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[chaozbandit]

1 hour ago, Maybach123 said:

I have looked at it. @chaozbandit mentioned it a page back but said the price to performance isn't as good as a thrustmaster. 

yeah wish I had access to a cnc. 

Lol definitely not worth the price up here. Asking $500 CAD for just the wheel base... That could buy you a g920 or two g27s lol

[bcredeur97]

@carguy86 I challenged you... I'm waiting

[pagani123]

17 minutes ago, chaozbandit said:

Lol definitely not worth the price up here. Asking $500 CAD for just the wheel base... That could buy you a g920 or two g27s lol

way cheaper down here, they want 300. 

[chaozbandit]

35 minutes ago, Maybach123 said:

way cheaper down here, they want 300. 

Welcome to life in Canada

[carguy86]

2 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

@carguy86 I challenged you... I'm waiting

Could you wait a teeny bit longer? I cant do any serious racing with my wheel atm, its fucked.

[carguy86]

What would you recomend if i was buying a pre built sim cockpit frame?

(Below 400$)

[chaozbandit]

3 hours ago, carguy86 said:

What would you recomend if i was buying a pre built sim cockpit frame?

(Below 400$)

You could build one yourself for about $200 in materials

 

[carguy86]

23 minutes ago, chaozbandit said:

You could build one yourself for about $200 in materials

 

 

hmmm.... i will check what the rally shop has but i might be able to snag myself an out of date omp wrc seat for 50-70$.

next on the list would be steel tubing and 3mm plate. (i can buy that from school and make the parts at school but weld it up at home, so itd be around 100$ in steel tubing and plates)

plus aditional hardware id be at a total of 230-250$

 

you know what, imma check up on this.

[iDeFecZx]

Oh wow

[carguy86]

3 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

Oh wow

 

what car is that from?

[chaozbandit]

6 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

Oh wow

 

Yep

[iDeFecZx]

5 minutes ago, carguy86 said:

what car is that from?

Either the Xk120 or one of the classic Ferrari's

1 minute ago, chaozbandit said:

 

Yep

 

Think they have you on that one

Im so suprised by the level of detail, its incredible

[chaozbandit]

1 minute ago, iDeFecZx said:

Either the Xk120 or one of the classic Ferrari's

Think they have you on that one

Im so suprised by the level of detail, its incredible

 

Too bad you need at least a Fury or above to run it smoothly on ultra, and resolution doesnt seem to scale at all beyond 1080P.

 

Because why revamp your engine for PC when you know youll out sell again on XB1 anyways.

[iDeFecZx]

2 minutes ago, chaozbandit said:

 

Too bad you need at least a Fury or above to run it smoothly on ultra, and resolution doesnt seem to scale at all beyond 1080P.

 

Because why revamp your engine for PC when you know youll out sell again on XB1 anyways.

Yeah, my little 960 shits itself at times which is a shame, hopefully the PC port of FM7 is infinitely more optimised, though I should have a much better GPU by then

[chaozbandit]

4 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

Yeah, my little 960 shits itself at times which is a shame, hopefully the PC port of FM7 is infinitely more optimised, though I should have a much better GPU by then

 

Turn 10 actually (eventually) learned how to fix FM6 Apex, so heck yeah FM7 is going to perform well. Playground Games isnt even on the same page.

 

Life with CF290s when you can only use one is rough though.

[iDeFecZx]

3 minutes ago, chaozbandit said:

 

Turn 10 actually (eventually) learned how to fix FM6 Apex, so heck yeah FM7 is going to perform well. Playground Games isnt even on the same page.

 

Life with CF290s when you can only use one is rough though.

Still better than my system

I never really had any issues with Apex, even with a driver crash it ran at 50fps with little stuttering which was odd

[MEC-777]

5 hours ago, carguy86 said:

What would you recomend if i was buying a pre built sim cockpit frame?

(Below 400$)

Built my own from wood I had lying around. $0.  

 

 

Full album images:   http://imgur.com/a/yg1Rf

[carguy86]

2 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

Built my own from wood I had lying around. $0.  

 

 

 

Full album images:   http://imgur.com/a/yg1Rf

Nice.

[MEC-777]

Spent more time in AC with the Porsche pack last week. I think it's just that I'm so used to the way the ffb feels in PCars that I'm not used to it when I go back to AC. Feels so strange though, lol. Takes time to accustom to it every time.

 

Anyways, yeah, I think I found a more difficult car to drive than the 98T, if that's even possible. The 917/30. At full boost this thing is insane! Fun, but insane.   Flat 12 turbo with over 1100hp... yes please!

[chaozbandit]

6 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

Spent more time in AC with the Porsche pack last week. I think it's just that I'm so used to the way the ffb feels in PCars that I'm not used to it when I go back to AC. Feels so strange though, lol. Takes time to accustom to it every time.

 

Anyways, yeah, I think I found a more difficult car to drive than the 98T, if that's even possible. The 917/30. At full boost this thing is insane! Fun, but insane.   Flat 12 turbo with over 1100hp... yes please!

They don't call it the car that killed Can-Am for nothing!

 

Actually learned a lot watching his history lesson on the Porsche pack, specifically how in this era of sportscar/prototype racing Porsche was experimenting with spools instead of LSDs because of more reliable power output/traction and less prone to mechanical failures (the tech wasnt there at the time). Also, big power and the beginning of the aero revolution. The 962 video was really good too.

 

 

 

And here I thought the 919 was hard enough on a controller lol

 

[MEC-777]

5 minutes ago, chaozbandit said:

They don't call it the car that killed Can-Am for nothing!

 

Actually learned a lot watching his history lesson on the Porsche pack, specifically how in this era of sportscar/prototype racing Porsche was experimenting with spools instead of LSDs because of more reliable power output/traction and less prone to mechanical failures (the tech wasnt there at the time). Also, big power and the beginning of the aero revolution. The 962 video was really good too.

 

And here I thought the 919 was hard enough on a controller lol

 

Yeah, it's a shame motorsports has become much less exciting since those times with such tight regulations etc. I won't get into all that again.  

 

Watched a video on the 917/30 with Adam Corolla and learned the car had a spool rear-end. Now I understand why this thing absolutely refuses to turn in on cold tires. lol  You have to get em hot and then drive it somewhat aggressively, steering it with the throttle. 

[chaozbandit]

30 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

Yeah, it's a shame motorsports has become much less exciting since those times with such tight regulations etc. I won't get into all that again.  

 

Watched a video on the 917/30 with Adam Corolla and learned the car had a spool rear-end. Now I understand why this thing absolutely refuses to turn in on cold tires. lol  You have to get em hot and then drive it somewhat aggressively, steering it with the throttle. 

 

Yup. They used spools from the 917 all the way to 962. The 935 also had a spool, which is crazy when you think of the power delivery of the thing.

[MEC-777]

22 minutes ago, chaozbandit said:

 

Yup. They used spools from the 917 all the way to 962. The 935 also had a spool, which is crazy when you think of the power delivery of the thing.

Best way, with the technology of the time, to ensure all that power went down to both drive wheels.  

 

But man, the under-steer must have been unreal on cold tires... I seriously thought something was wrong with my FFB. No, it's just ye ol' spools. lol. To get through the first chicane at Monza with these things fresh out of the pits, you literally have to slow to a crawl. 

[Techicolors]

I recommend you watch this video without any sound...

 

[brownninja97]

Anyone know what car pack is coming out in December for season pack holders in horizon 3.

 

The more i understand how game environments and resource management works the more i understand why gt sounds have been poor and still are poor. 

 

Firstly is AC and pcars, AC has the fmod system as does pcars. Upon activating dev apps in ac and starting around in the project cars forum so i got a dev to help me. 

 

Long story short it can consume around 20% of the cycle ceiling of a modern mid tier cpu, take a standard i5 for example at least this is what its like in the case of AC and Raceroom which both have very robust engine sounds, pcars to a lesser extent.

 

The PS4 is bottlenecked by its cpu, it is the weakest part of the system by far, this issue is a very big problem for the PS4 Pro. 

 

While GT Sport looks massively optimised to get where they have gotten its clear that the sounds were using a very limited budget, lots of missing effects, gearshifts, echoes, directional tyre sounds etc.

 

GT games are known for using every ounce of performance they can so it seems instead of focusing on sounds they though that people focus on blowing viewers away with the appearance.

 

The most painful part of this must be for the sound engineers, they have very limited tools as a result, road cars arent hit too bad but race cars lose a lot of their flare and raw brutality. A year or so ago i would have jumped on the bandwagon wondering how high the sounds devs are but its starts to make more sense