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Wow 3 more days yet for you guys?  I’m down to less then 10 hours until its playable on Steam for me over here in the US.

Noon tomorrow I will hopefully be a happy man.

Its so annoying to read more about such piece auf softwarecrap than real simracing-news. Marketingmachine of CM works till “small” newssites like this. Is it  much money, that cm pays für such advertisingnews?

You know whats even more annoying?  People like you.  Guess what, this blog is free to view, and if you don’t like its content you don’t have to view it.  So if you don’t like it don’t look at the god damn articles then. 

If this page was dedicated to 100% sim racing there would be 5 god damn posts a week.

I for one am happy with all the F1 2010 coverage. Formula 1 is kind of a big deal, and it’s nice to have something that is officially licensed. You got to remember that not everyone wants to hack the hell out of rFactor to get some pseudo F1 action. 

Nice to see all debris scattering around – I just fear that everyone will at first try a wet race and crash into the others :P

keanos, such narrow-mindednes.     F1-2010 is actually doing a decent job of simulating F1 racing so if there is only 2 distinct categories in your mind (as there are in many others like you) and a racing game must either be pure sim or (therefor) arcade and no in-between then this title more accurately fits in sim than arcade. Easily.

as long as they do it offline.

Actually Koen, the first thing people will be doing with this game is fault finding, nitpicking and bitching.  Then they`ll bring it all on here and spout out all that venom as if someone is supposed to care.

They’ve been doing that for 6 months. You know, those guys that will continue to do so even after they’ve bought the game.

Crashes look great, I liked the rolling Hispania @0.16 and the upside down Mclaren @1.12.
 
Having seen a few wet races now I think the game does them really well, especially the puddles. cant wait. (sorry if its a double post my internet is playing up today)

Isnt it funny that those guys will spend 40-50 euro to just continue the bitching and complaining.

Yeah once they have the game, they`ll be picking all the old stuff that’s been talked about based on videos and new stuff that they want to be the first to find.
Some will even mention stuff like ‘No safety car!!?’   You know, stuff we’ve known for months now.

Each to his own though.  Im out to enjoy this game.  I will wonder which is more accurate though, CM’s game with real data or rFactors F1 mods with educated guesses.

Steven Hood is just as nervous as we are  :)

http://community.codemasters.com/forum/f1-2010-game-1316/428215-release-week-ramblings-thanks-t4rg4.html

and

Many of us will be keeping a close eye on your feedback over the next few days and weeks, not just for the follow-up title but some other more immediate bits and pieces. I hope to see many of you online over the coming weeks and months! My favourite track is Melbourne if anyone’s setting up a private race…

Ok, this convinced me to buy it, mayhem here i come :)

What’s the thing with some people among us not being happy when we haven’t even tried it yet while the real F1 pilots like Sutil and Hamilton are happy enough? Alright, they might have been paid to be ‘happy’ or they would like to have a break from the real thing, but, pffft.

Can’t we wait to bash the game being ‘as arcade as Daytona USA’ when we have it already? I’m just hoping it doesn’t handle like GRID and when it comes out as such then I’ll freak out and call it F1 boats and will be in line to bash it but not while I haven’t tried it yet.

… Besides, nobody forced you to click the link. GP2 mod and iRacing updates are on the front page.

this is race driver grid but with f1 cars instead

Yes it does look similar, each title has both cars and tracks in the game.

The crashes are so arcade! Ok, ok – they are the best I have ever seen. I WANT IT!

… but still not gonna buy it.

How come the nose stays on the car no matter how hard you hit the barrier. You only lose the front wing apparently with a frontal collision…

Having seen the wet race I’m seriously considering getting this – it even motivated me in the last few weeks to boot back into windows and try some of the F1 mods in rFactor.

I have seen videos of the front smashed off the HRT. I’m sure it happens but I think it has to be monumental impact to cause it. Kinda like the rear wings coming off.

I was one of the nitpickers but what I have seen over the last few weeks has really convinced me to buy it. I had my doubts, but I realised I’ve had my doubts over Codemaster’s last few big racing games and they have all turned out great. 

My main concern was the look of it, all of the early pictures were too yellow and stylised. It’s looking much better now. Can’t wait until I get to play it.

Game is incredible… nice step forward and nice base for 2011 one. The COD guys did a great job and I hope the sell million of copies enough to keep license and improve this excellent base. Everyone complains with “cheap” arguments, This game is a good step to carry some gamers into a more simulation environment and is a good step for the next f1 title for sure. I hope USA people enjoy tomorrow in Europe we will must to wait a little bit more :P 

huauuu,the carshs is super,can not ask for more!!!!!20 stars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, just no

codemasters good work,you deserve all the affection of the fans of games such of four wheels,and of course the F1 2010!!!!!thanks very so mutch 

If this site had to rely on simnews only, it would have been pretty dead at the moment.

Again, I totally agree with F1Racer. Stop being so ignorant.

Thank you very much for letting us porposionar games like all four wheels as you did,like Toca Race Driver,Racedriver GRID,Colin Mcrae Dirt1 and 2,and finally F1 2010!!!very pleased to be part of this great community!!!!!!

quoted from Ofiicial forum
http://community.codemasters.com/forum/f1-2010-game-1316/428322-f1-2010-gfwl-warning.html

Wow the damage model doesn´t look very good.
It seems impossible to damage the monocoque, only wings and stuff.

But i don´t care, i know the physics will be crap compared to Iracing but i want to get a taste of how it feels to be an F1 driver.

You can’t even see the driver’s blood spraying out.  This is so unrealistic.

Thats cool.  Well crafted AI, amazing wet weather racing and the guy didn’t even get past 21st place.  
 
When the spray from several cars in front just blurs the entire screen, I would imagine is a bit disorienting and would do my eyes in :) .   But maybe thats how it is in real life.  We know visilibty is virtually zero in those conditions.    
 
Best wet race vid in recent days.   Maybe the kerbs are a bit too forgiving because we know in the wet, you steer well clear of them, but at least he did lose it a couple of times when he nailed the throttle while wheels were on a kerb.   
Also I hope you can turn reflections to low in order to lose some of the overreflective look of the cars.  
 
Be nice for F1-2011 for the car to leave the grid and you be able to drive the lap around to line up on the grid.

Most sims physics are not up to par with iRacing.  It’s a nonsense comparison considering each are aimed at different audiences. 
To get the taste of how it feels to be an F1 driver, simply have a big ego, convince yourself nothing is ever your fault and pick up a copy of ‘Virtual love making with (insert racing drivers girlfriend/wife name here)’

Enjoy your download.

F1Racer Actually this because in f1 2010 its first just pure guess on everything and second in rfactor actually you have no air,no contact to the track really and last thing anthony said that real cars behave a lot better than the ones from rfactor and that rfactor mods are too hard compared to real life cars :)

Better to hear the opinion of someone who has the game
This is from a post on codemasters
“Yes i know its a negative thread but deal with it, your world will not end because i have a few gripes with the game. To counter the points below id just like to say that i think the game is a first class product, and the best F1 game i have played since GP4…

with that in mind let me get onto the gripes…

- Graphics on 360 version are not quite as good as i had hoped. all of the footage id seen prior to getting the game all looked really good and polished but it doesn’t look quite as good in person. part of that is probably to do with my wheel being sat a foot or so away from the tv so that all the jaggies/low res textures are more visible than they would be if i was sat at the optimum viewing distance from the TV. However even with this in mind it doesn’t look quite as crisp as Grid and Dirt did.

I was suprised when i read that review saying the graphics were not as good as previous codemasters games but i can now see where he was coming from. Maybe im just spoilt as i mainly play games on PC and im used to having AA which drastically improves how crisp a game looks.

- the other cars engines are too loud (might be able to change this in settings)

- im seeing ghosting of cars in practice sessions when they get close to me

- i sat through 40 minutes of a practice session and i was the only driver to set a lap time

- no matter how hard i try i can’t seem to lock the brakes (this is with ABS turned off)

- too much grip in dry conditions, near impossible to spin out if you are half decent at driving games.

- the force feedback is not particularly great and the clubsport pedals i have are not sensitive enough making it very hard to brake late, unfortunately codemasters already have the brake saturation (sensitivity) set to 100% so there is no way of me increasing the sensitivity and thus i have gone back to the default fanatec pedals as they are not linear and are generally more sensitive (annoying because they are nowhere near the same standard as the clubsport pedals)”

http://community.codemasters.com/forum/f1-2010-game-1316/428332-some-slight-gripes-i-have-after-playing-game-several-hours.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOLpIt0fS3s&feature=channel

F1 2010: Monaco Rain Race w Fanatec Carrera Wheel PIP on PS3
from InsideSimRacing

is it me or do the engine sounds get annoying really quick?

I’m reading on some forums that the game is already being sold in some countries?

Still don’t understand how this guy is playing with such a huge dead-zone. I laugh every time he turns the wheel to make a minor course correction, over shoots it, then holds his wheel off centre while going down the straight. :-D

What’s the point of a wheel in this game if it’s used like a keyboard- pulsing left and right to steer smoothly. I know he doesn’t have a choice of a G25 on that stupid console but that can’t be a wheel fault.

WTF?! Are you high?

no this is a torrent site! look for yourself

THATS MY POINT

First Impressions:

Menu systems are a little clunky but not bad, the races are challenging and the car’s although not perfect in “sim” they are still a blast to drive.  This is a really well rounded and polished game, but it is not a sim to the degree of iracing, however it is still a title worth purchase, i see myself playing this for quite some time, its well worth everybody’s coinage.

I’ve only had about an 30 mins with the game thus far but ill get some more time and write some more, now im back to go play the game some more.

I’ve just been playing the xbox version of f12010 for a couple of hours. My copy arrived early! I’m a bit disappointed though, the graphics are no improvement on F1CE really, in some ways they are worse. Everything i have seen in previews has flattered to deceive somewhat.  For example, Terrible overly reflective cubmaps on the cars when they are in the garage, it isn’t pretty. Only on close ups during replays do the cars look good. (The rain though does look very good.) But the replays themselves are below average for a modern racing game, dated, unrealistic camera angles etc.

The gameplay is okay, sometimes it is fun. But it is definitely not one for sim racers, the suspension feels like it is made of jelly and the car feels like it has too much roll for an F1 car. The car does respond well to setup changes though and there is always a noticeable difference in the way the car feels as a result.
The Racing is fun, it is probably the best part of the game, the AI doesn’t barge you off the road and you can have very enjoyable battles jostling for position with another car. It is satisfying. The best racing experience i have had from AI in an F1 game. 

I am afraid not. I am a physics freek. Gonna wait for rf2.

arrived early :)   Slick.  
 
When you say ‘definately not for sim-racers’  do you mean that a sim racer cannot (or should not) enjoy playing a game that is maybe a bit more casual and mainstream ? 
 
Or do you mean that a sim racer shouldn’t expect this to drive like a pure sim ?  Because if anyone still does then it’s a shame for them.

Can i get a refund, This is the worst piece of F1 ever!! Major steering, brakes etc lag!! Such a shame

this is not for hard-core simracers believe me :(

simosimosimo,  you’re a foolfoolfool.  

Exactly F1Racer, i think anybody who enjoys open wheel racing, formula one and video games will enjoy this title.

It will not please the most hardcore simracers, but hell I disliked shift in its stock form but I really enjoy this title, to each their own I suppose.

Its no sim, but it is great fun.. and the graphics, well i dunno what people are talking about or why people would by a console version and then claim that they are simmers just cant be both sorry. Simmers are purely PC people only, hence why real simulations ONLY come out on the PC.

I have the PC version and I’ve not had a major problem with the graphics, personally I think it looks great.

no shit?

Contrary to popular belief, F1 cars do roll in corners, the suspension movement is something that codemasters are quite proud of as most so called sims don’t have any movement.

lol, my bad..  im just a bit disapointed

Exactly Nonstar.  This isn’t even worth the bandwith used to dl it.  Piece of shit. Don’t forget that the FFB (or rather lack thereof) is just ridiculously horrible.

 I think your lying and only telling about previous codemasters titles and claiming the issues exist with this title, out of the box I had zero input delays like i had with GRID (grid was so bad it was unplayble just about)

Dirt 1 was better in this department, Dirt 2 fixed the input delay problems, they just didnt exist in that title anymore and if they did the settings allowed it all to be dialed out.

In F1 2010, there is no delay like existed in grid. At least that was my “out of the box” experience.

Back to Iracing :)

There should always be some roll, if you have a completely stiff car, not roll, no flex in the suspension your car would handle like crap.

If people actually believe your car must be 100% stiff – they obviously have no idea.

nah, it means anyone who bought this game, will regret the fact that they did…

keyboard driving ftw!!!

Really?  Did you just find this out ?

I find it amazing how many people are posting their experiences about this game only a few hours after the XBox version was released on torrent, closely followed by the PC version.
For me, I can easily wait until tomorrow when my local computer shop will have my nice shiny boxed version waiting for me after I reserved it a month ago.

BTW Nonstar, are you hardcore ?   I always laugh when I hear people describe themselves like that :)  
What makes a sim-racer hardcore ?   Its mainly hardcore moaning, hardcore, bitching, hardcore whinging and hardcore negativity.

It seems your the exception to the rule then…I’ve got steering, throttle, braking, and shifting lag. This is pathetic for an F1 game.

from codies what they have done with weather and damage in previous games this damage is kind of a downer

I really didn’t think that PC fan boys would be so much worse than the console ones, but apparently I was wrong, you must feel so threatened by this title.

could be brain lag.

Nonstar,   Ask your ISP to refund your bandwidth maybe.

Pirates of the sim-world unite !!!

+1 Opticalust

Yeah, its sad. Not only that sim racers are so poor, but also that it seem like piracy is “cool” or something they expect to talk openly about in forums.

yet another video with a n00b using tcam.

Hmmm, how can i really get to experience what it must be like to drive an F1 car? I know, i’ll use the Tcam, so I can play like how i watch it on tv!!! BRILLIANT!

Too bad that leaked torrent didn’t have a virus.

or…

Hmmm, how can i really get to experience what it must be like to drive an F1 car?  I know, I`ll sit on a chair in my bedroom, stare at a monitor and clamp a wheel to my desk.

Erm It is more of a casual, mainstream game. There is a lack of feeling from the car and the circuit, no bumps at all either. In full wet conditions the car feels exactly the same as it does in the dry.  Sim racers may also be annoyed that some of the track layouts are less than accurate, in some cases to an irritating degree.  

I never said it should be 100% stiff I just think it is too soft, too cushiony.  

oh ..i see the point you’re trying to make there. oh ok, i’ll just book a test with an f1 team and have a go, to get the real experience. ………….

yeh i totally agree with you, why bother with simgames when you can just go and do the real thing! i mean thats the only way we can truely experience what it must be like. 

I’m impressed there’s already a pc version on the network   =-O . Despite of this people if you like game buy it it’s the only way to get good games.

Now you’re getting the idea.    In the meantime, maybe care a little less what view other people are driving in.   You can also choose your own view when you play. 

The game (PC) has been on sale for the last couple of days in different countries

woohoo personal attacks, nice! Your name isn’t D. Keightley by chance is it…

Really? Hey, how’d you know that it was out on torrents? ;p

But like I said before, you definitely are the resident troll on virtualr. They should give you a plaque or something…

Nah, irritated would be a better word than threatened. Irritated, that I wasted 35 dollars on something that doesn’t work properly.

I’m getting pretty bad lag too.  I’m shifting like the knobs in the videos because the delay is that bad.

Maybe with some tweaking it can be sorted out, but the state it’s in right now makes it pretty worthless to me.  I can’t even comment on the physics because the lag is so horrendous (no exaggeration, I would estimate it at 250ms).

It has some nice qualities for sure and I’m not giving up on it yet, but this is a pretty damned big fly in the ointment.  It’s encouraging that Husky isn’t getting any lag, as I’m hoping it’s just a configuration thing.

Hm….after a bit of inspiration it occurred to me that it might not be handling that’s lagging, so much as the sound effects.

Definitely needs tweaking.

THAT’S IT!

Switched it from “Rapture” to “Software” in the options menu.  World of difference.  Not just the sound either, it improved the FFB and the handling (I believe the Rapture driver was clearly bugging out and making the game laggy).

So, if you’re having trouble with lag, try that.

My opinion is now that it is actually decent.  Not as crisp handling as say FVA, but acceptable.

After sorting out the lag issue I mentioned further down in the thread (change the soun driver from “Rapture” to “Software”, I’m actually quite impressed.  I was despondent before that because it was just godawful terrible with all that lag (if that couldn’t be sorted out,  I would have uninstalled it this very night) but I think this one is actually a winner.

The physics are quite decent.  With the appropriate wheel settings, the wheel on the screen actually matches up near 1:1 with mine (I believe you want to set your wheel to 300 degrees in the control panel, and full linear, zero saturation in game).  Not super hardcore to be sure, and there still is a teeny bit of lag when compared with the likes of NKP and iRacing, but better than good enough from where I’m standing.  It’s realistic enough so that it doesn’t feel unnatural to someone like me used to full-on sims.  It does do a few weird things at the extremes (indeed, it does help straighten you out when you spin less than 90 degrees), but I believe overall I’d recommend it to a sim-racer looking for a diversion.

I have other little gripes like the loading times (though Steam says I need to defrag, so that could be part of it) and I’m not real keen on the FPS-like menus, otherwise.

Good performance too on my relatively modest system.  Runs very smoothly at 1920×1080, highest settings, 2xAA on a 3.0Ghz E8400, Nvidia 9800GTX.

Good One! That does make a heck of a difference!

Good One! That does make a heck of a difference!

With eager anticipation I rushed home today to unlock the game.
OMG!!!! Suely I have something set wrong!!!
OK….get out of the game… go to options…adjust adjust adjust adjust……
This has to be a mix up of some sort. No way it can be this bad with such hype.
EA F1 titles along with all the GP series totally kills this pile of junk. (at least for PC usage)
Rfactor….etc. are so far ahead of this it’s not even in the same galaxy.
Where’s the feedback….the sense of speed…..the feeling of driving in an F1 car (heck any car for that matter)???
Codemasters has snowed the community with this one boys and girls.
No wonder they were so vague when they wouldnt really commit to whether it was a sim or a game.
From my vantage point it is neither. Just a huge waste of money.

The sound driver thing was night and day for me.

One more thing I had to figure out is the proper wheel settings:

You want 50% linearity for fully linear steering  (That had me confused… the readme says it has positive and negative values, but it does not.  I assume they just offset the whole thing after the readme was written so that 0 became 50.)

And you probably want saturation to be 100%.  And, obviously, 0% deadzone.

I get pretty much perfect 1:1 like this and almost no lag.  I believe it’s pretty much the same deal with the pedals.

I don’t like the cockpit view, though.  There is something wrong with it.  It might be the head movement, but I kind of have a suspicion that the FOV of the cockpit model does not match the FOV of the scene as a whole (ie. they chose what they thought was a good FOV for the view of the road, and then manipulated the cockpit model to fit into that).  It’s disconcerting and I’m having to drive from the TCam view.

Does anyone familliar with Grid, Dirt2, etc. know if there is a way to modify the FOV?  The config files all seem to be XML and easily editable, but there are an awful lof of them.

try that guys trick below, it makes it better. Still not a great game imo, though

Who’s D Keightley ?

I am disappointed with wheel settings and force-feedback, need more settings there please!!!!. Also are things which does not work. Pit limiter for example. So a patch is needed I think. Physics I think are ok I think the prob is FFB which does not transmit physics right. To drive it ok I had to set 200º to my g25 wheel instead of my current 400º. Regarding graphics are veery good. I ahve a 470gtx but I cannot put everything to full as I’d like. But even lowering is ok.

So first impression is some things (as pit limiter) to fix and poor forcefeedback to fix too. If FFB is not ok is not as enjoyable. Also wheel adjusting and controls in general. Need to use arrows instead g25 pad to go across options. In Dirt 2 you can navigate with g25 pad for example. Let’s see how COD fixes this issues.

Actually opticalust, the people who do nothing but whinge and moan about every new thing that comes along are the trolls and that includes yourself.    My opposite point of view isn’t trolling.
If anything I defend sim-racing against people like you.  The unappreciative.  There is a vast difference between my comments and that of a troll.  When I complain, it’s usually in response to something stupid or negative or just plain wrong.   I don’t start these things.   Again huge difference.  
You’re just annoyed because I’ve had a go at you once and maybe you’re a little bit sensitive.

How did I know it was out on torrents ?  Easy,  you visit a popular torrent site and look.  They’re there for everyone to see.  Whats your point ? 
You don’t think I`d mention the fact they were available without thinking that someone was going to respond with that question do you ?  Jeez I’m always gonna be a step or two ahead of you mate.

But I don’t get it.   You bitched and moaned and whinged about F1-2010 when the preview videos were on here.  Then you still went out and bought it ?    I think you deserve to lose your 35 dollars.
Just an opinion of course, I wouldnt want you to think I was trolling or anything, hehe :)

Correcto.   It doesn’t mean you don’t have to bother with sims but yeah the true experience can only be got by doing it for real.  Stands to reason really.

Anyway you’re missing the point.  Driving from a cockpit or t-cam doesn’t make it any more or less real.  You’re still sat in a chair looking at a monitor.
Cockpit is the more real of the two, but hey, let people drive what they’re comfortable with and bitch about it if the game forces you only to use t-cam (which it doesn’t).  
It’s not worth the energy really.

I do look forward to seeing your cockpit view vids though if you can actually drum up the effort to make any like others have done.

Aero, were you the guy asking if F1-2010 would run with your gfx card a few days ago ? 

If so, I’m glad you got it running well.

What’s up with the game being locked at 30 fps?? It’s driving me nuts. Anyone have a solution to that?

Whats up with the pit limiter Creatorex ?

You know there is an automatic / manual option in the menu’s somwhere right ?    Could it be that ?

I’m surprised you cannot max out the gfx with that card of yours.  It should handle that with ease unless the CPU is slowing things up maybe ?

is this just me or everyone….. it appears that this site is sponsored by F12010 as everytime since today the whole background of this site is F12010 advertisment….

anyways, i was planning to buy the PS3 version. but steering lack is really a concern. I have a G25 and you cant set the steering on the PS3……….

Hm, that should only be visible to German visitors.. odd.

But yes, that advertisement is in place for the next 2 days..bills have to be paid  ;)

ALso add that brake blocking and dampering is not done nor felt.

All this negetivity.

Well i’m personally still looking forward to it.
People forget that rfactor “out of the box” is mostly crap also.

Its years of community effort through tracks, cars and full mods that have turned Rfactor into the gem it is.

Here’s hoping the modding community can work wonders with this engine too. :)

Star Trek fan Rich ?

Seriously does this game run faster than 30 fps for anyone? I ran Fraps and I get a little over 30 fps at ultra low detail and a little under on high. It can’t be my Q6600 CPU being the limiter, can it? I don’t think it even goes to 100%. I have a GTX 460, Vsync off. Dirt 2 runs great for me on highest.

No, I think that guy had a 9600.  My guess would be that he could run it okay (though I don’t recall what his CPU was). If I recall correctly, and I may well not, my card (the 9800GTX), is 30% or so faster than a 9600, so it would probably require lowering some graphics detail, but I bet it would give fairly good results.  It isn’t actually a very technically demanding game.

Though the graphics are nice on the whole because it implements a lot of effects we don’t yet have in simracing titles, and they clearly had a huge crew of artists and modellers to fill everything out, the actual models aren’t all that detailed and the textures are low-ish resolution for a modern PC game.

I really like the small touches though, like the lost balloons floating away from the spectators and how the occasional bit of debris or foliage gets tossed up in the air as the cars go by and flutters back down.  I also noticed that in the cockpit view (even though it’s weird for some reason and freaks me out), the drivers arms react to the bumps, you can see the flexing at the wrist as the forearms get jostled up and down.  Lots of little stuff like that adds up in the end.

I wish there were some proper replay cameras though.  Way too dramatic.  They ought to have positioned the track cameras where the real TV cameras were.

Anyways… a few compalints just to even things out:

The AI aren’t all that impressive.  They’re acceptable, I’d say, but I would have hoped for something more.  They aren’t as adept at racing as, say, the VGP3 AI, and they maneuver in kind of a stilted, unrealistic manner.

Doesn’t seem like the rain affects grip enough.  I really didn’t have to change my driving style much at all in a wet race.  It was only light rain though, and I believe there are varying levels.  It would be nice if you could specifically dictate the exact weather condition for time trial mode.

The menus piss me off to no end.  Very consolized.  Also, in any game, under NO circumstances should I ever have to return to the main menu in order to quit the game  (it probably takes at least 30 seconds to quit).  I know, I could just alt-tab and kill the process, but still…

And again for good measure, the cockpit view.  That is my single biggest complaint.  Maybe I should just force myself to get used to it, but man, it’s just not right.  Hopefully the views are defined in one of the config files somewhere for a modder to find.  My guess would be that the way to fix it is actually going to be modifying the Tcam view to be in the appropriate position because I’m convinced there is some perspective trickery going on in the cockpit view.

1 more complaint to add to the list :)   Changing graphics settings doesn’t really affect the frame-rate, which is a bit strange.

nah, you need to lay off something mate. Its affecting your memory.

yeah, its averaging like 40 fps and altering the graphics settings from the highest to lowest, doesn’t really seem to do diddle-squat.

Hey guys, thanks a lot for all the interesting comments… I´ve just posted a new F1 2010 story regarding the release and I think it’s best you continue discussing the release there:

http://www.virtualr.net/f1-2010-out-now/

This story here has already moved quite far down the page and people looking for first impressions from other sim racers will most likely look in the release story.

Thanks!  :)

Is it locked to 30fps?  I thought I saw someone mention that before.  That’s kind of a strange thing to do in a PC game.  It’s not necessarily a bad thing when it’s done properly, because a really solid 30fps (as in 1 frame every 30th of a second, exactly) looks perfectly fine.  It’s the small fluctuations you tend to notice.

Perhaps the physics engine runs at 30Hz. That wouldn’t really surprise me, as that seems to be the area where the physics are lacking the most against the  hardcore sims (which are more like 400 to 1000Hz)–it’s just doesn’t feel as “precise.”  That’s not a big deal for this sort of game, but it would explain a lot.

Anyways… that’s all just speculation.  The 30fps thing seems plausible though.  Anyone know for sure?

I just tried Dirt 2 demo on highest detail, 60 fps. F1 2010 on low detail, 30 fps. WTF???

I’m having some of the same issues, however, I run in the mid 30′s with medium setting like 32-35 I’ve seen upwards of 40 at times, after reducing graphic quality to low mostly!

My system close to yours or less… I have a E8600 and a GTX460.  I also run in 3840X1024 TH2G setup. 

Disappointed as you and many other are, I run Dirt 2 in pretty high quality as well.

lol i wish i’m in germany….

yes, completely understood =)

Completly agree with you here.
Install rFactor in your PC and what do you get??
It needs a lot of addons to become the great sim we all known.

Why would anyone buy the PC version? they’re always dreadful.

I see it here Montoya, but I thought is was cool!  No problem, just letting you know I could see it in Alabama!

Sorry Danny, I completely disagree!

The FFB out of the box on my G25 was very good, and after turning all assist off and tweaking the wheel settings it’s as good as anything out that I’ve played… and I have everything for PC, xBox, and PS3.

As far as the sense of speed, its there for me!  Both in cockpit and in T cam View!  You need to really play this again, maybe you installed the wrong game 8-)

in italy i see it too :)

While I think F1 2010 will be a decent game, I would imagine they didnt use real data, or at the very least didn’t use that exact data for the physic engine.  From some of the bugs and little issues we have scene it’s cearly not 100% accurate.

Why not get both.  rF2 isn’t coming any time soon.

“Simmers are purely PC people only”

Not true, I have a PC and an Xbox and PS3.

Can you help change the crash settings please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 :’(