iRacing - Hardware

I have nothing against it either, was an early alpha tester in fact, I'm
jsut saying it isn't all new and innovative as many want to believe.
it also isn't the be all and end all for all simmers. It also falls short
in a number of areas that other sims already do.

"Mario Petrinovic" > wrote in message
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> schooner:
>> Exactly, so any league coudl do the same with any sim, whic hwas my
>> orginal point.
>
> So, go to any league. Or any "sim". Do and race anything, if that
> is
> your point. I don't vaste my time on anything. iRacing is the best of its
> kind, and by every day it is better. rFactor "physics" makes me laugh (one
> guy on iRacing forum made a joke, by requesting that iRacing also have
> that
> chasis "shaking" thing that rFactor has, "it's so cool", lol). Real life
> drivers have benefit of racing iRacing. iRacing has the quality, the
> quantity, and one day it will have the money to back all this up, and to
> expand all over the World. You have something against it? I don't have.
> iRacing has good idea, actually excellent idea. -- Mario Petrinovic

schooner:
>I have nothing against it either, was an early alpha tester in fact, I'm
>jsut saying it isn't all new and innovative as many want to believe.
> it also isn't the be all and end all for all simmers. It also falls short
> in a number of areas that other sims already do.

Yes, you are right about that, thanks.
Although, when I read your post again I notice that you are not that
much right. I would say that introducing laser scanned tracks, and the whole
concept of sanctioning body and all this, is revolutionary for sim racing,
there is no doubt about it. Plus, iRacing developed the most important
things, like incident penalty, physics, FF. OTOH, it lacks on less
important things. Like a lot of people, I think that Kaemmer is the guy who
very well (actually, the best) places priorities. For example, weather would
only confuse things (for now). He excluded weather ON PURPOSE, not because
iRacing is unable to deliver. Smart guy. Once thing expand, then weather can
have some SENSE in the whole project. -- Mario Petrinovic

>Mario Petrinovic:
>> schooner:
>>> Exactly, so any league coudl do the same with any sim, whic hwas my
>>> orginal point.
>>
>> So, go to any league. Or any "sim". Do and race anything, if that
>> is
>> your point. I don't vaste my time on anything. iRacing is the best of its
>> kind, and by every day it is better. rFactor "physics" makes me laugh
>> (one
>> guy on iRacing forum made a joke, by requesting that iRacing also have
>> that
>> chasis "shaking" thing that rFactor has, "it's so cool", lol). Real life
>> drivers have benefit of racing iRacing. iRacing has the quality, the
>> quantity, and one day it will have the money to back all this up, and to
>> expand all over the World. You have something against it? I don't have.
>> iRacing has good idea, actually excellent idea. -- Mario Petrinovic

Well I'm still waiting for an answer to my original question - what
league?

BTW, I have no idea if iRacing have any intention of doing what I
suggest. But with their setup and a little balls, inititive and desire I
believe they could do it.

How did Formula 1 get started?


"schooner" > wrote in message
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> Exactly, so any league coudl do the same with any sim, whic hwas my
> orginal point.
>
> "Dirt" > wrote in message
> ...
> On Oct 22, 10:57 am, "schooner" > wrote:
>
>> What makes iRacing the defacto standard and authority for handing out
>> such a
>> title? Just curious.
>
> They can use "world" because anybody from any country in the world
> with an internet connection can join. They can use "champion" because
> they hold structured competitions intended to crown a series
> champion. Technically there's nothing wrong with a "world champion"
> claim because it's true; a series champion can come from anywhere in
> the world. Even if another sim starts a "world championship" that
> doesn't invalidate the truth of iRacing's claim because I doubt
> iRacing have specifically claimed to have the ONLY world champion,
> just A world champion.

Back to the original topic, I got my wireless adapter and XP
recognized the 360 wheel and it calibrated fine. I dove in and joined
iRacing and spend a couple of hours with it last night. To my relief,
everything installed smoothly and there were no problems. The base
program was two downloads totaling ~750 meg! I let it auto-config and
I'm seeing a steady 50 fps at 1280x1024 resolution with pretty good
graphics. I'm not sure what is being left out because I haven't
explored the graphics options yet. I drove Sebring and there weren't
any grandstands along the pit straight, so I think some of the track
side objects are turned off. I may knock the resolution down tonight
and see if I can improve the fps a bit and add a few more track side
objects.

The little bit of driving I've done has me somewhat, <thinks a minute>
not disappointed, but just not as impressed as I was hoping. It's not
that anything is wrong, it's just that I suspect I had my expectations
set a little too high. It feels like NR2003 and, to a lesser extent
GPL, only with better graphics and a little more refinement from the
driving model. I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting so I'll
refrain from saying anything bad because it wouldn't be fair to
criticize it for my own failings.

One bit of disappointment is that the 360 wheel doesn't have any force
feedback and the force feedback box is grayed out in the control
config screen. Other than that it works brilliantly. I'll have to
check into it tonight to see if I've mis-configured something or if it
just isn't supported by a PC the way I'm using it.

I haven't searched the menu system enough to find a rookie session
that allows me to drive against others. I skipped most of the intro
reading because I was anxious to drive a bit before bed time, so I've
nobody but myself to blame.

-Dirt-