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the color difference between the game/realworld was

but that goes for all sims though.

Yeah, it looked like low res settings on iRacing too… The real VIR was in winter with lots of brown and grey and iRacing’s version was set in summer with lot’s of green. The colors were too bright though. It looks much better on my system at home. I think it was very low res or something. Maybe they shut off a bunch of graphics settings. It didn’t look like what I’m used to…

Jack B

I thought the iRacing version looked very different from mine at home too.

It looked very cartoonish and very bright. Mine at home looks a lot more realistic, not perfect, but looks good.

ChadSmith2: Jack BI thought the iRacing version looked very different from mine at home too.
It looked very cartoonish and very bright. Mine at home looks a lot more realistic, not perfect, but looks good.

Of all sims I own iRacing is by far the worse when it comes to colors! I don’t get how “iRacers” have an excuse every time something negative is posted about the sim. It has some great features but it has flaws too (no shame on that)!
Mind you even though the tracks are laser scanned sometimes things like this happen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhxDhKnV20

Even the real-life footage colors are weird on this one. I guess they’ve applied some adjustments to the whole vid in post. Looks similar to what Photoshop’s brightness/contrast adjustment does if used “wrong” :P

felipe:
Of all sims I own iRacing is by far the worse when it comes to colors! I don’t get how “iRacers” have an excuse every time something negative is posted about the sim. It has some great features but it has flaws too (no shame on that)!
Mind you even though the tracks are laser scanned sometimes things like this happen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhxDhKnV20

Just fyi, that bug was created by the build that was released just before that, and was fixed soon after.

And you’re definatley exaggerating by saying worst….Are the colors washed out and lacking? Yes. Is it an area that needs and is getting improvment? Yes. Is it as bad as youve made it seem ? Not by a longshot. I actually prefer the washed out color to the bright exhaggerated color on some rfactor tracks…but whatever….You’ll just call me a fanboy for my opinion….

Btw…you are exactly the same about GT5…always an excuse….

Any ISI powered sim has worse “colors” than iR. They all look cartoony. I only truly realised that once I hadn’t played rFactor in months. That said, PC titles can’t really match consoles on photorealism, but at certain angles and situations iR and nKP are very very nice.

felipe:
I don’t get how “iRacers” have an excuse every time something negative is posted about the sim.

moppenheimer

moppenheimer: Btw…you are exactly the same about GT5…always an excuse….

man you ARE fast! So basically you are saying YES you dudes make excuses! Interesting and hats off for you sincerity!
BTW link to one post where I’m making 1 little excuse on ANYthing regarding GT5. The game isn’t even out I will be able to make up my mind regarding it ONLY when I see it I mean play it up to then it’s all speculation.

arrrgghhh…. no edit feature….

Ill start over….

Yes, a lot of times people on here make excuses. Ive told you that before, im not denying it. But the majority of the criticism iRacing gets is not valid and ridiculous, and defending it doenst mean im making excuses or being a fanboy. Same is true with GT5, but you are exactly the same as Jack, I, and the like. And why wouldnt you be? It is only natural to defend your favorite things. Now, i know you’ll say “well if thats true, find me a post” Im not going to dig through posts for a game i dont like, just so you can say “No, you’re just a troll fanboy”. Come back and talk to me when you realize that not everything has to be A:a fight, or B: Be criticized to make yourself feel bigger.

Ive got better things to do than keep going in the same circle with you.

The video is nicely produced, but come on.. to showcase the strentghs of iRacing as a simulator it fails miserably.

Graphically car and track look horrible. And the best thing he can say about the sim is that it helped him pick the braking points? Even early 90s sims were good enough for that.

felipe

You know what I hate?

People who post the same damn thing on every article on this website.

iRacing’s lighting seems way too cold to me. GT5TT felt somewhat the same to me tough, as if the sun was replaced by fluorescent lights. ISI based games are even worse offenders in this respect in my opinion. I can’t remember a racing game where the sun felt natural. CodeMasters seem to be on the other extreme with the brownish tint in their latest screenshots.

Felipe, I could have said, “Wow, the iRacing track looks awesome!”, but I didn’t. I was honest. Something is wrong with it. I’ve race VIR on iRacing in probably 20 out of my 450 races and something’s not right. Look at the track surface. Almost no track detail. Iracing tracks have fantastic detail, but it’s not there…

Now for comparision look at the 4 videos done for the iRacing contest in the thread just a few articles above this one. All 4 of those look great in every single shot.

Why is that? I don’t know, but that’s what iRacing looks like on my PC, not what 3 Wide showed. I think they’d turned off a ton of graphics settings.

Ask yourself, why 4 videos look great and 1 doesn’t. Then ask, why didn’t I say, “Hey, this 3 Wide VIR looks great!” too…. It’s simple. I’m making an honest evaluation. It doesn’t look good and isn’t right.

For god’s sake the comments have gotten completely impossible to read.
Instead of a decent discussion on any topic, it’s either felipe whining about iRacing being awful or gushing about how GT5 is amazing.

Everyone’s entitled to an opinion and felipe’s is actually very close to mine, but no one’s entitled to stuff their opinion down everyone else’s throat.

EVERY. SINGLE. GODDAMNED. ARTICLE.

For the love of god stop it. At this point no one cares about your opinion anymore. You’ve become a spambot.

Jack B:All 4 of those look great in every single shot.Why is that?I don’t know, but that’s what iRacing looks like on my PC, not what 3 Wide showed.

You got a very good point! Those videos look awesome I’m running iRacing with an old HP24 inch monitor I got in late 2008 and my pc is about the get kicked so maybe the problem is on my side of things! I’m getting 2 5970s, 2 Opteron 6100 series CPUs and all that comes with such a high profile rig so until then I will won’t share my views on the matter

issoisso: Everyone’s entitled to an opinion and felipe’s is actually very close to mine, but no one’s entitled to stuff their opinion down everyone else’s throat.EVERY. SINGLE. GODDAMNED. ARTICLE.

You need to calm down dude if I hated iRacing so much I wouldn’t have spent over 250 dollars on it this month alone right!
When you charge so much money the quality has to be up there with it and I have ALL GODDAMNED right to express how I feel about it EVERYWHERE I feel like specially in an iRacing thread. You don’t like it? I don’t give a damn shit and you see my name just pass to the next comment !

I think that video was very impressive! Whining about colors? Are you serious? Like he said on the video, it is about the angle of view, breaking points, size of track vs car + realistic physics. That is absolutely enough to learn a track before racing in the real life.

I hate iRacing because it is so expensive, but I can imagine how that work costs much. (that is why I love rFactor – the community takes over the hard work, but laser scanned tracks is something I am looking forward to)

EDIT: community takes over much hard work

Great vid never raced iRacing but I’ll have to try it one day :)

It really says something about the sim when all people can do is bash the visuals (the least most important aspect of a simulator). Though, i have to say, racing iRacing in 1920×1080, full graphics.. i havn’t seen anything better, barring the obvious titles on the consoles (but then they lack in just about every other area)

“hate iRacing because it is so expensive”

I race iRacing, and before i subb’d i was very wary of the costs, but that was when i was comparing it to computer ganes, what i realised is, sim racing to me isnt some game, its a hobby, and i spend atleast £80 per month on cigs, iRacing so far has not even cost me that, and thats for a year. (and i dont have to re-purchase those cars and circuits after that year)

For you guys who care about other stuff, than the colors of grass.

iRacing’s Wyatt Gooden: 2010 VW Jetta TDI Cup Driver Selection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXDYH4br3TY

will ISI, codemasters or even simbin do something similar, since all of them obviously got the connections to the Motorsport world?

You guys are funny, keep it up.

@Zenitchik
I think I get it quite well – I just did not bother to explain it.

I understand how iRacing is a good deal. It is the quality physics and I believe quality online events (good servers, well organized events, etc.). It is a match made in heaven for a simracer enthusiast.

With rFactor, there are also monthly fees or donation with private leagues (for high quality server maintenance, web/forum administration, season management, etc).

Even though I have tried quite many mods, I mostly play with only 3-4 quality mods and uninstall others.

But I am not that serious simracer. That means, for me that is enough what rFactor delivers. I can compete online with others using the public servers. I simply don’t have that much time to compete in a league at such a professional level.

So what I hate about iRacing, is that they reject the casual gamers who don’t wish to commit such a big amount of their time and money with iRacing. But I also see how that would not work, because if there were free online races with iRacing – lot of customers would not bother entering the priced events.

EDIT: I don’t know to whom I just replyed

Sorry I made an edit to the original post.

But now I get what you are saying :)

Anyways, I just found this vid, unfortunately it didn’t made it to that video contest, but it sure does a great job of showing off the road side of iRacing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW_D8kQnyR4&hd=1 <- photorealistic

Have to say that my iR has quite different level of graphics, 1080p and everything full with AA/AF… in this video they seem to use lowest settings or similar.

felipe:
You got a very good point! Those videos look awesome I’m running iRacing with an old HP24 inch monitor I got in late 2008 and my pc is about the get kicked so maybe the problem is on my side of things! I’m getting 2 5970s, 2 Opteron 6100 series CPUs and all that comes with such a high profile rig so until then I will won’t share my views on the matter.

Felipe, that’s a very reasonable response. Yeah, at the mid to high settings iRacing looks very good. Low, not so much. With a newer PC iRacing will look like the contest videos (without the effects of course!). :-)

need to calm down dude if I hated iRacing so much I wouldn’t have spent over 250 dollars on it this month alone right!
When you charge so much money the quality has to be up there with it and I have ALL GODDAMNED right to express how I feel about it EVERYWHERE I feel like specially in an iRacing thread. You don’t like it? I don’t give a damn shit and you see my name just pass to the next comment !

Felipe, I’d agree. You’ve been racing a ton of iRacing and doing quite well. You’re a pretty safe driver and reasonably quick. iRating is a good way to measure your progress against 1,000′s of other sim drivers. You can see when you’re improving. I started in iRacing at around the 1,600 level (ie mid-pack). It took me about 1 year to get to 2,000. Then another year to get to 2,500. Although, the improvement has come slowly, I absolutely know I’ve gotten better and improved in speed and safe driving. That’s one benefit of being in such a big pool of drivers.

It’s way different when your opinion is based upon experience and you have that now. You have every right to voice your opinion. And huge kudos for you to have an open mind. Honestly, I didn’t expect it, but I’m impressed.

We only have about 1 1/2 weeks until the next update. Hopefully, we’ll get a tire model update, mixed class and mixed car/same class racing for hosted/leagues and official. Splits, etc. I love these updates every 3 months… :-)

Zenitchik: Sorry I made an edit to the original post.
But now I get what you are saying :)
Anyways, I just found this vid, unfortunately it didn’t made it to that video contest, but it sure does a great job of showing off the road side of iRacing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW_D8kQnyR4&hd=1<- photorealistic

This video has filters added…

Shum94:
This video has filters added…

Yep, filters added, but the detail isn’t changed. This video shows awesome track detail, that isn’t in the 3 Wide VIR video.

That’s the thing. There is a huge difference in quality from the lowest to highest setting in any racing sim. It was unfortunate, that the computer used for the 3 Wide video was on the low end.

Oh, well it’s pretty easy to have your computer go from the high end to the low end these days. It only takes a few years. :-)