F1 2012 F1 2012 Demo

[Justin Swan]

Looks like we are getting a 1st from Codemaster! A demo of an F1 game 1 week prior to its release
I'm glad to hear that because I want to make sure my PC can handle it before I buy it.

 

[Petarkco]

OSD isnt normally visible in cockpit mode as you have the info on the wheel.
YOu can probably create an additional cockpit view which does have OSD if you want in the camera.xml files for each car.

I mean the timing.

 

[Dimos Kapourniotis]

Can anyone explain to me how to change the language of the demo?Downloaded 3 times, all in Portuguese..Driving is interesting though..More testing to come.

 

[Aleksandr Bukarev]

Can anyone explain to me how to change the language of the demo?Downloaded 3 times, all in Portuguese..Driving is interesting though..More testing to come.

in your steam library, right click on the game, choose properties, and change the language

 

[Dimos Kapourniotis]

respect.. thank u very much

 

[ST0NEBIKER]

After installing Steam F1 2012 Demo my "RaceRoom Racing Experience" crashes after clicking Start ? What now?


EDIT:
Ok, It is ok now, looks like it was a McAfee update/firewall-steam blocking thing!

 

[Alejandro Riveiro]

I'm at a loss. I can't pick my 1440x900 resolution (highest the demo goes to is 1280x1024), and the steering is super slow on my DFGT no matter which lock I put on the profiler (I have Vsync on already, or so the game says).

To top it off, I seem to have some kind of input lag, as I can't take the Ascari corners properly, the game seems to react late. So, yeah, physics look great, this year driving without assists actually seems driveable without doing weird things, but I just can't seem to get anything useful out of the demo :/

 

[Jan Köhler]

Well, I was finally able to play the demo.
It all looks great, the only terrible thing is the steering
I have a Logitech DFGT@PC, tried my 2011 settings & several 2012 settings I found here and at the CM forums, but the problem is always the same:
On high speed straights it's nearly impossible to apply small corrections, the car sweeps over the whole track at the slightest wheel touch.
As for the corners, it's either complete understeer or cutting the corner because the turn-in is very strong and direct.
Yes, I am driving without any aids.
I played around with saturation & linearity settings but I wasn't able to get rid of this behavior

Another thing: Is it possible to spin because you hit the throttle too early? The only spins I was able to produce were due to hitting the curbs...

 

[chankoedo]

@Jan Köhler:

I set the Steering Linearity to abouat – 20%. Now I can drive quite straight ahead.

 

[Darko Mileski]

Well, i've been waiting for the demo for quite a time in the past couple of days, and i've been fairly excited. Now, from my point of view, its a very good looking, and very good driving style upgrade since '11. I also like the new features driving tests for young (or whatever it was called),BUT, yes a big BUT, whats with the steering ? i have some shitty racing wheel - SpeedLink, wich i bought 8 years ago for playing nfs when i was a kid, and recently i found it in some corner of my room and i've made quite a modifications to it to bring it to driveable state. And its been perfect on 2011, so far i drove 3 seasons on it and i like it. However, on 2012, its completely out of control, even though i set Steering Linearity to 0, its still way too sensitive on straight lines , im just very disapointed about this, and hopefully in the final release ,something will be changed about this(even though i doubt it). Any suggestions about fixing this issue are highly appreciated.

 

[fabio10]

Can anyone tell me, how to change to full screen? I downloaded the demo and at the beginning it was in full screen, since i clicked on Esc button it changed to window mode and now i can't return to full screen...Any suggestions?

 

[Victor Ivanov]

Did you try the usual way - left alt + enter?

 

[Jamie Fluke]

I have had a crack at the demo on Xbox with a controller and whilst a lot of people are complaining about the sensitivity of the steering, I don't mind it too much however it took a few laps to get a feel for it. Also I'm not sure if it is a setup thing or not but driving with no traction with a controller seems a lot more manageable now this time around.

Graphically the game looks a lot better than last year which is nice to see. I'm temporarily working off a 14" SD TV and it still looked rather impressive on it. I also like the Young Driver Test feature, it's a great thing to help you get up to speed with the game.

Overall I'm very excited for this and will get this hopefully around release day

 

[Richie Hill]

guys I have installed the demo via steam, but how do I access the files for the game? where is it installed to via steam so to speak?

 

[Alex Townsend]

I tried the game out on 360 with a pad, (i normally drive with a wheel but haven't had time to test it yet), and must say that it feels fine with the pad which is strange as racing games usually feel alien to me on pads these days...

 

[Dimos Kapourniotis]

Good looking with very nice sounds, interesting car behaviour with live tail under braking (should be better in the full game) but messed up steering.Had to fight for 30 min to make the car 50% drivable.. (logitech game pad, tested on PC).I hated the behaviour of KERS also..press the button and its like you have 1500 bhp

 

[Jamie Fluke]

Just when KERS was mentioned, I found it to feel a bit over the top as well. You hold down the button and you seem to get a rocket up the back side and then when you release the button, it's almost as if you slow down.

 

[fabio10]

Did you try the usual way - left alt + enter?

Thanks Victor Ivanov, that's it, i haven't tried . Now it is ok.

 

[ML2166]

guys I have installed the demo via steam, but how do I access the files for the game? where is it installed to via steam so to speak?

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\f1 2012 demo

Something like that

 

[steelking]

Hello, i don´t have much time to read many articles, so don´t hate me if it is there. Do you think that understeer is a bug and will be fixed? or I can not drive?

thank you and sorry for my english. If you don´t understand me write it down and i try to re-write

 

[Alejandro Riveiro]

Just when KERS was mentioned, I found it to feel a bit over the top as well. You hold down the button and you seem to get a rocket up the back side and then when you release the button, it's almost as if you slow down.

True, KERS feels like a super turbo boost. You can use it at the Monza's race start to get past 3-5 cars easily (plus a few more through the chicane).