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Help Im Alive posted:"lmao a 9.9 degree caster angle? don't make me laugh, let's tweak that to 11 degrees and reduce slow bump to 1500 N/m/s" - me pretending this screen makes any sense I graduated with an mechanical engineering degree a few weeks ago. I went into it partly because I wanted to understand what the hell was going on with all those settings. Caster is effect you see on shopping carts, where the tire/wheel rotation axis is behind the turning axis. Upping the angle on this will push the tire rotation axis behind the steering rotation axis. This adds camber when the steering wheel is off center and makes the steering wheel stiffer, it also makes the car more stable by making the car autocorrect itself when oversteering if you let your hands off the wheel in a slide. Bump is a damping term, im still not sure what sims mean by fast and slow damping. Anyways, if your tire isnt getting stuffed up into the car fast enough when you hit a bump, then lower the bump. The units on this are Force per velocity, the the faster the tire is moving up (bump) then the more that speed of the tire will be resisted by the damper. When the tire is moving down its rebound. Dampers mainly effect the transient over/understeer response of the vehicle - corner entry and exit as the car is falling onto its suspension.
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I'd also highly recommend this book to anyone that really wants to get stupid into sims. http://www.amazon.com/Going-Faster-Mastering-Race-Driving/dp/0837602262
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Diet Crack posted:It's actually amazingly simple to understand if you read up on what camber/caster, stop bumps and springs all mean. Learning how to tweak the car to match your style of driving will also shave a good 2-3 seconds off the best of laptimes with default setups. This. Plus stuff like oversteer/understeer is also a simple concept. Just tweak to whatever the track needs/weather is. Probably could make things quicker by setting tires to "Automatic To Weather", but you're better off manually putting in Slicks strictly or Soft Tires. Diet Crack posted:Also don't forget to reduce fuel when you race. For some reason the game defaults you to a full tank every time. Gotta guzzle gas. Always.  OhsH posted:yall need to be breaking my hockenheim gp in the superkart tia. Come see me at that Barcelona Club for some good ol' kartin'. Goon karts sounds like a horribly good idea, actually.
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May 12, 2015 16:44
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GutBomb posted:Where he says the presets don't work he's referring to setting those presets within the ffb xml files. In older builds it worked to set them from the files but now you need to set those in the ffb calibration menu in game. I know it's not really very clear. Right now I'm looking at: Step 0: reset my wheel settings in game and calibrate Step 1: copy the ??? FFB folder to My Documents/Project CARS/. Step 2: beyond my ability to comprehend right now And yeah I'm fine with firing up Notepad++ to find and replace all. As for car settings, where do I configure degrees-to-lock? I prefer lower values, in the 180-200 range. Most cars in the game are fine but I found the Focus RS to require a lot more turning than I cared for. Sorry for being annoying with all this. I hope the console users don't need to go this far.
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May 12, 2015 16:57
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Norns posted:I'd also highly recommend this book to anyone that really wants to get stupid into sims. also compulsory viewing https://youtu.be/xQRmYMlmdqM
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LiquidRain posted:Could it just be spelled out what exactly I gotta do here? I know we played a lot of Forza, and I did like that FFB, so if you've gotten settings to feel good for you I'll stick to that and trust your judgment there. The focus RS has weird feedback, not a lot until the tires get warm. Try messing with a different car or let the tires warm up. Renault Megane, The merc hatch... they all feel different but feel pretty good. Try a formula a too, it's great fun. What I did was copy that folder down to the right place, do the find and replace to restore the wheel lock, calibrate the wheel, calibrate the FFB (basically just make sure tire force is at 100 (I didn't have to change much, I'm using a thrustmaster wheel) and then try some cars. If you're using a logitech I believe you have to set deadzone reduction to something like 16 to get the feedback to be spread across the entire wheel rotation. Like, if feedback doesn't kick in until the wheel is turned far enough that means you have to reduce that deadzone with that particular setting in the wheel feedback calibration screens. I wouldn't recommend changing the wheel degrees because the game does that on the fly per car to match their real life lock to lock rotation. You can change the steering ratio in the car tuning to make things more comfortable, so play with that until you get a setting you're comfortable with.
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Man, not having the control setup even visible from ingame just had me back out of the LeMans 24h in career once the dark came because I just couldn't figure out what button was mapped to turn the headlights on. And once I get in a car that has KERS and DRS, that will happen again because I won't remember or know what buttons do what. Thankfully I only lost about half an hour, but still. Annoying and really shouldn't be an issue.
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Baggins posted:Man, not having the control setup even visible from ingame just had me back out of the LeMans 24h in career once the dark came because I just couldn't figure out what button was mapped to turn the headlights on. And once I get in a car that has KERS and DRS, that will happen again because I won't remember or know what buttons do what. Mark down the windscreen wiper button too if you're going out in anything with a windscreen. I have a feeling my steering wheel is going to end up covered in dymo tape or silver pen. Just took a couple of cars aroung Watkins Glen because I've never come across it in a game and you guys seemed pretty chuffed with its inclusion. gently caress me. What an awesome track. As far as cars go I'm really enjoying the Porsche GT3 and the BMW E30, so feel free to smash my laptimes on Watkins GP and short into the ground in either (DalPlatinum on steam/game). I'm using the FFBTweaker files with my DFGT, and I have to say they're pretty good. Since putting them in, I'm much quicker at reacting to oversteer which has been my main problem since release. I'm using the SoP version.
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May 12, 2015 18:57
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The RUF GT3 legitimately takes skill to drive. Gaf dudes hate it because they cannot figure out why it understeers. It's pretty funny.
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May 12, 2015 19:01
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The e30 M3 alone is enough for me to buy this game. I really wish racing games would include the e36 and e46. Its always an e30 and then jumps to the e90 and up.
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May 12, 2015 19:03
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holocaust bloopers posted:The RUF GT3 legitimately takes skill to drive. Gaf dudes hate it because they cannot figure out why it understeers. It's pretty funny. I'm quite sure this is my main car currently and I am the boss of it.
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May 12, 2015 19:04
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holocaust bloopers posted:The RUF GT3 legitimately takes skill to drive. Gaf dudes hate it because they cannot figure out why it understeers. It's pretty funny. I was reading that and thinking about how much fun I had with that car.  Edit: loving phone posting. Norns fucked around with this message at 19:19 on May 12, 2015 |
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May 12, 2015 19:07
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If you haven't done laps of Azure circuit (Monaco) in the Lotus 72, you're in for a treat. Here's a (messy) lap I did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRT1rosjPKM It's sideways all the time!
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May 12, 2015 19:09
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RUF GT3 is my most favorite car to drive as well.
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May 12, 2015 19:09
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Ooh my god I just bought Project CARS on PS4.
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May 12, 2015 19:22
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PCARS IS ON PSN GO GO GO
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May 12, 2015 19:24
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I said come in! posted:Ooh my god I just bought Project CARS on PS4. noooo
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May 12, 2015 19:40
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we are racing on mumble, three of us waiting for gentle goons
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May 12, 2015 19:45
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I'd go, but I'm doing homework before losing my evening to this game.
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May 12, 2015 19:47
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Game is out on PSN, I can't believe this, restart Steam guys.
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May 12, 2015 19:48
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Game delivered this morning, stuck at work  I really hope at some point they bring Camaros in. I need to drive my real life car in a video game, drat it! A Mustang isn't my ideal compromise.
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SanitysEdge posted:Bump is a damping term, im still not sure what sims mean by fast and slow damping. I said come in! posted:Game is out on PSN, I can't believe this, restart Steam guys. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 20:09 on May 12, 2015 |
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May 12, 2015 20:05
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My G27 Gear stick doesn't seem to know the gears its in. Any movement [provided it's antagonistic] will result in sequential shifting, not the actual shifting i'm doing. So I can be in Gear 2 in the Gear 4 slot, if that makes sense? Kind of makes the shifter a big annoying paddle?
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May 12, 2015 20:09
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Combat Pretzel posted:Everyone dropping the PC version for the PS4 one, or what? Nah, at least I didn't get that impression. I think mostly everyone is sticking to PC.
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May 12, 2015 20:13
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there is pc racing !!!!right now!!!! @ mumble.goonrathi.com 64738 password: mellon
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Staying with PC since I don't feel like buying a new wheel. And it looks better
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May 12, 2015 20:18
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Norns posted:Staying with PC since I don't feel like buying a new wheel. And it looks better Unless you're on my PC then the PS4 version performs and looks waaaaaaaaaaay better.  Sorry, i've cried about this a lot now.
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simosimo posted:My G27 Gear stick doesn't seem to know the gears its in. Any movement [provided it's antagonistic] will result in sequential shifting, not the actual shifting i'm doing. Don't hold me to this, but I'm sure i saw an option to switch between full gear shift and sequential. hosed if I can remember where though.
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Just bought, downloaded, installed from US PS4 store, and did whatever that first thing they let you do is. My lightning review: - Wow, it's really, really pretty. - Wow, I am really, really bad at fake driving. PSN veddermatic if anyone wants someone they can always beat to race against!
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frankenbeans posted:Don't hold me to this, but I'm sure i saw an option to switch between full gear shift and sequential. hosed if I can remember where though. Can't seem to find it, googled some forum posts and people are wondering the same thing
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Steam Forums posted:When are you going to start making refunds? 
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~*~the internet~*~ ps4 stuff. Pretty, but not as pretty as what's on my pc 
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YOU WILL BE KICKED OUT OF THE STEAM. PCARS actually has more then what was originally promised.
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holocaust bloopers posted:~*~the internet~*~ Yeah when the weather or sunset kicks in it's like playing an oil painting, it's really nice at times.
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I almost did get irrationally angry at the "NOT ALL REQUIRED BUTTONS HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED PLEASE ASSIGN ALL REQUIRED BUTTONS" prompt Sorry I don't use the hand brake or look back feature.
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Whenever I come to a stop I can't accelerate again with the G27? It's like the car goes dead when coming to a halt or spinning [to a stop]. Pretty lame, but i'm sure it's just a control config mishap? Auto clutch is on, as the stick shifter is useless with this game.
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simosimo posted:Whenever I come to a stop I can't accelerate again with the G27? It's like the car goes dead when coming to a halt or spinning [to a stop]. Pretty lame, but i'm sure it's just a control config mishap? Auto clutch is on, as the stick shifter is useless with this game. The shifter isn't useless. You have to bind each gear position. What's happening is your car is dying because it stalls when you come to a stop in gear. you need to bind a button to "start engine"
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holocaust bloopers posted:I almost did get irrationally angry at the "NOT ALL REQUIRED BUTTONS HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED PLEASE ASSIGN ALL REQUIRED BUTTONS" prompt Is the handbrake even noticeable? Because last I remember, I had to actually brake for some turns here and there.
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simosimo posted:Whenever I come to a stop I can't accelerate again with the G27? It's like the car goes dead when coming to a halt or spinning [to a stop]. Pretty lame, but i'm sure it's just a control config mishap? Auto clutch is on, as the stick shifter is useless with this game. Did you by chance calibrate and check your keybindings? My H Shifter works fine.
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GutBomb posted:The shifter isn't useless. You have to bind each gear position. Or you can just push in the clutch before your car dies. It's just like real life! By the way, my G27's H shifter worked with default bindings out of the box (PC). I'm also impressed that you can hot swap between using paddles and the H shifter mid-race without having to go change it in the options. Why don't all racing sims do this?
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