RRE - Portimão - Jul 2 Race Room TEST RACE

[Wiltshire Tony]

I watched the replay, it was in my replay folder 

Sorry for my earlier post. I wasn't biffed at all. I turned into an approaching car and side swiped them with me coming of worse. Must use those mirrors 

Good looking replay option tho

[Clive Loynes]

If nothing else, this exercise has done wonders for the number of forum posts!

[phspok]

You could always dip into your enormous pension pot and come and have a splash around.
You might like it on-line, who knows.  

I need to delete this post soon, so all RRE chat will be in the RRE forum thread

[Wiltshire Tony]

Have you found any race results files Matt?

[phspok]

There are some files in directories here:

C:\Users\fred\Documents\My Games\SimBin\RaceRoom Racing Experience\UserData\Log_Dedicated\2015_07_04_14_44_07_823_PID_18600_1708_1713_3499_1778

But they are not plain text, and I can't make sense of them.
There are a dozen or so directories with names like:

2015_07_04_14_44_07_823_PID_18600_1708_1713_3499_1778
SO these may relate to the events/races

[simon loynes]

Where did the thread for the test race on the 9th go?

[Wiltshire Tony]

Where did the thread for the test race on the 9th go?

I think Matt deleted it to clear the Forthcoming area.

[simon loynes]

I just needed somewhere to apologise to Fed for crashing into him at the first turn

The rotten game didn't let me finish the race. Admittedly I was 50 seconds down on the winner
Bit having slogged round for half an hour it would have been nice to see the flag

Also I couldn't get the game to show me which gear I was in or let me ride on the bonnet

Another problem I had was that I couldn't find where to set the fuel and the force feed back
Settings were so extensive and confusing I ended up feeling like I was fighting a gorilla

[goldtop]

I think we need a RR tips thread as a quick reference which will help serve as a guide to getting the game running nicely. I'll see what I can come up with over this weekend.

[Wiltshire Tony]

I just needed somewhere to apologise to Fed for crashing into him at the first turn

The rotten game didn't let me finish the race. Admittedly I was 50 seconds down on the winner
Bit having slogged round for half an hour it would have been nice to see the flag

Also I couldn't get the game to show me which gear I was in or let me ride on the bonnet

Another problem I had was that I couldn't find where to set the fuel and the force feed back
Settings were so extensive and confusing I ended up feeling like I was fighting a gorilla

I only race using cockpit view and I get a gear indicator. There is no way at present to set fuel. For FFB I just set it down to 60%. Then it doesn't feel like driving a tanker. There is is a key for switching views but as I have already assigned that to one of my buttons I cannot tell you what it is.

[simon loynes]

 I managed to sort the bonnet view and the gear indicator seems to come as standard with the bonnet view.

I played around with the setup but I don't know how to save it.

I got down to a 31.3 which puts me 10th on some list or other that I stumbled across, .005 behind the bloke in 9th.

If Goldtop can come up with a simple default settings guide it would help numpties like me no end

[Wiltshire Tony]

I think your setup is saved by the game

[goldtop]

Here's a few pointers to getting RR up and running:

Things to remember..

Setups RR doesn't do tyre choice or pressures yet, neither does it allow you to save multiple setups (it remembers your last setup from each car/track and you can always reload default if you want to start again) but this will improve in future updates.

Graphics I run vsync and fullscreen with max pre-rendered frames set to 1 (in Nvidia Inspector) and have no noticeable lag. There is a "Raceroom" profile setting in Nvidia Inspector which I recommend for Nvidia users. I use max settings but without gimmicks like motion blur, lens effect etc. Big hogs for FPS are: car reflections (always set them low), shadow split (try to keep if possible), car shadows (turn 'em off for a big fps boost).

More information here....

https://forum.sector3studios.com/index.php?threads/raceroom-racing-experience-faq-and-game-features-w-i-p.72/

Now the important one for me...

FFB Wheel specific and personal pref so there is a thread at Race Department devoted to this which will require some study. If you use a G25/G27/DFGT do yourself a favour and check post #66 from George Ortner (one of the devs). The FFB intensity setting at 100% was way too strong for me but reducing to 43% gives me the best feel of any sim so far 

There are lots of other tips in the following forum which may be of use...

http://www.racedepartment.com/forums/raceroom-racing-experience.131/

I'll copy this and start a new thread so others can add.

http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/wheel-ffb-settings-thread.106914/

[Stefan aka Postal]

Good find GT. Hadn't seen this post about the ff settings. Will surely try them.

[simon loynes]

I've just invested some of my earth pounds in the Brands Hatch track only to find that it is the Oval circuit not the full one

Anyone fancy a thrash round brands in the GRP 5 cars?. I went on a server last night and had one brave soul join me. For some reason the race was run at dusk so I couldn't see where I was going half the time