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03 Sep 2014, 7:47 pm

Anyone into sim racing?



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03 Sep 2014, 8:18 pm

"sim racing"? What? Dunno what that means.



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03 Sep 2014, 11:24 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim_racing



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04 Sep 2014, 5:50 pm

I was a little bit. Played rFactor quite a bit for a few years and really enjoyed all the community created cars and tracks available for it, though frankly I was never very good at it and never played online or competitively with other people. Really anxiously awaited rFactor 2 but really found it to be a dud though not sure if they've updated it since then. Never really got into the other racing games out there either like Grand Turisimo or Forza - in part because don't own a console.



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04 Sep 2014, 10:38 pm

I'm not into it, yet, but I will be when Project CARS hits the shelves at the end of November. I've been following the development of the game for some time now, and it really starts to look like a title that can set a new standard, and bring the genre a huge step forward, especially in combination with the Oculus Rift.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtY-qyZfOsE[/youtube]



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05 Sep 2014, 5:28 pm

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I'm not into it, yet, but I will be when Project CARS hits the shelves at the end of November. I've been following the development of the game for some time now, and it really starts to look like a title that can set a new standard, and bring the genre a huge step forward, especially in combination with the Oculus Rift.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtY-qyZfOsE[/youtube]


Hmmm - I will have to check it out when it arrives. As far as I can tell that video is somehow in 3D but lacking glasses or whatever I need to see it so doesn't look right.

Just curious, are you more into the idea of awesome graphics, accurate weather effects, car / driving / physics models, or other?

I don't think rFactor or rFactor 2 have support for Occulus Rift but haven't followed all that much. Game I mainly play right now (War Thunder) does support it but I don't think I'm getting one any time soon.



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05 Sep 2014, 11:24 pm

ScrewyWabbit wrote:
As far as I can tell that video is somehow in 3D but lacking glasses or whatever I need to see it so doesn't look right.

That's correct. I posted it mainly to show the reactions of the driver.

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Just curious, are you more into the idea of awesome graphics, accurate weather effects, car / driving / physics models, or other?

All of the above plus a competitive environment a la iRacing.

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I don't think rFactor or rFactor 2 have support for Occulus Rift but haven't followed all that much. Game I mainly play right now (War Thunder) does support it but I don't think I'm getting one any time soon.

rFactor is supported by vorpX: http://www.vorpx.com/supported-games/

This video will hopefully give you a better impression of what the game looks like on conventional monitors.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoidUrnx79o[/youtube]



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16 Sep 2014, 3:04 pm

Example of single screen multiplayer race.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNe6zXqSVm8[/youtube]



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19 Sep 2014, 11:56 am

though i can't play it with my current pc, i'm still a semi-active member of the (apparently) one remaining IndyCar Racing II online community. it lives at CART Racing HQ (icr2.net). though the game is from 1995, we are still keeping it alive, building new tracks, car types, etc.



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19 Sep 2014, 5:06 pm

Wow, almost two decades and still running. Impressive, to say the least.

The biggest online IndyCar series is currently hosted by iRacing, and Project CARS will also feature the Dallara DW12. Here, a recent round from iRacing.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8CsNL_-V7k[/youtube]



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28 Oct 2014, 6:35 pm

I play rFactor pretty obsessively, just offline though. I've got a few mods working well together for some nice 90s race car action.
Nothing like beating up on Ferraris and Mclarens in a Honda Integra.



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31 Oct 2014, 2:40 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
I play rFactor pretty obsessively, just offline though. I've got a few mods working well together for some nice 90s race car action.
Nothing like beating up on Ferraris and Mclarens in a Honda Integra.


Yeah, I've gotta get back into that game. I sort of lost interest due to my own lack of skill at it despite lots of practice, my own general disappointment with rFactor 2, and other games starting to interest me more. But have still had lots of fun playing it and having just upgraded to a new faster PC, gotta go back and see how she'll handle with higher graphics settings.



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31 Oct 2014, 3:17 pm

ScrewyWabbit wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
I play rFactor pretty obsessively, just offline though. I've got a few mods working well together for some nice 90s race car action.
Nothing like beating up on Ferraris and Mclarens in a Honda Integra.


Yeah, I've gotta get back into that game. I sort of lost interest due to my own lack of skill at it despite lots of practice, my own general disappointment with rFactor 2, and other games starting to interest me more. But have still had lots of fun playing it and having just upgraded to a new faster PC, gotta go back and see how she'll handle with higher graphics settings.


Sounds good.
I'd really like to get a better system so I can run more cars in a race. I've got more cars available (18) than I can run on most tracks (~12-16).


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03 Nov 2014, 12:13 am

I used to be a chronic sim racer when I was a child to my early 20s starting with NASCAR Racing from 1994. Mostly I used to race NASCAR racing 2003 Season, the Papyrus game that lived on forever after they released all of its development software when they lost its licence to make the games. You could download almost any car and track and I painted a lot of cars for a lot of people. It was fun while I did it then I bought/rebuilt and began racing a real race car and kind of lost interest. I could not be bothered to pay for iRacing or any other service since the other game was free to use. I never spent enough on accessories or practiced enough to really compete consistently at the front however I was decent and won my fair share of races. We used to have a league at the race track and raced local tracks that were made into game tracks, it was fun and I miss it. The politics of online racing really turned me off though, it was no better then the real thing, maybe worse. Maybe my problem was that I was looking at the game as something fun to fill time and some of the others looked at the game with the same seriousness that I looked at the real thing.

My favorite game of all time may be EA/Buzz Puppet's PC version of Road Rash, the perfect combination of advanced graphics(awful by todays standards) and game play complexity. Best soundtrack too.

Thanks for reminding me of the fun I used to have, maybe I'll have to rejoin you folks someday. Its nice to just click a few commands to fix the car!! !



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03 Nov 2014, 12:22 am

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I used to be a chronic sim racer when I was a child to my early 20s starting with NASCAR Racing from 1994. Mostly I used to race NASCAR racing 2003 Season, the Papyrus game that lived on forever after they released all of its development software when they lost its licence to make the games. You could download almost any car and track and I painted a lot of cars for a lot of people. It was fun while I did it then I bought/rebuilt and began racing a real race car and kind of lost interest. I could not be bothered to pay for iRacing or any other service since the other game was free to use. I never spent enough on accessories or practiced enough to really compete consistently at the front however I was decent and won my fair share of races. We used to have a league at the race track and raced local tracks that were made into game tracks, it was fun and I miss it. The politics of online racing really turned me off though, it was no better then the real thing, maybe worse. Maybe my problem was that I was looking at the game as something fun to fill time and some of the others looked at the game with the same seriousness that I looked at the real thing.

My favorite game of all time may be EA/Buzz Puppet's PC version of Road Rash, the perfect combination of advanced graphics(awful by todays standards) and game play complexity. Best soundtrack too.

Thanks for reminding me of the fun I used to have, maybe I'll have to rejoin you folks someday. Its nice to just click a few commands to fix the car!! !


A lot of the tracks made NASCAR 2003 were converted into rFactor. There's one called Bullrush I'm trying to master and another called The Greyhound I can get good times around.


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03 Nov 2014, 11:45 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
rapidroy wrote:
I used to be a chronic sim racer when I was a child to my early 20s starting with NASCAR Racing from 1994. Mostly I used to race NASCAR racing 2003 Season, the Papyrus game that lived on forever after they released all of its development software when they lost its licence to make the games. You could download almost any car and track and I painted a lot of cars for a lot of people. It was fun while I did it then I bought/rebuilt and began racing a real race car and kind of lost interest. I could not be bothered to pay for iRacing or any other service since the other game was free to use. I never spent enough on accessories or practiced enough to really compete consistently at the front however I was decent and won my fair share of races. We used to have a league at the race track and raced local tracks that were made into game tracks, it was fun and I miss it. The politics of online racing really turned me off though, it was no better then the real thing, maybe worse. Maybe my problem was that I was looking at the game as something fun to fill time and some of the others looked at the game with the same seriousness that I looked at the real thing.

My favorite game of all time may be EA/Buzz Puppet's PC version of Road Rash, the perfect combination of advanced graphics(awful by todays standards) and game play complexity. Best soundtrack too.

Thanks for reminding me of the fun I used to have, maybe I'll have to rejoin you folks someday. Its nice to just click a few commands to fix the car!! !


A lot of the tracks made NASCAR 2003 were converted into rFactor. There's one called Bullrush I'm trying to master and another called The Greyhound I can get good times around.
I thought I heard both games were made with similar architecture.