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[southpaw]

Anyone got any recommendations? Just fancy getting more practice inbetween trackdays.

[chris_uk]

Anyone got any recommendations? Just fancy getting more practice inbetween trackdays.

LIVE FOR SPEED.


ignore the 2006 graphics, ignore there is hardly any real car.. and just enjoy the immense physics engine they have created

[JG]

GTR 1 ad 2

[southpaw]

Cheers Wonder if my pc will run either without an upgrade off to check

[chris_uk]

gtr1 is ok gtr2 looks good, but the physics are crap, the cars just seem to understeer all the time, and to me its very off putting. seriously tho, if you just want to mess about with a car then lfs is the one for you, it has many road cars with a couple of gtr cars.

[southpaw]

LFS works Pretty good fun - a bit of realistic racing just what I was after.

[davec]

Bit old now, but Grand Prix Legends is more of a simulator type game.

[chris_uk]

Bit old now, but Grand Prix Legends is more of a simulator type game.

but that is no good unless you put in LOTS of time

[snoopstah]

Bit old now, but Grand Prix Legends is more of a simulator type game.

but that is no good unless you put in LOTS of time

Shocking, a realistic simulator that you can't drive fast after 10 minutes?! That's almost like, real life!

rFactor is pretty good too in the realism stakes. LFS is the least realistic of those three but as such the easiest to get into whilst still keeping a modicum of accuracy (and some parts of the physics model are damn impressive).

[chris_uk]

lfs even simulates the fuel sloshing about in the tank.. lfs is probably by sim of choice, but that might be because ive followed it pretty close and i know most of the little things about it many dont.

[snoopstah]

lfs even simulates the fuel sloshing about in the tank..

I'm pretty sure it doesn't. It models fuel usage as affecting centre of gravity but only in terms of the amount of fuel in the tank, not in terms of any simulation of the fuel behaviour as force is applied.

To be fair LFS is in need of a decent update, the suspension model in particular has a few oversights and of course there's the poor range of surface simulations and lack of ability to vary grip across a surface (so no racing line grip changes). It's still damn impressive though.

[chris_uk]

yea i know, tell me about it, im pretty sure it does simulate sloshing, i think scawen said himself. but there is th new scirocco coming out soon, aswell as some suspension changes i think and some bits no1 knows about.

[drien]

Anybody playing Rfactor 2? I would fancy to do some racing within VX220 community eventhough I am not any good;) come-on!

[chris_uk]

i have it, but rarely play it.

[mbes2]

RF2, Beta release ? or test... didnt think it was out yet...

[chris_uk]

still beta

[drien]

still beta

so is the iRacing the way forward?

[Jason]

Used to play rfactor good fun sim. Like racing old bmw's on it.

[chris_uk]

still beta

so is the iRacing the way forward?

No. The way forward is going to be assetto corsa. Atm for true bumper to bumper racing with very good physics, live for speed is still the one to beat imo.