Racing Simulator Thread

[Tyler.M]

There's a few questions embedded in there and I am qualified to answer 0 of them, but a few cents worth:

iRacing is the most expensive, true. That being said, compared to all the $ you’re about to spend on hardware, it’s minor. And compared to actually going to the track… it’s nothing. Ok to be fair it also pales in comparison to even go-kart racing or going to the track. :dunno:

There’s no console game that comes close to iRacing, so if you want a “rig”, then you can scrap the console idea.
I haven’t been watching CARS, Raceroom, others so I cannot offer any up-to-date comparisons. The last other sims I played were LFS and rFactor. iRacing shines not only in the track scans and models, but in the race scheduling and rules that actually make practice and qualifying kind of necessary, and crashing bad. And also like real life, the learning curve is steep.

There’s only a handful of good wheels out there to choose from, and if you are using one, chances are it will be supported by whatever sim(s) you chose to run. There’s still nothing out there that has me convinced to spend $300+ when there’s still no force feedback brake pedal. I’m still using my RGT and a G27 would probably be its replacement if it died.

3 screens is relatively cheap fun these days, go for it! I'll keep my eye out for iRacing "try a month for free" offers and the like and pass them your way.

All excellent points. I still need to build my pc, so I have a little time to figure it all out. Project CARS certainly looks interesting too, just as a good testing platform before I committ to somethinf as hardcore as iRacing.