iRacing?

[navin]

It's a slippery slope - I had the wheel, but had it ghetto rigged to a tray table and while it worked, it wasn't the most stable thing. I've thinking about buying back my wheel, and hopefully finding a "Sim-Seat" on CL for cheap.

I believe you can create your own races and invite people to join, I know a lot of people on other forums that have their own leagues and such.

[Sully]

An MM league or even an MM TT setup would be cool. Either race each other or leave times for others to beat if That's possible. I bet you have to pay to host a race like everything else in this damn game. Idk. I have a month to decide and I might just let my subscription expire and wait for them to try and draw me back with some good deal.

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[BLINGMW]

An MM league or even an MM TT setup would be cool.

I thought so too, but just didn't get much interest here. And honestly, I cannot say I'd even do such a great job showing up a night or two a week to race. It was all I could do to pick just one series every few months and get enough practice in to run one or two official races a week.

I bet you have to pay to host a race like everything else in this damn game.

ding ding ding! It's a few bucks I think. Never looked much into it. But then yes, you can run your own series, even with your own rules and *I think* even force setups.
That being said, the handful of times I found an acquaintance or two, we'd just join a public practice or race and run with others. And you can choose to chat with only specific drivers or groups if you don't want to crap up the public channel (or listen to it).

Hey tell me, do they have hand signals or better passing rules implemented yet? That was pretty high on my annoying list. No good communication to pass. Relying on voice chat for that was dumb since you can turn that off.
What's the latest on the tire model? Still screwing with it?
I feel like I'm passing messages over the wall to somone on the "inside"....

[Sully]

I can tell you what happens when you go off in turns 1-10 at vir at full speed but That's about it. I wouldnt even think of trying a race with people till I had some type of controller and feel for it

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[BLINGMW]

I can tell you what happens when you go off in turns 1-10 at vir at full speed but That's about it.

:lol:
Well if you want to borrow my wheel and ghetto home fab stand, you're welcome to do so. Then you can buy it if you want to keep it.

[Sully]

You're not going to VIR this weekend by chance?

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[BLINGMW]

Not planning on it, but Roanoke could be on your way there...
Heck maybe I should come say hi if the weather's nice, I've been pretty lame lately.

[Sully]

Not planning on it, but Roanoke could be on your way there...
Heck maybe I should come say hi if the weather's nice, I've been pretty lame lately.

Its not guna be a good weekend. Probably be hot as shit and we'll be missing a few people but if you do decide to stop by, I wouldn't mind borrowing the wheel for a few weeks to see if I want to get into iracing. But did you ever get it setup to be raceable or will I just make myself frustrated as hell?

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[BLINGMW]

oh yeah it works great and I did a pretty good job, if I do say so myself, in modding the brake pedal to provide some decent resistance. With a BMW vacuum hose of course. It's just when you first sit down, the wheel feels pretty notchy. It's not that fancy, but you start to ignore once you're driving. It's still 1000% better than a gamepad. Yours for half price.

[Sully]

Idk. If I'm guna spend money on a wheel. I would really love to have a g27. I love the h pattern shifter

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[D_Eclipse9916]

Bring it, I will take it since Matt is a complainer

Come on out, I will have A/C in the trailer to cool off or go in the timing tower.

[BLINGMW]

:dunno:

I love the h pattern shifter

So.... before you love it too much... look it up on the iRacing forum. It was apparently a big sticking point that iRacing doesn't handle h-pattern the way they should, allowing for some apparently unrealistic shifting. Something about "pre-loading" the shifter. Having never tried it myself, I cannot comment, maybe it's not a big deal, but the description of the problem and the complaining made me happy to have a simple one.

Honestly, I don't know why someone hasn't made a commercial force feedback wheel / pedals / shifter set up. I cannot imagine spending hundreds of dollars on a wheel unless it's that. That's why I went cheap, what I want doesn't really exist. The brake pedal at least really NEEDS to be force feedback at this level. And h-pattern just doesn't sound that fun unless it is too. There's no way to properly model a missed shift.

*edit* it does exist! It's just $1000
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...Seems like that could be done a lot more cheaply. Not sure why the same or similar motor couldn't be used as the wheel, hooked up to a pedal with an amerature. Doesn't really need to be a real master cyl and all that crazy stuff, the motor can provide resistance and feedback. :dunno:

[Evan]

anyone still playing this?

[navin]

I'm thinking about getting back into it since iRacing is now supported natively on Mac OSX... Supposedly the wheels are having problems with Mac's though since Logitech/etc doesn't have any drivers for Mac's.

[BLINGMW]

anyone still playing this?

May try again late this year when I have a house in which to play it in.

[BLINGMW]

I'm back!



Obviously a plastic stool and coffee table do not make the ideal cockpit, but I tossed this togther last night as a functional demo to myself. Verdict: playing 3' away from a 105" screen is exactly as awesome as I had hoped. :thumbup:

Screen assembled not unlike this, though I used 2x4s.
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Found the blackout fabric at JoAnn's for ~$12.

Projector is the BenQ W1080ST, which can be found for less than $800, and the short throw makes it ideal over some of the other $700-$800 projectors out there (others considered were the W1070, Epson 2030, Viewsonic PJD7820HD and Optoma HD131Xe). Cheap ceiling mount and HDMI cable from Amazon.

Still using my old WinXP machine which I was pretty happy iRacing still runs well enough on. Now I just need to decide how crazy I want to go with the seat, and probably wheel / pedal upgrade. And then I MIGHT invest in a new computer to get within the last decade.

[CaptainHenreh]

BITCHIN'

[WRXtranceformed]

Wow sweet setup! haha

[Evan]

nice! iracing is on my todo list for this fall!

[BLINGMW]

well anyone's willing to come try it out, I'll probably have the seat set-up figured out within a couple weeks. Not sure on the wheel / pedals, still disapointed that there's no mass market FFB brake pedals yet. I likely will not pull the trigger on a SimXperience GS-4, something tells me I won't get $2.5k+ worth of enjoyment out of that. Will most likely end up with a Payseat or Obutto.