In iracing the brakes are at full realistic strength, so 100% is the max a car can do. For the people with simplistic pedals this kinda sucks, but if you use a loadcell, like I do, it's quite nice actually. You could however edit the brake axis with diview or dxtweak and make 70% your 100%.

Quote from Technique :

Good I'm not alone. Right now I'm glad the reset is in, because the damage is really not realistic. At the start of my first and only race, I clipped the left rear bumper of the guy in front of me with the front right side of my bumper (trying to avoid him). It was like a 10 mph impact yet after the contact I had to hold the steering wheel 45 degrees to the left to go straight.

I had the exact same, and I got heavy negative points for that. The guy in front braked hard while the whole field went through t1 at snail pace.
Anyhow, I assumed my right front suspension was scrwed up because there was quite some visual damage, so I resetted.
I do hope they'll remove reset later on when the damage model is better and when everyone is less of a n00b

WoW uses the same subscription idea, and as far as I know it's the most successful game these past years (not that i've ever played it)

Anyhow, I just did my first 1:04 (1:04:363 to be exact)

That slowstice is actually becoming fun when you drive it closer to the limit


Anyhow, a quick opinion about laser scanned tracks; it's simply amazing. Where in lfs you can get away if you drive a wrong line through a corner, in iracing you cant because it's bumpy as hell outside the racing line and therefor lose grip (it's like this at lime rock).


edit: Boris, no one is forcing this game through your throat. If you don't like subscriptions or the price of iracing, then don't get iracing.

Last edited by mikey_G, Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:02.

Quote from danowat :

Yeah, you gotta really keep the momentum up with that car, keep the speed up and get it 4 wheel drifting a little

The Solstice around Lime Rock is AWESOME IMO, love the little uphill section and the way the car goes all light and squirrelly at the top of it

I know, but I can't get used to that car, it drive like a merkava tank on tiny wheels

I agree that on the screenshots the textures look pretty average, but when you're driving it's awesome.

Anyhow, off to practice with the solstice again, because im slow as poo with that car

Enough iracing for me tonight, but I'm totally in love with :heartbeat lime rock :heartbeat

Quote from OldBloke :

WOW! That was so great hearing about your downloading experience.

If you want to post crap then do it in the iRacing forum. If you want to let the LFS community know your thoughts on how iRacing compares to LFS then, please, enlighten us.

Wow.. Did someone force you with a gun to read this thread?

Anyhow, I'm amazed by the track textures and detail, and the amount of immersion. It was just scary to drive through the corkscrew at laguna seca (broke my suspension a few times in that corner, because I couldnt see shit!)
I drove some rfactor with the c6 mod on lime rock and laguna seca earlier, but iracing and these phenomenal tracks are 2 steps above it. The rfactor version of those tracks are just faulty at all levels.

As for a lfs v iracing comparison, well, I haven't driven iracing enough yet, but i'll try.
Small rundown:
Tire physics are a tie (I honestly could not note a difference in my driving style and end-result)
functionality/usabilty goes to lfs
best GUI goes to lfs (iracing gui is not intuitive tbh)
beauty goes to iracing (seriously, it's stunning)
immersion goes to iracing (first time through the corkscrew had me scared, seriously!)

iRacing did help me realize that high quality graphics are a must for any racing game simply because it looks more real and therefor adds to immersion. Finding markers for braking, turn in etc, is also much easier with these textures.

Btw, don't take this too seriously as I've not even driven on a server with more then 1 person on it, let alone a race, and the solstice is not the best car ever made to review a whole game.


I do have to revise my opinion on the solstice though; it's crappy. So now im gonna do some oval racing with the legends to compare

Last edited by mikey_G, Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:07.

indeed mackie, when nothing else works, pedantic clicking always works


Anyhow, I'm starting to really like it. The car is not that bad afterall, quite oversteery.

Physics seem ok too as I dont have a problem with being fast

So far I've done a 1.06 on lime park full, but i'm still too much of a pussy to drive full out

Im drivin a bit now in lime rock with the solstice, but how can you call a car with 4 gears a sportscar!?!!?

Anyhow, the game looks amazing on my no-longer-new-pc (e6600, 4gb ram and 8800gts) and I get a steady 60fps with vsync enabled while driving (with class 2 settings)

Only changing gfx settings is a bit cumbersome to be honest because i have to restart iracing each time....

start > all programs > iRacing > Start iRacing service

Aol and IE? Get yourself some firefox 3 stat!

Yea, make sure the service is running, because otherwise your browser will just timeout while trying to connect to localhost.

You can start it in the programs menu or in the services.msc if you're a real nerd

Don't forget everyone who is staying up and driving all night... That's gonna f* up some peoples safety ratings

Anyhow, 22minutes left for the update

Quote from hotmail :

yeah not 100% the same , in the real rounds there will be a 10 days period, that is for ppls that a possibly a week away from house

Good choice by the admins for the people who live in afghanistan and travel by donkeys

Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

What speed you getting?

300 kB/s the whole time

but now I have to update... which is 600mb


edit: I agree with crommi, this updater is totally stressing my hdd which is totally unnecessary imo

I cancelled the download and started one again, which is going full speed now, so I assume it redirected me to a different server now.

opera is indeed not supported. I think you get an warning if you go onto the member site with an unsupported webclient (which happened to me this afternoon with ff3) so you should've been warned.




ff3 is supported now btw

The solstice is an american car, so I can tell you already it drives like shit

but I'll get back to this thread when I have formed an opinion

Got my invite too, but unfortunatly I didn't receive my new credit card yet, so I'll be driving with a girls name (my roommate's)

Anyhow, sucky about the forced $20 subscription they force, but I was planning that path anyway, so I don't lose any money on it.

I have to say that the whole singing up/ installing thing is done rather nicely





edit: I wish i could say the same about the download speed, it's dog poo slow!

Quote from Bean0 :

But it is not a digit.

First Google result for 'Define digit'...

Why would I even google when I have you

F is a hexadecimal number

Any update on the promo vid?

I've got 1 black labrador who is crazy as a door and served as a sniffer dog in the army

Quote from JJ72 :

btw...jumping up and down in the seat when leaving a corner with low rev works.

But it makes you look so silly

The first time i drove karts was when i was 10 I think, and I was quite horrible because I didn't know how to correct my mistakes so I usually ended up in a barrier.
I do think lfs can help you in that respect, and also with overtaking maneuvers.

Quote from hardcoreobscure :

Hamilton said before the race his mate sent him a message saying...

"its easy to win from the front, but winning from back in the field makes legends"

... so what does that make Hamilton lol

it makes him a muppet

trulli is a cock...