RaceRoom sim

Had some time last night to check more of it out. Tweaked on the FFB some more, after watching some recent video's talking about the new update. They also explained what the new FFB is and why it feels like it does, totally makes sense now. Which makes RF2 FFB actually sending too many sensations to the wheel, you should not be feeling chassis sensations in the wheel same as a real car, you would feel them in the seat. So anyway more driving and the cars feel really good and very drivable. I haven't done it yet but you can go into the files and tweak somethings like you could do in RF also. In the car setup you can adjust steering lock and FFB multiplier, the degrees of rotation vary per car to match the real car and steering lock is always 13. I find that the steering is to slow at 13 and bump up to usually max which is around 20.

Just my opinion but I think all these different sims feel different and what ever you get used to seems right, and all the others feel not accurate or realistic, it doesn't mean they are. So with that thought I have no problem driving other sims, I just may not be as good at them due to more time on a different sim (RF2). Hence the reason Dale and Chris don't race RF2 with us, because they drive so much IRacing and can't switch back and forth.

Ok back to RaceRoom, I drove a bunch of different cars last night from a low powered Spec touring car to latest F1 car. They all feel different, I did my testing at the RaceRoom fantasy track which is actually very good. One of the really good new features and wish IRacing did this, you can test drive any of the 140 cars available before buying on any of the 5 free tracks. Looks like the free cars did not get any physics updates so wanted to try some that did. The Porsche GT3 car is very nice, the Porsche 962 Group C car is insane very hard to keep under you.

This sim is very Euro centric in choices of cars and more German cars then anything else, even the old DRM cars are in it. You can still get Corvette, Camaro and Mustang GT3 cars along with some older American cars. They continue to add cars and tracks.

Checked out multiplayer also, entered a server with no one in it, didn't realize it went to qualifying and then another guy came in also. So just the two of us on the grid for the 15 minute race. He got the jump on the start so I followed him, with over diving his car till I had a chance to pass, left him behind and he left the server shortly after. I'll try some more online stuff with bigger fields.

Well I had plans of trying to enter an online race but didn't work out, got too late of a start. So I tried it in VR, at first I wasn't in the car seat so figured out I couldn't switch camera views in VR only in normal mode. AFter I got it switched to driver view did some driving and it looks as good as the other sims, but was getting random screen glitches and more so on the front straight. So guessing would need to do some tweaking and there is all kinds of guides on what to do.

So as I said in the Summer Sale thread I purchased some more content. Fired up RR3E and just to give the new stuff a quick try. First up Porsche GT3 Cup car at Road America, by the time I got down to turn 5 I knew this was a great car, really feels good. Next up the DTM Mustang and another winner, great car and last the Chevy Cruze which felt like a good front wheel drive touring car. The Road America track was very familiar to what we are used to and looked great, Nords I tried with the Porsche and another nice track and the car track combo was a challenge, not an easy drive but still good.