Quote from DaveWS :

It's underpowered, geared too long, unstable under braking due to the open diff, oversteery on corner entry, understeery mid corner, oversteery on corner exit, and has horrible tyres which feel like they are made from plastic.

As it should be though, it's a trainer. Worst trailing throttle oversteer ever! I've definitely found some speed in other cars by learning to deal with all those situations in the Skip first.

I've never driven a sim car that actually needed partial throttle to plant the rear tires, but it works overly well in iRacing's skip barber. Realistic or not, to go fast in that car as it is you have to left foot brake and ride the throttle a little, basically all the time. Stability and grip come alive.

You can assign a button to see fuel, Options>Other. It starts off on one of the F-keys but i moved it to the wheel and have forgetton where it starts. F4?

The skip is awful until you realize that to turn you have keep partial throttle applied to keep the weight over the rear, then it's really fun.

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Fix: Don't hold 7, 8 and 9.

Figures the Radicals would be at my favorite track during one of my super busy weeks...

Quote from Sueycide_FD :

Happens to prototypes too. i just adjusted my speed on entering and my steering angle and problem solved. Sorry but it's just you

Yes, it does happen with the ISDM prototypes, but not nearly as bad.

Quote from Speed Soro :

Sorry mate, but this happens with LFS F1 too, and look this, we are talking about a high power car.

What do you say about loosing traction with a XRG?

I true believe that this difficult that you are facing with rFactor is just a matter of training.

Maybe you have been on LFS for many time, but have you tried F1 in LFS without traction control?

Man, we are talking about F1. Why that should be easy?

Physics, FOV and Forcefeedback are different between rF and LFS, so, slow down, take easy

That's the thing, it doesn't happen in LFS, for me, at all. Sure, turn TC off and gas it a little and the rear comes around quite easily, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about totally off throttle at ridiculously slow speeds. The ISI engine has some major flaws, and this mod just doesn't do as well adjusting to those flaws as others do, like Niels' Vette.

I really can't go any slower, I'm not even pushing hard when it happens. Coasting into corner entry, smooth input on the wheel, the rear just swings around like it's not even touching the ground. The BF1 has never done that for me, nor has any car in LFS or iRacing for that matter. In both you can crank the wheel pretty violently without losing the rear so long as your entry speed and angle aren't too extreme.

As far as the XRG, it feels fine compared to most of the rFactor mods, which all share the same problem: they were built for rFactor.

Quote from durbster :

Try dropping the tyre pressures by 10% or more. The default setups are pretty horrible to drive and any hint of a slide has the back end round before you know it. With the lower pressures it's a lot more fun.

Thanks. I spent some more time messing about with the setups, and it definitely helped. However, no matter what I do it seems this mod still can't overcome the ridiculous nature of the ISI engine. I'm all for tinkering with setups so the car better suits my style and ability, but having to spend hours with a setup to make the car even remotely drivable just isn't for me.

I just can't comprehend a Formula 1 car loosing traction so easily, especially with no throttle input at such low speeds. I'm spinning at Monaco doing 30mph, totally off the throttle... Warm tires, high rear wing, low pressures, more camber, less spring, negative toe, etc... Nothing solves the fact that the rear feels like it comes off the ground if you so much as breathe too hard on the wheel...

Speaking of rFactor... on a whim I grabbed the CTDP F1 2005 mod today, seeing how it's right at the top of the Hall of Fame mod list.

I spent a good 30 minutes spinning out off throttle at 25mph. Totally unplayable. I'm not giving up that easily, but mods like the 'Vette work right out of the box. No ridiculous 10 degrees of slip and then you're in the wall business...

Ok, now that I've hit Ctrl+0 how do I get it back?

Quote from spankmeyer :

I respectfully request you to post a video of your lens swap technique/living quarters/working enviroment if your sensor is clogged with dust so often.

Granted, I don't take pictures of brick walls or blue skies at f22.

I take the solid sky pic with the aperture closed down to check the sensor after I clean it. As far as lens swapping, I keep the body pointed down and the power off. That's it, regardless of environment.

I do have two bodies, and I do keep a wide on one and a tele on the other. However, I shoot a good 4000 frames a week, in every type of environment, and sometimes you have to change lenses in the field, period. Dust gets in there. You won't notice it until about f8, but when you really close it down it starts to show. Go do the test, you'd be surprised.

Anyway, I'm just saying, the sensor cleaning feature on my 40d works quite well.

Quote from Kalev EST :

Eh? It doesn't. His full name is "Jyrki Juhani Järvilehto".

That makes more sense... didn't realize he was throwing his middle name in there.

Interesting that "Jä" works out to "Johan" in english. Never knew that.

Quote from spankmeyer :

Said it again and saying it again, the sensor dust cleaning units are just gimmicks.

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. The sensor on my 20d (which has no vibrating sensor) needs manual cleaning at least once a week, given that I change lenses quite often. The sensor on my 40d barely ever shows dust, even pointed at a blue sky at f/22. I can't speak for other brands but the Canon self-cleaning sensor has saved me a good deal of time.

I do, for the record, open up the 40d and clean out the dust that has been shaken off once in a while, but not nearly as much as I have to brush off the 20d sensor.

Unless of course you're talking about all the over-priced cleaning kits available these days, in which case yes, many are totally unnecessary.

Yeah the 40d does a pretty good job shaking stuff off too, it's the 20d I need to worry about.

Interesting, although I think I'd be more comfortable using a very fine brush on the sensor (or the glass over the sensor anyway) than a... sticky thing. To each his own though.

This little brush is about the best thing i've found for getting dust off your sensor. A blast of canned air will charge the bristles and a few swipes from one side to the other and you're done.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/ ... 657_HDF_Sensor_Brush.html


They sell this thing as an add-on to their ridiculously overpriced electric toothbrush gizmo, which costs upwards of $100 and does the same thing as canned air. In fact, before they started selling the "Arctic Butterfly" tool, the instructions were to use canned air.

Anyway, a great investment if you have a d-slr, especially if it doesn't have a vibrating sensor.

Quote from SamH :

Normally, this kind of behaviour might be described as a "tantrum". However, where the music industry "greats" such as WMG and EMI are concerned, I'd describe them as "death-throes".

Yep. Major record labels will be gone before we know it...

Lerts was a way of life...

And as a Canon for-lifer I'd recommend the Powershot SD series, but really you'll be happy with a Coolpix too... Both excellent cameras. Find a model number that fits your budget and try to stay above 8mp.

A couple that I would recommend for those who are tired of rehashed blockbuster garbage:

Luis Bunuel's "Un Chein Andalou" (Salvador Dali also had a hand in this one)

Woody Allen's "Love and Death" (read some Dostoevsky first)

Tom Tykwer's "Lola Rennt" (Run Lola Run in the states)

And by garbage I'm not referring to anyone's post specifically, it just seems like the industry ran out of ideas a good 10 years ago and great movies are few and far between these days.

Quote from spanks :

It would be nice to have a more physical or at least accurate line of where you can be and not be "cutting" the corner.

FWIW, I don't know about irl, but in the Nascar races they cut the final hairpin heavily into the paint and right up next to the tires...we need tires in the irl course.

Yeah exactly, they just need to throw some tires up when running the IRL layout. As it stands now you can basically turn with all four wheels inside the curb.

They still need to do something about that last turn on the IRL layout, you can really cut the heck out of that corner...

Quote from bbman :

Which can easily happen when a rumblestrip ends and that's what I'm talking about... And even then I can't think of a single reason why you'd be penalised by going off on the outside of a corner - you'll be losing (much) time anyway, so why not leave it at that? If I can manage to get back on the track safely without pointing in the wrong way in the process, isn't that something I should be awarded rather than penalised for? Or do they mean safe in a "Health & Safety" kind of way?

I definitely agree to a certain extent, and there are some aspects of the safety rating system that aren't perfect. However, in the long run a 1x for dropping the center line really isn't that big of a deal. Even in C class you can have a few 1xs over the course of a race and still not lose safety rating.

Point being, the system may have a few flaws, but the racing for me has been the cleanest sim racing I've ever seen, ever imagined, and until that changes I won't be questioning the safety rating at all. Not once outside the rookie class have I ever been rear-ended in T1, cut off, forced off, blatantly blocked, etc. I've driven lap after lap, nose to tail, in a huge pack of cars, and everyone always respects everyone else. To me that says the system is working as it should.

Hope to see you out there!