Options/Controls move the brake slider to the right to give you a less sensitive brake pedal.
Last but not least, drive into corners more slowly .
Any or all of these will help. It's fashionable among fast folk to use 17 rear, 18 front tyre pressure, but for a stable car I'm using something like 20 rear, 26 front.
I'm 2s off the pace, but that's because I'm rubbish, not because of my tyre pressures. Those tyre pressure have definitely brought the back end under control again, something which I've struggled with since they deployed the new tyre model and made the sim hard work again.
Soldato
Yea the skippy at first was undrivable, Andrew is spot on, also search this thread for Skippy related posts, as Skill had posted some very useful info and i think a couple of setups if i remember correctly.
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Man of Honour
I'm really stuggling with the new tyre model since renewing my sub.
I've driven a real single seaters and perfromance cars around real tracks and tyres just don't give up grip that easily.
I'm begining to think I've wasted over $100 (£60 odd) on renewing my sub and buying some new content. Even in the MX5 I'm a second slower than I was before the NTM.
I just can't see how some people can brake later, carry more speed into, around and out of corners than I do without loosing control. I actually find that the Williams F1 car is the easiest car to drive out of the ones I have at the moment.
I've driven a real single seaters and perfromance cars around real tracks and tyres just don't give up grip that easily.
I'm begining to think I've wasted over $100 (£60 odd) on renewing my sub and buying some new content. Even in the MX5 I'm a second slower than I was before the NTM.
I just can't see how some people can brake later, carry more speed into, around and out of corners than I do without loosing control. I actually find that the Williams F1 car is the easiest car to drive out of the ones I have at the moment.
Associate
The F1 and MX5 don't have the NTM yet, only the LMP2, Ford GT, Skippy and top 3 Nascar have it.
Man of Honour
Well that expalins why I find the F1 car ok to drive, but not the MX5.
Perhaps I am just not good enough.
Don't you hate it when you are driving all alone, secure in 2nd place and you lose your concentration for a second? Well so do I. This time though, I was "a bit" lucky and iRacing damage model saved me. It's quite a crash, but I managed to continue and finish 2nd:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGk7Dn_Dpwo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGk7Dn_Dpwo
Associate
Lol Nice crash, right rear just touched the grass on exit it seems. I take it iRacing's damage model isn't nearly as complex as its handling model then.
Associate
wow your lucky a few weeks ago I got tapped behind in the Star Mazda and it ended my race.
The NTM is a 'work in progress' still, currently applied to:
Ford GT
Honda HPD-<something>
Skip Barber
Nascar Truck, 'new' NW and COT,
The Ovals are fairly good, lack of tyre falloff but the feel is drastically improved imo
The road cars again, imo, have an improved feel but there are more issues, more so the Ford GT and Honda HPD tbh, but I still think it's an improvement and personally really enjoy driving the HPD, even if I'm not talented enough to be properly quick in it
The Skip Barber has changed a fair bit with the NTM, I've only done one practice and then a club england race (at Okayama full) and it was good imo, different to the old model but in a good way and over the course of the race the tyres changed due to wear nicely, I'd say this is the best example of the NTM.
As for the Ford GT specifically, not really spent any proper time with it (I far prefer the HPD), but it's understeery with the default setups, and the 1 or 2 other early setups I tried, I did find initially around Suzuka that once you got into driving it it was ok (eg slowed enough to negate the understeer, rather than ploughing in too quickly and wanting it to oversteer), the rear end would twitch out occasionally but I didn't find it too unmanageable, generally ok but not as nice as the HPD
Oh, and the closing speeds are silly, I much prefer being in the quicker car (eg HPD) than being the one with a quicker car flying past when you least expect it
Associate
NetKar Pro 1.3 is out, demo available on their site. Feels superb with a wheel.
Info here http://www.virtualr.net/netkar-pro-1-3-final-released/
Info here http://www.virtualr.net/netkar-pro-1-3-final-released/
The NTM is a 'work in progress' still, currently applied to:
Ford GT
Honda HPD-<something>
Skip Barber
Nascar Truck, 'new' NW and COT,
The Ovals are fairly good, lack of tyre falloff but the feel is drastically improved imo
The road cars again, imo, have an improved feel but there are more issues, more so the Ford GT and Honda HPD tbh, but I still think it's an improvement and personally really enjoy driving the HPD, even if I'm not talented enough to be properly quick in it
The Skip Barber has changed a fair bit with the NTM, I've only done one practice and then a club england race (at Okayama full) and it was good imo, different to the old model but in a good way and over the course of the race the tyres changed due to wear nicely, I'd say this is the best example of the NTM.
As for the Ford GT specifically, not really spent any proper time with it (I far prefer the HPD), but it's understeery with the default setups, and the 1 or 2 other early setups I tried, I did find initially around Suzuka that once you got into driving it it was ok (eg slowed enough to negate the understeer, rather than ploughing in too quickly and wanting it to oversteer), the rear end would twitch out occasionally but I didn't find it too unmanageable, generally ok but not as nice as the HPD
Oh, and the closing speeds are silly, I much prefer being in the quicker car (eg HPD) than being the one with a quicker car flying past when you least expect it
Thanks very much for the detailed response, I had just come out of rookie when stopped subscribing back in April so the Skip Barber was my next step so will look forward ot the NTM in that, the Ford GT and HPD intrest me greatly as i LOVE GT cars and racing.
Will have to wait till next month now though after buying new PC parts just today, so cant afford a new wheel just yet
You can't practice any track unless you have already purchased it.
When you first join you get 9 tracks & 6 cars.
See here http://www.iracing.com/2-free/
I don't thnk theres a ghost car option was not last time a played it 6 months ago but a lot has changed.
The iRacing datebase stores everyones race, test, time trail & qual times.
There is so much database info for you to see.
When you are on track you can look up other drivers lap times.
You can even use this within iRacing http://www.mclarenelectronics.com/Systems/System/Data Systems
When you first join you get 9 tracks & 6 cars.
See here http://www.iracing.com/2-free/
I don't thnk theres a ghost car option was not last time a played it 6 months ago but a lot has changed.
The iRacing datebase stores everyones race, test, time trail & qual times.
There is so much database info for you to see.
When you are on track you can look up other drivers lap times.
You can even use this within iRacing http://www.mclarenelectronics.com/Systems/System/Data Systems