Single seaters

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Two mods which are worthy of attention:
CART Factor - 1998 CART series, tough to drive but they feel "right" in a way that most single seater mods don't.
Formula Nippon 2008 - a real contrast to the CART mod, these cars have prodigious grip, but still feel 'right'.

The IndyCar 2009 mod shows a lot of promise too, although its creator seems incapable of putting together a complete set of files which actually work. The sound is totally messed up for me, and a quick look at the .sfx shows that whoever put it together doesn't seem to have done any basic testing of the package.

[Simon Gymer]

Hmm, I saw that CART Factor mod and the new Endurance mod and thought about installing rFactor again.

Should I?

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Hmm, I saw that CART Factor mod and the new Endurance mod and thought about installing rFactor again.

Should I?

Do it - the CART mod in particular is excellent!

[Simon Gymer]

Hmm, took me a while to reinstall the game and email ISI to get activated again and unfortunately although the mod is really good, the game is still exactly how I remember it. There's a lack of feeling of contact with the road and there is this complete wooliness to the FFB. RealFeel makes it feel worse and keep screwing up every other run by reversing the force feedback strength. Then there's the whole spinnning under braking and accelerating without real reason and certainly no warning. The spins feel faked.

It's a real shame, but rFactor is the weak link in the equation here.

I will try the historic mod too, but I won't hold out much hope.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

It does take some effort to get the feel there for some of the mods, and most are beyond hope.

RealFeel has never quite made the grade for me, but posted very recently on NoGrip are some new settings using the built-in FFB which feel very good in the CART Factor mod.

Hopefully they will build the FFB in rFactor 2 directly on the forces on the steering rack (like GPL and iRacing do). This might even force people to model the suspension correctly.

[spanner]

Seemed to have run out of activations so have emailed trymedia. But still tried the basic single seater out around Toban to try and get a feel for it. Oh dear Even as standard i cant see how the FFB was allowed through. In a straight line its very vague, going light but in the corners it doesnt feel too bad i suppose, maybe its the car behavior. To me those FFb plugins are just another fudge because the mods arent done right in the first place, fudging a fudge. Hoping those settings will transform it!

Its why i like GTR2 so much, it just seems to work out of the box.

[Simon Gymer]

it just seems to work out of the box.

Amen.

[Simon Gymer]

RealFeel has never quite made the grade for me, but posted very recently on NoGrip are some new settings using the built-in FFB which feel very good in the CART Factor mod.

That makes quite a difference.

Had to remember to get rid of all the realfeel stuff and install/purchase the original force feedback upgrade in the vehicle options and then reduce FF level to at least -60% and it was actually driveable, which is a big improvement.

1st gear seems to be impossible to not spin in, but that's probably me.

So where is the practice server?

[ginsters sponsored]

So where is the practice server?

Are you thinking of a rf race of some sort? I'd be up for that

For me, the trouble with rf is there is so much choice and dl'ing to do, every time I try it, that I never focus on anything long enough to find out really how good/bad it is. If we had a fun race using one mod I could focus/pracci and finally decide for good. I remember the cart being very good after a brief try  , before. Its real fun around Nords

[Tibernius]

The FBMWs are good as well. Those and the Formula Nippon cars are the ones I use.

[picnic]

Hmm, took me a while to reinstall the game and email ISI to get activated again

What email address did you use Shark? I'm like Spanner, I've sent an email to trymedia because I've run out of activations, via their support pages. I got an automated email response with my existing activation code in it, along with a line that said "Acts. Left: 3". However trying again to activate resulted in the same error about having used all my activations.

[Jeffrey]

What email address did you use Shark? I'm like Spanner, I've sent an email to trymedia because I've run out of activations, via their support pages. I got an automated email response with my existing activation code in it, along with a line that said "Acts. Left: 3". However trying again to activate resulted in the same error about having used all my activations.

Here is Simon's post quoted from another thread:

I sent an email to [email protected] and got the activations reset within half a day.

I sent them details of when I paid for it, how I paid for it (Paypal) and my existing unlock and activation codes.

[picnic]

Well spotted Jeff, thanks. Email now sent.

[picnic]

Got a reply and have successfully re-activated after using that email address

In the reply from rfactor they gave me a procedure to follow on the Trymedia Support pages. Basically go to http://csc.trymedia.com/csc/start/index.html and select rFactor and follow question 2.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

I've uploaded a Formula Nippon 2008 installer here which saves you mucking around with the patches, and also allows easy removal.