i was wondering about any good games out there for pc that are more like formula1 and indy type racing and where would be a good place to find such games. i also thought that i saw a game about karting (shifter karts), dunno what it was called but looked pretty cool?

 

GTR

http://www.simbin.com

 

wow, that game looked pretty bad, specially that new natural trackIR(need to get one of those)...

i really liked this pic as well, looked pretty cool.. thanx man

 

I'll second GTR...the original press demo is awesome and some high end simulation sites say the fully developed version (release date March 11th) is even better - the best simulation to have ever been made. If you haven't seen the videos you are missing some awesome stuff....

Link to the GTR videos! Videos 1-3, and the Spa 24hour are musts!

 

cant wait for it to come out on march 11th, ill buy it right away at the same time i buy this

 

GTR is amazing, the physics and sound are truely some of the greatest I have played in any game. Playing with the Driving Force Pro really adds to the expirence.

 

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For me in the demo with a Driving Force Pro, there is feedback for steering but nothing for curbing or anything else. Am I missing a setting or does the demo not have the full feedback yet?

 

to make gtr even more realistic, use a racing simulator like the one from hypersimulators. i played it at sema while i was there in october and it made almost 100% realistic. i was sweating after 5 laps because i was so tense!

http://www.hyperstimulator.com...l.jpg

 

GTR

March 16th(?) release in europe.

 

I ahve that momo wheel it rocks

 

i know that gtr comes out in march 11th in europe, but does anyone know when its coming out here in the us, or is it going to be on the same day???

 

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hmm I am not sure about the Demo but the full version seems to have great Force Feedback, I have the wheel set to 720 degrees of Rotation and a custom FF setting and for me it works great. Heres a couple of shots that I have saved from previous races.

http://img.photobucket.com/alb...6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/alb...2.jpg

 

wow, that is by far, the best graphics i have seen for a racing game...just wow

 

I thought the full version was not out yet. Where did you get it?

 

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http://www.hyperstimulator.com...l.jpg

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Does this thing move/tilt, or is it just a place to sit?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jpl95si &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I thought the full version was not out yet. Where did you get it?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I am currently playing off of the German Release copy with the English Translation provided online. Game works great and I am having a lot of fun with it. Sad thing is by the time the US gets it SImBin is already working on the next release of GTR for 2005 edition.

The game comes with the Full Motec tuning system which I have found very complex and a bit over my level at this point, you can tune everyting in the car just how they do in real life. As far as realism is concerned I dont think that anything can touch GTR. You can even link a second computer with the Motec software and continuously moniter your car and make changes during your pits as necessary. Pretty cool ****.

and the hypersimulation thing is just a stationary cockpit somewhere to sit down to play your games.

If you are looking for something that moves check this here
http://www.force-dynamics.com/video.shtml


Modified by flyin_gnome at 1:25 PM 3/4/2005

 

here is a shot I took from inside the C5R you can see a Saleen S7 just ahead of me entering the next turn. Sorry for the Large Pic, but I think its worth it.

 

It appears as if the US release date of GTR is about 2 weeks behind the European Date
gogamer.com is showing 3/21/05 for those interested

http://www.gogamer.com/cgi-bin...01GTR

 

NICE, NICE, NICE....thanx man this is a really good find... cant wait to get this game plus my momo steering wheel and pedals for my comp...thanx again man

 

The first day i bought my driving force pro i loaded this game up and wow..... u could even feel the engine vibrations at idle . when i downloaded the patch to allow the driving force pro to work correctly on the computer all the force feedback droped a few notches . so i deleted the patch and went back to the goodness of before

 

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nice, good info... that will give me more seat time haha

 

heck, i think gtr's ff w/ the d-f pro is better then GT 4's . but GTR dosent have an ITR so it sucks

 

I noticed a drop on the FF as well with GTR today with the new driver, but I just bumped up the FF in the settings and got it back up there. I like the ability of the new patch to set the degrees of rotation with out using DXtweak. Here are some shots from my night race today at Spa.

 

there is also Grand Prix Legends... yeah yeah its an older game, but it is my all time favorite driving game.

they also released a newer version of the game- http://www.pcgameworld.com/details.php/id/5301/ (and its free!)

when i get on my computer ill post a link to the track database that they have for it.... theres almost 500 tracks that you can play on .

best part is you can play all those tracks in the "demo" 2004 version of the game. They also updated all of the cars, and made it MUCH better visually. its not GT4, but its the first game that i know of that had nurburg in it

edit- after actually reading the poll i see gpl is already on there

 

I just purchased the newly released International English Version of GTR off Ebay....woohoo!

Here are the good ebay GTR auctions - there's about 90+ copies availible for $50 shipped with Buy it Now... :

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...=WD1V

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...=WD1V