iRacing?

[Steve85]

I really don't know how some of these guys are 3 and 4 seconds faster at some of these tracks. Sometimes I swear they have to be cheating. It's a fixed setup series and it kills me when I follow someone through a corner and their car sticks and I go sliding off.

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Also need to figure out how to get my frame rate up. I'm usually in the low 40s [edit- actually in the low 30s, especially during a race or live practice session] but one night it got into the 60s and everything felt and looked smoother including the feedback. I was just watching an instructional video and saw the guy was at something like 160.

Did some research and most were saying 30 FPS was the bare minimum of playable. I messed around with the graphic settings that I already had on LOW or MIN but found a slider adjustment and put it all the way to MAX FPS. The graphics definitely suffered but I'm getting about 45 FPS now. What an incredible difference in the handling of the car! I feel more of the track, the feedback and response loop is much quicker and I can be much more precise and actually save the car now. The response and feedback loop wasn't really something I gave much thought to before experiencing it and then reading a post that pointed out something like at 30FPS and 140 MPH the car goes three feet before it gets your input, another three before you get feedback, and another three before you respond. It all adds up to not having much control. I'm just getting used to it and have to pull back some, the ability to save the car had me over-driving the shit out of it.

Also, I think I mentioned in here before (2 yrs ago probably ) that the steering always felt off. I noticed when I started playing again that the input to screen action was 1:1 for only a few degrees off center then the ratio steadily increased.90 degrees of input was like 270 on screen! It made turns like T1 at Summit impossible to be consistent. I tried a lot of recalibration and settings in the game and finally came across a thread that took me inside the wheel (Logitec) driver to adjust settings. It's now always 1:1 and tight corners suck a lot less.

Back to Laguna Seca this week and my times are coming more in line with top 5 avg times for my typical strength of field race.