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Can’t wait to try the Formula Rookie around Bathurst. Its pretty sad I know but I love analogue guages in sim racing cars.

Formula Rookie! One of my favorite in any sim game… glad to be pCar’s member.. the amount of details they put in this little car were just amazing, While I can enjoy the FFB at this stage, I hope it will match rF2 when they finish the project.

notMonaco! They added notMonaco as well as the rookie car. nM is a bit rough at the moment, but there is no mistaking it.

 I am always amazed by the amount of details (from screenshots, I do not participate in pCars). If they manage to achieve similar physics like rF2 or nkpro/ac, it would be mindblowing experience :)

How the formula rookie handles compared to the netkar one?

 Formula Rookie can´t be judged handling-wise since it´s the first pass and doesn´t have any customized physics, yet.

The 600hz-thing is pretty difficult at the moment since it causes a lot of problems for some people. Also vice versa some people have more probs with the 360hz-version. Most reported problem is a slow motion effect in visuals and also slower laptimes.

So it isn´t optimised yet and the devs are highly busy to find the problem. On my rig the 600hz works pretty well and it feels much better than the lower hz-version, especially the standard 180hz from past builds.

 This week probably will be a testing week to sort out the issue with the bug.

It’s still on the first physics release so it needs a lot of work, but for the most part it’s a fun little car. It handles well for the most part but it has a ton of lift-of oversteer and the tyres tend to lock very easily under braking so driving it properly requires plenty of braking and throttle modulation.

Check the build 234 discussion thread for an experimental fix for the 600hz exe. It seems to be solving the issue for a lot of people, although I haven’t yet tried it myself.

how do I change to the 600 hz physics? I dont see any option in the game menus

Looking forward to giving this a run out later

The default exe is already at 600hz. If you have issues, there should be a pCARS_360hz.exe that uses the old tick rate.

It’s on by default, there’s an alternate .exe file if you want to try the 360 hz version. Also note there’s a new .exe file on the builds thread that apparently fixes the slowdown issues (Im not having them so I have no idea if it worked).

The new extra 600Hz exe works fine, but doesn’t solve the problem entirely when the CPU is highly loaded.

WOW, it gets better.  There is no sim in the world that can match this game.  This is the best, the most realistic ever.

ya think?   just saw your name under the word sarcastic in the dictionary.
but didnt you do this line already in the last thread?   get some new material boy.

Sorry?  Aren’t you breaking the rules here and being personal?  Reported.  Lets see if the impartial moderators follow their own rules.

Of all the people, you want sympathy from me ?   You have constantly harassed me (and others) in pCARS threads many times with posts far worse and more personal than that.
Now suddenly pCARS is the best thing around for you ?   Sorry, I’m not convinced. 

I also think, or rather I know, you are playing a game here in being sarcastic in your post.  This is some act you’ve decided to put on.
That was a light jibe and after what you’ve dished out in the past I think the least you can do is soak it up.

Besides, what would you have me do, ban him for that ?   If he deserves that, you’d have been banned ages ago.

Hows this..

Cosmos,  now now, don’t get personal.

There. I hope that didn’t sound sarcastic :)  After all we wouldn’t want that.

I’m sure you have some already planned response for my reply.   Lets see how much you get away with this time.

I’m sorry you feel that way.  I love Pcars, but if your not convinced then there is nothing I can do. Have a nice day.

I can only go by the history of your comments so I’m sure you can understand my skepticism that suddenly you love it.  Something which is still mysteriously unexplained. 

What’s changed your mind then ?

Oh how I wish this was a real sim… I’d love to drive the formula rookie (formula ford IRL).

I fixed several problems in my hardware and bios configuration, and oh what a difference in how this game runs and feels. The physics are much faster and more responsive. This tells us, at this stage of development, you’re going to have to have a pretty good computer that is well tuned, before you can rightly comment on pCars physics.  Maintaining a computer so it is working at optimal performance, isn’t for everyone. And probably makes many people feel very frustrated.

You know what, I am so sick of hearing this crap!  Let’s face it folks; there is not Real Sim available for the common gamer… and certainly under $60 dollars! These  games can simply Simulate the Experience of Racing!  I’m not some of the folks that comment here have even played pCARS “Alpha” model and/or assisted in the development! 

But I can attest to this, as I have… and yes I own iRacing, rF2, and many others with the right settings and FFB (pCARS getting better weekly) this game is fun and simulates a driving experience.  This is not the finished game… Hello, do you guys that protest every week understand this????

If anyone thinks differently, obviously they’ve never driven in a real car… and Yes I have, though not at the level; I wish I could… but I have raced in the SCCA at Barber MS Park in Birmingham and can tell you this much; real life in a Miata… is 5X easier than iRacing at Barber MS Park which is considered by many a SIMULATION that all others are measured by many folks.

I’m not Pro, even slow compared to most on a real track, but I can say w/o doubt that real Life Cars STICK and Handle much easier than iRacing portrays!

If you want a Laugh… see me here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/RMKipker?feature=mhee

Finally; “todemanjack” someone who speaks Honestly! This is Not Shift… sure SMS started with
something close, but opened up they’re development to the community… for
pennies! However instead of the Community Embracing the work and effort … So
many BASH it w/o even trying it!

If this is
successful, imagine the Philosophy Change amongst Code masters, Simbin, and
others! If you at all care about the SIM Community, plop down 50 bucks to help
support this incredible effort by a independent game developer willing to risk
their own money to develop a fun simulation for us to PLAY… emphasis on PLAY!

Optimism is
far more enjoyable state of mind than Pessimism; a state of mind in which one
anticipates negative outcomes

well then Adam; prepare to have your Mind Blown, though you may never get past your pessimism to experience it!

 I totally agree. I have been and remain to be optimistic about P Cars. I was a bit worried about the lifeless FFB on my GT3RS until this latest build and also the new firmware and driver for my wheel. I updated all 3 at once and now I get feedback that’s close to Iracing and RF2.

So well said.

The racing sim market is sub 1% of the gaming market, Yet here we are factionalized, with people bashing game X or game y for childish reasons.

With pCars we have a game developer who has broken the traditional mold of making games and has chosen to directly ask for input into the game from it’s customers/prospective customers…that is all of us who frequent sim racing sites.

this is exactly what i’m hoping for…They have been open about the fact they are targeting the forza/gran tourismo market not hardcore sim…as long as they develop a fantastic physics engine and tyre model (which is in the works i believe) modders will have a fantastic platform to create a hardcore sim of it…it will look stunning too! currently the physics situation is OK as long as you drive it in a realistic manor however you can pretty much drift it like you could in shift into the turns at the moment…I’m sure this will change though!

My current problem with CARS are its very awful templates. Very, very awful.