VirtualR – Sim Racing News
100% Sim Racing News

Is it only me or it seems that iracing needs more steering input to turn the car ?, especially in the first video in the oval track.

But a good looking car anyways :)

I would have thought if you turned that sharply on an oval you’d throw the car into the wall.

Depends on the steering ratio – its selectable in the IndyCar. Also that setup is pretty bad, people have managed to make much better setups since that video was posted :)

Pocono is very amzing looking, have yet to try the infield courses, but the actually look of the track is very good, each track they come up with is better than the next.

I wouldn’t judge anything from that video. It was his first flying lap on the track, with the crappy default long oval setup.

why is the wheel centered at 1o clock on the straight?

and what is up with the arcade mirror on the top of the screen. is this a arcade game?

In case you didn’t notice, he can’t see his side pod mirrors. The mirror at the top is necessary for the oodles of people using 4:3 or 5:4 monitors…

Also, oval cars are set up to naturally turn left. That means you have to turn right just a little bit to keep it straight.

+1 naval. 

It’s all about the setup. 

Yes it is. And it costs $15,- for every mile you race, ain’t that expensive??

The road courses are nothing special but the track itself is another masterpiece.

and this is why nobody’s gonna subscribe to them after rF2 and GT3 hit the stores

Yeah a masterpiece of lasescaned snooze

Listen, if you cant afford it … fine, just please stop making wild assumptions.

lol, you are a funny guy Hulk0! rf2 is for all the normal racers / childs, who wreck each other every day on the public servers! iRacing is for the PRO`s of simracing, because a wrecker or noob driver don`t pay for the best simulation in the world! So who had more fun now? I think the guys on the iRacing server…

well..i had subscribe time and wasnt very impressed..be cause after all hype i expect more than
iRacing was..physics were good but nothing very special..overall it was good but not worth of all hasle …rF has lot of better mod with better physics in these days without hasle..graphically its not same level but good enough..and i dont like their pay /track/cars system..IMO

rFactor has mods with better physics than iRacing? Name one. And easier setup? What’s easier than hitting one button to download a new track or car and then going to race? No fiddling with unzipping to your rFactor directory, no messing with RealFeel settings, etc.

But please, don’t let me interrupt your fantasy that rFactor is more realistic and easier to set up than iRacing. It’s a good source of humor.

I think iRacing looks WAY more realistic than any other sim I have used (rF, GTR2, GTRE)

Since when is iRacing a hassel? Lets see, I don’t have to worry about where to get a car through a trusted mirror, I don’t have to worry about where to install it (although not that hard in rF/Simbin) It never randomly has a crash to desktop because of some minute option item was checked and it should not have been. On top of that I don’t have to worry about some asshole who thinks he is faster than me and punts me off the road for it.

What you get is clean, competitive, populated, racing that you get to choose, not what server just happens to have a full field of racers in.

THEN, I have an infinite number of stats to look at when I’m not racing to keep up with how I am doing, how my friends are doing, what the greatest sim racers are doing as well, what alien times are coming though, who is leading x championship and how I stack up against them. I track racers and know exactly where they are racing and when, lets say Gregger Huttu is racing in an open wheel series and I want to watch and pick up some pointers LIVE, all I have to do is click WATCH NOW and bam I’m right there watching a race full of pro’s. Not iffy stream that I have to search for.

If anything we are paying for convenience FAR from a hassel.

”rFactor has mods with better physics than iRacing? Name one. And easier setup? What’s easier than hitting one button to download a new track or car and then going to race? No fiddling with unzipping to your rFactor directory, no messing with RealFeel settings, etc. ”

physics in gtr2/evo and race on/race 07/shift are often better then iracing. Not to mention the sounds are not even in the same league, iracing sounds need to get way better there sounds are actually worse then n2003 which were decent.  I agree rfactor is a pain in the ass to operate, humorus? more like annoying. But above titles i mentioned fixes all those problems.

watch online clips/replays of wrecks in cars.. every mod from indy car to the solstice to the cup car have same crappy sounds. go watch all wrecks you here glass breaking wtf is that? when was the last time you heard clanging or glass breaking in a race car especially a open wheel car? that friend is something to LOL @. eSPECIALLY @ $15 A MONTH. maybe down the road they fix. I can see this someday being worth the price as they refine it.

also if he can not se the mirrors how is this a SIMULATOR? that does not seem similair to a real car.

irl you would rip your tires to shreds running on straights with wheel at one o clock.

watch that never do you see anyone running at 1 o clock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaUECUfK15c&feature=related

@boomerz, irl, they can index the wheel so its straight when set up like that, not a luxury we have with an sim wheel unless you open your wheel up every time you race a car, and no, you wouldnt rip the tires to shreds, because 1 o’clock, actually means the wheels are perfectly straight….as for the mirrors, in real life you can turn your head to look at the mirrors, something that is not possible with a monitor….

Next time you want to take a dig at iracing, bring some logic to the table.

Here’s a vid from 2 weeks that shows TK holding the wheel at 1 o’clock, skip a bit in until the green flag, but its there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6BgRa-izk

It is all based on personal preference and setup….

“irl you would rip your tires to shreds running on straights with wheel at one o clock.  
 
watch that never do you see anyone running at 1 o clock.  
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaUECUfK15c&feature=related”

Big difference – they index their wheel to appear straight while on the straights. That is impossible to do reliably in any sim as of now, as it is too much guestimation. If you watched that NASCAR race where Gordon ran into a hole in the track you would realize this.

Why do you think NASCAR drivers have a piece of tape on the wheel? Some even have two – one for where the wheel is dead ahead making the car turn left, the other for where the wheel is indexed to go straight.

Oval cars pull left. If they don’t, they are understeering like a dumptruck. Dump trucks aren’t fast. Those tires need to last a maximum of 150 miles anyways.

You can adjust the fov (or use a triple screen setup), now go back and find something better to complain about.

Glass breaking sounds? Not sure where you’re hearing those but there is no crash sound in iRacing that sounds remotely like glass breaking. The sounds are accurate, but a touch weak. However the new sound engine should be coming in the next season. Crash sounds aren’t great, but then every other game does crash sounds badly too, GTR Evo sounds like some sort of explosion and rFactor usually sounds like someone dropping something on a table.

Physics are way ahead of anything else out there, along with the tracks. Even if GTR 2 had better physics what use would that be without laser scanned tracks? The physics are not worse in iRacing just because you find it too hard.

iRacing also gets constant updates, unlike rFactor, Shift, etc.

@ fuzzion sorry but you are either deaf or ???? just search iracing wrecks on you tube and you will hear there horrid crash sounds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64iYbDLDm1w

they need to work on that is all im saying. very 2000 ish technology for the ”best sim”. I am sure eventually they will fix the horrible sounds.