Bose-

Check out this post in the pCARS forum.

http://forum.wmdportal.com/sho ... amp;viewfull=1#post109202

It seems to be a temp fix for the notchy snapping back to centre feeling in the wheel and the oscillations on the straights. Basically you need to use the ingame menu (press f1) to adjust some ffb parameters down- with a general rule that 10% is a good starting point. (may not work with some cars).

Also, check out the f68- it's probably the best of the cars 'out of the box' atm regarding ffb, as it doesn't suffer from those intense centering forces.

Anyone having 'centering spring' problems with the latest couple of builds? There's a bit of a discussion going on the pcars forum about that. Something is definitely up.

So many new tracks. It's hard to keep up with all the new content.

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Ferrari project?

I'm not 100% sure but that may be it (rings a bell anyway).

R.I.P. Joe.

Very sad news.

These are early versions as well, originally planned for another game and pulled out of the library for pCARS.

I think this is the best build yet. The new lighting is ace, but the environment is too overexposed in the open wheelers.

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mhm, cheers. steerings still ****ed up a lot

Have a muck around with checking or unchecking 'enable centering spring' in the logitech profile (if you have a g25). It can give you a wildly different feel, even with the slider set to 0 in both cases. I almost gave up driving until I sorted that out. Some settings give a badly pronounced centering effect which feels really unnatural.

Last edited by Electrik Kar, Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:31.

Having so much fun with the Formula B at Imola and Watkins Glen.

Using nVidia Inspector you can get rid of (or greatly reduce) the jittery shadows.

Use these settings-

http://s14.directupload.net/images/120130/qqn8txu4.png


It works but you will probably need a decent GPU.

Steve Hillage - Aftaglid

"Oh no... Steve Hillage!"

Quote from JJ72 :

i am maxing it at 1080i with my GT570, it's a gorgeous game, not only in terms of graphical power but the lighting engine is something else, I think it's the only photorealistic looking racing game on PC.

I have the same card and things are smooth now. In terms of graphics, I think looking back to LFS, you can see how far things have come with pCARS. Lighting definitely needs work- exposure can be a bit iffy under certain situations but the technology is certainly there I think for them to work wonders.

PS, I got my steering settings sorted now- I had steering sensitivity cranked down/up or something, and set now at default I am able to use 900 steering lock and crank up the FFB. It's still nowhere near maximum but it feels better than before (a second nice surprise). Pretty hyped now...

Quote from The Very End :

Thanks for taking the time describing
I have only brifly tested the desember build, problem was that I my computer simply is not powerfull enough for it. I have to put everything down, but then the game looks really shit and it takes away some of the feeling of it.

Might be worth trying it again as there have been some performance optimisations. Part of the reason I shelved it recently was bad performance. Shadows are a bit of a killer so if you set those to low or even off it will probably help a lot.

Last edited by Electrik Kar, Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:09.

Quote from The Very End :

Oh?
Have not had the time testing, could you please share some thoughts and experience about it?

I'm going off a comparison to probably about 5 major builds ago. Imo FFB is greatly improved, especially the info provided under braking. Generally a much more detailed and 'natural' feel all round- approaching the higher fidelity of the more 'hard core' sims. But for some reason the settings which most people are reporting give good results are not working for me. I will need to find out what's going on here... but for now I'm getting best results with steering lock set to 360 (g25), and ffb strength set to no higher than 30 ingame. Others are complaining of a lack of ffb strength at 100, which doesn't make sense to me. If I set steering lock much higher, and especially when turned to 900, I get a lot of resistance while turning in, then past a certain point the steering will loosen up dramatically... feels very strange.

I had problems with getting this build to run. Turns out the culprit was the nVidia 3d driver- once uninstalled the game ran fine.

Last edited by Electrik Kar, Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:34.

New build (134/135) feels pretty damn good

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Whatever song is in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNjbZ3d20p0

(please could someone tell me what song it is)

Something a few session musos threw together on the spot to fill the segment?

Quote from der butz :

Edit: here, have a ball made of beech wood. For €425,- . I'd love to sell those things to people but can't believe someone is really dumb enough to buy this.

Looks just like the poo they polished on Myth Busters.

Last edited by Electrik Kar, Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:44.

Ides of March - not in the mood.

Moneyball - a good watch. Brad Pitts character was an interesting study.

new Mission Impossible - good fun, the series still represents the best of the action genre, imo.

The Last Circus - couldn't get the enlish subtitles to work. Postponed...

I just bought the Karkand expansion. It's amazing just how much damage you can do to these spaces.. On the Gulf of Oman map, by the end of it we were all running around big piles of rubble. The level of detail is off the hook.

Definitely my GOTY.

Anyone seen The Last Circus yet? Will watch when there is time.